Question:
We want a system where advertisers can place their adverts with as little
interaction between us as possible (preferably none!!). We have diffrent
advert positions (currently on one site but later more) and each one has a
diffrent price. The question comes in with your system is that we see you
have to make packages which we really do not want, we want the customer to
be able to select how many units they want and in which position and it to
calculate the cost and then take payment. So people could order 50 CPM units
in position 3 at £5 per CPM or 51 units or 52 etc… without having to
define hundreds of packages. Then they should be able to upload the banner and process the payment via paypal. So the whole thing, including renewals if possible, is handled by the server and openx program and we do not have to upload banners and deal with payment!
We think your system maybe able to do this, but if not we would need a quote for such customisation. It should not be that hard as its a few database calls its simply time is of the essence and if an off the shelf solution to automated charging for advertising is possible then that would really help us out.
Answer:
Billing System Integration (Paypal) with Admin Control which will allow you to purchase package in any number of quantity but purchased impressions will apply to all his banners (Banners can be different size and they can be displayed in different zones but it will not affect. It means all zones will have same price (XXX $ per CPM)).
As per your requirement, you want admin to set each pre-defined zones price (It can be different for each zone) and allow advertiser to selects position for his banner and selects number of CPM units and allow him to upload banner and redirect him to paypal for payment. Once he will pay successfully, his banner will be active and it will start to display in selected zone of site.
For this, we have to make new UI (not in OpenX UI) for advertisers where he can do all above steps. Also, we have to disable some of OpenX permissions for advertiser so that he can not linked to other zones afterwards. (He should be linked with that zone only which zone was selected before payment.)
Implementation of all these functionality will take 2 days.
Tags: billing admin, openx admin control, OpenX billing, openx billing integration
