ClickDealer and ClickFlare Integration Guide

• The offer URL sends the ClickFlare click ID to ClickDealer in s2.
• The postback URL sends it back to ClickFlare with every conversion, together with the payout and a unique conversion ID.

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How the data flows

Ad click
  → https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/r/CAMPAIGN?...
     (ClickFlare records the click and generates the click ID)
  → [optional lander → CTA uses the ClickFlare click URL]
  → https://clickdealer-tracking-domain.com/?a=12345&c=678&s2=CF_CLICK_ID
     (ClickDealer stores the ClickFlare click ID in s2)
  → Visitor converts on the advertiser's page
  → ClickDealer fires your postback:
     https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id=CF_CLICK_ID&payout=25.00&txid=LEAD_ID
     (ClickFlare matches the conversion to the original click)

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What you’ll need

• An active ClickFlare account with your own tracking domain set up. Shared domains get flagged by networks and blocked by browsers. See Tracking domains.
• A ClickDealer affiliate account (CPA network login), approved for the offer you want to run. Offers you apply for wait under Pending campaigns until ClickDealer approves them.

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What the ClickDealer template contains

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Setup

1

Set up your own tracking domain

Add a custom tracking domain before anything else, for example trk.yourdomain.com. The postback URL is built on this domain, so changing it later means updating the postback in ClickDealer too. See Tracking domains.

2

Report conversions by postback time

Go to Settings → General Settings and set Conversion registration time reporting to Postback Timestamp.The network reports a conversion on the day it happened. With the default Visit Timestamp, ClickFlare reports it on the day of the original click, so a conversion that comes in days later lands on a different date in each platform. See Conversion registration time.

This is an account-wide setting. It changes the date conversions are reported on for every campaign.

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Create the campaign

Go to Campaigns → New Campaign, choose Redirect tracking, pick your traffic source and select your tracking domain. See Creating a campaign.

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Create the ClickDealer affiliate network

While creating the offer for the campaign, create a new affiliate network in its Affiliate Network field. You can also create it first under Affiliate Networks → + New. Either way:

1. Search for ClickDealer and pick the ClickDealer template.
2. Keep Click Id as #s2#, Payout as #price# and Transaction ID as #leadid#.
3. Leave Event Type empty.
4. Under Conversion tracking, select your own Tracking Domain and keep S2S Postback URL as the tracking method.
5. Set Payout currency to the currency ClickDealer pays you in.

ClickFlare builds the postback URL from these fields:

https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id=#s2#&payout=#price#&txid=#leadid#

Copy the postback URL and save the network.

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Get the offer's tracking link from ClickDealer

In the ClickDealer portal:

1. Go to Offers → Browse offers and open the offer.
2. Tick I agree and click Apply for offer.
3. Choose a Media type, add notes if you want, and click Apply.
4. Once approved, the offer moves from Pending campaigns to My campaigns. Open it there.
5. Scroll to Get tracking links, pick a creative and click Copy URL to clipboard.

Use s2, not s1. On CAKE-style platforms s1 is meant for sub-affiliate IDs and holds only 50 characters. s2 to s5 take up to 100 characters each, and ClickFlare click IDs fit easily.

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Create the offer in ClickFlare

In the offer form:

1. Name the offer.
2. Select the ClickDealer affiliate network you just created.
3. Paste the ClickDealer link into Offer URL with &s2={cf_click_id} at the end:

https://clickdealer-tracking-domain.com/?a=12345&c=678&s2={cf_click_id}

If you pasted the link without s2, turn on Append Click ID to Offer Url instead. ClickFlare then adds s2={cf_click_id} from the template. Use one or the other, not both.

Write {cf_click_id} with braces. Without them ClickDealer stores the literal text cf_click_id, the postback returns that text, and the conversion cannot be matched to a click.

Set the payout to Auto so ClickFlare uses the payout value from the postback.

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Add the postback in ClickDealer

For a postback that covers all your offers:

1. In the left menu, go to Tools → Global postback.
2. Paste the ClickFlare postback URL into Global S2S postback URL.
3. Click Save.

If you don’t see Global postback under Tools, check the Profile section. At least one tracker’s guide places it there, so the menu may differ between accounts.To fire the postback for only some offers or events, see Global, campaign and event postbacks.

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Add a lander (optional)

If you send traffic through a lander before the offer, the lander’s CTA must use the ClickFlare click URL, not the ClickDealer link. ClickFlare then adds the click ID when it redirects to the offer. See Paths with landers and offers.

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Save the campaign and launch

Save the campaign, copy the campaign URL from the Tracking tab and use it in your ads. Before you spend money on traffic, run the checks in Verify the setup.

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Global, campaign and event postbacks

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Why the transaction ID matters

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Offers with several events

1. Create a custom conversion for each step under Settings → Custom Conversions, for example lead and sale. See Custom conversions.
2. Add a separate postback on each event in ClickDealer, with a fixed &ct= value that exactly matches the custom conversion parameter:

https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id=#s2#&payout=#price#&txid=#leadid#&ct=sale

3. Don’t also cover those events with the global postback, or each event arrives twice: once with ct and once without.

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Pending and rejected conversions

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Verify the setup

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Troubleshooting

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FAQ

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