My Improved "New Member" Email For NATS4

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  • natkejs
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2003
    • 1640

    #1

    My Improved "New Member" Email For NATS4

    Re-posting one of my blog entries, figured there might be someone here that would appreciate it. This is for NATS4 admins only, affiliates can stop reading here.

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    NATS4 sends you emails at just about any given occasion, one of them being the "New Member" email whenever someone signs up to your sites. I took some time to edit this email in order to provide myself some much needed details when scanning for fraudulent signups, read and learn

    The default email template will generate an email that looks something like this

    Dear Program Owner:

    A new member signed up for your site: Club Dario

    Spent: 30
    Cost: 20
    Profit: 10

    Here is their information:

    Name: Grandmaster Dario
    Email: [email protected]
    Username: grandmaster
    Password: retsamdnarg

    Thank You,
    That does tell us who joined but for me it's also important to know who sent the join and I want quick links to dig deeper should I suspect a fraudulent signup. And, quite honestly, I don't care about the cost and profit for each signup, that I will rather check in the Reporting Admin for larger time frames.

    So, I made some changes to the template and ended up with an output like this

    A new member signed up for Club Dario

    Username: grandmaster
    Email: [email protected]
    Name: Grandmaster Dario
    Country: US
    Program: PPS
    Price: 24.95
    Biller: MYBILLER

    http://nats.myprogram.com/admin_memb...=member&member[id]=123

    Affiliate:
    Account: bigdaddy
    Name: Daddy Dario
    Company: blank
    Country: US
    Main URL: http://www.domain.com

    http://nats.myprogram.com/admin_affi...iew&userid=123
    As you can see I have removed the cost and profit and added a bit more details about the member. I also added a quick link to the detailed info page for said member. On top of that I added the biller so I can keep an eye on cascading activity and the program short name since I tend to look closer on PPS signups, especially for new affiliates.

    I also added some info about the affiliate who sent the signup. This way I can keep an eye on new affiliates and of course, it saves me some time not having to dig too deep on trusted affiliates and in-house signups. And, again I added a quick link to the affiliate overview page where NATS4 will provide more info and a summary of the past weeks signups from that affiliate.

    So, how can you do this on your own NATS4 install?

    It's simple, first you need to locate the "mail_owner_joined" template under Skins & Templates > Special Templates.
    Then you click the customize icon (the pen and paper or just the pencil if this template has been customized before) and insert this code over the default one:
    (Don't worry, you can always revert the template to the default one should you not like the changes.)

    Code:
    A new member signed up for {$details.siteid.name}
    
     Username: {$member.username}
     Email: {$member.email}
     Name: {$member.firstname} {$member.lastname}
     Country: {$member.country}
     Program: {$details.programid.program}
     Price: {$member.spent/100|string_format:"%.2f"}
     Biller: {$details.billerid.biller}
    
     http://nats.myprogram.com/admin_members.php?view=member&member[id]={$member.memberid}
    
    Affiliate: {if !$member.loginid}In-House{else}
    
     Account: {$details.loginid.username} 
     Name: {$details.loginid.firstname} {$details.loginid.lastname}
     Company: {$details.loginid.company}
     Country: {$details.loginid.country}
     Main URL: {$details.loginid.url} 
    
     http://nats.myprogram.com/admin_affiliates.php?view=affiliate_overview&userid={$details.loginid.loginid}
    {/if}
    Remember to change nats.myprogram.com to your programs URL.

    That's it, you're done!

    Now run a test signup or wait for the first real one to drop in so you can see the results.



  • Sharky
    Confirmed User
    • Mar 2002
    • 4938

    #2
    Good stuff! NATS is a pretty robust tool, you just have to know how to tweak it for your benefit
    Sharky

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    • natkejs
      Confirmed User
      • Jan 2003
      • 1640

      #3
      Originally posted by Sharky
      Good stuff! NATS is a pretty robust tool, you just have to know how to tweak it for your benefit
      Definitely! We've done quite a lot of mods on it but really just scratched the surface.

      I like Nats

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      • NikKay
        Confirmed User
        • Aug 2001
        • 1642

        #4
        Posting for future reference... thanks for the tip!

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        • TheDoc
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Jul 2001
          • 13827

          #5
          Some good info for those that use the feature.

          Personally I don't use the owner signup email feature in nats, I also have the processor signup notice emails turned off. The less emails I get, the better.
          ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
          It's all disambiguation

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          • seeandsee
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            • Mar 2006
            • 50945

            #6
            this is great help
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