Los Pollos and ClickFlare Integration Guide

• The offer URL is your smartlink, with the ClickFlare click ID in the cid parameter.
• The postback URL sends the click ID back to ClickFlare with every conversion, together with the payout. Los Pollos has one global postback for your whole account.

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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://your-smartlink.lospollos-domain.com/?...&cid=CF_CLICK_ID
     (Los Pollos stores the ClickFlare click ID from cid)
  → Los Pollos routes the visitor to an offer, and the visitor converts
  → Los Pollos fires your global postback:
     https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id=CF_CLICK_ID&payout=2.40
     (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 Los Pollos affiliate account. For a vertical other than Dating, ask your account manager to enable that smartlink first. For CPA Marketplace offers, your account manager approves them and hands them over.

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What the LosPollos 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 your Los Pollos global postback too. See Tracking domains.

2

Report conversions by postback time

Go to Settings → General Settings and set Conversion registration time reporting to Postback Timestamp.With the default Visit Timestamp, ClickFlare reports a conversion on the day of the original click. A DOI or deposit that comes in a day later then lands on a different date than in Los Pollos’s statistics. 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 Los Pollos 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 LosPollos and pick the template.
2. Check that Click Id is {cid} and Payout is {sum}.
3. Leave Transaction ID and 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 Los Pollos pays you in. Its payment terms are quoted in US dollars.

ClickFlare builds the postback URL from these fields:

https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id={cid}&payout={sum}

Copy the postback URL and save the network.

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Get your smartlink from Los Pollos

In Los Pollos, go to Smartlinks and open the smartlink for your vertical. Then pick one of the two ways to add the click ID:

• Click ID field: type {cf_click_id} into the smartlink’s Click ID field. Los Pollos updates the direct link automatically and adds &cid={cf_click_id} to it.
• Append Click ID in ClickFlare: leave the Click ID field empty and let ClickFlare add cid in the next step.

Copy the direct link. If you used the Click ID field, check that it ends with cid={cf_click_id}, braces included.

Use one method, not both. The Click ID field and Append Click ID to Offer Url both write the same cid parameter, so using both puts cid in the link twice. See Click ID field or cid.

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Create the offer in ClickFlare

In the offer form:

1. Name the offer.
2. Select the Los Pollos affiliate network you just created.
3. Paste the smartlink into Offer URL.
4. If the link already has cid={cf_click_id} from the Click ID field, leave Append Click ID to Offer Url off. If you left the field empty, turn the toggle on. ClickFlare then adds cid={cf_click_id}, built from the template’s {cid} macro.

The offer URL ends up like this either way:

https://your-smartlink.lospollos-domain.com/?...&cid={cf_click_id}

Write {cf_click_id} with braces. Without them Los Pollos 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. A smartlink routes each visitor to a different offer, so a fixed payout would be wrong.

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Add the global postback in Los Pollos

Los Pollos says you add the postback in the Settings section. Guides word the exact path in different ways: Settings → Global postback with a plus icon, or Settings → Postback with a Global Postback URL field. Then:

1. Paste the ClickFlare postback URL.
2. Save.

The global postback covers your whole account, so all smartlinks fire it. If the field already holds another tracker’s URL, replacing it moves your Los Pollos conversions to ClickFlare. Your account manager can help you set it up and test it.

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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 Los Pollos smartlink. 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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Click ID field or cid: one method only

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No transaction ID: one conversion per click

• A smartlink conversion is normally one conversion per click: an SOI, a DOI or a deposit, depending on the vertical. That works fine with one conversion per click.
• A resent postback for the same click doesn’t count twice. It replaces the first one.
• A second paid event on the same click, such as an SOI followed by a DOI, or a RevShare rebill, would replace the first conversion instead of adding a second one. You’d see one conversion with the payout of the last postback.

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Smartlink link format and CPA offers

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Verify the setup

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Troubleshooting

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FAQ

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