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PopAds report - no conversion column. Help! (5)

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Hi,

I am following the $1 guide and have completed my first campaign (or so I believe). I never saw the 'out of budget' paused status, just a paused status. Further to this, upon generating the report as suggested, I can't see any columns past 'cost'. What am I doing wrong? I also can't see a quick menu?
I've attached a screenshot of my report.
Please help, I'm a newbie but also super super new at AF with no technical knowledge, only marketing knowledge.

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Would be helpful to know what exactly you are looking for but you can see more stats when you enable them in the "Grouping and Ordering" tab.

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Thank you for your reply. I realised I had made a mistake with running my campaign so was able to see all the necessary information in the end. However, I'm struggling to understand why PropellerAds is showing that I've made a loss (as per the screenshot attached), however Mobidea is showing that I've made some profit (as per the screenshot attached). Am I looking at it incorrectly? I feel a bit confused.

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In Propeller ads you only see the cost for your traffic, in Mobidea you only see the revenue.

As long as you don´t send cost or conversion data back and forth between these platforms they can´t know what happens at the other side.

$4.70 (around £3.76) revenue - $11.31 cost = $6.61 loss

When you want to see the revenue in Propeller as well you need to send postbacks there when a conversion happens.

Apart from that I see that you have to pay VAT at Propeller.

When you decide to do affiliate marketing longterm you should consider to get a VAT number so that you don´t have to pay VAT.

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Mobidea is the offer network - PropellerAds is the traffic source. Mobidea will know when you get a conversion, because they are the offer network.

If you want PropellerAds to know as well, you will need to setup Mobidea to tell PropellerAds when a conversion takes place - you can do this with a postback.

In PropellerAds, go to 'Tracking' in the side menu and copy the 'S2S Postback URL' - should start something like this, http://ad.propellerads.com/conversion.php?aid=XXXXXX&pid=&tid=XXXXX&visitor_i d={{EXTERNAL_ID}}&payout={{MONEY}}

Then in Mobidea, go to 'Settings' -> 'global postback' and select Custom and paste the postback url there. It is important to note that when you initially copy your postback from PropellerAds, the tokens ({{EXTERNAL_ID}} and {{MONEY}}) might not be set correctly. These tokens are specific to Mobidea, so make sure to use the correct tokens - Example, if your postback looks like ".....&visitor_id=${SUBID}&payout=${PAYOUT}" update it to ".....&visitor_id=${{EXTERNAL_ID}}&payout=${{MONEY }}"

Hope this helps explain things, tracking and postbacks can be pretty confusing

Good luck!

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