Installing RevMax 4 for Openx 2.8

downloading Unpacking The Plug in:

Once you have purchased RevMax and downloaded it from the link in your payment email, rename the file RevMax-Package or similar as to easily identify the plugin later, then using any zip utility, unzip the package to a location that is easy to locate on your local machine. Once unzipped you will have a folder named “RevMax-Package” or the above chosen name, inside this folder you will find two more zip files, one named clients and one named RevMax.zip. (purchase)

Uploading Installing The RevMax Plugin

Using any ftp program or shell you can transfer the clinets.zip folder to your OpenX install path and unzip it there or unzip clients.zip on your local machine and upload. if your OpenX install is similar to mydomain.com/openx/ then the clients folder will be located at mydomain.com/openx/clients/. While there you may want to check the file and folder permissions and set folders 775 and files 644, or similar depending on your servers configuration.

Now log into your OpenX installation and switch to the administrator account, now switch to the plugins page.

Click the browse button and browse to the “RevMax-Package” folder on your local machine and find the file named RevMax.zip click on it then click install. RevMax 4plugin will then be installed on your server and you will now see a new tab, while logged in as admin, named RevMax.

Expanding Openx 2.8 Advertiser capabilities

RevMax 4 plugin for Openx 2.8 offers the admin an ability to sell or rent ad space on a website or a network of websites. Being equipped to accept Paypal authorixe.net, and WorldPay payments, and send custom emails it will require a bit of set up before a actual test or live transaction can take place. (purchase)

Configuring RevMax

On the OpenX plugins page you will now see a plugin labeled RevMax 4.0.1 beside the name you will note details, disable, and uninstall by clicking on details you are presented with licensing information and settings for RevMax and the group plugin settings for RevMax (paypal), authorize.net, WorldPay and Clients settings. You may also note you can create a backup of the RevMax tables at anytime. Once created you will find the backups named RM_tablename_date_here_ within your OpenX database. It is recommended you backup your data from time to time and before any upgrades or installations.

Configuring Authorize.net Payments

Click on authnet > settings.

authorize-net-settings

Configuring Paypal Payments & Subscriptions plugin

Click the settings link to the right of RevMax on the group settings page to open the paypal payments configuration. If you are not going to be using paypal, you may skip this step.

a) Paypal email : This is the email where you will accept paypal payments recieved by RevMax.
b) Payment Admin eMail: The email address you would like script notifications sent to.
c) Paypal Url: You may set this to www.paypal.com or www.sandbox.paypal.com or other testing domain / script. The https: is handled within RevMax leave it out.
d) Paypal IPN Script URL: The paypal script is located within the clients folder. depending on your Openx install it may be yourdomain.com/openx/clients/paypal.php or yourdomain.com/clients/paypal.php, or other.
e) Paypal Return URL Location: This is the url that a user will return to after clicking return to merchant at paypal. You may set this to your openX admin folder or create a page in another location, giving clients more information and or a log in link. You may also use a custom script at this location as paypal will post back the information it received.
f) Cancel Payment Return Url: Enter in here the url you would like the customer to be returned to if the payment was canceled.
g) Client Log In URL: This is the client log in url sent in the customers welcome email. You can simply set this to /www/admin/ for instant login after payment, and banner upload if using the banner upload mod.
h) Payment Currency: Set htis to the currency you will be accepting USD for united states dollars.
Note: Language location in (i) must match or you will recieve errors.

Other Available Currency settings:
• AUD Australian Dollar: $12,500.00 AUD maximum per transaction
• CAD Canadian Dollar: $12,500.00 CAD maximum per transaction
• EUR Euro: €8,000.00 EUR maximum per transaction
• GBP Pound Sterling: £5,500.00 GBP maximum per transaction
• JPY Japanese Yen: ¥1 million JPY maximum per transaction
• USD U.S. Dollar: $10,000.00 USD maximum per transaction
• NZD New Zealand Dollar, 15,000 NZD maximum per transaction
• CHF Swiss Franc, 13,000 CHF maximum per transaction
• HKD Hong Kong dollar, 80,000 HKD maximum per transaction
• SGD Singapore Dollar, 16,000 SGD maximum per transaction
• SEK Swedish Krona, 80,000 SEK maximum per transaction
• DKK Danish Krone, 60,000 DKK maximum per transaction
• PLN Polish Zloty, 32,000 PLN maximum per transaction
• NOK Norwegian Krone, 70,000 maximum per transaction
• HUF Hungarian Forint, 2,000,000 maximum per transaction
• CZK Czech Koruna, 240,000 maximum per transaction

i) Seller Language Location: Set this to match your accepted currency and language. Usually abbreviated, if paypal currency = GBP then language location would be GB.
a) Subscription recurring: Checked = Yes to recur Unchecked = no not recur bill the client.
b) Re bill re attempt: checked = Yes Unchecked = No to force retry on failed subscriptions.
Enable Paypal Payments:check the box to enable RevMax to accept paypal payments, before clicking submit.

Configuring WorldPay Payments Plugin

From the RevMax plugins group settings you may click on the link to the right of WorldPay entitled settings. From here you can configure Revmax to accept worldpay payments and their version of subscriptions futurepay. If you do not intend to use WorldPay you may skip this step.

a) Your Installation Id : This is the Installation Id assigned to you from WorldPay.
b) Payment Admin eMail: This is the email you would like to recieve purchase confirmations and reciepts to.
c) Worldpay Payment url : This is set to ( select.worldpay.com ) when live, do not enter http or ().
d) Worldpay Payment Testing : Enter 0 for live or 100 for testing
e) Worldpay Notify Script Url : wpnotify.php . You must set the correct url here for worldpay to notify RevMax of the purchase. enter in like: http://yourdomain.com/openx/clients/wpnotify.php
f) Worldpay Notify Script Password : Enter in the password chosen at worldpay for this instalation.
g) Log In url sent in client welcome email: Enter in the complete url to your OpenX admin screens like: http://www.yourdomain.com/openx/www/admin/
h) Payment Currency : (USD or other) please see paypal configuration for possible variables other than USD.
i) Payment Unit : The unit of the delay between creation and the first subscription payment.(1-day, 2-week, 3-month, 4-year)
J) Subscription billing cycle : (1-day, 2-week, 3-month, 4-year).
k) Number of subscription payments: Set to 0 or leave blank for unlimited. set to 12 to limit subscriptions to 1 year rebilling.
l) Enable WorldPay Payments : Check to enable WorldPay payments, unchecked is off and the worldpay logo and payment option will not be displayed on the signup forms or in the client reorder screens.

Switching to RevMax Plugin within OpenX

By clicking on the newly presented RevMax plugin tab the OpenX admin is taken first to the RevMax updates page. This page originates from btdsoft.com as a feed and will keep you informed as to the expansion and further development of RevMax. To limit the load on your resources this page is now cached on your server for seven days before it is loaded again from ours. If the feed is ever in error the page will simply provide a link back to the updates page at btdsoft.com. No RevMax pages either request information from your servers nor send any information to ours. (purchase)

RevMax Ad Packages OverView

By clicking the Ad Packages button to the left you are presented with a page where you can create, edit and view created ad packages. Once a ad package is created it will show here and depending on settings, in other areas.

ad-packages-overview

Creating Ad Packages within RevMax

By clicking the “ad package” link you are presented with a page to set up and configure your first ad package. The ad package defines what you are entitling the purchasing advertiser to, which can be as specific as 1 week leaderboard rotation on a single page or 100000 adviews across a network of sites.

ad-package-top

Configuring The Ad Package.

You must first have some idea as to what type of advertising package you would like to sell or ad space you would like to rent.
Lets go over the settings.
a) Selling: Would you like to sell Ad Views (cpm), Ad Clicks (cpc), or rent a tenancy ? Select accordingly from the drop down list.
b)Subscription Billing Cycle:If subscription has been selected above this defines the billing cycle of this particular ad package, if renting for 1 week then set to 1 or 3 months set to 3 and likewise.
c)Subscription Billing Unit:If subscription has been selected above this defines the billing unit of this particular ad package, if renting for 1 week then set to W or 3 months set to M and Y being year(s) .
d) Package Description: This will be shown on the drop down select list on the advertisers signup screen if made public later in settings. If you are selling 10,000 adviews as a leader board on domain.com then enter in something like 10,000 LeaderBoard Adviews at domain.com.
This field combined with the later discussed “make public” field is handy for creating ad packages across a network of sites.
e) Duration: Enter in here the amount of ad views, ad clicks or the actual time as in subscription. Example if selling 10,000 ad views enter 10000 notice no comma. If selling a subscription simply enter UNLIMITED, or 30 days etc.
f) Cost: Enter in here the amount you would like to collect using paypal for this ad package. Enter numbers like 100.00, do not enter in $ or other signs like “,”.
g) Auto Zone ID: Select one or more zones here from the list, that you would like to link an advertiser campaign to a specific publishers zone within OpenX. The iframe list the the zone description you have entered when creating the zone within OpenX. Check which zone or zones you would like the advertisers campaign linked to. This feature is extremely useful when selling ad space across a network of sites. For instance a package for domainb.com’s leader board can be easily linked here.

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h) Auto Zone: Select yes or no to allow advertisers banner to be automatically attached to a specific, or multiple zones selected above. This is useful if you are renting a spot 160X600 on the index page and you have a zone created within openx for this. Create a package named 160X600 skyscraper etc, and link the package to this zone. the advertiser will not be able to show a banner unless it meets the zone requirements (160X600), as he has no permissions within OpenX to link banners to another zone.

j) Priority Level: You can choose to set a higher priority for paid campaigns here,a priority of 5 will create a contract campaign and limit the adviews. Keep in mind that high priority campaigns will override any lower level campaigns that may already be active. A high setting number here may deactivate lower priority existing campaigns, once the advertiser or you have added a banner to the campaign.

j) Weight: If you chose to leave the priority setting at the default of “0″ above you can enter in a higher weight here if necessary, a weight of 5 will create a remnant campaign with no daily limit. For example if your “house” campaigns are at a weight of 1 then a setting of 2 here will give this advertisers campaign a higher weight and more exposure, yet the house campaigns will still receive exposure.

k) Make Package Public: Here you can decide if you would like the created package to be shown on the advertisers sign up screen if using the included sign up form.

This may be used in a number of ways. example a: If you are selling ad space on domain b and you do not wish the package available on domain a then set to no. you can then create a link to another sign up page for this specific package. simply go to the existing sign up form, view source , save as filename.html, and edit the available packages list to include the desired package description and package id number. You can then use this form to post to domaina.com/clients/clients.php and the user will be forwarded directly to paypal for payment.
You may also create a totally custom form or button for this package, as long as all the required information is passed to clients.php . If you do not desire all the information, then simply include null values in hidden fields within your new form. Be aware that all information gathered by clients.php is used within OpenX. Example: If you decided not to use clients domain url. The url is set as the campaign name within OpenX by RevMax so you would then have campaigns named “NULL”.

l)Available for reorder:
Select yes if you would like the ad package available on the advertisers > Resources> reorder screen within the clients area. This is available to sell existing clients more adviews, or adclicks, on existing campaigns. It is advisable to create 1 adviews reorder package and 1 adclicks reorder package to be shown on the clients screen.

Discount Coupons

Clicking the Discount Coupons link on the left RevMax menu opens the coupons overview page. Here you can add new discount coupons, edit or delet e existing coupons. Discounts are expressed as a percentage of 100 so .10 would be 10% off .20 would be 20% off and so on.

Paypal Payments

From this screen you have a view of the total payments to date and the ability to search payments on many given variables such as email, campaign id user id transaction id etc.

WorldPay Payments

From this screen you have a view of the total payments to date and the ability to search payments on many given variables such as email, campaign id user id transaction id etc.

Pending Publishers

You have the ability to enroll publishers accounts with RevMax After they submit the form you will recieve an email and then can make a determination on aproving the publisher. From this screen you can view edit and approve new publishers.

Approving Publishers

Here you have settings to further automate the approval process. You can automatically create new zones, chain the new publisher zones to existing ones, and set new publisher permissions. (purchase)

a) Check to create new publisher zones: When enabled you may select standard zone sizes below to create new publisher zones.
b) New publisher zones to create: Select one or all standard publisher zones to be created with the publishers approval.
c) Zone chaining Linking: If you have a default publisher you can set the zones here to chian to the new publisher so as to not have to link advertisers to the new publisher. Caution at last attempt OpenX did not support publisher stats for a chianed publisher. Alll stats default to the original chained publishers zones.
d) Select New Publishers Permissions: Here by checking you can enable a new publisher to Create New Accounts ,Modify His Own Zones , Define New Zones , Delete Existing Zones , Link Banners To Own Zones ,Generate Invocation Code. You may wish to only select “Generate Invocation Code” to further secure your installation.
e) Check to send custom email: If you wish to send this new publisher a custom email simply select here and enter custom text into the box below. When not selected the email will be sent using a template in /openx/www/admin/plugins/RevMax/tempaltes/Pwelcome.tpl Please see emails help.txt while in that folder for further email modifications.

Approved Publishers

From the approved publishers page you can view edit and delete publishers that have been approved with the RevMax system. Here you will have access to thier information such as email, telephone number address, and more all searchable.

Publishers Information

From this screen you have information on the enrolled publisher such as contact information, enrolement date and more. All thease fields are valid input for your signup forms. If unneeded simply leave out of sign up form. (purchase)

You will first need to log in to your openx adserver, then switch to administrator account. There you will see the new tab ” RevMax” at the top right. Click this tab to be taken to the RevMax updates, index page.

From the RevMax group you can click on Ad Packages to the left, then click add package. Here you will see all the available RevMax ad package sign up settings.

OpenX Contract Campaigns

When dealing with a contract campaign, you must set a priority level, and a daily impression limit. RevMax uses the subscription specific values here to determine how many ads to limit the advertiser to. As seen in the image, we have set the subscription values to 1(1) week(2).

Now you have to decide how many impressions, the ad package will have (3), here we have set it to 100,000 impressions. With that information, RevMax can now calculate that in a seven day period it must show 14286 impressions daily to meet its goal, over the 7 day period.

After you have entered all other information, you need to set a priority level to have the campaign considered a “contract” campaign. Here (4) we have set the priority level to 5. If you do not set the priority level and set a weight level then the ad package will be selling a remnant campaign.

Openx Contract Campaign Settings

The administrator, will see the contract created as above, however it will not show as a active campaign until the client actually uploads a banner. Make sure to click “show all” when viewing advertisers to ensure you can see the newly created campaigns that have not been activated yet.

Looking at the above image, you can see the information submitted into the new campaign by RevMax.
1) shows the ad package is selling adviews or cpm. This is reflected in
2) shows revenue as .50 . Making it fifty (.50)cents a thousand impressions, or cpm. (This package cost was $500.00. the original above was $250, making it .25 per thousand)
3)shows the priority level of 5 as selected and the daily limited impressions. 100,000 / 7 days = 14286
4) companion positioning was checked in the RevMax adpackage and is reflected here.

As always , if you have problems or need help, contact me or use the forum.

I see many purchase OpenX Plugin RevMax and never do get it fully integrated into their sites look and feel, perhaps leaving some potential advertising customers wondering if they are even at the same website they wish to advertise on.

I will try to express some simple methods here, hopefully in time I can post more.

First lets take a look at adding a advertising package to a php web page
by using php to pull the ad package information from the ox_RM_adpackages table.

First we need to include init.php and RevMax.functions so we know where we are at and make functions within RevMax available on the current web page.

//init tells us where we are at
require_once 'openx/init.php';
// nothing works without functions
require_once MAX_PATH . '/www/admin/plugins/RevMax/lib/RevMax.functions.php';

Next we need to define and make a connection to the OpenX database.

global $conn;
$config = $GLOBALS['_MAX']['CONF'];

Now we need to choose exactly what package and information we wish to list. The below example will return the first ad package set as a subscription from within RevMax, or produce an error as to why it couldn’t.

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `{$config['table']['prefix']}RM_packages` WHERE `selling`='Subscription' LIMIT 0, 1";
$res = mysql_query($sql, $conn) or die(mysql_error());
// by changing " WHERE `selling`='Subscription' LIMIT 0, 1"; "
// to WHERE `selling`='AdViews' LIMIT 0, 1";
// we can now list the first available AdViews package

We can now list that information on the web page.

<?php while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) { ?>
          <td width="27%" colspan="3" align="center" style="border-style: none; border-width: medium" height="50">
         $<?php echo $row['packagename']; ?> $<?php echo $row['packagecost']; ?>
          </td> <?php } ?>
           <?php mysql_free_result($res); ?>

Using the same above call one can list packages depending on Subscription, AdViews, or AdClicks. Using that information you can then place a link with the current package information on any page
That pages package will always reflect the current package description and price within RevMax ad packages.

You can then link this information directly to the a slightly modified advertisers signup form such as this one. “moded-advertisers.php?packageid=4″
You will note that the advertiser sign up form displays this package (#4) on the form and does not offer alternatives. This method is extremely helpful when you have several sites you wish to sell advertising on independently and do not wish these packages to be available on the list on the advertisers signup screen or the clients reorder page. You can set a package as private in RevMax ad packages, and still list it elsewhere like above.
You can download the moded advertisers.php here , compare the original lines 434 to the new at line 421.

Any questions , errors contact me.

RevMax 4 for OpenX 2.8 gives the advertiser full control over purchasing new campaigns, uploading creatives, and reordering adviews or adclicks to be placed into their existing campaign. (purchase)

Advertiser information index

The first thing one notices inside the clients admin screens is a new Resources tab at the top right. Once clicked upon a user is taken to their account index page. Here the client has information relating to their account campaign and reorder purchases.

Advertiser Banner Upload screen

Here the advertiser can choose creatives and upload them into an existing campaign. From png to swf all files are recognized, uploaded and linked to the campaign the advertiser chooses.

Advertiser reorder AdViews (CPM) or AdClicks (CPM)

Once the admin has configured reorder ad packages within the RevMax ad packages screen, an advertiser can choose from adview or adclick packages to add to their existing campaign(‘s). This may allow a way for an advertiser to make a “test purchase” on sign up and if all is well then add larger amounts of adviews to their original campaign.

Advertiser Create New Campaigns

From the campaigns screen a advertiser can choose from admin defined advertising packages and purchase new campaigns at any time.

Advertiser Payment Pages

Once an advertiser has chosen a new campaign or campaign refill they can click to review their purchase information. From there they can click a link opening a new browser to the payment processor of their choice or admin configured. (purchase)

This post assumes you have purchased and installed RevMax 3 for OpenX 2.6 .If not you can get more information and purchase it here.

Navigating to RevMax Ad Packages

Open a browser and log into your OpenX install and switch to Administrator.
Click the RevMax tab at the top right of screen.

Next click the Ad Packages tab to open the ad packages list screen. Here you can explorer already created packages, add a new advertising package, edit an existing one, or delete a no longer used one.

From the Ad Packages list screen click on “Add Package”. This will open the below screen to create your first advertising package within Openx.

Configuring The Ad Package.

You must first have some idea as to what type of advertising package you would like to sell or ad space you would like to rent.
Lets go over the settings.
a) Selling: Would you like to sell Ad Views (cpm), Ad Clicks (cpc), or rent a tenancy ? Select accordingly from the drop down list.
b) Package Description: This will be shown on the drop down select list on the advertisers signup screen if made public later in settings. If you are selling 10,000 adviews as a leader board on domain.com then enter in something like 10,000 LeaderBoard Adviews at domain.com.
This field combined with the later discussed “make public” field is handy for creating ad packages across a network of sites.
c) Duration: Enter in here the amount of ad views, ad clicks or the actual time as in subscription. Example if selling 10,000 ad views enter 10000 notice no comma. If selling a subscription simply enter UNLIMITED, or 30 days etc.
d) Cost: Enter in here the amount you would like to collect using paypal for this ad package. Enter numbers like 100.00, do not enter in $ or other signs like “,”.
e) Auto Zone ID: Use this field if you would like to link an advertiser campaign to a specific publishers zone within OpenX. Notice the scrolling iframe to the right. Here you can scroll and find a zone id easily without clicking back and fourth through OpenX. The iframe list the zone id number (to be used) the zone description you have entered when creating the zone within OpenX, and the size of the created zone. This feature is extremely useful when selling ad space across a network of sites. For instance a package for domainb.comcom’s leader board can be easily linked here.
f) Auto Zone: Select yes or no to allow advertisers banner to be automatically attached to a specific zone. This is useful if you are renting a spot 160X600 on the index page and you have a zone created within openx for this. Create a package named 160X600 skyscraper etc, and link the package to this zone. the advertiser will not be able to show a banner unless it meets the zone requirements (160X600), as he has no permissions within OpenX to link banners to another zone.
g) Priority Level: You can choose to set a higher priority for paid campaigns here. Keep in mind that high priority campaigns will override any lower level campaigns that may already be active. A high setting number here may deactivate lower priority existing campaigns, once the advertiser or you have added a banner to the campaign.
h) Weight: If you chose to leave the priority setting at the default of “0″ above you can enter in a higher weight here if necessary. For example if your “house” campaigns are at a weight of 1 then a setting of 2 here will give this advertisers campaign a higher weight and more exposure, yet the house campaigns will still receive exposure.
g) Make Package Public: Here you can decide if you would like the created package to be shown on the advertisers sign up screen if using the included sign up form.

This may be used in a number of ways. example a: If you are selling ad space on domain b and you do not wish the package available on domain a then set to no. you can then create a link to another sign up page for this specific package. simply go to the existing sign up form, view source , save as filename.html, and edit the available packages list to include the desired package description and package id number. You can then use this form to post to domaina.com/clients/clients.php and the user will be forwarded directly to paypal for payment.
You may also create a totally custom form or button for this package, as long as all the required information is passed to clients.php . If you do not desire all the information, then simply include null values in hidden fields within your new form. Be aware that all information gathered by clients.php is used within OpenX. Example: If you decided not to use clients domain url. The url is set as the campaign name within OpenX by RevMax so you would then have campaigns named “NULL”.

This post assumes you have downloaded RevMax 3 and unzipped it to your local computer.
If you do not have RevMax you may get more information and purchase it here.

RevMax is encoded with Ioncube and will require ioncube loaders installed on your server to function. If you arent sure you can download the Helper.zip file and upload to your server for more information and or installing the loaders. Indepth instructions on installing ioncube loaders can be found here.

Installation

1) Open a ftp client such as wsftp or other and sync the downloaded files and your OpenX installation on your server.
2) Upload all files in the directories as shown in the install package in binary mode.The files are encrypted using Ioncube loaders and will not run in ascii mode.

It is safe to highlight all files and folders as shown above and transfer contents without transferring each individual file.

3) Navigate in a web browser to yourdomain /openxfolder/ installsql and run the script there named revmax.db.installer.php. This will install the required tables for RevMax to operate.
a) If you would prefer to verify and or change the table names to be inserted into your OpenX database, open the file “db.mysql.sql” and edit if needed. You may then use the install script or copy and paste the sql into your phpmyadmin screen or other mysql admin.

Logging In to Set Up RevMax

4) Log into your Openx 2.6 Installation. And switch to administrator mode. You will not be able to view or modify RevMax settings while working in default, or other manager mode.

You will then be able to see the RevMax tab at the top right of your admin screen.

Click the RevMax tab to navigate to RevMax. There you will see a RevMax updates page, with news of any product updates, and 4 new RevMax tabs, entitled “RevMax Settings”, “Ad Packages”, Discount Coupons” , and “Payment Reports”.

RevMax Configuration

5) Click the “RevMax Settings” tab to get started configuring RevMax. Here you will find two links labeled RevMax “Database Settings” and “Paypal Settings”.

Configuring The Database

6) Click the “RevMax Database settings” link to configure the RevMax database.
While here you will need to tell RevMax what the table names are that it will be working with. The default installed tables are listed to the left. It is safe to simply copy and paste the names into the settings boxes unless you have chosen to rename the tables after installing them. Remember to enter in any new table names you may choose later.
Hint: Your config file must be writable to add RevMax database and paypal settings.

7) Once you have entered the database table names, click “Revmax Settings” tab again and choose the “paypal Settings” link. From this screen you can enter in your paypal settings as outlined below.

Configuring Paypal IPn Payments

a) Paypal email : This is the email where you will accept paypal payments recieved by RevMax.
b) Payment Admin eMail: The email address you would like script notifications sent to.
c) Paypal Url: You may set this to www.paypal.com or www.sandbox.paypal.com or other testing domain / script. The https: is handled within RevMax leave it out.
d) Paypal IPN Script URL: The paypal script is located within the clients folder. depending on your Openx install it may be yourdomain.com/openx/clients/paypal.php or yourdomain.com/clients/paypal.php, or other.
e) Paypal Return URL Location: This is the url that a user will return to after clicking return to merchant at paypal. You may set this to your openX admin folder or create a page in another location, giving clients more information and or a log in link. You may also use a custom script at this location as paypal will post back the information it received.
f) Cancel Payment Return Url: Enter in here the url you would like the customer to be returned to if the payment was canceled.
g) Client Log In URL: This is the client log in url sent in the customers welcome email. You can simply set this to /www/admin/ for instant login after payment, and banner upload if using the banner upload mod.
h) Payment Currency: Set htis to the currency you will be accepting USD for united states dollars.
Note: Language location in (i) must match or you will recieve errors.

Other Available Currency settings:
• AUD Australian Dollar: $12,500.00 AUD maximum per transaction
• CAD Canadian Dollar: $12,500.00 CAD maximum per transaction
• EUR Euro: €8,000.00 EUR maximum per transaction
• GBP Pound Sterling: £5,500.00 GBP maximum per transaction
• JPY Japanese Yen: ¥1 million JPY maximum per transaction
• USD U.S. Dollar: $10,000.00 USD maximum per transaction
• NZD New Zealand Dollar, 15,000 NZD maximum per transaction
• CHF Swiss Franc, 13,000 CHF maximum per transaction
• HKD Hong Kong dollar, 80,000 HKD maximum per transaction
• SGD Singapore Dollar, 16,000 SGD maximum per transaction
• SEK Swedish Krona, 80,000 SEK maximum per transaction
• DKK Danish Krone, 60,000 DKK maximum per transaction
• PLN Polish Zloty, 32,000 PLN maximum per transaction
• NOK Norwegian Krone, 70,000 maximum per transaction
• HUF Hungarian Forint, 2,000,000 maximum per transaction
• CZK Czech Koruna, 240,000 maximum per transaction

i) Seller Language Location: Set this to match your accepted currency and language. Usually abbreviated, if paypal currency = GBP then language location would be GB.

Subscription Recurring Values
a) Subscription billing cycle: If renting ad space by the month set to 1, you may also sell ad spaces for increments like 6 months.
b) Subscription billing Unit: W= Weeks, M= Months, Y= Years. Enter in here the cycle you will be using. Example renting ad space for 2 weeks would be billing cycle = 2 unit = W.
c) Subscription recurring: 1 = Yes to recur 0 = no not recur bill the client.
d) Re bill re attempt: 1 = Yes 0 = No to force retry on failed subscriptions.
Enable Paypal Payments
Check the box to enable RevMax to accept paypal payments, before clicking submit.

You should now have RevMax configured to accept Paypal payments for OpenX 2.6. Stay tuned for next post entitled configuring ad packages and discount coupons. If you do not have RevMax you may get more information and purchase it here.

See also: Installing and configuring the included advertiser banner upload mod for OpenX 2.6 And configuring ad packages within Openx here.

After using OpenAds/ phpadsnew to show our ads across our network for three years we decided we needed a simpler way to allow for revenue generation from this great open source script.

 After several some what successful scripts we have come to understand the needs of a advertiser network and built in all the necessary functions to run a hands free network with little need for time consuming task.

  With three years of trials we came to agree on exactly what was needed for payment scripts to relieve the everyday work and take the hassle out of running an advertisers network. Although  it’s still a (stable) work in progress, we made a list of the most time consuming task of using OpenAds and worked to eliminate them. 
 

• Enrolling publishers and
  advertisers without admin interaction

• Allowing for immediate
  payment for ad clicks

• Allowing advertisers to
  upload and activate their own ads, campaigns

• Allowing advertisers to
  disable banners / ads

• Banners disabled when ad
  clicks are out

• Advertiser support without
  admin interaction.  

With the ability to sign up independent publishers who agree to show ads on their web sites. You have more opportunity to increase ad view revenue. Not only will you be showing more ads, you have the ability to capitalize even more from their traffic. Lets say you charge .05 cents a click for advertisers, and you pay .025 cents or 2.5 cents a click. You will be making 2.5 cents for every click the publisher generates. That’s $25.00 you make off of every 1000 clicks a publisher generates. These are very conservative quotes compared to today’s online ad cost. Its not uncommon for an advertiser to pay .25 cents and more per click for qualified traffic. If you split
that with a publisher you will be making .12 cents a click or $120. per 1000 clicks a publisher generates.   

  After several versions of our payment script and countless hours of hacking away at OpenAds scripts the same thing would eventually happen, it would fail every time we decided to upgrade the OpenAds scripts as our code was interlaced through out the OpenAds scripts. This soon became more hassle than it was worth. It was soon decided that in order for the scripts to survive all of our code needed to outside of and independent of OpenAds. With this release of our signup / payment scripts, all files except one are outside of the OpenAds scripting. The one that does survive can be uploaded again at any time after upgrading OpenAds and all functions continue as usual. (only suports openads 2)More information can be found in the help file (‘s).         

 If you do not have OpenAds it can be installed in many ways. if your web server has cPanel and fantastico you can click on fantastico in cPanel and look for OpenAds to install it on your domain automatically. If you do not have Openads 2.0. you can find it here.

  Once you have Openads 2.0. Installed its a simple process of uploading our files into the correct directories and setting your paypal IPN settings in the admin section of OpenAds. More information is available in the help file (‘s).

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