Month: November 2017

You can set the additional rules for the offer by setting up the options provided to you in Advance setting options.

• Custom Currency: The default currency is United States Dollars (USD). Enable a custom currency option which will provide you a list of multiple currencies from which you can select as per your offer requirements.
• Redirect/Backup Offer: Enabling this option, you will be able to redirect the traffic to another offer if the cap of this offer is being reached/offer is expired or paused.
• Approve Conversions: By default this options is Disabled. Enable this option to approve every conversion manually. Then by default, every conversion will be in pending status and will not be counted in billing until it is approved.
• Multiple conversions: Enable multiple conversions to be recorded per user for only one active session. An active session is created each time the user clicks on the tracking link.

• Offer Caps: You can set the limits for every offer with our Cap feature. First step is to “Enable” the Cap which will provide you the options to set limits to your offer. Once enabled, you will see 3 types of caps – Conversion, Payouts and Revenue.

• Click Session Lifespan: We can set the duration to keep the session active for particular offer.

• Force Https: This will force redirect the traffic to https tracking link.
• Smart Groups: You can select a smart group which will add this offer into specific smart links.

You can set the status of the offer as per your requirements. By default the status would be Active.

You can set the status to Paused or Pending. In Pending, approval will be required to make it Active.

You can also mention brief notes about the offer in the field provided.

In this section, you will provide the details about the revenue type and payout type.

By default, OffersHub provides you four option to define your revenue type.
Revenue per Conversion
Revenue per Click
Revenue per Sale
Revenue per Conversion + Revenue per Sale

Similarly, payout types are being defined.
Payout per Conversion
Payout per Click
Payout per Sale
Payout per Conversion + Payout per Sale

You can enter the details of both as per decided with your affiliate.

Goal/Events: By default, this option would be ‘Disabled’, however you can ‘Enable’ it if you want to set a goal for your offer.

 

The tracking protocol tells the ad server how to handle tracking a user’s click and conversion.

By default it would be Server Postback (S2S), however you can change the protocol as per your need from the options provided in the drop down.

The Advertiser Url will be the landing page url where the traffic is directed to.

You can add the parameters requested by your Affiliate from the macro list, which you can find in “Show Macros”.

Deep-linking is only for CPS type offers. For example, amazon want to give a 5% commission on each sale that affiliate makes. In order to make sales, affiliates may want to send user in to some product page directly instead of amazon home page. in that case deep linking helps to redirect user directly into that page.

The Targeting section contains 7 various options through which you can set the targets for your offer.

• Geo Targeting: Manage your traffic by using “Include” for target and “Exclude” for non-target countries by selecting the button below Countries field. You can choose specific regions and  cities in particular country as well.
  Please note that: If you include/exclude some particular regions in a country, the other regions will be included/excluded automatically and vice versa.
• Device & Platform Targeting: You can set targets for devices according to parameters: device type and platform/OS.
• Browser Targeting: You can set targets for offers according to mobile browsers.
• Network/ Carrier Targeting: You can set targets for offers according to connection types and mobile carries such as Mobile Network, Wifi, Cable/DSL etc.
  Please note that: The mobile carriers will only display once you have included/excluded countries in Geo targeting.
• IP Targeting: You can set the IP targets by allowing or blocking specific IP formats.
• Traffic Targeting: You can set the target for offers based on the allowed or denied traffic types. Traffic could be banner, social media, email etc.
• Demographic Targeting: You can set the target based on gender and age.

Enforce Validation:  If this option is ‘Enabled’, the OffersHub server will validate the traffic under Geo, Carrier and IP targeting rules and only the valid clicks will be redirected to advertiser’s landing page.

Offer Access allows you to set the restrictions to your offer.

Public: By default, offer would be public and all the affiliates would be able to access and send traffic to this offer.

Required Approval: This option is for affiliates wherein they have to get the offer approved before pushing the traffic for the offer.

Private: This option allows you to make an offer private that hides the offer from other affiliates and allows you to grant the access to selected affiliates.

To create a new offer in OffersHub, go to Offers > Create Offer.  The first section of this form is Offer Details, where you enter your offer’s basic information.

Advertiser: Select the advertiser for your offer from the list of advertisers defined in your network. If you haven’t set up any advertisers yet, leave this blank. You can edit the offer later to set your advertiser.

Name: Give the name to your Offer. Give your offer a clear name that your affiliates will understand.

 Description: Brief summary of the offer. Affiliates/advertisers viewing this offer will read the description to have an idea of what is being promoted.

Preview URL: This URL should be provided to you by the offer’s advertiser. It’s the URL where affiliates can see the offer’s landing page.

Image Preview (This field is optional): You can upload an image to set the image preview of the offer. The image format could be jpg, png or gif. Resolutions must not exceed 1500*1500 and max allowed size is 2mb.

Offer Category: This is where you select offer category to associate with this offer from the list of active categories provided to you in the platform.

Expire Date : Here you can define the expiry date of the offer.

OffersHub offers a very dynamic and attractive real-time dashboard through which one can easily keep the track on the stats such as Clicks, Conversions, Unqiue clicks, Conversion Ratio, Revenue, Payout etc.

The dashboard lets you to keep a daily track with the help of the graph which represents Clicks, Conversions and Revenue. You can change the stats from the drop down provided on the top right of the panel. This will allow you to review the stats of the same day, a day before, last 7 days, last month and last quarter.