5927 Affiliate Network ex.Kowabunga

See [login to view URL] for the implementation. Spec Below: ConnectSociety needs a custom web-application that creates a network of associated members. The Affiliate Network consists of Merchants (entities that sell products or services) and Affiliates (trade and content partners that earn commissions from referrals to Merchants). The Process would work as follows: Here is how it works: 1. The Merchant signs up for program 2. Merchant uploads the banners through our Banner Management Center 3. Set the amount that you want to pay affiliates for each sale they bring you. For example, 20% of the sale, or a straight $2.00...etc... This is all done through the Account Management Center 4. A small piece of code on the receipt page of your website will serve as the trigger to that a sale has been made. 5. Affiliate partners who are part of our network, will see your program and subscribe to your program 6. These Affiliate partners then put your banners on their Websites, and the traffic will come through to your site. 7. When a measurable action, such as a sale, lead, or traffic is generated at your site, after receiving the trigger that was set in Step 4 a validation script checks to see if an Affiliate partner brought you that sale. 8. If they did, your account is deducted the pre-defined amount from Step 3, and the Affiliate partner is credited that amount. 9. At the end of the month, ConnectSociety takes care of paying the Affiliate partners. Features of Affiliate and Merchant System Commissions: • Per CPM • Per referral • Signup bonus • Per click • Per sale and per lead (Flat rate or Percentage) • Per sale and per lead recurring commissions • multi tier commissions - up to 10 tiers • Unlimited product categories and unlimited affiliate categories, each can have its own commission settings Standard functionality: • Unlimited affiliates • Forced affiliates matrix support • Adjustable payout amount • Full history of all transactions • Unlimited banners • Performance rewards - pay more to your best affiliates • Banner grouping to categories • Multiple merchants with permissions • Recurring commissions support (weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannually, yearly period) • Set your currency type and way to display the currency (left, right) • Set decimal numbers display and rounding • Setting of cookie lifetime • Easy to use, all settings are accessible via control panel • Fast, load tested system Communication: • Customizable email templates • Full history of all email communication • Extensive email notifications For merchant: o after sale o after affiliate signup o after recurring comm. generated o daily report For affiliate: o after sale o after sub affiliate signup o daily report • Mass emails to affiliates • Support for News - displayed on affiliate's panel Extensive reports: • Trends reports (on main page) • Quick report with daily impressions, clicks and sales • Time range report • Detailed transactions report • Traffic & Sales graphical report • Top Affiliates graphical report • Number of affiliates graphical report • Banner impressions, clicks and CTR ratios Approvals & fraud protection: • Approve new affiliate accounts (optional) • Approve new sales (optional) • Transaction management: view, approve, decline, delete • Automated fraud protection • Choose whether to insert the fraudlent transactions as declined, or don't insert at all Payouts & export: • Accounting view with full payouts history • Fully customizable payout options allow you to support any existing payment system • Definition of export file format and payment button format • Payout options supported by default: o PayPal o MoneyBookers o Bank wire transfer o Regular Check • Easy to add new payment system • Export of data to MS Excel format Banners: • Image banners • Text links • Customizable text link format • HTML banners - allowing FLASH, pop-up windows, JavaScript code, ... Customizations: • Customizable affiliate/Merchant signup page • Customizable affiliate/Merchant control panel Integration: integrate a custom eCommerce system that works on a deposit basis. Merchant enters the amount of money into account via eCheck, credit card, wire transfer, or manual check (at ConnectSocieties discretion). Account is debited from Merchants and credited to Affiliates. System will integrate with various payment gateways such as • [login to view URL] • Verisign • Paypal Pro • Google Checkout Will track deposits and notify Merchant when level is under a specified amount. System can also be set to auto-bill a set amount once deposit is depleted. Naked Linking Will create a link technology based on the Naked Linking technology of Link Connector. Essentially the technology will be used to improve SEO of Merchants through Affiliates, as well as prevent cookie hijacking from spy ware and the elimination of error from copying long query strings. Affiliate is validated by the application server which then sets the cookie. Please use PMB for an additional clarification file and any questions you have. Thanks, Matt