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After you have added your program it will appear in the list of all your programs which can be accessed by clicking "My Programs" link in "My Office".
The list shows all the programs that you have created at eProfit.
Program Statuses
Affiliate programs can have 5 statuses at eProfit. Program status is
displayed in red or green for each program at eProfit.
Statuses:
Approval pending - This program has been added but not yet approved
by eProfit administrators. When your program has this status you cannot invite
affiliates to participate in it, but you can upload advertising materials to
be shown on affiliates' websites and place trackers
on your website so that after your program has been approved you would be ready
to launch it immediately. You can edit, delete your program, view, add and delete banners,
get trackers code. Usually programs are reviewed by moderators within 24 hours.
Rejected by moderator - This program has been rejected by an administrator.
The most common reason - the program does not comply with eProfit Terms
and Conditions. If a program is rejected by administrators you receive
a corresponding notification explaining why it has happened. You can then edit/correct
your program and it will be checked by our administrators once again.
Temporarily blocked - This program has been temporarily blocked because of
insufficient funds on your account. You need to have a certain amount of money
on your account at eProfit to run affiliate programs. When you run out of
funds, the current programs will become temporarily blocked until you add funds
to your account. The program is then automatically resumed.
Not active - You have suspended your program for some reason. Advertising
materials are not displayed on your affiliates' websites. The program will remain
inactive until you activate it again.
Active - The program is active.
Each program table displays the following information:
- The program name
- The program URL
- The date the program was added
- The current status of the affiliate program
- The method through which new sites are accepted for participation in your program
(can be set up in "Edit Program" section)
- The amount of commissions to be paid to affiliates this day (recalculated every
hour)
- The program statistics since the day when the program was added. See eProfit
Statistics Explained
- The available actions for this program
To view program details and statistics click the program name in "My
Programs" section. You will see the selected program details.
A table will appear. Besides the standard blocks it includes:
Program description
The category where this program is posted
Commission type and amount. For more details see eProfit Commissions
Guide.
The program action menu is displayed on the right side of every program
info table. Click the appropriate link to perform one of the following actions:
Suspend - Deactivate the selected program. Stop displaying your advertising
materials on affiliates' websites.
Edit - Edit or update your program information. How to?
Delete - Remove your program from eProfit system.
View banners - Add/View/Edit/Delete banners for your affiliate program.
View sites - View affiliates' websites that participate in your program.
Manage websites relationships. View website statistics. More on
managing affiliates' websites.
Get tracker code - Receive the tracker code to be placed on your program
website to track several types of commissions. More about trackers
View invoices - View all the invoices generated while working with the
current program. More info on invoices.
You can edit your program info at any time after launching it. All parameters
except program URL can be changed. Program URL can be changed only until your
program is approved by eProfit administrators.
To edit or update your affiliate program info, please click the "Edit"
link on the right of the program table in "My Programs" section
of "My Office". The "Edit Program" screen will appear.
Here you can edit:
Program name, description, country, websites admission terms, commissions
Note: Changing websites admission terms does not affect your current relationships with affiliate's websites, i.e. all the websites that have joined your program so far will remain engaged in it even if you, for example, select to accept sites only manually. You can view/break relationships with your current affiliates in "My Affiliates" section of "My Office". More info on managing affiliates.
Press the "Update Program" button when finished. The changes you have made will take effect immediately. The commissions will start being calculated according to the changes you have made within 1 hour. More info on commissions.
Merchant's affiliate programs at eProfit are not removed from the system until you delete them manually. Your program will continue functioning until you run out of funds on your account, decide to suspend the program, or delete it.
To delete a program:
1. Navigate to "My Office" -> "My Programs".
2. Find the program you would like to delete in the list of your programs.
3. Click the "Delete" link opposite the program name.
4. A dialog box will appear. Click "OK".
Your program will be immediately deleted from eProfit system.
What is a tracker?
A tracker is a 1 pixel transparent GIF image placed on merchant's website
and used to track actions performed by visitors on merchant's website, such
as sales and leads. Trackers are also used by eProfit to track hits, verified
clicks and preorders on your website. eProfit's trackers communicate back to
our tracking server reporting the information needed to track visitors' actions.
You can receive tracker code for your program by clicking on the "Get
tracker code" link in the right menu of the selected program. The set
of trackers depends on the commission types you selected for your programs.
The following actions require a tracker installed on your website pages:
Hit - This tracker has to be installed on all pages of your website.
Other trackers can be placed along with this one. This tracker is used to track
hits, verified clicks and hosts.
You don't have to change anything in the tracker code for this action.
Lead - In order to track leads you will have to install the tracker on
the lead confirmation/thank you page.
You don't have to change anything in the tracker code for this action.
Sale - In order to track sales, this eProfit tracker must be installed
on the sale confirmation page.
The [summ] parameter must be replaced with sale amount, [your_id] must be replaced
with your sale ID or invoice ID. This ID has to be unique for every sale on
your website.
Code example: <SCRIPT SRC="http://t.eprofit.com/tracker.js.php?id_event=5&id_program=60&summ=[summ]&foreign_key=[your_id]"></SCRIPT>
In this example the code fragments that you will have to change are marked in bold.
Preorder - Place a tracker on your order confirmation page.
The [summ] parameter must be replaced with sale amount, [your_id] must be replaced
with your order ID or invoice ID. This ID has to be unique for every sale on
your website.
Code example: <SCRIPT SRC="http://t.eprofit.com/tracker.js.php?id_event=6&id_program=60&summ=[summ]&foreign_key=[your_id]"></SCRIPT>
The code fragments that you will have to change are marked in bold.
Actions and commissions explained
Trackers are unique for every program. It is better to place trackers in the beginning of the page. Each tracker shows 1x1 pixel transparent image and is not visible to your website users.
Invoices for every program are generated by eProfit daily.
The table of invoices displays the following parameters for each invoice:
Invoice ID - the identification number of the current invoice. Used for
system purposes only.
Program Name - the name of the program this invoice belongs to.
Site Name - The website name of the affiliate who receives the commission.
Amount - The invoice amount.
Date - the date when the invoice was generated.
Paid - shows whether the invoice was paid. By default all invoices are paid
automatically without your participation in case you have enough funds on your
account. If you do not, your program is blocked and your banners are not displayed
on affiliate's websites. In case your affiliates are still generating sales (cookies
at eProfit are stored for 30 days) invoices are still generated too. These
invoices will become paid after you have added funds to your account.
Invoices can have 3 statuses:
paid - you have sufficient funds on your account and the invoice was
paid automatically.
not paid - the invoice was generated after you had run out of funds
on your account and was not paid.
suspicious - this invoice can be marked as suspicious and will not be
paid automatically if there have been too many actions of the same type from
one visitor (with same IP), attracted to your site by the current partner. These
cases are investigated by eProfit administrators and the invoice will not be
paid until it is clear that the case is not fraud.