Mobidea and ClickFlare Integration Guide

• The offer URL sends the ClickFlare click ID to Mobidea in tag.
• The postback URL sends it back to ClickFlare with every conversion, together with the payout. You set it once as Mobidea’s Global Postback, or per offer and Smartlink.

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At a glance

1. Set up your domain and postback time.
2. Create the Mobidea affiliate network.
3. Set the Global Postback in Mobidea.
4. Copy the Mobidea link.
5. Create the offer and launch.

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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-mobidea-link/offer/12345?tag=CF_CLICK_ID
     (Mobidea stores the ClickFlare click ID in tag)
  → Visitor subscribes, signs up or installs
  → Mobidea fires your postback:
     https://trk.yourdomain.com/cf/cv?click_id=CF_CLICK_ID&payout=1.20
     (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 Mobidea affiliate account, and either an approved Single Offer or a Smartlink.

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What the Mobidea 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 Mobidea too. See Tracking domains.

2

Report conversions by postback time

Go to Settings → General Settings and set Conversion registration time reporting to Postback Timestamp.Mobidea 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 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.

3

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 Mobidea 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 Mobidea and pick the template.
2. Name it, for example “Mobidea”.
3. Keep Click Id {{EXTERNAL_ID}} and Payout {{MONEY}}, unless the tokens in your Mobidea account have other names.
4. Leave Transaction ID and Event Type empty.
5. Under Conversion tracking, select your own Tracking Domain and keep S2S Postback URL as the tracking method.
6. Set Payout currency to the currency your Mobidea account is paid in. Mobidea quotes its payment minimum in euros.

ClickFlare builds the postback URL from these fields:

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

Copy the postback URL and save the network.

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Set the Global Postback in Mobidea

In your Mobidea account, click the configuration wheel at the top right and select Global Postback. Then:

1. Choose Custom postback. The other choices are templates for other trackers.
2. Paste the ClickFlare postback URL.
3. Compare the tokens in the URL with the list Mobidea shows below the field. They must match exactly.
4. Save.

The Global Postback is your default for every Single Offer and Smartlink. If you set a postback on one offer or Smartlink, that one is used instead. See Global and per-link postbacks.

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Get the offer's link from Mobidea

• Single Offer: go to Offers, filter by Approved, open the offer and click Copy link. You only get a link once Mobidea approves you on the offer.
• Smartlink: go to Smartlinks, choose the type of content and copy the link Mobidea creates.

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Create the offer in ClickFlare

In the offer form:

1. Name the offer.
2. Select the Mobidea affiliate network you just created.
3. Paste the Mobidea link into Offer URL and type tag={cf_click_id} at the end, after ? if the link has no query string yet, or after & if it does:

https://your-mobidea-link/offer/12345?tag={cf_click_id}

4. Leave Append Click ID to Offer Url off.

Don’t use Append Click ID to Offer Url for Mobidea. The toggle builds the parameter name from the template’s Click Id token, so it adds external_id={cf_click_id}. Mobidea reads the click ID from tag, so the click ID would never reach the postback. Type tag={cf_click_id} yourself.

Write {cf_click_id} with braces. Without them Mobidea stores the literal text cf_click_id, 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 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 Mobidea link. ClickFlare then adds the click ID when it redirects to the offer. See Paths with landers and offers.Don’t use Mobidea’s own Click URL from its settings on your lander: it skips ClickFlare.

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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 and per-link postbacks

• If you also run Mobidea traffic through another tracker, give those links their own postback and keep ClickFlare as the global one, or the other way round.
• If an old per-link postback points to a previous tracker, conversions on that link never reach ClickFlare, even with the Global Postback set. Turn it off or replace it with the ClickFlare URL.

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Transaction ID

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Verify the setup

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Troubleshooting

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FAQ

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