News

Now you can use Opera to access Stimul-Cash stats interface.

Only the beta version ( 9.5 ) will fully support our stats interface, this is due to known opera 9 bugs that were only fixed in the beta release. The good news is that Opera 9.5 is recommended by our developers as the fastest browser to access Stimul Cash stats interface.

We have improved quite a few things in version 2 admin area and shops. I would like to shortly mention what’s been done and what we plan to do now.

What has been done.

• First of all, we have modified the way Referring URLs are displayed in Stats By Referrer.
  • Added a link to the left of each URL which you can click - that will open a new window with referring page.
  • Complex URLs with query strings can be expanded now, for user-friendly view of all query string parameters (see a screenshot below).
  • NO_REFRRER now points to a list of entry pages (first page visited during a session).
• We fixed the hit counting, now all bots are recognized as bots, and not counted as clicks/visitors. This gives us more precise click/visitor/CPV stats.
• Now changes of prices are automatic, and do not require use of “import” in xtrafeed templates. The changes in prices no longer reload all product descriptions either, only prices are changed.
• Alse we have rewrote the Xtra feed patch so that it doesn’t reset product descriptions and meta tags. Unfortunatly this problem was noticed a little later than we would’ve liked to. Our appologies.

What we plan to do.

In a couple of words - a lot.

But at this time our top priority is a new pharmacy site which will promote indian generics. We beleive that our clients are mostly aware of the fact that all generics are India-produced. They also feel insecure with “Canadian” pharmacies who claim to ship from canada, whereas products are shipped from India anyways.

Also we will finish updtating stats so that financial stats by Bot/browser/os match those to real stats.

We are also adding XML feed feature for those who can write their own shopping cart using an XML parser.

Also in the plans ED-only site, weight-loss-only site, and sites dedicated to other categories of medicine. We are also working on joomla patch, which seems to take a lot of time, that is to say we don’t have an estimate when that will be ready.

We have patched all Xtra feeds hosted with us.

Over the weekend, the results have been ecouraging. The total sales for all patched sites have picked up. Which is a good news. It means two things: Everything is working, and its working better than before ;-)

Now we will start patching Xtra feeds for affiliates with their own hosting. Please contact Mark and he will arrange a programmer for you who will do all the dirty work. Just send him your FTP details, and your account number.

If you wish to try and patch the sites yourself, you can do it (read here) but we strongly advise against it.

Finally we have finished programming of patch for Extrafeed. During upgrades of affiliates we found quite a few bugs and inconveniences in the scripts. For instance the fact that you had to import prices in Xtra feed admin after you changed prices in affiliate area.

Now, once you change prices in Price Editor, they will be automatically changed on the site.

Also, we have fixed a number of varius defects:

• Hosting & Domains / Free Hosting Info: Re-Install is not working. FIXED
• Price Editor: Base prices for Tracking ID default and and other Tracking ID differ. FIXED
• Xtra-feed - forbid editing of prices from xtrafeed admin area. DONE
• Hosting & Domains: Add “Move” so that a domain can be moved from one hosting account to another. DONE
• Price Editor: Product names for generic and brand medicine is the same. FIXED

Also, we have patched extra feeds for a couple of our affiliates. So far so good.

And one of our top affiliates moved traffic from his old stimul sites to newly created shops. So far he is very happy with changes in conversion rates.

What’s next?

During these couple of days we will commence a mass patch of Xtra feeds hosting with us.

Also we will try to add Xtra feed patch for downloading to affiliate area, so you can use it if your xtrafeeds are hosted elsewhere.

We would also ask you to replace all your old Lite Feeds with the new Xtra feed, you will have to do this sooner or later anyways as we will not be supporting Lite feeds any longer. Do it now so you don’t have to do it in the future.