Dr.Cash and ClickFlare Integration Guide

• The offer URL sends the ClickFlare click ID to Dr.Cash in sub1.
• The postback URL sends it back to ClickFlare with the payout and the lead’s 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://dr-cash-campaign-domain.com/p/?sub1=CF_CLICK_ID
     (Dr.Cash stores the ClickFlare click ID in sub1)
  → Visitor submits the order form: Dr.Cash records a lead (hold)
  → Call center confirms the order: the lead is approved
  → Dr.Cash fires your postback:
     https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id=CF_CLICK_ID&payout=30.00&txid=DRCASH_LEAD_UUID
     (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 Dr.Cash affiliate account with access to the offer you want to run.

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What the Dr.Cash 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 Dr.Cash too. See Tracking domains.

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Report conversions by postback time

Go to Settings → General Settings and set Conversion registration time reporting to Postback Timestamp.On COD offers, the approval comes in long after the click. With the default Visit Timestamp, ClickFlare reports the conversion on the day of the original click, so yesterday’s numbers keep changing as approvals arrive, and the dates don’t match Dr.Cash’s. 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 Dr.Cash 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 Dr.Cash and pick the template.
2. Check that Click Id is {sub1}, Payout is {payment} and Transaction ID is {uuid}.
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 Dr.Cash pays you in.

ClickFlare builds the postback URL from these fields:

https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id={sub1}&payout={payment}&txid={uuid}

Copy the postback URL and save the network.

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Create a campaign (stream) in Dr.Cash

In Dr.Cash, a tracking link belongs to a campaign, also called a stream or flow. You create one per offer:

1. Go to Offers and select the offer.
2. Click Create Campaign.
3. Enter a name and choose the landing and prelanding pages Dr.Cash should use.
4. In the sub1 field, type {cf_click_id}. Or leave it empty and add sub1 in ClickFlare in the next step.
5. If the form has a Global Postback toggle, make sure it’s on. Otherwise this campaign won’t fire your global postback.
6. Create the campaign and copy the Campaign URL.

The link looks like this:

https://dr-cash-campaign-domain.com/p/?sub1={cf_click_id}

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Create the offer in ClickFlare

In the offer form:

1. Name the offer.
2. Select the Dr.Cash affiliate network you just created.
3. Paste the Campaign URL into Offer URL. If it doesn’t have sub1 yet, add &sub1={cf_click_id} at the end, or ?sub1={cf_click_id} if the URL has no ? yet:

https://dr-cash-campaign-domain.com/p/?sub1={cf_click_id}

If you pasted the link without sub1, you can turn on Append Click ID to Offer Url instead. ClickFlare then adds sub1={cf_click_id} from the template. Use one way only: don’t fill the sub1 field in Dr.Cash, add it to the URL and turn on the toggle all at once.

Write {cf_click_id} with braces. Without them Dr.Cash 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 global postback in Dr.Cash

In Dr.Cash, go to Settings → Global postback (some guides call it Tools → Global Postback). Then:

1. Paste the ClickFlare postback URL into the URL field.
2. Tick Conversion confirmation only. Leave New conversion unticked. See Which statuses to tick.
3. Click Save changes.

A postback set inside a campaign (stream) takes priority over the global one. If an old campaign still has a postback URL from another tracker, it silently replaces your ClickFlare postback for that campaign. Clear it, or put the ClickFlare URL there too.

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Add a lander (optional)

Dr.Cash offers often come with their own prelanders, picked when you create the campaign. If you use your own lander instead, its CTA must use the ClickFlare click URL, not the Dr.Cash 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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Which statuses to tick

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Recommended: Conversion confirmation only

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Alternative: New conversion and Conversion confirmation

• Both postbacks are the same conversion. The lead postback and the later approval carry the same click ID and the same {uuid}. ClickFlare keeps one conversion per click ID and transaction ID, and the last postback received replaces the earlier one. So an approved lead is counted once, not twice.
• Leads that are never approved stay counted. A lead that is rejected after the call never gets a confirmation postback, so the lead postback stays in ClickFlare as a conversion. Dr.Cash most likely sends the offer payout with the lead postback as well, so these leads also count as revenue. Check a lead postback in Dr.Cash’s postback log to see what it sends.
• You don’t get a lead column and an approval column. Adding &ct={status} to the URL tags each conversion with its latest status (hold or approved), as long as you create matching custom conversions with the parameters hold and approved. Because the approval replaces the lead, you see each lead’s current status, not a count of leads next to a count of approvals.

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Why the transaction ID matters

• Two leads from the same click (for example a visitor who orders twice) have different {uuid} values, so ClickFlare counts both.
• A resent postback for the same lead carries the same {uuid}, so ClickFlare doesn’t count it twice.
• Status updates for one lead are expected to carry the same {uuid}, so an approval replaces the lead postback instead of adding a second conversion. Dr.Cash doesn’t document this. If you tick both events, compare the two postbacks for one lead in Dr.Cash’s postback log.

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Verify the setup

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Troubleshooting

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FAQ

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