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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