HasOffers engineers have done it again. This week we checked off over 70 application tickets and 10 ad server tickets, pushing live a huge batch of great new features that came directly from customer suggestions and feedback. We are really proud of these new features and hope networks will hop in and start using them immediately. We’ve included links to HasOffers Wiki entries that describe each feature in greater detail below.
Tracking and Conversions
“Links” Ad Campaigns
This new Ad Campaign category found in the Ad Manager when creating a new Campaign allows you to add offer URLs so that you can optimize links for affiliates. Instead of optimizing creative files, this campaign type optimizes the actual offers and offer URLs.
Wiki: “Links Ad Campaigns
Passing Geo-Location Data
You can now pass 99.8% of geo-location data directly to offer landing pages through the offer URL by using these variables: {city} {region_code} {country_code}
When a user clicks the tracking URL, the ad server will dynamically replace these variables with the geographical information from the user.
Wiki: Geo-Location Data
Encoded Tracking Link in Creative Files
Easily include an encoded tracking link in creative file code using the variable {etracking_link}.
Wiki: Encoding Tracking URLs
Search Conversions
Quickly search conversions by IP address, transaction ID, affiliate source, affiliate sub IDs, advertiser sub ID, tracking link referral, or conversion pixel referral. On the Conversion Report, simply select the data field you wish to find, enter the value, and Run Report. This helps you quickly find IP addresses and transaction IDs, saving you so much time in hunting down conversions.
Wiki: Search Conversions
Batch Upload Conversions
Approve pending conversions or record new conversion using specified Transaction IDs. From the Conversions Report, click Upload Conversions in the upper right of the report table. Include a header row with transaction_id, sale_amount so that the sale amount is included in the newly recorded conversion for those offers that payout a percentage of sale. You can also upload conversion using affiliate and specific offer information. This method does not require transaction IDs, rather, it creates conversions based on the information you provide.
Wiki: Upload Conversions with Transaction ID or Sale Amount
Wiki: Upload Conversions with Affiliate or Offer Information
Affiliate View: Pending and Rejected Conversions
Give affiliates access to pending and/or rejected conversions in their Conversion Report. By default, affiliates can only see approved conversions, and only approved conversions are included in statistics. Provide more real-time data for your affiliates by providing “pending” and “rejected” conversion access.
Wiki: Conversion Access
Network Management
Signup Phone Verification
Weed out fraudulent affiliate and advertiser signups by requiring phone verification. Turn on phone verification in your Affiliate/Advertiser settings and require users to answer a phone call and enter a PIN in order to confirm their account. Phone numbers must be entered in an international formatting, starting with country code prefix.
Wiki: Affiliate Phone Verification
Wiki: Advertiser Phone Verification
Signup Captcha Verification
Require new affiliates and advertisers to complete a Captcha on the signup form to verify they are an actual human. This prevents scripts or bots from creating new accounts.
Wiki: Affiliate Signup Captcha
Wiki: Advertiser Signup Captcha
Analyze User Logins by IP
Track every time your affiliates, advertisers, and employees login to the application. The last 10 logins are displayed (both successful and failed) and is stamped with IP address, date, and time.
Wiki: Track User Logins
Multiple Languages
On HasOffers Enterprise Editions, each user can choose the language they are most comfortable with. That means affiliates and advertisers can choose their native language to display. Once a user specifies their language preference in their settings, then only their unique interface will display that language.
Wiki: Multiple Languages
MailRoom Filter by Country
Send email communication to affiliates and advertisers based on the country they have listed. The HasOffers MailRoom allows you to only send correspondences to those accounts located in specified country(s).
Wiki: MailRoom
Create Similar Offer
Use the offer information from an offer you have already created as a template for creating more offers. This especially saves time on geo-targeted offers and product specific offers.
Wiki: Create Similar Offer
New Legacy API Access
In addition to these features, Basic and Pro Edition customers can now generate their own API keys for the HasOffers Legacy API without contacting customer support. This can be found on the API page under the Support tab.
We truly appreciate all of the great feedback we receive from the enterprising community of affiliate networks using HasOffers. Without them, we would never have become the industry standard that we are today.
Guess what! We have some even bigger plans coming down the pipe, so get excited!