TUTORIAL + SCRIPT: Clickbank Sales Notifications (via email)

[Vita_Vee]

Hi

I remember a time when I was login to my clickbank account several times per day to check my stats

I think this is a quite typical behavior for affiliate marketers.

I have just prepared a little script for all of you the compulsive stat checkers

Instead of going to clickbank to check your stats you will now be able to receive an email each time a transaction occurs and in realtime.

I'm tracking:

1/ Initial sales
2/ Recurring billings
3/ Cancellation of recurring billings
4/ Refunds

If you use this script you will receive emails like these ones:



If you open an email you will get the full details about the transaction.
The amount, the customer info, the sold/refunded product etc...

Ok so here is how to use this script.

STEP 1:
Login to your clickbank account.

STEP 2:
Display that page (Account Settings / My Site):


STEP 3:
Scroll down until you see the "Advanced Tools", then click on Edit.


STEP 4:
You will have to request access to the instant notification feature. Just click on the "request access" link:


... it will expand the box and display several options, select everything like shown in the screenshot below then click on save:



STEP 5:
After saving you should get your request immediately accepted. So now let's configure the script....

Once again scroll down until you see the "Advanced Tools", then click on Edit.


STEP 6:
This time you will see this:


For the secret key enter a value that can be up to 16 letters or digits and must be in ALL CAPS.
For this example, let's say that our secret key is VITAVEE101.

For the Instant Notification URL 1, enter this:

Code:

http://vitavee.com/cbinstantsalesnotifications.php?email=YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS&key=VITAVEE101

Make sure to replace YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS by your real email address and VITAVEE101 by the secret key you have chosen.

Then click on test to see if it is setup correctly. If it is you should receive an email such as this one:

Code:

SUBJECT: ClickBank Notification - TEST

BODY:
Product: A passed in title
Publisher: vitavee
Affiliate ID:
Transaction: TEST
Amount (in cents): 100
Customer Name: Test User
Customer Email: testuser@somesite.com
TID:

Hope this will be helpful for all the compulsive clickbank stats checkers

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UPDATE:

Running the script as explained above from my server is the easiest and fastest way for non techie affiliates as you don't have anything to upload or to install - just follow the steps, that's all.

For those of you who prefer to have the script running on your own servers, here is the code:

PHP Code:

<?php
    $email = $_GET["email"];
    $key   = $_GET["key"];

    $ccustname = $_REQUEST['ccustname'];
    $ccustemail = $_REQUEST['ccustemail'];
    $ccustcc = $_REQUEST['ccustcc'];
    $ccuststate = $_REQUEST['ccuststate'];
    $ctransreceipt = $_REQUEST['ctransreceipt'];
    $cproditem = $_REQUEST['cproditem'];
    $ctransaction = $_REQUEST['ctransaction'];
    $ctransaffiliate = $_REQUEST['ctransaffiliate'];
    $ctranspublisher = $_REQUEST['ctranspublisher'];
    $cprodtype = $_REQUEST['cprodtype'];
    $cprodtitle = $_REQUEST['cprodtitle'];
    $ctranspaymentmethod = $_REQUEST['ctranspaymentmethod'];
    $ctransamount = $_REQUEST['ctransamount'];
    $caffitid = $_REQUEST['caffitid'];
    $cvendthru = $_REQUEST['cvendthru'];
    $cbpop = $_REQUEST['cverify'];

    $xxpop = sha1("$ccustname|$ccustemail|$ccustcc|$ccuststate|$ctransreceipt|$cproditem|$ctransaction|"
        ."$ctransaffiliate|$ctranspublisher|$cprodtype|$cprodtitle|$ctranspaymentmethod|$ctransamount|$caffitid|$cvendthru|$key");

    $xxpop=strtoupper(substr($xxpop,0,8));

    if ($cbpop==$xxpop)
    {
        $headers =  'From: Vita Vee <vitavee@noreply.com>' . "\r\n" .
                    'Reply-To: vitavee@noreply.com' . "\r\n" .
                    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
    
        mail($email, "ClickBank Notification - " . $_REQUEST['ctransaction'],
                    "Product: " . $_REQUEST['cprodtitle'] . 
                    "\nPublisher: " . $_REQUEST['ctranspublisher'] . 
                    "\nAffiliate ID: " . $_REQUEST['ctransaffiliate'] . 
                    "\nTransaction: " . $_REQUEST['ctransaction'] . 
                    "\nAmount (in cents): " . $_REQUEST['ctransamount']. 
                    "\nCustomer Name: " . $_REQUEST['ccustname']. 
                    "\nCustomer Email: " . $_REQUEST['ccustemail']. 
                    "\nTID: " . $_REQUEST['caffitid'], 
                    $headers);
    }
?>

It is based on clickbank's documentation that can be found here:
https://xxx.accounts.clickbank.com/help/...n-service/

Vita Vee

[peter]

Wow Vita!

Once again you have gone above and beyond for us here and I'd like to thank you!

[umairsheikh2002]

Hi Bro,

I am big fan of you. I like your teaching style especially 0 to profit movies. I live in Karachi, Pakistan. I haven't paypal account because paypal does not support this country and in Pakistan internet marketing scope not high too much. There is no Guru available in Pakistan so I cant learn. If you dont mind can you tell me a real movies tutorial for clickbank? I am adsense player, My monthly earning is $200 I need clickbank training, if you have your other movies tutorial on this topic please kindly tell me. I am interested in your training. I need guarantee of my success through this those training. I am really disappointing from internet markerter career. I have a niche website but I am using sub domain so my website is index but not ranking in google. I cant get profit from this.

Please Vita Vee Bro, Suggest me your video tutorial or other real tutorial which will help me alot. I am waiting for your reply.

Regards,
Umee

[Jack]

Awesome Vita, Thanks!

Yeah, I think I've developed arthritis in my finger solely from checking Clickbank!

Jack

[youproblog]

excellent stuff! my girl will be happy she won't see me checking CB every 5 minutes haha [/align]

[Nik]

Thanks, Very Much

I've checked my clickbank account twice today already.

[John51602]

There should be a "compulsive stats checkers anonymous" (CSCA) club or something of the sort. One of my biggest hurdles is sometimes to stop logging in to network accounts to check stats.

Thanks Vita man

[Vita_Vee]

You're welcome guys Glad to be able to save you some time.

@Umee from what are you earning those $200/month? I suggest that you try to scale what is already working for you. Do the same thing but do it on a larger scale.

[youproblog]

this is what i get

Code:

The test notification failed to send. Please ensure that you have specified a valid notification URL and have entered a secret key.

I did what you said but i also changed your url into mine.

[Nik]

Hi youproblog,

You don't want to change the website url, because the script that is used to send you the email is on vitavee.com.

You just want to replace the email in the url with your own. And the secret key in the url with the one you picked.

[Vita_Vee]

Nik is right, the script is running from my server. I thought it was the simplest way for people to use it, no need to upload anything.

[Infinity]

Thanks for this great script Vita Vee.

I just installed it.

Hope I can get some sales today and see it work out.

Now if you had a script that would cause bells to ring everytime we made sales or got an email from Clickbank, that would be perfect.

By the way, I have something I need your help with Vita Vee in the moderator's thread if you have the time. Sorry for the trouble...

[Vita_Vee]

You're welcome Infinity. For the bells it's easy, just setup a sound notification in your email client

Hope the 1st email notification you will receive will not be a REFUND notification LOL

Will have a look at the moderators section...

[youproblog]

oh i see lol, got ahead of myself

cheerio!

[CoolyKid]

Excellent Vita!

I had been using the CBNotify plugin for Firefox, but it hasn't been working for over a month now so this is a very welcome and timely script!

[Infinity]

Ok. I started using Outlook in order to create a ringing bells sound to motivate me, but it's so buggy, i'm not used to it. it keep downloading all my old files...

[RobCole]

There is also a simple script you can upload to your own server so you dont have to rely on using anyone elses server . Let me see if I can find the details....

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This is the guide I used to add the notification to my server:-

http://how-to-make-online-money.com/how-...fications/

Cheers

[umairsheikh2002]

(06-21-2010 08:29 PM)Vita_Vee Wrote:  @Umee from what are you earning those $200/month? I suggest that you try to scale what is already working for you. Do the same thing but do it on a larger scale.

Well adsense is not profitable business for me and there is high risk for banned. I am looking for affiliate marketing, this is long term business and most profitable. I have created my website but I am using sub domain so I cant rank well. I know the keyword research is playing very vital role in internet marketing and domains. Now I know the keyword research and domain power but I need training for playing affiliate marketing game.

I have seen your videos many times and I noticed one thing, you were promoting other Guru products especially Micheal Chenney and you did not need keyword research and less competition.

Anyways if you have other videos tutorial of yours or you can suggest me real course of affiliate marketing, I will always thankful to you! You are really Guru of internet marketing. I have seen many video tutorials or read books but I cannot find the real path of success. All are the rubbish!

[modeca]

This is awesome VV. Thanks very much, I've been logging into Clickbank everyday to check my stats so this is a great timesaver.

[Vita_Vee]

You're welcome

For those of you who want to have the script running from your own servers I have updated my initial post with the PHP code.