Advanced Site Setup

Article Topics: Sites, Tours, Members, Affiliates, Join Options, Templates, Programs

The Basic Site Setup is useful for getting your site and tours online and functioning, however, NATS offers a lot of settings to further configure your tours.

HTTPS Usage

In order to keep your Tour secured, you can use HTTPS over HTTP. Options include Gateway HTTPS, tour-specific HTTPS linkdomains and default tour linkdomains.

For more information, please see our HTTPS Gateways article.

Language Targeting

The Language Targeting settings allow you to restrict access to your site for surfers from specified countries. NATS detects surfer countries through the surfer's default browser language.

You can use the "Allowed Languages" field to list the languages you want to be able to access your site. This is a comma-separated list that can have as many language values as you wish. There are also options to Allow Raw Hits and Allow Unique Hits for languages that are not listed in the Allowed Languages field. For a full list of allowed languages, as well as their Language Codes, please see our Allowed Languages article.

The "Alternative URL" field allows you to set a URL to automatically redirect surfers to if they do not meet the specified Allowed Languages criteria. Both of these settings are optional, and thus not necessary for your site to function.

Threshold Checking

Threshold Checking is a feature in NATS that allows the system to automatically send a Low Threshold e-mail whenever a tour's join-to-hit ratio drops below a specified amount.

Here, you can set a minimum join-to-hit ratio for the following time periods:

• Mightnight to 6 AM

• 6 AM to Noon

• Noon to 6 PM

• 6 PM to Midnight

If you wish to use this option, you must input a "Low Threshold E-Mail" and a "Mail Threshold." A "Low Threshold E-Mail" specifies what e-mail addresses will receive low threshold e-mail warnings, and the "Mail Threshold" specifies the subject of the warning e-mail. You can edit the content of the e-mail itself by clicking the "Edit Template" or "Edit HTML Template" links.

Automatic Emails

Email Member Settings

NATS Email Settings provide the feature of sending automated e-mails to members when their actions trigger certain conditions. E-mails can be automatically sent when members join, cancel, rebill, credit, chargeback, have insufficient funds, void, change member details, etc.

To enable automated emails, navigate to the Sites Admin, select the appropriate site then select the Tour Tab. Select the Tour you wish to enable the automatic Email on and navigate to the Email tab.

From here, you can click the cog near any of the templates to customize them.

To learn more, view our Mailing Members after a Join article for an example.

Email Owner Settings

NATS Email Settings provide the feature of sending automated e-mails to owners when member actions trigger certain conditions. E-mails can be sent when members join, cancel, rebill, credit, chargeback, have insufficient funds, void, change member details, etc. To enable automated e-mails for a certain action, navigate to the Email to Owner tab and fill in the blank field with an e-mail Subject. You can also edit the body of these automated e-mails with the "Edit Template" link or the "Edit HTML Template" link.

E-Mail settings also support a feature to send an e-mail whenever a member joins a site through your tour. To do so, fill in the "Signup E-Mail" field with an e-mail address for this information to be sent to -- usually a Program Owner or an Account Representative.

To learn more, view our Mailing Members after a Join article for an example.

Postback URLs

Postback URLs allow you to post information to a URL of your choice when certain biller events are triggered. This includes joins, rebills, credits, chargebacks, etc. You can also use Postback URLs to verify member usernames.

For more information on this feature, please see our Postbacks & Post URLS article.

User Management

NATS allows the use of User Management scripts, so you can send a postback script when a username gets added, removed, changed, expired, or checked. This is useful if you are using an external verification script in order to check user details. For more information on this feature, please see our Site User Management article.

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