NewsNew Support System!
In order to better keep track of problems users are having, I’ve added a support ticket system. I will still provide support through AIM, but this will allow me to follow the progress of the case a lot more efficiently as well as remember what it is I need to do next. Please use this from now on! Thanks!
v1.0.2 Released!
Not all of the planned features made it, but there are lots of bug fixes and a couple of new features here and there. The FSRS import hasn’t been thoroughly tested yet, but preliminary tests showed pretty good results, so I decided to go ahead and release this. Existing clients should be able to login to their client area and download the new version. Please make sure you read the HOW TO UPDATE.txt file! If you have any problems, please contact me!
Just a little bit longer…
Many bugs have been fixed, so I’ve been mostly focusing on adding new features. I’m still putting some finishing touches on the import routine for FSRS, so that’s why the update didn’t come out tonight. I’m working with a site owner who is current utilizing FSRS and we will be doing some testing to ensure that it works properly and all data comes across as it should. I expect the release to be out by mid-week. If the demand is high, I may release an update that just contains the majority of the bug fixes I’ve made so far. As always, thanks for your patience, it’s well worth the wait, I promise.
v1.0.2 Coming Soon!
Hello all! Another batch of bug fixes and feature additions are coming soon! I’m tentatively setting a release date of this Sunday, October 8th. Here are some of the fixes that are coming:
- Offer popups will now pop up one window which will log the offer click and redirect to the offer instead of displaying the offer information and automatically redirecting back to the offer page.
- A bug that is causing offer links to function incorrectly in Internet Explorer.
- Enhanced credit exception logging for postbacks (invalid IP attempts, IP logging of successfull attempts)
- A bug with links being shown to Approve Order on the user info page.
- Blank IP’s will no longer be shown and invalidly resolve on the user info/verify page.
- A bug with incorrect offer links to offer in credit requests on user info page.
- You will now be able to mark a support ticket as order-related when replying to a support ticket instead of just through the user info page.
- The installation process will be much improved and streamlined so that not as many hosting related issues occur. Some issues are still entirely out of my hands, though, and are in that of your host, so make sure your host meets the requirements!
- Fractional offer weight support will be improved to support a wider variety of credit values (up to 1/100).
- An import procedure for FSRS will be created.
- The ability to manually add referrals to a user will be created.
- Customizable links for address lookup, zip code lookup, and IP lookup will be added.
Potential Add-Ons:
- Cashback Site
- very similar to a points site, just with cash!
- multiple cashouts for users
- cashback amount shown in correct currency to international users
- when you enter your commission amount for the offer, it will calculate the offer payout based on parameters you specify
- Offer Categories/Pagination
- you will be able to organize your offers into different categories so that users can sort the offers more easily
- also, instead of the offers all being on one page, users will be able to navigate through different pages quickly
Many features are still planned for future versions. If you have any ideas of things you’d like to be added to the script, please e-mail support@fsrevolution.com with your ideas!
123StuffForFree.com and FSR
We launched the 123StuffForFree.com network over a year ago with our iPod site running Project RAFS. The software was adequate, but the support soon became an issue for us. So we chose ProjektIRS for the rest of our sites. We were impressed with the support, but over time we realized that there were many features we needed to efficiently run our business.
What we wanted would require software designed from scratch. We wrote a detailed plan that described the functionality of every page and feature. We approached Chris about taking on this project and he refined our plan and added ideas of his own. The result is the most comprehensive referral site software we have seen — it allows admins to productively run a single site or a large network.
Here are some common scenarios that show you how much difference FSRevolution makes in the life of an admin…
USER REGISTRATION:
Someone signs up and doesn’t receive their activation email (probably filtered as spam).
Before FSR: The user sends us an email or contacts us on AIM. They often neglect to say which site they signed up on so we have to search each site to find their account. Then we edit their status and let them know they can sign on.
With FSR: Not an issue — no activation emails are sent. What’s the point of activation emails anyway? If it’s to prevent someone from registering another person’s email, the account is already created at the point an activation email is sent.
ORDER APPROVAL:
Verifying the accounts of a user and their referrals to ensure they complied with the Terms of Service.
Before FSR: With RAFS the verification report displays the user and their referrals. The only information included is the email address, street address, and the IP address that was used to register on the site. There is only an indication of a problem with duplicate IP addresses if more than one user registered from the same IP address (nothing is noted if another user logged in from the same address). There is nothing to indicate which offers were done. With IRS, the security report shows the usernames of any users who matched any logged IP addresses. The security report applies to a single user and must be viewed for each referral separately. There is nothing to indicate which offers were done. Neither report checks for duplicate street addresses.
With FSR: The verification report shows all offers completed, all users who match any IP address ever logged, all users with a similar street address, all users with the same password, and any support tickets or admin notes that have been flagged as order-related. The same information is displayed for each of the user’s referrals. All of this information is reported with a single click of the mouse on the home page of the admin panel.
OFFER UPDATING:
Switching an offer from one affiliate to another.
Before FSR: Changing offer information required keeping a separate spreadsheet with each affiliate’s link, time to credit, and dates the offer ran through that affiliate. Then all of the offer information needed to be copied and pasted into specific fields for that offer.
With FSR: When viewing an offer, the affiliate can be changed from a drop-down menu. If the offer has previously been run through that affiliate, all affiliate-specific information is automatically updated. The time frame an offer is run through each affiliate is automatically recorded and the appropriate affiliate is displayed when viewing manual credit requests.
This gives you an idea of the thoroughness of FSRevolution. There are many more time-saving features in the works, but even at version 1.0 FSR leaves the competition in the dust.
Dave Friedman
123StuffForFree.com