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Using Affiliate Network Revenue Reporting APIs

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It's simple and takes just a few minutes to set up your account to automatically import data from supported affiliate networks. Follow these steps to allow Click Precision to match revenue, products and traffic to gain valuable data so you can make critical decisions regarding your spend and focus on the campaign, adgroup and keyword level. Organic traffic revenue is imported as well!

To set up revenue reporting APIs, login to your Click Precision account. Go to "Account" and APIs. Select the network, such as Linkshare under Revenue Reporting API Connections and add the token values, and depending on the network, the SID value. Read more about each network to see the steps.

 

The current growing list of supported revenue reporting APIs include:

bankratecreditcards.com (Bankrate)
cj.com (V1) - Removing Soon
cj.com (V2)
Commissionsoup.com
contfinco-login.com (Continental Finance)
FlexOffers.com
hasoffers -True Blue Life Insurance
icommissions.com (iCommissions)
impactradius.com (Impact Radius)
linkshare.com (Rakuten)
partnerize.com (Partnerize)
shareasale.com (ShareASale)
[FTP] premiercentral.com (First PREMIER Bank)


bankratecreditcards.com (Bankrate)

1: Navigate to https://affiliates.rvmedianetwork.com/login and sign in with your existing Linkoffers / Bankrate publisher account. From the menu where your domain names appear, select the API Key value.

2: Copy and paste that token into the token field in the form and press "add".

You will need to repeat this step for each domain in your Bankrate account.

cj.com (V1) - Removing Soon

1: Navigate to api.cj.com and sign in with your existing cj.com account. On the "Get Started" menu, you will see your developer key. It looks something like this and will likely be multi-lined.

Your developer key is:
008904ba396a170b49e89220705417a876552470915bd98da4...

2: Copy and paste the key into the token field in the form and press "add".

cj.com (V2)

1. Visit https://developers.cj.com/account/personal-access-tokens and login with your existing cj.com account.
2. Under "Register New Personal Access Token", give your token a name and click "Register"
3. Copy the token (Not including the name, everything after name: )
4. Paste the token in the "Token" field.
5. Add your account number in the "SID" field. Your account number is shown on the top right of your cj.com account.

Commissionsoup.com

1: Navigate to https://www.commissionsoup.com/ and sign in with your existing Commission Soup account. The API key is available at https://www.commissionsoup.com/affiliates/account/api-key.aspx

2: The API Key should be added to the Token form field at Click Precision. Press "add".

contfinco-login.com (Continental Finance)

1: Navigate to affiliate.contfinco-login.com and sign in with your existing account. From the "System > API" menu, you will see your API key.

2: Copy and paste that key into the token field in the form and press "add".

FlexOffers.com

1. Login to your account at FlexOffers.com and visit the reporting page https://publisherpro.flexoffers.com/Report/Feed.

2. Copy and paste everything after &gui=YOURCODE Make sure you stop copying before the variable &d1
Paste the gui variable into Token form field.

hasoffers -True Blue Life Insurance

1: Go to https://trueblueinsurance.hasoffers.com/publisher/#!/tools/api-key

2: Copy and paste the key into the token field in the form and press "add".

icommissions.com (iCommissions)

1: Navigate to affiliate.icommissions-login.com and sign in with your existing iCommissions account. From the "System > API" menu, you will see your API key.

2: Copy and paste that key into the token field in the form and press "add".

impactradius.com (Impact Radius)

1: Sign in with your existing Impact Radius account. Click on the "Triple Dot Icon" on the bottom left, "Settings". Go the the sub-menu "API Access".

2: Read-Only Auth Token should be added to the Token form field, and Read-Only Account SID needs to be added to the SID form field at Click Precision. Then press "add".

linkshare.com (Rakuten)

1: Navigate to linkshare.com and sign in with your existing Linkshare / Rakuten account. From the "Reports" menu, click on the dropdown item next to the button "View Report". Select "Get API".

2. Select everything after &token=

3: Copy and paste the token into the token field in the form and press "add".

You will need to repeat this step for each domain in your linkshare account.

partnerize.com (Partnerize)

1. Login to your partnerize.com publisher account.

2. Under "Account Settings", copy the code "User application key" and "User API key" and paste both of them in the matching fields.

3. Under the same page, "Account Settings", click on "Your Access Rights". Copy your account ID, after "publisher-". For example, the ID of publisher-12345 is 12345.

shareasale.com (ShareASale)

This setup requires a few additional credentials.

1: Login to your account at Shareasale.com. Under the menu "Reports", click on "API Reports".

2: Add the following to IP address: 169.48.192.245 - A token and key will now be generated.

3: Copy "Token" and "Secret Key" to the form at Click Precision. Account ID is located at the top left of the Shareasale screen.

4. Recommended: Under "IP Restrictions" Select require a IP address for versions 1.3 and lower. This will require less maintenance if our IP address changes.

[FTP] premiercentral.com (First PREMIER Bank)

First PREMIER Bank does not provide a reporting API, however you can utilize FTP upload reports with Click Precision's automated daily reporting.

To begin receiving FTP reports, request daily FTP reports through your program manager at First PREMIER Bank. Once you verify that reports are being uploaded to your server, connect Click Precision by adding FTP credentials as well as the revenue amount we should assign to approved applications. Declined leads are also imported by subtracting the total apps vs payable apps columns.

Add the FTP connection info, including server address, username and password. Click Precision will scan the directory for .csv files, and fetch ones that match the text, for example: 1_HN_SIDDAILY. The number of approved apps are multiplied by the revenue amount that you specify, and the offset of net apps and payable apps are used to determine the total declined leads. You can also specify a variable that does not run through Click Precision that may be included in reports. This variable will be assigned as direct access/bookmark traffic.

 

 

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