News

We added the new Template to template master.

Now you can download and install the template on your server (or our free hosting).

The template already contains many products that we added to the site previously. No other templates have this many products at the moment.

Right now we are working on design of a couple more sites, and on launching non-pharmacy sites.

I am happy to announce that we have added a new mega-site: Indian Generics.

You can link to any of these domain names:

• www.DelhiRX.com
• www.DelhiDrugs.com
• www.Indian-Generics.com

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We have made some changs to our forum, and implemented a help wiki section of Stimul-Cash

Forum

• The forum has moved to community.stimul-media.com
• We have also upgraded the software. Now it runs on latest version of IPB, and has the same navigation and design as our main site.
• Old links to topics will work as before.

Help Wiki

• We created a Wiki that will contain documentation describing different aspects of working with Stimul-Cash
• You will find it at this adress: community.stimul-media.com/wiki/
• Right now the information in English is limited, but we are constantly adding more content to documentation

The XML Feed for pharmacy shops is ready. Basically it lists all the products available for sale, the categories, their descriptions, prices and links to billing pages.

Prices will be according to your Price Editor, if you change prices for products through your Price Editor,  these changes will be reflected in the XML feeds.

Now you can use Stimul-Cash with your own shoppping cart engines, or if you don’t have a shopping cart you can create pages with product descriptions, and link directly to our billing page (links may be included in the XML feed with your affiliate code built-in).

Let me know if you have any questions.

NickP

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.

We applied a patch to the first site.

Now all the traffic to ExtraCheapDrugs.com goes through new billing page and all stats is recorded through new program. Now the conversion rates will inevitably go up. Out of curisosity, go to the site, and visit the billing page, see how many payment methods there are available for customers.

It is not impossible that during a short time different parts of stats may produce funny results that you are not used to. I am hopefull however that everything will go smoothly.

We have also finished fixing of Template Master that didnt work during this weekend.

In our next plans - systematic patch of old sites, and adding new features like XML feeds, and development of new version of feed.

First of all i would like to thank everyone who is helping us test version 2. Thanks for finding all these glitches. Without a community like this we wouldn’t be able to find all these little bugs.

I would also like to tell you that we have finished fixing all the major bugs that were identified during the tests (at least I hope so :). Here is the list what has been found and fixed:

• When a new tracking ID is created it doesnt appear in template master or banner and popup section unless you refresh the page. FIXED
• When a new hosting account is set up, you can’t see it in Template Master unless you refresh the page. FIXED
• All error messages are of this format: “ERROR: N”. FIXED: Now all messages display in full, and sometimes with suggestions on what to do next.
• When adding a domain to a hosting account DNS servers don’t reslove. FIXED: wrong DNS servers were stated in the interface, now the correct DNS servers are shown: ns0 and ns1.stimulhosting.com
• When a template for default tracking ID is installed, the prices on the site and the billing page differ significantly… FIXED. All prices match now.
  
• Checkout page has moved from bill.rx-partners.biz to bill.stimul-cash.com
• Added a few banners to the sites (although they dont work for new accounts yet -only after patch)
• On some templates you could see products such as Levitra 0 mg. FIXED
• If you have more than 1 affiliate account, and you login to your second account, you still see the first account’s data. FIXED
• Some links in texts on the front page are broken. FIXED
• Free hosting info buttond doesnt work in some of supported browsers. FIXED
• Top menu is buggy in Internet Explorer 7. FIXED

We have some other minor glitches to fix before we start patching the sites, hopefull we will start by monday. Otherwise everything seems to be working fine, and stable, thanks to our wonder programmers ;)

Right now you can still get confused about how things work, but that’s due to partly working sites, and as soon as we patch the sites and add help system, everything should clear up.

Thanks for your patience.