EZ Affiliate

ezAffiliates is an affiliate marketing module for ezPayPal.

Description

ezAffiliates is an affiliate marketing module for ezPayPal, which can be purchased online. Using it in ocnjunction with ezPayPal, you can turn your satisfied customers into your brand ambassidors, and get one step closer to that internet dream of going viral.

Features

  1. Seamless integration with ezPayPal.
  2. Email verification of affiliate registration to prevent bots.
  3. Cookie-less scheme to track sales through PayPal IPN process.

Credit

ezAffiliates is a modifed version of Affiliates for All. Please refer to their extensive documentation for details.

For our purpose, we have made the following changes and additions:

  1. Tight integration with ezPayPal
  2. Email verification and activation of affiliate registration to prevent bots.
  3. Admin account securitization.
  4. Terms of Service page.
  5. Modifications to the overview and index pages to help the affiliates generate links
  6. Database storage for admin customization so that ezPayPal can be installed and configured from a web interface without editing any files.
  7. ezPayPal look and feel modifications.
  8. Cookie handling modifications for it to work with PayPal IPN round trip.
  9. Banner serving can use a CDN since everybody can have a free CDN with Dropbox or a reasonably cheap one from Amazon CloudFront (preferred).

Upgrade Notice

Adding a CDN option so that affiliate banners will be served from the CDN instead of the database.

Screenshots

1.   Installation integration from ezPayPal.

2.   Log on screen.

3.   Overview screen after logging on.

Installation

Note: ezAffiliates is an add-on module for ezPayPal Pro. You can install and use it only if you have ezPayPal.

  1. On ezPayPal screen, click on Pro Features & Tools.
  2. Log in if prompted.
  3. Click on Affiliate Package button.
  4. Click on the Install Affiliate Package and follow the friendly wizard.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use this package without ezPayPal?

Not in the current form. A future version that can work independently of ezPayPal will be released soon.

Change Log

Future Plans

  1. Improve documentation.

History

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