Link tracking on front end (presale question)

Hi Brian,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Only users with the admin roles can create short links. You can use URL Shortify PRO to allow the creation of short links for any specific role.

At this moment, we do have a detailed click report in the plugin but have not integrated it with any of the pages like members, accounts etc..

Will we be able to use this data on summary pages on the front end for each member?

No. At this moment, the summary is not available on the frontend

Will the short links be tied to the logged in a member who created them?

Yes, links are attached to logged-in users.

Can we count clicks based on the original url domains?

We didn’t get you. Can you explain it further?

Hi Mike,
Thank you for your response. First, for clarification on the last point. My client will be rewarding people differently depending on what domain a link goes to (for example, one reward for a shortened link click that leads to Amazon, and a different reward for one that leads to Wish). Is this part of the tracking as well?

And then, regarding the link summaries and details, etc. – how is this data stored with the Pro version? I’m wondering if I can build something to use this data on my own, or pull it into a spreadsheet, or something like that. Alternatively, do you have any plans to add summary pages, etc. in the future? Some way for logged in members to see their link success and history?

Thank you!!

Hi Brian,

Thanks for getting back to us.

You will get detailed click report with the plugin. Please see this image

And also logged-in users can see their links.

With regards to click details, data are stored in the MySQL table. At this moment we are not exporting the data into excel or CSV. It’s in our plan but not available right now.

Hope that helps.

Hi Mike,
Thanks again for your helpful response. I really appreciate your time. Once I know exactly how I can build out what my client wants, I’m going to try to sell him on purchasing your Pro plugin, but I first need to be 100% sure I can get the end result he wants. So, my last two questions I think:
1 – So for our site visitors (members), when they log in, I can create elements on their page that show the links they’ve created all with your plugin, just not the tracking statistics. Correct?
2 – To develop charts, graphs, etc. regarding their click statistics, I can develop something on my own to pull in this data from the MySQL table. Is that right? That is, I will be able to access the table through PHP to grab the info I need specific to each user?
Again, all of this tracking information is about what site visitors can see, not us on the backend. I know the backend tracking will be more than sufficient for what he needs.

Thank you!

Hi Brian,

Please find my answers inline

1 – So for our site visitors (members), when they log in, I can create elements on their page that show the links they’ve created all with your plugin, just not the tracking statistics. Correct?

Yes, when they login in the WordPress, they can create links and also see the statistics under the URL Shortify menu.

To show data somewhere else, you need to write custom code.

2 – To develop charts, graphs, etc. regarding their click statistics, I can develop something on my own to pull in this data from the MySQL table. Is that right? That is, I will be able to access the table through PHP to grab the info I need specific to each user?

Absolutely!

All data are stored in MySQL database and you can retrieve it with PHP.

Hope that helps.