Paypal is the most common method for a Traffic Exchange to accept payment, this is because the business does not infringe their terms and Paypal have the largest customer base of any payment system online or offline.
However Paypal is not available in every country, therefore you may need to use alternatives. If Alertpay cannot cover it then you may need to use e-gold or one of the many thousands of companies offering similar services.
We have made it easy to integrate any payment processor if you are familiar with basic HTML coding, if not still give it a try, just remember the three most important things for a beginner (or expert!) which are backup backup backup!
* Note * This method requires the use of the Easy Upgrader to add purchases to member accounts and if you offer financial rewards does not calculate commissions.
There are several areas you may wish to add a new payment processor:
The following examples are interchangeable, the only difference is which merge tags to use. The following table lists what is available for each area.
| Available in all templates | |
| {HomeUrl} | Link to the root directory of your script installation |
| {members_id} | ID of the member making the purchase |
| {WebsiteName} | Name of your website |
| {PaypalEmail} | Your Paypal Email |
| {AlertPayEmail} | Your Alertpay Email |
| {eGoldID} | Your e-gold ID |
| {RecEmail} | Your site admin email |
| {currency} | Currency used in the purchase, eg USD, GBP, EUR |
| Available in templates taking web traffic payments | |
| {website.item_name} | Purchase item name, eg "Web Traffic 1000" |
| {website.description} | Description of product, eg "1000 guaranteed hits to your websites" |
| {website.item_number} | Product number, eg "TRA1000" |
| {website.hits} | Number of pages views |
| {website.amount} | Price, eg 9.99 |
| Available in templates taking banner impression payments | |
| {banner.item_name} | Purchase item name, eg "1000 Banner Hits" |
| {banner.description} | Description of product, eg "1000 guaranteed banner impressions" |
| {banner.item_number} | Product number, eg "BAN1000" |
| {banner.hits} | Number of impressions purchased |
| {banner.amount} | Price, eg 9.99 |
| Available in templates taking text advert payments | |
| {text.item_name} | Purchase item name, eg "1000 Text Hits" |
| {text.description} | Description of product, eg "1000 guaranteed text advert impressions" |
| {text.item_number} | Product number, eg "TEX1000" |
| {text.hits} | Number of impressions purchased |
| {text.amount} | Price, eg 9.99 |
You will see something like this:-
All you have to do is remove the <opt name="IntGold"> and </opt name="IntGold"> tags and then paste the button code for your own payment processor like this:-
In the above image the highlighted code is an example of how you can use merge variables to provide information required by your payment processor.
SolidTrustPay
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