Commission Factory

Take the offer from Commission Factory

1. Log in Commission Factory: https://dashboard.commissionfactory.com/
2. Go to Advertisers section:
   
3. Find the Status column and press "Join Merchant" button (tick):
   
4. Select Traffic Source and press OK:
   
5. Once you have connected programs, use a filter to display active programs only:
   
6. Then select the advertiser you want to connect:
   
7. There is a complete offer information here:
   
   
   1. Offer logo
   2. Offer name (title)
   3. Offer (external) ID
   4. Offer category
   5. Offer URL
   6. GEO restrictions
   7. Payouts
   8. Cookie lifespan time
   9. Payment approval time
   10. Offer description
   11. Traffic type restrictions

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Creating the new offer in the SLICE Digital Network

There are two different ways you can create an offer from the Commission Factory in Affise:

1. Duplicate is the easiest one. Just find a desired offer from the Commission Factory, duplicate it, and change settings according to the new offer details.
   
2. Create a new offer.

Base settings

Offer title and description could be taken from the Commission Factory:

Links

The tracking link can be found on the creatives page - Text Links (1) section. Choose the advertiser (2) and find the tracking link (3):

1. Take a tracking link from Commission Factory and set as 'Tracking URL'
2. Take a tracking link from Commission Factory and set as 'Preview URL'
3. Add specific parameters to the tracking link to pass required parameters to the Commission Factory platform (usually required: affiliate ID and transaction ID/click ID)
4. Macros that can be used in Affise.

Required parameter for the Commission Factory integration:

• Click ID

It should be passed using macros {clickid} by adding the following data to a tracking link as 'UniqueId' parameter:

&UniqueId={clickid}

Also, we add the standard parameters, such as:

&clickid={clickid}&pid={pid}&sub1={sub1}&sub2={sub2}&sub3={sub3}&sub4={sub4}&sub5={sub5}&ip={ip}&time_petty={time_petty}

Example link:

https://t.cfjump.com/60898/t/58502?Url=https%3a%2f%2fnanocbdplus.com%2f&UniqueId={clickid}&clickid={clickid}&pid={pid}&sub1={sub1}&sub2={sub2}&sub3={sub3}&sub4={sub4}&sub5={sub5}&ip={ip}&time_petty={time_petty}

Landing pages

These settings should also be applied to Landing pages section if they exist.

Nothing else needs to be changed in Affise. However, there are some parameters that have to be taken from Affise and used for the Impact Radius.

Settings

 Payouts

The Commission Factory payout is our revenue. The publisher's payout is 80% of our revenue.

Do not forget to duplicate the goal for a test publisher (pid=1).

Conversion limits

Depends on the contract.

Affiliates

Enable/disable connected affiliates:

Do not forget to add default publishers to the approved list (pid=1 and pid=2)

Landing pages

Adding landing pages if required. See the links section above.

Creatives

Download creatives from the Commission Factory and upload it into the SLICE Digital network:

1. Select a creative type
2. Filter by Advertiser
3. Advertiser
4. Download the creative 

Other settings

1. Payment approval time
2. Offer categories
3. The most important parameter here is "Hash password". This parameter is used to authorise a postback from the Commission Factory
4. Allow deeplinks

Setup tracking

SLICE Digital

Take a postback from the offer:

Don't forget to check the goal IDs above (section Payouts) - these values will be used for postbacks:

A basic postback looks like:

Affise Postback

 

https://offers.slice.digital/postback?clickid=[UniqueId]&secure=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&action_id=[OrderId]&goal=sale&sum=[Amount]&status=2&custom_field1=[AdvertiserId]&custom_field2=[Commission]&custom_field3=[SourceId]&custom_field4=[SourceName]&custom_field5=[SourceType]

 

We will insert the proper parameters from Commission Factory below.

Commission Factory

Commission Factory provides Postbacks for piggy-back tracking. It can be found on the account page under Add-on services -> Third-Party tracking:

Macros/shortcodes that can be used to pass the information from Commission Factory

The following shortcodes can be used in your third party tracking code, and will be replaced on-the-fly with the appropriate values:

SHORTCODE	DESCRIPTION	DATA TYPE	EXAMPLE
[AdvertiserId]	The advertiser's Commission Factory user ID.	Integer	123
[Amount]	The sub-total of the order as supplied by the advertiser. May be zero for lead campaigns.	Decimal	123.45
[Commission]	The commission amount made from the order.	Decimal	123.45
[OrderId]	The transaction or order ID as supplied by the advertiser.	String	ABC123
[SourceId]	The ID of the creative that generated the transaction, or the advertiser's ID if the creative was a text link or QR code.	Integer	123
[SourceName]	The name of the creative that generated the transaction, as specified by the advertiser.	String	ABC123
[SourceType]	The type of the creative that generated the transaction, such as "Banner", "Coupon", "Data Feed Link", "Dynamic Tool", "Email Creative", "Promotion", "Text Link", or "Video".	String	Banner
[UniqueId]	The Unique ID of the particular creative that generated the transaction, as specified by the affiliate. You can choose to specify any Unique ID value that you like when using the Creatives section of the dashboard. If you did not specify a Unique ID for the particular creative that generated this transaction, then this value will be an empty string ("").	String	ABC123

Postback

Chose "Add new" under Per-Merchant Notifications section:

Select Advertiser (1) and put our postback (2) there:

There are the following required parameters from Affise:

• clickid=[UniqueId] - check Affise tracking link. Make sure that {clickid} passed by aff_sub (aff_sub={clickid}). Otherwise, change {aff_sub} to parameter that was used instead.
• goal - goal ID
• secure - security authorization hash/password
• sum - order amount (required for sale goals)
• status - conversion status. Possible statuses:
  • 1 – action is «approved» (paid by advertiser);
  • 2 – action is «pending» (decision in process, request status later);
  • 3 – action is «declined» (not paid by advertiser);
  • 4 – requested action «does not exist» (requested ID is not registered on advertiser's site);
  • 5 - action is «approved» and put on Hold (will be paid by advertiser at a certain amount of time).