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Aweber To DAP Integration

Follow the documentation below on this page for Aweber-to-DAP integration, only if you’re using DAP 4.4 or later. (For DAP v4.3.1 or older, click here)

Subscriber Flow

The flow of subscriber in this model, is “FROM Aweber TO DAP“. User gets added to Aweber first, then arrives at DAP via Aweber “thank you page”, at which point she gets added to DAP.

Now, if the flow is from DAP-to-Aweber, and are using email parsing to integrate DAP and Aweber, then your Aweber list will always be double-opt-in (as per Aweber policy, nothing to do with DAP).

But if you want your Aweber list to be single-opt-in, or you want your sign ups to be added to Aweber first and then to DAP, then use this flow. HEre, you can use an Aweber signup form on your squeeze page (instead of the DAP sign-up form) and then have Aweber add users to DAP.

NOTE: You cannot use this flow for Paid members – because paid members will need to have paid first, which means DAP needs to process their payment first, and if successful, it can add them to Aweber. So for paid members and paid content, always use the other DAP-to-Aweber flow.

But for free signups (say, like when you’re trying to build a list), you can add them to Aweber first using the flow explained below, just so you can take advantage of making your Aweber list single-optin, and then have Aweber add the subscriber to DAP on the other end. So this way, DAP can then create a free account for them, email them their login/password, and give them access to the “Free” content (that is, content available only to “Registered” users, so to speak), etc.

So here are the steps…

Aweber To DAP Integration

1. Go to DAP Dashboard > Products > Manage page.

2. Note down the Product Id of the product to which you want to sign-up the users (after adding them Aweber first, of course). Let’s call this PRODUCTID

Aweber List Is Single-Optin

If your Aweber list is single-optin, then follow the steps below. If not, skip ahead to “Aweber List Is Double-Optin” flow further below.

(The old steps 3 & 4 no longer exist. To keep the image below in sync, follow the rest of the steps starting Step 5.)

5. Now login to your AWeber account.

5A) From the “Current List” drop-down, select the list that you wish to sign up users to.
5B) Click on “Web Forms” in the menu at the top.
5C) Edit existing form by clicking on the name of the list.

6. On the next page – the list form generator page – click on ‘Go to Step 2’ towards the bottom of the page.

7. On the next, page…

7A) Click on the thankyou page dropdown and select ‘Custom’.

7B) Set the thank you Page URL to http://YourSite.com/dap/signup_submit.php?productId=PRODUCTID

Replace YourSite.com with the name of your site.

Replace PRODUCTID with the Product Id of the product  you noted in step 2.

So, if the Product Id of the product in DAP is 2, then the thankyou page URL will be…
http://YourSite.com/dap/signup_submit.php?productId=2

7C) Where it says “Pass Form Data”, check the check box so that Aweber can “Forward subscriber information to your thank you page” – which essentially is DAP, so that DAP can add the subscriber to your membership site.

That’s it!

Aweber List Is Double-Optin

In this flow, set up your Web Form as usual, with no DAP-specific settings required.

Only change required is in the Aweber list’s main “List Settings” page.

5. Now login to your AWeber account.

6. From the “Current List” drop-down, select the list that you wish to sign up users to.

7. Go to My Lists > List Settings

8. Go to “Confirmed Opt-In” tab

9. Scroll down to “3: Success Page“.

9A) Set the “Confirmation Success Page URL” to http://YourSite.com/dap/signup_submit.php?productId=PRODUCTID

Replace YourSite.com with the name of your site.

Replace PRODUCTID with the Product Id of the product  you noted in step 2.

So, if the Product Id of the product in DAP is 2, then the thankyou page URL will be…
http://YourSite.com/dap/signup_submit.php?productId=2

9B) Check the check-box that says “Pass subscriber info for personalizing this page”. Ignore the comment that says “Not recommended for WordPress users”, because this is going to point to a DAP script, and not a WordPress page.

9C) Click on “Save Settings”.

That’s it!

Using Custom Redirect URL

If you want the user to be logged in automatically (either after single-optin or double-optin) and instead of being logged into the member’s area, you want the user to be redirect to your own custom URL, then your thank-you URL should be:

http://YourSite.com/dap/signup_submit.php?productId=PRODUCTID&redirect=http://yoursite.com/your-custom-thankyou-page

OR

http://YourSite.com/dap/signup_submit.php?productId=PRODUCTID&redirect=/your-custom-thankyou-page

Additional Notes

Now that you’ve set up DAP to integrate with your Aweber list (single- or double-optin), you may use the Aweber web form directly on your squeeze page for signing up subscribers

(instead of DAP’s “Direct Signup Form”).

Now, every time a subscriber signs up via the Aweber form, they will automatically be added to DAP.

If your list is single-optin, then the subscriber will be added to DAP instantly after sign-up.

If your list is double-optin, then the subscriber will be added to DAP only AFTER they’ve clicked on the Aweber double-optin confirmation link.

In both cases, if they’re a new user to DAP, they will be auto-logged in to the member’s area.

You may also configure the DAP Product’s “Welcome Email” to send out the DAP email and password via DAP itself.

-OR-

You can leave the Welcome Email in DAP Product page as blank. And then configure DAP to generate a default password (DAP Admin > Setup > Config > Default Password) as shown below, and then enter that same pre-chosen password in to your very first Aweber follow up email that goes out to your subscribers, so that they can receive their dap id/password details directly from your Aweber list.

For more details about this default password, please see this post.

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Customizing User Profile Fields

The old shortcode for displaying the user profile on a page, was %%USERLINKS%% which just displayed the entire user profile with all fields, without the ability to customize which fields to show.

That one is still valid. But starting DAP v4.4.3, we have a new shortcode to display userprofile.

[DAPUserProfile]

Allows you to selectively display profile fields on a page. Entering just the shortcode [DAPUserProfile] within a WP page, will show the default user profile form with all default fields being displayed.

So entering just [DAPUserProfile] on a pagem is the same as entering the full version below:

[DAPUserProfile showFirstName=”Y” showLastName=”Y” showUserName=”Y” showEmail=”Y” showPassword=”Y” showAddress1=”Y” showAddress2=”Y” showCity=”Y” showState=”Y” showZip=”Y” showCountry=”Y” showPhone=”Y” showFax=”Y” showCompany=”Y” showTitle=”Y” showPaypalEmail=”Y” showOptedOut=”Y” showCustomFields=”Y”]

Not Show Certain Fields

Just set the profile field that you don’t want shown to “N” in the shortcode.

Default is “Y”. So Leaving out the text showLastName=”Y” entirely from the shortcode, is the same as setting it “Y”, which means it will be displayed.

To NOT SHOW Phone and Fax

[DAPUserProfile showPhone=”N” showFax=”N”]

So all other fields will be displayed, except those two.

To SHOW just First Name, Last Name and Email

[DAPUserProfile showFirstName=”Y” showLastName=”Y” showUserName=”N” showEmail=”Y” showPassword=”N” showAddress1=”N” showAddress2=”N” showCity=”N” showState=”N” showZip=”N” showCountry=”N” showPhone=”N” showFax=”N” showCompany=”N” showTitle=”N” showPaypalEmail=”N” showOptedOut=”N” showCustomFields=”N”]

To SHOW just Password field

[DAPUserProfile showFirstName=”N” showLastName=”N” showUserName=”N” showEmail=”N” showPassword=”Y” showAddress1=”N” showAddress2=”N” showCity=”N” showState=”N” showZip=”N” showCountry=”N” showPhone=”N” showFax=”N” showCompany=”N” showTitle=”N” showPaypalEmail=”N” showOptedOut=”N” showCustomFields=”N”]

(both main password field and repeat password will always be displayed together)

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Expiration Notifications / Renewal Reminders

We have a new feature starting DAP v4.4: “Reverse Dripping”

This is where you can drip emails “X” days (where “X” is a number of your choice) before the access to a product ends for a member. So this is what you would use to send expiration notification / renewal reminder emails to your members.

To setup a renewal reminder email, you would set up the email as usual, and drip it as a negative day. So if you set up the email to drip on Day “-1”, then it means the email will be sent out 1 day prior to product expiry (for that product).

If you set it up to drip on “-3”, it will be sent out 3 days prior to access end date.

If you set it up to drip on “-7”, it will be sent out 1 week prior to access end date.

Renewal Reminder Email Setup

Warning: This is something you should set up only for recurring products that require manual renewal. Do not set up these emails to go out for automated subscription products, because the members will be charged automatically on the designated day every month, and asking them to renew will only confuse them.

1. Create a new Autoresponder email with the product expiration notice, at Email > Autoresponders. In this email, you would say something like “Hey, your subscription is expiring in 1 week, so click on this link to renew… (followed by link to renewal page)”.
2. Create another email that says “Hey, your subscription is expiring tomorrow…”.
3. Go to Products > Manage and choose product for which you wish to set up renewal reminder.
4. Switch to “Autoresponder” tab.
5. Select the 7-day renewal reminder email from step 1 and add it to the product.
6. Then click on the “Edit” link and set the drip day as -7
   
7. Do the same for the 1-day reminder email as well, and this time set the dripping to be “-1”.

That’s it!

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Affiliate Notification On Leads And Sales

Starting DAP v4.4, you can notify your affiliates with an automated instant email when they earn a commission for a lead and a sale.

In DAP > Setup > Config > (Affiliate Module) you can separately configure which emails to send (Lead, Sale):

And then on DAP > Setup > Templates page, you can configure the Subject and Body for both emails.

 

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Troubleshooting Amazon SES Integration

DAP’s Amazon SES integration has been heavily tested, and we use it ourselves at DigitalAccessPass.com . So you can rest assured that there are no “bugs” of any kind.

Here are some troubleshooting steps if SES integration is not working even after you’ve followed the documentation exactly.

Troubleshooting SES

1. MOST COMMON MISTAKE: Have you whitelisted the DAP “From” email in Amazon? And have you used exact same “case” for the email id in both places (DAP and Amazon)? Double-check spelling and case in both DAP and Amazon – they must be EXACTLY the same. For eg., you@yoursite.com is NOT the same as You@YourSite.com as far as Amazon is concerned. So if you’ve set the “From Email” in DAP to be you@yoursite.com, then you must whitelist exactly the same email id you@yoursite.com within your Amazon SES account as well. If you are not sure, delete the whitelisted email in your SES account, then COPY the from-email from DAP config (be sure to copy, and not re-type) and then PASTE the exact from-email into your Amazon SES account and whitelist it again.
2. IMPORTANT: Have you requested Amazon for “Production Access” to your SES account? Being in “Sandbox” mode has its disadvantages (you can only send “from” and “to” whitelisted” emails ONLY). So your account MUST, MUST, MUST be in “Production” mode before Amazon SES lets you send emails to your customers.
3. Are you using the exact ports as mentioned in our documentation? Ignore the port #s that Amazon recommends.
4. IMPORTANT: Double-check with your web host to make sure that they actually allow a plugin like DAP to connect to a third-party server like Amazon SES to send out emails. Some hosts don’t even allow that to begin with (like BlueHost, for eg.)
5. Turn on the logs by setting DAP > Setup > Config > Log Level to “Log All Activity”.
6. Then go to System > Logs and clear the logs. Then go to one of your test accounts, and edit the user.
7. On the “User Edit” page, click on “Resend Login/Password”.
8. Check the email inbox to see if you got the email. If you didn’t, go to System > Logs and take the entire logs shown there, and paste it into a support ticket, and don’t forget to give us your WP login info and FTP info (and if possible, Amazon login info as well), and we’ll troubleshoot it.

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Log In As Member

Starting DAP v4.4, all passwords are encrypted. Previously, one of the main reasons that we had made it open, was because of many DAP admins asking for it to be that way so that they could log in “as” one fo their members to see what they’re seeing, for troubleshooting, etc.

But since the passwords are now encrypted, we have provided an alternate way for DAP admin to log in as a regular user/member.

Log In As Member (LIAM)

• If your primary browser is say Firefox where you’re normally logged in as WP admin and DAP admin, then open a separate browser window (like in Chrome or Safari)
• Go to http://YourSite.com/dap/loginAs.php

On that page, you will see 3 form fields as shown in the image below:

1) Email address of user/member that you wish to log in as
2) DAP Admin Email
3) DAP Admin Password

So once DAP verifies that it is indeed the DAP Admin trying to log in as someone else, DAP will log you into the site as that member whose email id you entered in (1) above.

NOTE: The Log In As Member (LIAM) feature does NOT mean that you can use just one browser to log in as both DAP Admin and regular member. You still need to use two separate browsers – one for DAP admin (like Chrome) another for regular member (Firefox). All LIAM does is to give you a workaround for logging in as someone else, because starting 4.4, the DAP Admin can no longer see what the member’s password is in order to log in as them.

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Approving Users Before Access Is Enabled

Problem

“Will DAP allow me to manually approve members before their new accounts are activated? The process should be…
a) new user signs up, DAP prompts that the account is pending approval
b) Admin approves the account manually and email is sent to new member with their password and login details”

Solution

Yes, this can be achieved by enabling the “Double Optin” for a product.

So, normally, when a DAP Product is made “Double Optin” by entering the double-optin subject and email text on the “Email Notifications” tab of the product, and a user signs up for this product (whether as a free sign up or as a paid purchase or Admin-add), DAP will send them the content of this double-optin email first.

And usually, the body of this email would contain the %%ACTIVATION_LINK%% merge tag, which would become the confirmation link that the user has to click on first, before their product access status becomes “Active” (from “Inactive”). And as soon as the user clicks on the confirmation link, their product status becomes active, and then the “Welcome Email” is sent out right away, and now the user can log in and start accessing the content that is protected as part of that product.

Using Double-Optin To Force Approval

If you make the DAP product as double-optin, and remove the merge-tag %%ACTIVATION_LINK%% from the email body, what happens is that the user/member will get the email, but there’s really no activation link (confirmation link) in the email for them to self-activate their account. So the email would just say something like…

“Thank you for your purchase/signup. Your account needs to be activated by us. So appreciate your patience while we do so”.

Now, their account remains at “Inactive” status. And only you, the DAP Admin, can activate it.

By now, you would’ve gotten the admin notification email for this person’s signup. So you know their email id. If not, you can just go to DAP > Users > Manage and you’ll see all inactive users.

You would then click on “Modify” to activate product access. And if the user status is also “Inactive”, then you would edit the user info, and change their status to “Active” (from “Unconfirmed”).

And then make sure you’ve added an autoresponder email (that contains the user’s email and password – insert mergecodes %%EMAIL_ID%% and %%PASSWORD%% into the email) to go out on Day #2 for that product.

And assuming you will be approving this new user at some point within the first 2 days, the autoresponder email for day #2 will get triggered within the hour as soon as you activate their account, and the user will get their welcome email.

Or you can send them the password in the double-optin email itself, but tell them that they won’t be able to log in just yet until their account is activated. It’s all up to you – DAP is as flexible as you need it to be.

So that’s how you would use the Double-Optin feature to indirectly force an “Approval” process.

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Credit Store Setup

Credit Store Setup

The document below explains how to setup this plugin after you have installed it using these instructions.

Please NOTE:
1) The prerequisite for using this plugin is you must be on DAP 4.5.2 or above. It is not supported by older versions of DAP. If you are not on dap 4.5.2 or above, then please make sure to first upgrade to the very latest version of dap and then follow the steps below to install the DAP Credit Store Plugin.

2) Credit Store is NOT backward compatible with old plugin called SSS (Self-Service-Store). If you are using the very old SSS plugin and upgrade to CS, you will have to start over with new CS as the data stored in SSS tables cannot be migrated over to the CS tables and your old SSS plugin will no longer work after the upgrade to new CS.

3) If you are already using the OLD Credit Store plugin, then please contact us before you upgrade to the new CS as the new CS has a completely different store front user interface (UI). If you are ok with upgrading to the new and much improved look&feel, please make sure to first take a full database backup of the dap database and a backup of your dap and daplivelinks folder.

Steps to setup the Credit Store:

1. Enable Credit Store

Set DAP admin -> setup -> config – > Credit Store -> Enable Self-service / Credit Store to “Y”.

2. Credit Store Front Layout /  Templates

Visit this page for detailed documentation on this.

2. Create a Credit Store Front page

Login to WP admin -> Add New page -> Visual Editor -> You will find a new CS Editor button. Click on that to configure storefront options.

Visit this page for detailed documentation on this.

3.  Create Product Category in DAP admin -> Add / Edit Product Category page

Visit this page for detailed documentation on this.

4. Create Master Product

Visit this page for detailed documentation on this.

5. Enable self-service for the master.

After you create the master product, go to DAP Admin -> Credit Store -> Store Front Settings page.

Select the master product you created above and set the following values:

 – Is this the “Master” product? Set to “Yes”.

–  Redeemable with Credits?   Set to “No”.

– # of Credits the users will earn when they signup to this product or purchase this product (set it to whatever number of credits you want the users to earn when they signup or purchase this product.

–  # of Recurring/Subscription Credits assigned to this product

6. Create Child Product

Visit this page for detailed documentation on this.

7. Enable self-service for the child product(s).

After you create the child product, go to DAP Admin -> Credit Store -> Store Front Settings page.  Select the child product you created above (step #6) and set the following values:

 –  Self-Service allowed?   Set to “Yes”.

 – Is this the “Master” product? Set to “No”.

– Self Service Availability Start Date and End date (you can leave the default value for the start date (set to today/current date) and end date of 9999-12-31.).

– Allow credits to be redeemed at content level –  set to Y if you want to allow users to redeem credits for individual content instead of purchasing the entire product.

– Resell Product: Allow users to redeem already redeemed products ?  You CANNOT resell product if you allow ‘credits to be redeemed at content level’.

After a user redeems their credits against the product or against individual content, these products will disappear from store.

If resell product is “Y”, users will still see the product in credit storefront even after they have redeemed their credits towards the purchase of the product.

If resell product is “N”, users will NOT see the product in credit storefront after they have redeemed their credits towards the purchase of the product.

 – Product Image URL – must start with ‘http://’. If no images are set, the product will appear with no-image in the storefront page.

– Product Image URL Hyperlinked To:   what page do you want to take the user to when the users click on the product image.

–  # of Credits assigned to this product: this is calculated dynamically by adding up credits assigned to individual content if ‘allow content level credits’ is enabled.

If allow content level credits’ is “N”. the # of Credits assigned to this product is used.

8. Associate child product(s) to the category

Go to DAP products/Levels -> Credit Store page.  Associate child product(s) to any of the product category(s) created in step # 2.

You will find the option to associate child to master below the self-service-store options (under Add Products to Category).

NOTE: A credit store child product cannot participate in regular content dripping.  You cannot sell the same child product for $ as well as allow it to be redeemed using credits. You will have to use 2 separate products (one for regular dripping and the other for credits).

9. Configure Credit StoreFront page using CS editor

 

10. Testing

Now login to dap admin, go to dap admin -> add users page, give the admin user access to master product. Say the master product is assigned 10 credits.

Go to dap users -> manage page=> click on the ‘Credits’ field and it will show how many credits the user has.

Now go to the credit storefront page created in step #9.  You should see all the child products available for redeem (only child products that are associated to category will show up in the store).

You can redeem the entire child product, and go back and check dap users -> manage page=> click on the ‘Credits’ field and it will show how many credits the user is left with.

 

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Credit Store Introduction

The Credit Store Plugin will allow you to sell “Credits” to your members, and then your members can “Redeem” those credits towards the purchase of any content you’ve made available in your  Credit Store. Similar to buying credits at Audible.com or earning credit card reward points.

The Credit Store plugin enables “Content On Demand“. Instead of you dripping content on your members in a pre-determined fashion, they choose the modules they want, and the order in which they want them. You just give them the credits putting the power of choice at their fingertips.

You can configure the plugin to Pay Affiliates by credits (for leads and sale) which they can then use to pay for their own purchases and subscriptions on your site.

You can also allow your users to earn ‘Social-Media-LIKE‘ credits OR ‘Comment‘ credits.

Credits are like currency, your users can use the earned credits to buy your entire product or buy individual content (pay-per-post-using-credits).

For ex, say you signup for an audible.com membership plan where you are awarded one audible.com credit a month. Most of the books on Audible can be “bought” for one credit, so you can usually get at least one book a month with your membership or you can accumulate credits for a few months and then go to the store to buy whatever products you want in exchange for credits. You can setup a similar storefront and rewards-program for your members instantly using our credit store plugin.s

Say you offer silver, gold, platinum monthly memberships. You can charge more for your gold membership than silver but offer more free credits as bonus. Similarly you can charge more for your platinum membership than gold but offer a lot more free credits as bonus. These users can then use the earned credits to browse your store and get content of their choice. So you can quickly setup a rewards program where you reward users based on the membership plan and your users will get automatic access to the rewards program when they enroll so they can start earning points and redeeming them at your store right away.

Members receive credits that can be used as currency on your site and applied to any purchase of products that you have made available in your store.

With the credit store plugin, setting up a storefront page (where your users can buy the product of their choice using credits) is a breeze. You can literally setup a storefront page in less than 5 minutes.

To summarize, the Credit Store plugin will allow you to create an Instant Credit Storefront Page where:

1) You (Site Owner) can display the products that can be redeemed for credits and

2) Your users can come to this page to Redeem their Earned Credits/Points.

Please read this document before you use this plugin.

Note: The prerequisite for using this plugin is you must be on DAP 4.4.x. It is not supported by older versions of DAP. If you are not on dap 4.4.x, then please make sure to first upgrade to the very latest version of dap 4.4.x and then follow the steps below to install the credit store plugin.

WARNING: If you are a self-service-store user and already have a lot of self-service-store users, then DO NOT upgrade to dap 4.4.x as it is NOT backward compatible with OLD SSS. We have completely revamped the old SSS plugin and now it’s called CreditStore (CS). We had to update the underlying dap scripts and dap tables/fields for the NEW CS plugin and it was NOT possible to make the scripts / tables work with both OLD SSS and NEW CS. If you can simply upgrade to 4.4.x and use the NEW CS plugin and manually give your existing SSS users access to new CS plugin, then it will work fine. There is NO automatic way to move old SSS users to new CS model.

Sell credits to your users

If you have a one-time (free or paid) or a subscription product, and you want to allow your users to earn credits when they buy the product or when a recurring payment comes in, then all you need to do is define / designate the product as Master in DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page and ‘Assign Credits’ to that product (initial credits and recurring credits) in that page.

Here’s what you can do with the product defined as master (that allows users to buy credits).

1. The master product can be a regular full-fledged dap product that you sell. You can drip content (if reqd) under the master like any normal dap product. The only thing with product that you have set as master is in addition to doing everything a regular dap product does, this master product will allow your users to earn credits. If a user gets access to this product (via free signup or via purchase), they will get the credits assigned to this product. So you can use credits during a special promo and tell your users that if they signup or buy the product, they will earn credits in addition to the content that they are buying and they can use the credits in the store towards available child products. Or you can simply setup a master as a way for your users to purchase credits. It can be a dummy product setup just to allow your users to purchase credits. You can setup the payment button for master like you would for any dap product. DAP will know to automatically award credits to the user when the purchase is complete. You will find the assigned credits to user in the dap users->manage page under ‘Credits’ column.
2. Users that purchase the product designated as master, will earn credits assigned to that product and in addition, will also get access to any dripped content under the master.
3. Master product can be a one-time or a recurring/subscription product.
4. User-Level-Credits. The credits the users earn will be accumulated in the user’s account and they can use the accumulated credits towards ANY redeemable child products in the credit store.
5. Option to assign recurring credits : The users will earn recurring credits (if configured under DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page) upon each subscription payment.

Provide different ways to your users to EARN credits

Users can earn credits in several different ways:

1. Signup to FREE product and earn credits (provided you have setup the product as master and assigned credits to it in DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page).
2. Purchase one-time dap product and earn credits as bonus. Users that purchase the product designated as master, will earn credits assigned to that product and in addition, will also get access to any dripped content under the master.
3. Purchase a membership / subscription product and earn credits every month (or every recurring cycle) if the product has recurring credits assigned to it.
4. Affiliate Lead Credits: Affiliates can earn credits for referrals that lead to signup (provided you have setup credits for the product in the DAP admin -> Affiliate -> Commissions page)
5. Affiliate Sale Credits: Affiliates can earn credits for referrals that lead to sale.
6. Comment Credits : Users can comment on a credit enabled page and if comment is approved (or if set to auto-approve), the user will earn assigned credits. This is NOT part of the core Credit Store Plugin. You will need our SocialCredits plugin to enable Social Media credits.
7. Social Media Credits :  Users can LIKE a page/post to a Social Media Source (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, G+) and earn assigned credits. DAP Admin can assign different number of credits for each Social Media Source. For ex- Facebook like can be assigned 10 credits, Twitter can be assigned 5 credits etc. This is NOT part of the core Credit Store Plugin. You will need our SocialCredits plugin to enable Social Media credits.

Setup Products redeemable in the store

1. Redeemable products need to be defined as ‘Child’ in the Credit Store configuration (DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page)
2. All redeemable products will automatically appear in the store (depending on Credit Store settings in DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page).
3. Resell products: By default, if a user has already purchased a product, it will automatically disappear from that user’s view of the credit store. If you want the users to be able to redeem the same product for credits again, then set resell product setting to Y in the DAP admin -> Credit Store page.  If you allow ‘content-level-credits‘ for your child product in the Credit Store Front Settings page in dap admin , then you cannot set ‘resell’ to “Y”. The resell to “Y” can only be used if you only allow users to redeem entire product and do not allow users to redeem individual content setup under that product’s “content responder” section.
4. Pay-Per-Post using credits: Accomplish this via content-level credits. User will have the option to either redeem their earned credit to get access to the entire product (in this case they will get access to all content available under that product) OR they can redeem access to individual pieces of content (page / post / video / resource) under that product. Content-level credits can be enabled in dap admin -> products/levels -> credit store front page.  Users can pay for the post / page / resource of interest using credits (instead of $).

Setup Product Category

1. Define a category for the ‘Redeemable products‘ in the Credit Store.  The category is ONLY used for display purpose in the store. If you do not define a category, and do NOT assign the products that you want to be associated to that category in the  DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page, then NO products will show up in the Credit Store Front end. So make sure to setup a product category (DAP admin -> Products / levels -> Add/Edit Credit Store Category page) and then go to DAP products/levels- >Credit Store Front Settings page and associate the child products to that category. For example – you could have an internet marketing category and associate your facebook secrets, twitter secrets products to that category.
2. You can display single category per credit store page OR you can display all the categories (and redeemable products belonging to it) on the same Credit Store page. You can create a category-level credit store page where only products belonging to a certain category shows up on that page. OR you can create a generic credit store page where products belonging to ANY category shows up.

Credit Store Page Layout – Front End

You can use a ONE product per row layout OR you can use MULTIPLE Products per row layout for your credit store front-end page.

If you have ‘content-level-credits’ enabled (pay-per-post) for any of your child product, then you can ONLY use ONE product per row layout  because MULTIPLE Products per row layout will only allow for simple product boxes per row, it wont allow the complex layout that products that allow content-level-credits require.

Create Credit Store Page – Front End

After you install the plugin, you can go to the WP Admin -> Pages -> Add New – > Visual Tab -> You will find a new Editor Button called ‘CS’. You can click on that button and you will find ALL the credit store front end page setup options. Its self-explanatory.  Once you have completed the setup of the page, you can publish that page and it will become the page where logged-in users can come to redeem their earned credits.

Click here for details on the various Credit Store Editor button option.

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Credit Store Installation

The Credit Store plugin will allow you to create an Instant Credit Storefront Page where:

1) You (Site Owner) can display the products that can be redeemed for credits and

2) Your users can come to this page to Redeem their Earned Credits/Points.

The document below explains how to install this plugin.

Note: The prerequisite for using this plugin is you must be on DAP 4.4.x. It is not supported by older versions of DAP. If you are not on dap 4.4.x, then please make sure to first upgrade to the very latest version of dap 4.4.x and then follow the steps below to install the credit store plugin. If you have purchased our Credit Store plugin, then please follow these steps to install the plugin:

1. Go to wickedcoolplugins.com/login.
2. Download CreditStore.zip to your desktop.
3. Now install this plugin in your WP admin panel like any other WP plugin. Go to WP admin -> plugins -> Add New -> Click on the ‘Upload’ tab -> click on browse to find he downloaded CreditStore.zip from your desktop.
4. Click on Install.
5. Go to WP Admin -> Plugins -> Activate this plugin