p3p policy question, plus some general questions..

Hi guys, thought I would try here before emailing alex.

I have a few questions:

QUESTION 1

Ive been running amember now for 3.5 months and am happy with the fact that its being used and seems to work.
I have an affiliate program, set on but so far the only referrals sem to have come from me.

A friend of mine told me he referred a paid member, but, as admin, I never got an email stating that he referred her. I also asked him and he told me hes had no email either.

Im just wondering if possibly my p3p policy isnt fully correct/working, as I know this affects cookies.

OR, could it be that sometimes it takes for paypal IPN to happen before notification is posted back as paid?

Also, I just tried to sign up myself, under my friend... via egold... again no email notifications bu I do show up in the admin area...

and I did delete my cookies beforehand.



I ran my site through a p3p validator but I dont understand all the answers:

heres the results:

Results of P3P validation
Target URI: http://www.someinfo4u.com/


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Step 1: /w3c/p3p.xml Validation

URI: http://www.someinfo4u.com/w3c/p3p.xml

Step 1-1: Access check

/w3c/p3p.xml can be retrieved.

Message: The content type of /w3c/p3p.xml is text/xml.

Step 1-2: Syntax check

/w3c/p3p.xml has no syntax errors.

Step 1-3: Policy URI check

/w3c/p3p.xml has no warnings or errors.

Message: P3P policy indicated at line 4 can be accessed.


P3P policy for http://www.someinfo4u.com/ is [http://www.someinfo4u.com/w3c/privacy.xml#privacy]


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Step 2: HTTP Protocol Validation ( HTTP headers )

P3P: header does not specify policy reference file URI

Message: P3P: header does not include [policyref="URI"] directive.

P3P:CP="CURa ADMa DEVa IVDa CONa HISa OUR IND DSP ALL COR"Step 2-1: Compact Policy Validation

Compact Policy syntax OK.

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Step 3: HTML File Validation

HTML document has no P3P compliant link tags.

Message: No valid P3P compliant <link> element.


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Step 4: Policy File Validation

URI: http://www.someinfo4u.com/w3c/privacy.xml#privacy

Step 4-1: Syntax check

Policy file has no syntax errors.

Step 4-2: Vocabulary check

Policy file has no vocabulary errors.

Step 4-3: Link check

Policy file has no link errors.

Message: line 18: service attribute of <DISPUTES> element can be accessed.

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So, basically in summary to question 1, it dosnt look like cookies are working right on my site and Im no tech guy!




QUESTION 2:

I have 2 products, free and paid.

I use egold and paypal.

paypal supports free trials, egold doesnt.

paypal has a 7 day free trial then charges the customer the monthly fee.


Now, looking at my new members, some who have paid via paypal or egold, sometimes the software does not indicate that they have paid, even if I check out my payment processor and see that they have paid.

So this would cause confusion when it comes to processing referral commissions later on.

any ideas as to why????




THIRD QUESTION


CLICKS COMMISSIONS
Date Raw Unique Transactions Credit Debit Total
08/01/2006 68 65
08/02/2006 85 83
08/03/2006 76 73
08/04/2006 74 72
08/05/2006 84 74
08/06/2006 69 67
08/07/2006 73 72
08/08/2006 102 92
08/09/2006 186 135
08/10/2006 92 62
08/11/2006 88 86
08/12/2006 84 77
08/13/2006 348 234
08/14/2006 102 92 3 -0.00 15.00 15.00
08/15/2006 104 79 1 -0.00 5.00 5.00



Now in the above stats for today why dos it show credit in a red color and as a -0.00 with debit being the positive number.

Does that means that ultimately it is a debit for me, the owner (and ultimately will be a credit for that member??





Thanks guys


shaun baird