This week, I released yet another new version of Rapid Action Profits (RAP).

Version 3.1 contains a whole host of new features for greater affiliate management, admin reporting, and more flexible processing of your sales cycle.

Here’s just a few of the more popular enhancements:

1. The ability to create a zero dollar Coupon Code ($0.00) allows you to create a “freebie” from any existing product, and can be a great way to use existing products in giveaway events to grow your list.
2. This release allows you to create a custom Payment Page for your customer when they get to Paypal, by specifying a number of new variables (with defaults supplied) for each product.
   • A secure Paypal Header image is supported in this release, and there is a generic, default image provided that you can use.
   • The Paypal payment page can be customized with custom colors by specifying:
     a. the background color for the header image (above)
     b. the border color for the header image (above)
     c. the background color for the payment page
   • Specify custom text for the ‘Continue’ Button on the Paypal payment page.
3. Significant additional security/protection of Paypal payment form has been added to eliminate all known issues where payments could be hi-jacked by others, preventing savvy buyers from modifying the payment button code (i.e. to pay themselves), prior to passing the payment form to Paypal.

   Only one security hole has existed in the payment process to date and encryption of a unique id, along with other payment details, will allow us to identify and block ALL fraudulent payments.

4. Sales and Fraud reports are now “paged” so that you can more quickly retrieve the data for these reports. You can also sort these reports by column (ascending or descending), and change the number of items shown per page. These reports also have a new “mouseover” effect to highlight a row, making it easier to focus on a particular sale when reading the data.
5. Your RAP Admin now includes an interface to the Three Pillar Helpdesk system (for those of you who use this).  This is the first integration of a totally disjoint product into the RAP framework – providing additional admin functions.
6. Automatically Cloaked URL’s for affiliates! Using the new scrnch.me service, your RAP affiliate tools page will now include a cloaked URL for your affiliates to use. It’s right in the affiliate tools page, and it’s automatic!
7. Import Affiliates and/or JV partners from a flat file. This allows you to extract your affiliates from an existing affiliate program, and upload them directly into your RAP database. Their affiliate ID from the original program becomes their nickname in RAP, and they can immediately begin selling your instant commission products, too!
8. Instant Affiliates uses a single token on your download pages, to put an affiliate sign up form on your download page. If your customers might also be potential affiliates for you, include this token, and they will be able to select a nickname/password right on the download page

To celebrate this release, we’re giving a $70 discount (but only through Sunday, 19 July).