New CCBill Admin - Discuss

[Greenguy]

A few of the new affiliate features:
• Universal ID

The ONE thing that I like about CCBill is that I have separate account numbers for each program (and I wish it was for each site) If I need to find my Amateur Facials links or galleries, they all have 581222 in the code. Foxy Angel is 657466. Nice & Easy. You make that a universal number & you'll never be able to find just the links/galleries for one program EVER AGAIN! It's one of the biggest mistakes that Epoch did with their crappy MPA3 thing.

Maybe this needs a thread of it's own?

[Useless]

GG - I believe they said that using the universal ID is optional and that sponsor-specific codes would continue to function. Maybe Paul will stop by and clarify.

Originally Posted by Cleo

What will happen to the old link urls when a sponsor switches over to the new system?

The old links are fine, thoughI think they implied that they do intend on phasing out the old system in the very distant future.

[atlant]

Demo:

http://businesscenter.ccbill.com/dem...filiate-v5.htm

[CCBill_Paul]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

GG - I believe they said that using the universal ID is optional and that sponsor-specific codes would continue to function. Maybe Paul will stop by and clarify.
The old links are fine, thoughI think they implied that they do intend on phasing out the old system in the very distant future.

Correct and correct.

[CCBill_Paul]

Originally Posted by Greenie

The ONE thing that I like about CCBill is that I have separate account numbers for each program (and I wish it was for each site) If I need to find my Amateur Facials links or galleries, they all have 581222 in the code. Foxy Angel is 657466. Nice & Easy. You make that a universal number & you'll never be able to find just the links/galleries for one program EVER AGAIN! It's one of the biggest mistakes that Epoch did with their crappy MPA3 thing.

Maybe this needs a thread of it's own?

Sorry for the delay.

I understand your point and I can tell you that you will still have a unique ID with each sponsor but you won't necessarily be able to view it like you can with the current/old system. You will however be able to differentiate between programs/sponsors easily so not everything will be grouped together.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by CCBill_Paul

Sorry for the delay.

I understand your point and I can tell you that you will still have a unique ID with each sponsor but you won't necessarily be able to view it like you can with the current/old system. You will however be able to differentiate between programs/sponsors easily so not everything will be grouped together.

It's not so much what I see in the admin, it's how I link to the program's sites. When I posted that 581222 is my Amateur facials number, that means that I can easily search my link list & TGP data files for 581222 if I need to find all the Amateur Facial links.

But if I have to link to all the programs & all the sites using 1 code/number, that'll make it very difficult to find the links for just one program.

Follow?

[CCBill_Paul]

Originally Posted by Greenie

It's not so much what I see in the admin, it's how I link to the program's sites. When I posted that 581222 is my Amateur facials number, that means that I can easily search my link list & TGP data files for 581222 if I need to find all the Amateur Facial links.

But if I have to link to all the programs & all the sites using 1 code/number, that'll make it very difficult to find the links for just one program.

Follow?

Yes, yes I follow. It is going to take some getting used to and the links will not be quite as distinguishable but the new links will still be unique to each sponsor.

for example, sponsor A's links may look like this: http://wms.ccbill.com/wmsi/w_id/Lt-r...iLvJPZb2tsWMs*

While sponsor B's may look like this:

http://wms.ccbill.com/wmsi/w_id/Lt-K...SLvJPZb2tsWMs*

So, while they will not be as easily identified as the old ones you will still be able to associate one link with one program.

I hope that helps.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by CCBill_Paul

Yes, yes I follow. It is going to take some getting used to and the links will not be quite as distinguishable but the new links will still be unique to each sponsor.

for example, sponsor A's links may look like this: http://wms.ccbill.com/wmsi/w_id/Lt-r...iLvJPZb2tsWMs*

While sponsor B's may look like this:

http://wms.ccbill.com/wmsi/w_id/Lt-K...SLvJPZb2tsWMs*

So, while they will not be as easily identified as the old ones you will still be able to associate one link with one program.

I hope that helps.

I'm going to presume that there are sponsor/site/affiliate IDs encoded(base64???) buried in that mess somewhere.

I think question is if he can easily pull one individual sponsors' sites out of links databases.

Also, please tell me that sponsors will have to use sub-account coding for their individual sites with the new linking codes.

[CCBill_Paul]

Originally Posted by tickler

I'm going to presume that there are sponsor/site/affiliate IDs encoded(base64???) buried in that mess somewhere.

I think question is if he can easily pull one individual sponsors' sites out of links databases.

I think you will be able to easily pull an individual sponsor's link(s), it may however, be a little more difficult than it was before.

Originally Posted by tickler

Also, please tell me that sponsors will have to use sub-account coding for their individual sites with the new linking codes.

This will really depend on the sponsors settings, as it did before.

[kit]

Originally Posted by CCBill_Paul

for example, sponsor A's links may look like this: http://wms.ccbill.com/wmsi/w_id/Lt-r...iLvJPZb2tsWMs*

While sponsor B's may look like this:

http://wms.ccbill.com/wmsi/w_id/Lt-K...SLvJPZb2tsWMs*

So, while they will not be as easily identified as the old ones you will still be able to associate one link with one program.

I hope that helps.

Another "NATS encoding" crap?
The worse thing I ever seen is encoded affiliate links.

Paul, do you discussed your new features with valued webmasters before official pressrelease?

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by kit

The worse thing I ever seen is encoded affiliate links.

I would have to agree with Kit on that.