Latest Updates
newRefining Per-Click Campaigns & Squashing Bugs
This cycle, we tightened up the new Per-Click experience and gave users more visibility into value and collaboration . Let's dig in... [Publishers] Earnings Visibility You can now see all your earnings in a nice chart on the homepage of your dashboard [Both] Chat Conversations Upgrade Find the conversation you're looking for quicker. [Publishers] Ability to hide Affiliate Deals in Brand Gallery Not interested in affiliate deals? You can now hide them from view. [Both] Better Teams Management Working with a team? See who's on your account and add new members. Several small refinements to the new Per-Click product line Click Counting [Both] - Before, we were only able to update click data on platform every ~7 hours. This has been improved and clicks will now update every hour at the slowest. Campaign Dates [Advertisers] - Can now be edited before the campaign goes live. User Education [Both] - Walkthroughs appear upon logging in and in context on the page. Decline Reason [Both] - We're now collecting feedback from publishers about the offers they're declining in order to improve future campaigns. Click Counting [Both] - Refined counting process for better accuracy Elsewhere in the Platform Newsletter Gallery [Advertisers] - Tweaks to the 'active publisher' card Home Screen [Advertisers] - Updated language around "Applications" to clarify that they're related to 1:1 Relationships 1:1 Relationships [Both] - Scrolling direction is more natural in chat window 1:1 Relationships [Both] - Ability to Bug Fixes 1:1 Relationships [Advertisers] Timed out applications are now re-openable [Both] Declined Invitations and Applications are now appearing correctly in 'Inactive' table [Both] Dates are now displaying correctly in tables [Both] Some relationships were not appearing in the Relationships dashboard because the status was not getting set correctly [Both] In chat window, 'is typing' message was sometimes stuck Per-Click (CPC) Campaigns [Both] Reports tables are now displaying click counts accurately [Publishers] Total Max Payout amount is now populating in the Results table [Advertisers] Brands were unable to set click caps [Advertisers] Invoices being created incorrectly [Publishers] Some trackable links were not getting created successfully Onboarding [Advertisers] Navigation issues fixed Affiliate Deals [Advertisers] Invoice links were broken What should we be working on? The projects we tackle are a direct result of the feedback we receive from our users. Tell us what you'd like to see improve about Swapstack here: https://swapstack.canny.io/feature-requests
newimprovedPer-Click Campaigns
Lots of little improvements this cycle, and one big release: Per-Click Campaigns . Let's dig in... [Advertisers] NEW! CPC Campaigns Offer a per-click payout with monthly caps. Invite multiple publishers to participate. Pay only for the clicks they drive during the campaign. Set up a new campaign on your Campaigns Dashboard, and select "Per-Click" to get started: [Publishers] NEW! Per-Click Offers Drive clicks, get paid! Once you've been invited to a per-click campaign, you'll see a new option in your sidebar menu. [Both] Plug & Play is now "Affiliate Deals" The old name was cute(ish) but it was confusing and users were ignoring it. So we got un-creative and renamed it something more descriptive. [Advertisers] Share your Affiliate Deal Advertisers can now share their Affiliate Deal externally. Just click to copy and paste into an email, a twitter, or on your website... [Both] Re-Open 1:1 Timed Out Relationships Missed an invitation to connect? Reopen it here: [Both] Review Collaborators You can now post a simple, anonymous thumbs-up / thumbs-down review after you've run a deal in a 1:1 Relationship. [Advertisers] Design updates on the Campaign Dashboard Everything campaign-related lived on one cluttered page, before. Now, have three separate views: Your campaigns list & the campaign builder A dedicated "Campaign Overview" screen for viewing the details of an individual campaign Your campaign tables, where you view the progress of an individual campaign Elsewhere in the platform... Affiliates [Publishers] - Updated the weekly "featured deals" email to include links and descriptions about each advertiser 1:1 Relationships [Both] - Small design updates to the chat window for a cleaner experience for users Affiliates [Advertisers] - Tweaks to the 'invite only' flow General [Both] - Speed upgrades on page load What should we be working on? The projects we tackle are a direct result of the feedback we receive from our users. Tell us what you'd like to see improve about Swapstack here: https://swapstack.canny.io/feature-requests
newimprovedfixedA better experience in our "Plug & Play" Affiliate Program
We spent this cycle making key improvements to our Affiliate program, Plug & Play . If you're new to Plug & Play, it's a a gallery of 60+ pre-approved, pay-per-conversion affiliate deals. Publishers can run deals whenever they need to fill inventory, and Advertisers only pay when ads convert. Win-win. Learn more in your Plug & Play dashboard! [Advertisers] Plug & Play Metrics Visibility Advertisers can now see how their Plug & Play deal is performing at a glance. [Advertisers] Invite Only Deals for Plug & Play Advertisers can now create an "Invite Only" deal and control which Publishers can run it. [Publishers] Plug & Play Filtering Publishers can now filter the Plug & Play gallery to find the deals best suited for their needs. [Advertisers] Plug & Play Pre-Approval Invitations While Advertisers are waiting for their Plug & Pay deal to be approved, they can now queue up a list of Publishers to invite to run it as soon as it's approved and set to "Live." [Advertisers] Better Instructions for Affiliate Programs During the Plug & Play Application Bug Fixes Plug & Play [Both] - Weekly emails had duplicated click amounts Plug & Play [Publishers] - 1-click creative 'copy' in wasn't carrying all the info (including link) through to 'paste' Plug & Play [Advertisers] - Creative folders weren't getting created consistently in new P&P Deals Elsewhere in the Platform 1:1 Relationships [Both] - Revamped "Weekly Roundup" Email for 1:1 ![Spacer for Changelogs80] What should we be working on? The projects we tackle are a direct result of the feedback we receive from our users. Tell us what you'd like to see improve about Swapstack here: https://swapstack.canny.io/feature-requests