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3.1.7 - Paid To Read
In this session you will create and manage PTR ("paid to read email") campaigns.
Once created, PTR mail messages are available at the mass mailer panel.
Please, note that PTR is an e-mail message containing one or more ads and a verification link and differs, therefore, from an e-mail containing PTC ads in its body.
PTR campaigns at database will show all PTR campaigns of your program.
# and name are the id of the creation and the name of the campaign.
Advertiser is the business name of the advertiser who has paid for the campaign.
The active status means that the campaign is available for displaying and paying.
The inactive status means that the campaign duration has expired or that it has not been initiated yet.
A temporally suspended campaign receive the status suspended.
At operations you can edit the campaign, view its stats or delete it.
In the stats screen you can get the last information about the PTR such clicks, mails sent, amount to pay to the users,last click and search for clicks using 4 available criteria: date/time, user, IP and domain.
Add/edit a campaign
From here you can set up and configure all aspects of the PTR campaign.
If you are editing an exisiting campaign, the PTR URL of this campaign will be shown at the Ad URL field.
At basic identification you chose a name for the campaign, inform who is the advertiser of the PTR and the URL of the target page.
In crediting you can determine how and how much an user is credited for clicking in this PTR and if his upline will be credited too.
Use the validity field to establish whether the campaign is active or not. Check suspend temporally if you want to make this campaign temporally unavailable to users.
A specific time validity can be set using the valid from (...) to (...) (date/time format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) as well setting the campaign to expire after a certain number of clicks or of ad exposures.
From this field you can restrict this PTR to users who belong to a given group.
The timer field lets you determinate the amount of time after which an user is credited for clicking on the ad and the interval, in hours, after which the same user can click on this PTR again .
With the mail ad setup you can compose the mail message (subject, text type, priority and body) and chose its destination (user e-mail address, inbox or both).
You can insert dynamic content to message body by the use of the `<!--^ ^-->` tags. To include, for example, the username and current cash of the user in the message use the fields `<!--^Username^-->` and `<!--^Cash^-->`.
For a list of all possible fields you can use for PTR campaigns, go to the MySQL® admin and enter the query describe GPTE_Members. Please, note that field names are case sensitive.
Important: you must include the PTR URL (`<your site URL>/cgi-bin/gpteclick.cgi?id=<PTR name>&type=ptr`) as a link in the message body.
Search for campaigns
From this screen you can search for PTR campaigns using 6 criteria: PTR name, advertiser, target URL, comission, group restriction and time validity.
Reset counter
Use this to reset the counter (#) of the PTR campaigns.
Such feature is useful when you have deleted some campaigns and want to restore the integrity of the counter.

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