News

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.

We are finally ready with Stimul-cash.com 2.0 Beta .

Check this out: https://www2.stimul-cash.com (please use mozilla firefox or internet explorer 6+ to login, the interface may not work in other browsers)

Here you will be able to use your old stimul-cash.com username in the Email Adress field. (however if you change your email in the interface, your new email address must be used)

Please compare your balances in new stimul to your balances in old interface, if you see any differences, let us know through contact us form.

You can also create a hosting account, install a site and edit prices, if something is not working let us know through contact us form. We are eager to get all bugs out as soon as possible.

What’s new in Stimul 2?

Right after you install new templates, your customers will be able to pay with ANY type of credit card, wire transfer, ach, or eurodebit.

We have also changed payment plan, your commission will be calculated according to this formula: (Price - Base Price) * 75%. However, the base price is now much lower, hence your net comissions will actually increase, and you will be able to set lower prices for the products.

The new stats interface is using a more efficient backend software, new server cluster. It may take some getting used to, but i hope you will find that this is much faster than old stimul.

Thanks in advance for your patience while we get all the bugs out, with your help.

We planned to launch the v2 of StimulCash on October 1st. Unfortunatly bugs take longer to get out of the system than we anticipated. We plan to get rid of most little pests by October 15th, when we hope to launch the new StimulCash.

You may have been wondering why there were no updates or news here since we renamed the program to Stimul-Cash.

Fact is, we are working hard on redoing the whole affiliate program. This concernes a few things like prices, the way hosting works, new ajax-based login area with additional statistics, new sites - and not just pharma …

btw, here are some screens of new login area:

We have set an approximate date to launch all of this for at least one or two affiliates on October, 1st. But we will do our best to make it all available earlier.

Nick

Stimul Media is now Stimul Cash.

We decided to rename the program so that the fact that we are an affiliate program is reflected in the name. When I first heard the name Stimul Media, the first thing that came to mind was some kind of advertising agency.

So we talked, and I decided to rename it :)

Its now Stimul Cash. Nothing but the name has changed… Yet.

We are the new team as you may have noticed and we are planning to add many cool new features to the program in the nearest future.

NickP

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Hi there, just came across with an idea of a free hosting for our affiliates, so do you guys need it or not?

The idea of providing free hosting to affiliates is still in the newborn phase. Please note that we can only host your affiliate XML shops which were provided by us. In other words, you are not allowed to upload any content to these free hosts except those which are provided by the affiliate program.

Does it make sense at all? Take part in our POLL now:
http://www.brand-zen.com/showthread.php?t=631