How to Become an Effective Manager

Being an effective manager is a challenging but rewarding task requiring various skills and qualities. While many factors contribute to a manager’s effectiveness, there are some key characteristics essential for success, from strong communication skills to the ability to delegate tasks and handle conflicts and problems efficiently. Whether you are new to a role, or […]

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Affiliate Taxes (1099)

When it comes to issuing a 1099 or receiving a W-9 from your affiliates, this is something that is done directly between you and your affiliates. There is not currently an option to upload a W-9 (for download) and no way to issue a 1099. Again, this is all personal items to be handled directly […]

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Price Increase – Self-Hosted Upgrade Access

For many years, going back almost two decades, the cost of upgrade access has been $89.99 USD. As of January 1st, 2023, we will be increasing this amount to $139.00 USD. Remember, this is not a mandatory fee but using the current release is always advised to make sure you have the latest updates, patches, […]

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Postback / Conversion Pixel

This feature is also known as a Piggyback Conversion Pixel and will post data to an affiliate’s defined URL each time an approved commission is created (conversion occurs). We will POST sales/commission data to a location requested by your affiliate. Affiliates will receive the data in JSON format. What your affiliates do with the data […]

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Update To API – Create A New Affiliate Account

Developers: When using the /new_affiliate.php API we have now added in a JSON 200/success code which will also output the new affiliate ID that was created by the API. So you now have confirmation the account was create as well as the new ID of the account.

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Using GMAIL (API) for Email Delivery

Learn how to connect iDevAffiliate to your Gmail account for mail delivery. Please review the video below as we walk through the step-by-step process. The step-by-step written guide will be added soon. For now, everything is covered for you in the video below.

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Tiers – Forced vs. Embedded Links

When you enable your tier structure, affiliates will be recruiting other affiliates in to your affiliate program for you. There are two different linking styles you can enable for them to use. Forced Linking This will produce a special link that must be used when recruiting. The affiliates get this very specific link within their […]

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Using Sendgrid for Email Delivery

The following are settings when using Sendmail for mail delivery. When using Sendgrid, enter your Sendgrid email address as your Default Email Address. Delivery Method: SMTP SMTP Authentication Required? Yes SMTP Port: 587 SMTP Character Set: utf-8 SMTP Security: TLS SMTP Host: smtp.sendgrid.net SMTP Username: apikey <- Just like this.. use the word “apikey”. See […]

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