Archive for the ‘Integration’ Category

OpenX and RoundCube Integration

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Question:

Please see the points below -

We have 2 scenario -

Scenario 1 (For free users):

1. The master administrator (the owner of the domain, myself and all the domains in my email system) will manage the OpenX with his own campaign and will put the code in kind of his own control panel so that each and every outgoing email from that domain has an text or html advert attach to it whereever inserted (see below).
2. The master administrator should be able to specify through a control panel where in the email body he wants his ad to appear:- Top, Bottom, Left, Right, Centre and after every each paragraph on the email body.
3) and should be able to control all other domains as well.

Scenatio 2 (For paid users (domain owners), who will receive emails of their own domain in Roundcube.

1. The user will manage his own ad’s, administrator (the owner of the domain) all ad will be managed by the domain owner. (same as above).
2. The user will be able to specify where he wants to put his own ad on the message body (same as above.)

In scenario 1 above the registered users (if they are not domain owners get percentage paid for any click they get on the advert which went through their email, so i should be able to see how much is the total amount earned through click and the amount which registered user have earned through the click on ads on emails. send an email alert to the registered users on monthly basis for the revenue they generated for themselves.

in scenario 2 above the domain owners (same as above) plus in this case they may have more then one email address in their own domian, so through their control panel they should be able track and view revenue they generated through different emails.

Answer:

We have gone through details which you gave us.

Let me explain you what we understood.

You have mainly four types of users (From the given two scenario, we assumed that you have four users and If we are wrong then let us know).

1) Administrator

2) Registered users who are domain owner

3) Registered users who are not domain owner

4) Unregistered Users

You want to attach advert in each mail sent by users (in defined position which will be decided by administrator).

You as administrator will decide campaigns for free users and domain users.

Registered users as domain owner will manage ads for their users (ads will be inserted by admin (you) only but domain owner can decide which ads should be display for their users). Domain owner should have one control panel where he can see which user has clicked on advert and he will get percentage of revenue from advert. This percentage will be decided by you (administrator).

But we need some clarification on your requirements.

1) We are confused with free and paid users terms which you used in scenario. Can you give more details on it?

2) I am confused with “scenario 2 – (2) point”.

The user will be able to specify where he wants to put his own ad on the message body (same as above.)

Can domain owner create his own campaign and banners?

I mean if he can create his banners to display in his users email then how will you get percentage of revenue.

(I am thinking that you mean administrator ads by “his own ads”, am I right?)

3) Do you want to use OpenX UI as domain owner control panel where he can see clicks and revenue earning?

More Answers:

we need to custom roundcube with multidomain support and ads should be display in each mail (in defined place by admin or domain owner.).

For normal users, administrator get control and revenue and for domain users, domain owner will get controls and percentage of ad revenue.

You have to do some manual work at time of adding domain in roundcube. We will try to make everything easy and with less configuration.

We will make UI for Adminstrator and domain owner where they can decide ads for their users and they can see clicks and earnings.

This will take approximately 30 days.

Billing System Integration with Admin Control

Friday, December 12th, 2008

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)).

http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/Billing-System-integration-(PayPal)-with-Admin-Control/prod_1368.html

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.

Capacity planning and booking management system integration with OpenX

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Question

Do you know of a capacity planning and booking management system that integrates with OpenX? We run a network of sites and need to manage the process of booking and managing capacity

Answer

Now, OpenX is not supporting integration with any booking management system or capacity planning software.

But we can implement new module on OpenX based on your custom requirements. (Just send us detailed documents of your requirements and we will give you approximate time estimation.)

I am giving you small description of your requirements. So, you can tell us your requirements in better way.

Suppose, you are displaying ads in your group of sites by OpenX then we can make new UI for advertisers where he can see empty slots (in OpenX terms, zones) in sites.

If there is any empty slots where Advertiser wants to display his ads for some time period then he can book it by paying cost (which can be set by admin) via paypal and after successful payment from paypal, his banners will going to start display in that slot (zone).

If there is no empty slots then he can see when each zone is going to be empty and according to it, he can booked that slots for future time period by paying amount by paypal.

Also, Module will have admin side where admin can set each zone price on CPC, CPM or fixed cost per month basis.

So, you can give us your custom requirements in details (as above) and we will give you time estimation ASAP.

If you want normal billing system for your OpenX then you can go for below mods.

http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/Billing-System-Integration-with-paypal/prod_1002.html

http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/Billing-System-Integration-(with-Publisher-payment-UI)/prod_1269.html

http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/Billing-Module/prod_608.html

OpenX integration with Drupal and Vbulletin

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Question:

If I dont bother you I wanna ask some questions about OpenX … it seems is good platform for my needs . I wanna make this site simply best arcade and flash game from the market today , I worked loads , tested allmoust all of the scripts from the market , deffo none had all options wich I`m wish for my site so I was forced to go to hire some freelancer work for that . In next couple of weeks I`ll have ready for launch my complectly new and unique site with games ( thats include desing / custom game script .. allmoust evrithing … ) The biggest problem for me will be the ads . So there at this point I need your help . My site will run on Drupal platform , and I have forum there also ( vbulletin last version ) . I think I can manage to install the OpenX and the module available for drupal ( unfortunate me I didnt find any vbulletin mods available for my ads :) … ) . So … now I wanna ask you some tascks wich I need to be done on my behalf .

1. Integration from OpenX & Drupal & Vbulletin ( there is available one module on drupal mods to integrate vbulletin with drupal sites - where users can share same password … and stuffs like this ) .

2. If is possible to use ads from google togheter ( on banner rotation sistem - I mean ads to be rotate thru my 3 ads spots from site and other 3 spots from forum )

3. At the forum I`m wish to create an special set with ads with 468 X 60 for users who have less than 15 or 20 posts ( ads from shopingads network (its simmilar with google ads ) and maybe some banners )

Please if you didnt bother arleady you will all this story drop me a reply soon with a time estimate for that project .

Answer:

Yes, we can help you to integrate Drupal and vbulletin to OpenX.

And we will set zone and banners to display ads in your site and forum.

Integration from OpenX & Drupal & Vbulletin à 10 Days

Settings banners and zones in openx and as well as to your sites à 4 days

Total: 14 Days

OpenX compatability with popular opensource forum

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Question:

I am looking for a system that will allow me to serve banner ads on a popular internet forum powered by Invision Power Board (IPB). Please let me know if this software is compatible and how long would be to install.

Answer:

OpenX is compatible with all type of servers and it has number of functionality which will help you to control your banners.

Also, it has high delivery speed. It takes same time what other ad networks take but if you install OpenX in same server then we can use localhost type of invocation code which delivers banners faster than other adnetworks (for this you have to install OpenX in same domain.).

OpenX installation and configuration will not take more than 4 hours and it will not affect your live site.

OpenX for Vbulletin board and delivering ads based on user data

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Question:

You said, that you are a “pro” on customizing OpenX to fit
perfectly to vBulletin.
I’m new to OpenX so i will say the best way is, that i will tell you want
came to my mind and then you say if it’s possible and how long will this take to complete

So, we are a big bulletin board (over 70.000 registererd User) and we want
to target them directly. Right now, we have different user group like
male/female or over18
If we create a new add in OpenX, we want to choose which user(group) we
want to reach (like male, female or both).

Do you think thats possible to create a OpenX Plugin?

Answer:

Yes, this is possible and we can target banners according to user profile (like, sex, age, etc).

We already have mod for that. You can see details about this mod here.

http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/profile-targeting-by-advertiser/prod_836.html

Also, mod’s functionality can be customized according to your requirements.

OpenX tags in ASP Web pages

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I have a website built in ASP and OpenX running on a separate Unix server. There are two things that I am requiring assistance with.

1. I am using OpenX as more of a dynamic content management tool. Once someone lands on the site and we know specific important things about them that would determine what content they would see, like language, geography, referring url, etc., we want to have those variables or referring traits follow them to subsequent pages so that the correct content continues to appear.

You are saying that “I am using OpenX as more of a dynamic content management tool.”. So, can you tell us how you are using OpenX dynamically in details?

Here, are you asking us to make changes in your site such that those variables will pass in your subsequent pages? .

So, time for this work will depend upon how many pages you have in your sites

2. I need to install code in the ASP webpages around the OpenX tags that would test whether content was delivered from the OpenX application and if not, would insert a default image or html instead. The problem, as I understand it, is that the best way to do this is by using the XML-RPC invocation codes. Since the website is written for ASP, I was told that an XML-RPC library and a custom script would allow this type of solution to work. Anyway you feel this could be done would be fine.

I think we can use javascript code to display.


I hope that you can help me finish the site by providing these functions. Please let me know the approximate timing.

All this work will take 7 days.

MP3 Banner for OpenX

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Question:

I am using openx for my site. i want to display MP3 banner in my site.

Answer:

we have created one plugin for the openx.

This feature is not available in Openx. By installing this mod you can have this feature.

OpenX does not support MP3 banners. By installing this mod you can upload MP3 banners also.

for more details:

http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/MP3-Banner-for-OpenX/prod_1393.html

Billing System Integration (with Publisher payment UI)

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Question:

we are working in the openx 2.6. we need to billing system integration with paypal.

Answer:

we have created one mod for this. This mod will integrate a billing system with PAYPAL which will allow advertisers to purchase campaigns inventory.

Here, the administrator can set the banner’s price per 1000 impressions or 1000 clicks and the advertiser will be able to purchase 1000 clicks or 1000 impressions through PAYPAL.

After purchasing impressions, advertiser’s campaign will be added by purchased clicks or impressions.

Also, this mod will give Interface for the administrator where he can set publisher sharing per 1000 impressions.

Publisher will get an interface to see his billing.

      for more info:

      http://www.adservermods.com/openxmods/Billing-System-Integration-(with-Publisher-payment-UI)/prod_1269.html

      Automatic set link zones to banners

      Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

      Question:

      How do set the automatic link zones to each banners?

      Answer:
      We should be give link zone to banners in openx. That is not automatically set.

      If you want automatically then we can customazed one plugin for this.

      It will provide the option “Auto link to the zones” for each banner and for the zones “Auto link to the banners”.

      So the banners and zones will be linked if they are having this option enabled and also they match in the size.
      for more details:

      http://openxmods.com/openxmods/auto-linking-zones-to-banners/prod_1403.html