Updated UI
- A new page “Campaigns” with brief stats.
- A new page “Traffic Sources”.
- A new page “Landing Pages”.
- A new page “Affiliate Network”.
- A new page “Offers”.
- Updated page “Streams”. Stats moved to the right side now.
- A new page “Profile”. Every user can choose the preferred language and time zone, to change the current password.
- New Dashboard. Every block is customizable.
- Hotkeys. To see them, press “SHIFT+?”.
- The sidebar is togglable.
Updated Reports
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The new report builder provides flexible reports. You can save a report to the favorites to get fast access to it from the menu.
- A new page “Trends”. There you can create a trend chart by grouping by months, weekdays, days, and hours.
- Added page “Exported Reports”. There you can see all previously exported reports and download them again.
- All reports now have separated values of Revenue, EC, ROI that depend on conversion status (lead, sale, rejected).
- New columns creative_id, ad_campaign_id, external_id.
- New metrics:
- LP click time
- Time since LP click
- LP CTR
- Sale period
- Sale time since click
- and many others
- New dimensions
- Landing pages
- Offers
- Traffic Sources
- Ad campaign ID
- Creative ID
- Weekdays
- OS and Browser versions
- IP
- IP 1.2.*.*
- IP 1.2.3.*
- and many others
- New campaign reports.
Changes in Lead Tracking and Conversions
- Compatibility with upsells (rebills). Upsells increase click revenue, but not increase conversion count.
- Count of Sub IDs and Extra Params increased to 10.
- New cost method CPM (cost per 1000 clicks).
- New offer payout methods CPC, CPA.
- Added option “Auto” to campaign settings. When “auto” is enabled, a cost value is got from the query param.
- Implemented multi-step conversions. For example, you can send postbacks on every step “Cart → Order → Payment → Contact”.
Admin API (doc)
- New Adminprovidesovide you access to all features of Keitaro through REST/JSON API.
- New User API keys allow users to get access by using their personal API key.
Click API v2 (doc)
- Keitaro API renamed to Click API.
- Added cookies compatibility
- Added PHP client for Click API (You can take it on page “Integration” in your Keitaro).
Changes for Campaigns and Streams (doc)
- Stream creation looks like this now:
- Added names for streams.
- Added option “Collect clicks”. To ignore all traffic in the stream, just switch it off.
- Removed options “Bot protection” and “Default action”. They were unobvious. Not we recommend you to create streams with the type “Default” or “Forced”. For example, to make bot protection, create a stream “Forced” with the filter “Is Bot: allow”.
- Implemented stream schemas. They are “Action”, “Redirect”, “Landing Pages” and “Offers”. Schema “Action” to perform some action for visitors. Schema “Redirect” to make a redirect. Schemas “Landing Pages” and “Offers” split and send traffic between landing pages and offers.
- New filters “Browser version”, “OS version”, Sub ID N, Extra Param N, ad_campaign_id, external_id, creative_id.
- Removed option “Uniqueness detection method”. Keitaro chooses by himself the more appropriate method.
- Uniqueness now checks IP+UA (with IPv6 compatibility).
- Updated “URL Builder” for URL fields.
- Removed action “Send to stream”.
Changes in Banners Mode (doc)
- Removed campaign mode “Banner rotator”. You can use any stream with the action “Show HTML”.
- To get more information about using banner rotators, open the “Integration” window and choose “Banner block (iframe)”, “Banner block (script)” or “JS ads”.
- Integration method “JS ads” compatible with almost every ad format.
Tracking Script (doc)
- Removed campaign mode “Tracking”, you can set up tracking code with any campaigns now. To get information about this method, open the “Integration” window or “Landing Pages > Instructions”
- The script is now compatible with multi-page landing pages.
- Compatible with stream schema “Offers”. You can split offers just on the landing page.
- Can update params sub_id_1..10 and extra_param_1..10.
Changes in Users and Authorization
- New user access rule settings.
- Users gain access to Admin API but limited by their access rules.
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Replaced hash method to sha256.
- Added cookies encrypting.
Keitaro Editions
- Keitaro v8 has two editions: Basic and Pro. These features available only in Pro edition: Users management, Admin API, custom actions, and macros. Everyone with a Basic license gets Pro features until 1th May.
Other Changes
- Added page “Logs”.
- “Visits” renamed to “Clicks”.
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Updated cli.php (to get a list of commands run “
php bin/cli.php"
). - Removed page “Postback”. To get the postback URL, just create an affiliate network.
FAQ
Q: How to install Keitaro 8?
A: Use a new installer or 1-click installer.
Q: What the price for the Pro edition?
A: It won’t be more than 2x of the Basic license price.
Q: How to update from Keitaro 7 to Keitaro 8?
A: Download file upgrader8.php, upload it to Keitaro directory, and open in the browser.