Tracking multiple currencies with Voluum? (13)

Searched on the web and on STM for this, but didn't find anything about it - so hoping you guys can help me...

Currently running a DE campaign on Adsimilis with payout €2.00. The postback URL just imports it as 2.00, and Voluum ends up reporting it as US$2.00. That's obviously not accurate when I compare it to my ad spend which is in USD. The whole reporting becomes useless that way...

Checked on Voluum and it says here: https://Voluum.com/features/ that "Multi-Currency" support is an upcoming feature.

That's all nice and dandy, but is there a workaround for this? E.g. a way to convert it on the network's side?

Doh. Or I could just use manual payout instead, I guess. Never mind :-)

Or set manual postback URL for offer in Adsimilis. Write converted payout there and this postback will be used instead of global postback, if is set...

--- use the one below my post, API is better!

<?php
$id = $_GET['clickid'];
$price= $_GET['payout'];

$exchangerate = 1.12; // accurate EUR -> USD at time of writing

if($id != '') {
file('http://your.voluumtrk.com/postback?cid='.$id.'&payout='.$price*$exchangerate);
}
?>

I use the following custom postback for this, it uses the yahoo currency API:

<?php
$id = $_GET['clickid'];
$price= $_GET['payout'];

if (isset($_GET['cu']))
{
	$from = $_GET['cu'];
	$to = 'USD';
	
	$url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?e=.csv&f=sl1d1t1&s='. $from . $to .'=X';
	$handle = @fopen($url, 'r');
 
	if ($handle) 
	{
		$result = fgets($handle, 4096);
		fclose($handle);
	}
	$allData = explode(',',$result); /* Get all the contents to an array */
	
	$price *= $allData[1];
}

file('http://xxxx.trackvoluum.com/postback?cid='.$id.'&payout='.$price);
?>

Tracking multiple currencies im not so worried about...im more worried about (big) fluctuations in the exchange rate. if you do +100k on a campaign whereby the advertiser pays you in euros and you pay the traffic source in dollars, you can easily make or lose a 500$/euro on the exchange rate. How do you guys manage this risk?

In order to exchange your dollars into euros or whatever currency, we dont use a bank anymore. We use a company called Kantox - they are a trading platform for currencies. Big advantage: commission is litteraly ten times smaller than in the bank.

Originally Posted by cbrughmans

Tracking multiple currencies im not so worried about...im more worried about (big) fluctuations in the exchange rate. if you do +100k on a campaign whereby the advertiser pays you in euros and you pay the traffic source in dollars, you can easily make or lose a 500$/euro on the exchange rate. How do you guys manage this risk?

In order to exchange your dollars into euros or whatever currency, we dont use a bank anymore. We use a company called Kantox - they are a trading platform for currencies. Big advantage: commission is litteraly ten times smaller than in the bank.

kantox is an automatic trading platform; example:
image i have 100K dollars and i want euros - i go on the platform and publish i want to do this
at the same there is another company that has 100k euros and want dollars
Then we exchange this at the current FX rate, but WITHOUT the huge commissions those motfercuking banks dare to ask. you immediately save 500-1000$ just on the exchange rate.

check them out on linkedin: they have https://www.linkedin.com/company/187...2Ctas%3Akantox
60 employees and just traded more than a billion $; we started our exchange rate operations with them and were NEVER going back to a bank

Thanks for the infos, this sounds like it would fit my needs perfectly.

Add me on skype and i can explain you more and bring you in touch with them: christoph_brughmans1

Originally Posted by andyvon

I use the following custom postback for this, it uses the yahoo currency API:

Code:

<?php
$id = $_GET['clickid'];
$price= $_GET['payout'];

if (isset($_GET['cu']))
{
	$from = $_GET['cu'];
	$to = 'USD';
	
	$url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?e=.csv&f=sl1d1t1&s='. $from . $to .'=X';
	$handle = @fopen($url, 'r');
 
	if ($handle) 
	{
		$result = fgets($handle, 4096);
		fclose($handle);
	}
	$allData = explode(',',$result); /* Get all the contents to an array */
	
	$price *= $allData[1];
}

file('http://xxxx.trackvoluum.com/postback?cid='.$id.'&payout='.$price);
?>

you would set up the postback in Cake like this: http://yourserver.com/postback.php?c...#price#&cu=EUR

Originally Posted by dennis

This is just awesome!
However, sometimes it fires and sometimes it doesn't.
How stable is this?

In my case the conversion came in but the amount was $0
But the second conversion that came in had the right amount.