Account Wide

• Improved Geo targeting tracking and reporting (the country for the consumer’s IP is recorded and associated with the action to make country breakout reporting possible).
• Time Zone Shifting (all tracking and reporting dates are relative to the time zone you specify for your account).
• Improved performance and scalability (new tracking mechanism to handle much larger transaction volumes faster).
• Search engine friendly URL option available for all Tracking URLs (impression, click, pixel and lead tracking)
• System wide contextual help information and documentation.
• New Power User and Decrypter account roles.
• New sub-permissions for user accounts.
• Custom error page redirection.

Impression Tracking

• Image served for impression pixel will be actual banner URL for simple banner creatives (when creative id specified to impression pixel).
• Improvements to CPM style tracking to enhance accuracy.
• Creative tracking by ID(track which creative caused an action to take place).
• Enhanced sub id tracking (sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long).
• Hourly tracking (the hour an action occurred in is now recorded).
• Geo targeting tracking (the country for the consumer’s IP address is recorded and associated with the action to make country breakout reporting possible).
• Enhanced sub id tracking, sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long.

Click Tracking

• Customized redirect URL for bad redirect requests. If a bad request (missing CID, AFID etc) comes in redirects to a URL you provide.
• Country specific geo targeting, you can specify different destination campaigns or URLs for different unauthorized countries.
• Expired campaign redirect URL is now separate from default geo target redirect URL.
• Customize URL or campaign to redirect to in the case of a duplicate IP when duplicate IP filtering enabled.
• Secure cookie doesn’t contain any information that can be tampered with and cookie can only be used one time even if copied (unless cookie preservation option used when pixel is fired).
• Additional data passed into click tracking URL now made available as tokens in all redirect URLs.
• Additional data being appended to redirect URL can now be disabled on per URL basis.
• When redirecting to another campaign the parameters passed on to the new campaign can now be controlled.
• Unique click id generated for each click and made available as token (can be passed to pixel to do secure pixel post).
• Status of initial click now recorded, was the click redirected from campaign A to B or another URL due to A being expired, due to geo targeting or because IP was a duplicate.
• If click came from another campaign the campaign it came from is recorded so you can see if traffic for campaign B is coming from geo targeting from campaign A.
• Creative tracking by ID(track which creative caused an action to take place).
• Enhanced sub id tracking (sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long).
• Hourly tracking (the hour an action occurred in is now recorded).
• Geo targeting tracking (the country for the consumer’s IP address is recorded and associated with the action to make country breakout reporting possible).
• Enhanced sub id tracking, sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long.

Pixel Tracking

• IP Backup can be turned on and off on a per campaign basis
• IP Backup now uses browser fingerprint made up of browser version (user agent) and IP address.
• New secure pixel post option to prevent fraudulent pixel posts.
• Pixel post can be enabled or disabled on a per campaign basis and old style pixel post can be disabled to only allow new secure pixel pos
• Source of how pixel was fired (cookie, IP Backup, pixel post) now recorded with transaction.
• Server side affiliate pixel firing option, affiliate pixel can be fired from our server rather than from consumer’s browser.
• PixVantage support from image pixels on merchant’s page*.
• Additional data on confirmation pixel made available as tokens to affiliate’s pixel
• New parameters to allow merchant to pass in their reference/transaction number, notes and reference date and have them recorded in their own fields in the transaction to allow for easier viewing and reporting. (Future version will allow searching by merchant reference number)
• Server Side Pixel Posting.
• Creative tracking by ID(track which creative caused an action to take place).
• Enhanced sub id tracking (sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long).
• Hourly tracking (the hour an action occurred in is now recorded).
• Geo targeting tracking (the country for the consumer’s IP address is recorded and associated with the action to make country breakout reporting possible).
• Enhanced sub id tracking, sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long.

Lead Tracking and Management

• Customized redirect URL for bad requests (CID or AFID missing etc).
• Creative tracking by ID(track which creative caused an action to take place).
• Enhanced sub id tracking (sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long).
• Hourly tracking (the hour an action occurred in is now recorded).
• Geo targeting tracking (the country for the consumer’s IP address is recorded and associated with the action to make country breakout reporting possible).
• Channel response parsing (parse additional data out of a channel response: URL, Price etc.)
• Ability to append data and use tokens on channel specific redirect URL when parsed out of channel response using advanced options.
• Indexed fields, select data fields to be indexed and search for leads based on contents of those fields.
• Performance improvements for high and low volume campaigns.
• Duplicate filtering enhancements, more less likely to miss dupes on high volume campaigns (when duplicates come in within seconds of each other) and increased overall performance when enabled.
• Triggers, configure rules under which specific actions will take place after a lead has been through data distribution regardless of the channel sold to. Actions include sending an email (replaces and enhances current auto responder) and sending data to a URL using any of the mechanism currently supported in channels. Previously code named “All the time channels”
• Server side pixel posting.
• New option to filter based on zip code and area code matching.
• Longer http referrer headers can be set for a channel and tokens can be used in the header value.
• Increase filter/rules field length to unlimited.
• Tokens available for custom channel redirect URLs.
• New Link Cloaking technology protects merchant redirect URLs from affiliate view and abuse.
• Introduce an interstitial page between redirecting consumers to merchant redirect URLs.
• Enhanced sub id tracking, sub ids can now be up to 100 characters long.

Reporting

• Creative reporting
• Hourly reporting
• Country reporting
• Improved reporting performance
• More reports are exportable
• Ability to extract large amounts of transactions easily into Text, CSV and XML formats
• Data Extract Archive
• Break out filtered transactions based on why they were filtered (initial field filter, no channels accepted lead, lead rejected by channels sent to)
• Break out why a lead was rejected by a channel (rule, cap, response from channel)
• Reporting based on time zone specified on your account.
• New AJAX date/time chooser
• 2nd tier affiliate reporting
• Profitability report enhancements (Manager specific reporting)
• Improved transaction searching

Security

• Password strength requirements can now be set for partner center, affiliate center and merchant center accounts.
• All passwords are now hashed and cannot be retrieved or viewed, only reset.
• User initiated password reset will send and email to them with a link which when clicked on will prompt for a security question before resetting their password. Security questions will be asked of all users, affiliates, merchants the first time they log into 6.0.
• Affiliates can now choose user names other than their affiliate id to login to the Affiliate Center.
• Partner Center user accounts can now use usernames other than their emails to log in.
• Links sent to “auto login” to the Affiliate Center in emails to affiliates will now be useable only one time and access to sensitive affiliate account information when auto logged in will be restricted until the affiliate provides their password.
• It will be possible to auto log into the Affiliate Center or Merchant Center from the Partner Center and the URL used to do so won’t work if recorded and retried later.

Affiliate Management

• Affiliate sign ups that are never approved will never have an account created; sign ups are kept in a separate list from affiliate accounts until approved.
• Ability to mass approve/disapprove affiliates for a campaign.
• Block affiliates for individual campaigns (stops traffic as if affiliate was suspended, but only for a particular campaign).
• Use of Affiliate and Affiliate Manager information tokens throughout the Affiliate Center header, menu, footer and welcome page.
• Custom editing of the Affiliate Center Stylesheet.
• Improved customization of Affiliate Center Pages
• Unique headers and footers for Affiliate and Merchant Centers
• Custom Affiliate Email Templates.
• Customization of default affiliate Login and Signup page.
• Improved data extraction of Affiliate Center reporting.
• Assign and report on 2nd tier affiliates.
• Auto approval of transactions can be configured on a per affiliate basis.
• Affiliates can choose their login or use their ID number.

Site Navigation

• New AJAX Jump Menu allows for improved navigation when dealing with large numbers of campaigns.
• New AJAX Jump Menu allows for quick access to any Affiliate’s account details.
• Campaign filters becomes a menu option and page.
• New Data Extract Archive option in menu
• Improved site wide navigation.