Upgrade to the latest version

To keep your Post Affiliate Pro up-to-date you have to check for the new version in members area.
You can always download the newest version of PAP4 from there.

Update steps:

1. Download latest version zip file from members area.
   
   
2. From your server, remove files from affiliates/js folder and from merchants/js folder. This files are new with each installation and have new name, so they will not be replaced with upgrade. If you will not remove them, application will be bigger each upgrade.
   
   
3. Update application files. There are two ways how to do this:
   
   a.) Unzip downloaded distribution file. Then copy the new files over your existing installation - overwrite the files
   
   b.) Copy distribution zip file to the PAP4_installation folder.  Then go to step 3. Installer will unzip files automatically. In Update files step you will need to enter ftp information (FTP through port 21) for your site as the updater modifies file using ftp. If you are using SFTP connecton (port 22), you have to do it "old way" like described in a.)
   
   
   Update option b.) is available for updates from version 4.1.6.2 and higher. This means that you will be able to use this approach for the first time when updating from 4.1.6.2 to 4.1.6.3.
4. Your custom files, like banners, settings, changed templates are safe, they will be not overwritten, because they are in /accounts/default1 directory which is not overwritten.
5. After the application files update, go to the URL
     http://www.yoursite.com/affiliate_system_directory/install/ 
   to start the installation wizard. The program will update the installation and database to the newest version.

Changes in templates

It is possible that the newest update of PAP4 contains new version of some template files.
If you made some customizations to the templates, you don't need to be afraid, your changes are not lost.

During the update process, the system is updated to the newest templates from us, but the templates changed by you are saved with name 
template_name_******.tpl in the corresponding directory, where ***** is the older version of PAP. 
You can simply review the changes made and put them into the new version of templates.
Note that this "conflict" happens only if you changed some templates AND we made changes into the same templates in the new version of PAP.