Step 1 – Create a ClickBank “Secret Key”

The first thing you’ll need to do to set up the Instant Notification Service is to create a “Secret Key” in ClickBank that it uses to communicate with other tools like ClickMagick.
 

1.

Log in to your ClickBank master account. Click on “Dashboard”, then click on the account nickname you’re currently using to access it.

 
 

 

 

2.

Click the “Vendor Settings” tab near the upper-right corner of the page.

 
 

 
   
 

3.

Click “My Site” in the sub-navigation menu bar.

 
 

 
 

4.

Scroll down to the “Advanced Tools” section and click on the edit icon.

   
 

 
 

6.

If the Secret Key is empty, you’ll need to create one. Simply enter any combination of UPPER CASE LETTERS or numbers, up to 16 characters. You will get an error if you use lowercase letters, spaces, or symbols.

 

 
 

7.

If the “Instant Notification URL” section shows a link that says “(request access)” (as shown in the screenshot above), click on that link to show a form.  Select “Yes” for all the questions, click on the checkbox that says you agree to the Terms of Service and click on “Save Changes & Request API Access”.

  

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Finally, scroll back down to the same section and copy your Secret Key. We’ll be pasting that into ClickMagick in the next section.

Step 2 – Add the Secret Key to ClickMagick

Now that your Secret Key is set up in ClickBank, you need to let ClickMagick know about it.

Go to your Account Settings page:
 
 

Then, enter your “Secret Key” on the ClickBank tab.
 
 

If you’re following the steps outlined here, your Secret Key should be on the clipboard, so paste it into your settings and save your changes by clicking on the “Update Settings” button.

Remember to save your changes or the Instant Notification Service will not work.
     

Are you a ClickBank vendor?

If you’re a ClickBank vendor and want to track your sales, simply enable vendor tracking and list all ClickBank vendor nicknames that you want to track.

If you’ll also be selling your own products as an affiliate, enter your ClickBank affiliate nicknames as well.

ClickMagick uses your ClickBank nicknames to determine the amount of the sale to record when a vendor's sale is made. If an affiliate sells your product, the sale will reflect the vendor payout. But, if you’re both the vendor and the affiliate, ClickMagick will record the sale as the sum of the vendor payout and the affiliate commission.

Just enter all of your ClickBank nicknames, separated by commas:
 

Step 3 – Add Your ClickMagick Instant Notification URL to ClickBank
 

1.

You must copy your unique ClickMagick Instant Notification URL and paste it into your ClickBank settings. First, copy this link exactly as you see it: https://www.clkmg.com/api/s/cb/?uid=[USERID]

     
   
 

2.

In ClickBank, go to the Advanced Tools section where you created your Secret Key. You’ll find it in the “Vendor Settings” tab under the “My Site” sub-menu. Scroll down to “Advanced Tools” and click “Edit”.

 

3.

In the first empty slot that says “Instant Notification URL:”, paste in the ClickMagick Instant Notification URL you copied above.

 

4.

Make sure that version 7.0 is selected in the drop-down. Only select version 8.0 if you have a specific reason.

  

 
 

5.

Save your changes.

 

6.

Scroll down to the Advanced Tools section again and click “Edit”.

 

7.

Click the “TEST IPN” link next to your URL to activate it in ClickBank’s system. If you followed the previous steps correctly, you should see “Verified” next to the version number.

  

Once you’ve tested your URL without error, you’re done with integrating your ClickMagick and ClickBank accounts.


Step 4 – Add a Unique ID to Your ClickBank Hoplinks



 

Unfortunately, JVZoo only provides a vendor-controlled “all or nothing” IPN webhook that’s not really suited for affiliate tracking. Vendors must agree to share all of their sales data with affiliates – customers’ names, emails, etc – in order for it to work, but we’ve found that most vendors don’t want to do this so affiliates are mostly out of luck.

JVZoo doesn’t support adding any type of tracking pixels either, so the only real option is to track your affiliate sales in JVzoo using Sub-IDs. And this walkthrough will show you exactly how to do that.

For example, let’s assume that you’re promoting an offer through JVZoo and your link looks like this:

https://www.jvzoo.com/c/3522/3665/

To track conversions, you need to pass a unique Sub-ID to your JVZoo affiliate link by adding ClickMagick’s [cmc_vid] token to the end of the URL like this:

https://www.jvzoo.com/c/3522/3665/?tid=[cmc_vid]

You would use this modified JVZoo link on your landing page.

Once you’ve added ?tid=[cmc_vid] to the end of your affiliate link, ClickMagick will replace the [cmc_vid] token with a unique number every time someone clicks on your tracking link. When JVZoo gets the click, it will record the value of the click ID in the tid column of your JVZoo stats along with your clicks and sales.


Syncing ClickMagick with JVZoo

To sync ClickMagick with JVZoo, you’ll need to manually download your conversion report from JVZoo occasionally and import it into your ClickMagick account.

Just follow these steps:
 

1.

The first thing you’ll need to do is export your transaction information from JVZoo. To do that, go to the Affiliates menu at the top of the screen and select Transactions. From there, click on the Export button shown here on the lower right side of this screenshot:   Save the file where you can easily find it.

  
 

2.

Before importing the data file into ClickMagick, you’ll need to edit the file slightly using a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or Apple Numbers. Specifically, you’ll need to rearrange the columns so that the first three columns are in this order: tid, payout, and completed (which holds date/time values). Delete all other columns, and save the file in CSV format. If you save the file in Excel, Sheets, or Numbers format, it will NOT import into ClickMagick.     Tip: If you have trouble rearranging the columns in your spreadsheet program, search the help documents for your spreadsheet—it’s usually quite simple to rearrange columns once you know how. If you still have trouble, contact us at our Helpdesk, which you can find in the Help menu at the top of every page. Be sure to attach the file you exported from JVZoo so we can edit it.   Note: The JVZoo export feature sometimes leaves the tid value empty for sales made even though those same sales show a tid value in your JVZoo transaction report. If you see a blank entry in the tid column for a particular sale, look at your JVZoo transaction report and manually copy the value to the spreadsheet. You might also want to mention the problem to the JVZoo support desk to alert them that this problem still exists.

  
 

3.

The next step is to import your data into ClickMagick. Do this by going to the tracking link you want to update, then click on the Tools menu and select “Offline Conversions”.

 
 

4.

Upload a single conversion from the Offline Conversions page or select your “Bulk Upload” to upload a file and click the Record Sale button. If you edited your file correctly and saved it in CSV format, your data should be imported, and your stats should show accurately.       Caution: It’s important to remember that the sales and revenue-related stats you see in ClickMagick will only be accurate when you select a date range that exactly matches the date range of the conversion reports you’ve uploaded.

 
 

Tracking your sales with WarriorPlus, either as a vendor or as an affiliate, is a simple two-step process …

 
Step 1 – Add your ClickMagick WarriorPlus Postback URL to your WarriorPlus account


WarriorPlus uses the term “Notification URL” for vendors or “Webhook (IPN) URL” for affiliates, rather than Postback URL like most other affiliate networks, but just know they all mean the same thing.

   
 
If you’re a vendor, create a new product or edit an existing product to gain access to the product settings.

Once there, click on the “Integrations” tab at the top, which will scroll you to the bottom of the page where the “Integrations & Tracking” section exists. 

 

Add the URL you copied above into the “Notification URL” box, as shown below:
 
 

If you’re an affiliate, you need to add your Postback URL to each offer that you’re promoting. Simply pull up the offer and enter your Postback URL above in the field that says “Webhook (IPN) URL (optional)” as shown below:
 
 

Step 2 – Add the visitor ID or click ID to the end of your WarriorPlus link


If you are using Campaigns, then you can use the Affiliate Link Builder

Set the “Network” to WarriorPlus, “Tracking Type” to Campaigns, and enter your affiliate link:

 

 
Click “Update” and then copy the updated affiliate link to use on your landing pages or thank you pages:

 

When setting up tracking links for your WarriorPlus offers, just enter your standard WarriorPlus link as the Primary URL. Then select “Add Affiliate Click ID Parameter” from the icon, select WarriorPlus, and ClickMagick will automatically modify your link as needed.
 
 

This won’t affect how your link works – it simply appends the tracking parameter that’s necessary to track your sales, as shown below:

 

Be sure to save your new tracking link and you’re good to go!

That’s it! You are now setup to start tracking your WarriorPlus sales using ClickMagick.
 

Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't make it easy or efficient to track affiliate sales, but it is possible.

Because you can't use Tracking Pixels or Postback URLs in Amazon, the only conversion tracking you can do with Amazon is with sub-IDs, or what they call "Tracking IDs."

To create a Tracking ID in Amazon, log in to your Amazon Associates account, and just under your email address, click on "Manage Your Tracking IDs"

 

 
Next, click on the "Add Tracking ID" button to create your ID:

 

 
 

To learn more about Amazon Tracking IDs, check out their documentation here.

Once your Tracking ID is created, you can use it in your Amazon affiliate links.

On the ClickMagick side, you'll need to use the Tracking ID you created as a UTM parameter using the Campaigns URL Builder:

 

 
That’s it. When you make sales, you’ll know which Tracking ID was responsible for the sale.
 

To begin tracking Zaxaa affiliate sales, follow the steps below:

Step 1 - Switch To Affiliate Mode and Click The “Approved Products” tab:

 

 
Step 2 - Click “Conversion Scripts” for the products you want to promote:

 

 
Step 3 - Turn On “Conversion Scripts” by selecting Yes.

To the right where it says “Use Global Settings” click on the green question mark icon to view a prompt:

 

Then, click the link at the end of the prompt to get to the global setting:

 

 
Step 4 - Add Your Postback URL

For “Type” select Postback URL Tracking and add your Postback URL below:

https://www.clkmg.com/api/s/post/?uid=[USERID]&s1=[sub_id]&amt=[price]&ref=

 

Step 5 – Add a Visitor ID or Click ID To Your Affiliate Link

If you’re using Campaigns, you can use the Affiliate Link Builder.

Set the “Network" to Zaxaa and the “Tracking Type” to Campaigns, then paste in your Zaxaa affiliate link. Then click on “Update My Affiliate Link”.

 

Once you've done that, it’ll give automatically add on the correct [cmc_vid] parameter that allows you to track sales. Copy this link and use it on your landing pages.

 

If you're using Tracking Links, insert your Zaxaa affiliate link into the Primary URL, then click on the icon and choose the option to add the Click ID, then select Zaxaa in the modal that opens. That will automatically add the correct [clickid] token to the end of your affiliate link:
 
 

 
That’s it! When you make sales in Zaxaa, they will automatically be tracked in ClickMagick.
 

Aside from ClickBank and JVZoo which are special cases, the process of integrating ClickMagick with your affiliate network using Postback URLs is the same for all other networks. You’ll want to follow the guide below …

How do I track affiliate sales using Postback URLs?