Jafilia VM Affiliates, reaches maturity!

Today Jafilia VM Affiliates 1.5 BETA RC2 (BUILT 20) has been released to the community; this release is a “bug smashing release” and fixes all known existing errors, warnings and notices of Jafilia1.5 RC1. A maintenance and security release is in the roadmap before going out of beta.

Jafilia VM Affiliate software is now for everyone!

All manual hacks have been removed.

With the removal of the manual hacks needed in all previous versions, Jafilia is not limited anymore to PHP aware Virtuemart and Joomla! users. By means of an auto-installing plug-in, that already comes with the main package, any Joomla or Virtuemart user can have his own affiliate program in a few minutes without having to do any changes to the core Joomla or Virtuemart files.

RC2 (BUILT 20) Changelog:

- All manual hacks have been removed.

- New system plugin allowing capture of events in Joomla! And Virtuemart.

- Plugin install and uninstall automated. The plugin is now installed and uninstalled automatically with the main component.

- Fixed the two known fatal errors.

- Fixed some notices and warnings.

- Automatically installed mainmenu link

- German translation added to the core component. (German de-DE) Thank you to TenserD for his valuable help.

- Portuguese translation added (pt-PT) - Thanks José Ribeiro

- simple statistics on backend tabs added

- Fixed Jafilia registration after Joomla registration (Notice on line 257)

- Fixed edition of short description

- Added automated status change of 'sale' in jafilia when user change the status of order in virtuemart.

- 2 template changes

- Fixed "could not istantiate mail function"

About Jafilia VM Affiliates program software:

Jafilia VM Affiliates is a complete suite allowing any Virtuemart or Joomla! site owner to both, create his own affiliate marketing campaigns and manage his own affiliate network.

Jafilia VM affiliates is the only FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Affiliate program creator and affiliate marketing manager for Joomla! And VirtueMart.

Features include:

Creating and managing affiliate campaigns.

Creating banners or groups of banners for different campaigns.

Track user performance and event based activity control.

Confirm sales and issue payments accordingly.

Seamless integration with Joomla! CMS events, allowing to capture events such as a new customer registration on the main site.

Seamless integration with Virtuemart Ecommerce Component, capturing every sale event, making it very easy to pay the affiliates after the sale is confirmed.

Graphical charts created on the fly.

Paypal and check payments.

Upcoming features:

More payment options.

Simpler and better (one page only) registration process.

Auto registration feature.

More comprehensive admin panel.

More Graphical charts for different parameters.

Integration with 3^rd. party newsletter management component.

Multi level affiliate programs.

Payments as vouchers allowing affiliates to spend they’re earnings on your shop.

DOWNLOAD:

You can download the self installing component package from our downloads page

http://www.jafilia.com/index.php?option=com_ionfiles&Itemid=14

Or you can grab the latest code trunk from the Jafilia VM affiliates Sourceforge SVN repository.

http://jafilia.sourceforge.net