The Paid On Results feed is hosted on your server and polled (and read) by the Paid On Results servers at regular intervals.
With Paid On Results you can add your own properties that can
provide more useful information to your affiliates. To do this click on the
Add button and give your property an approproate name.
Output Filename
Type in the name of the file to store the Paid On Results information to (including the directory). This is the name of the file that Paid On Results will be expecting on your website (name registered when your Paid On Results account was set-up). This file must end with .csv (e.g. PaidOnResults.csv).
Server to upload PaidOnResults Feed to
Click on the Get Actinic Settings to use the same settings
as your Actinic website.
It is best to host this on your own server (maybe in a subdirectory, for example, feeds. Leave the connection type as Use passive FTP unless you have problems connecting to the server.
The Username and Password are the name and password that you use within Actinic
to upload your site (if you are hosting the file on your own server).
Delivery Costs
Delivery costs are not required for Paid On Results.
However, if you want to, you can include this information in your own product
details or as a separate custom field. To use this value, as either within other
text or as a separate item use the macro !!DeliveryCost!!.
The options in this section are used to define the possible shipping costs for each item. There are 3 main categories of delivery options.
Free Delivery
No additonal amounts are added to the item’s price.
Fixed Price Charge
You always add this amount to each item’s price. You can enter a price at which the
delivery is free.
Calculated Delivery Charge
The delivery charges are calculated using the settings that you specified within Actinic. You must select a single option for Calculate by, Zone, Class and any Free delivery.
Properties
You can Add, Edit or Amend your properties. When you Add or Edit a property the following dialog is displayed :
Variable
The property type can either be a standard Paid On Results type or you can specify your own. In the example, a shop is selling items from different manufacturers so the manufacturer is picked up from the product’s Brand Custom Variable.
NOTE : If you want to override the default values generated from your Actinic product details you can do this by supplying your own values (fixed or from a CustomVar). You can override the following values by selecting the relevant Standard Variable (in the Variable section). For example, to use a different image for the product when displayed in Paid On Results (from your Actinic shop) you would select the Image URL Standard Variable. You would then define a fixed value or use a CustomVar to get the image to display (for example, http://www.ObeliskHoldings.TV/graphics/house3.gif).
Product Name
Name of product. This defaults to the product name
provided in Actinic.
Description
Description of product. This defaults to the main product description defined in Actinic.
Image URL
Image to use for the product. This defaults to the image defined in Actinic for the product.
Product URL
HTML page to display when the product is clicked on. This defaults to the product page within your Actinic shop.
Product Price
Cost of the product. This defaults to the calculated price within Actinic.
Value
To have the same value for all of your products select the Use Text option. To have a different value for a shop section select Section under Type. To have a different value for each product select Product as Type. If Use CustomVar has been selected you should select a CustomVar (defined within Actinic and values assigned for each product) to retrieve the information from.
If you are using Actinic V8 you would create CustomVars by creating Variables in the Design Library. You would normally create these in the General Group. Also add in a Default value to use for the product. This will be used if a Custom Var hasn’t been used for a product.
Advanced features
If you want to use the values created by the Product Mash in different fields than the default ones you can use the following macros to substitute these values. For example, if you want the Actinic description to appear as the item’s name you should define a fixed value for the title as !!Description!!.
Another example is shown below to use the Actinic calculated delivery cost as your custom field
There
are more advanced ways to include information from Actinic (or from different
fields). See the Advanced
Features section
for more details