Nats 5 - now available

[Neighbor]

NATS 5 major changes include a full function REST API, completely responsive design, and a fully customizable reporting system.

Morganville, NJ - Too Much Media announced today the release of NATS 5, the latest installment of the leading software platform for the adult industry that focuses on helping organizations manage their digital paysites/programs more effectively from within a single platform.

Carefully re-designed and tested for the industry and paysite owners, NATS 5 has been shown to effectively increase revenue and productivity through more efficient workflows, ease of use and a fully extended REST API.

One of the first changes you immediately notice with NATS 5 is the eye-catching responsive design of the admin area. A clean streamlined look has been implemented which creates more flexibility throughout the platform. “For the on-the-go professional, having the flexibility to access, manage and optimize their digital business from any location in the world with internet access, on any device, was a no-brainer” says John M.

Although an exterior makeover is first noticed, Too Much Media also delved under the hood into the core of the platform expanding to an even more robust REST API which now incorporates most functions found within previous versions of NATS. This tool allows other scripts or software products to easily interact with NATS without the need to access the admin area directly.

Additionally, data analysis has become a requirement for serious marketers looking for improvements on campaign performance and overall ROI (return on investment) in today’s climate. Within the new reporting admin, clients can create, customize and even store various reports with specific data points that matter to their particular business model. This makes analysis and optimization more efficient for the team almost immediately.

“Our focus for NATS 5 was to improve the overall performance and productivity for end-users and I believe we have accomplished exactly that,” says John M. “NATS was already a powerful tool helping paysite owners in the industry for over 15 years and I am excited to see how new and current paysite owners adopt the latest upgrades.”

Those interested in scheduling a Guided Demo of NATS 5 can contact me using my detail in my SIG:

[Bladewire]

Sounds awesome! Time to schedule my upgrade

[CaptainHowdy]

We love Nats <3 <3 . . .

[2MuchMark]

Congrats TooMuch!

[Zuzana Designs]

Awesome! I'm going to be sending my Dev Lee over to you guys shortly to get familiar with your API and product.

[yuu.design]

congrats guys!

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Zuzana Designs

Awesome! I'm going to be sending my Dev Lee over to you guys shortly to get familiar with your API and product.

[BigFurry]

Congrats!

[BigFurry]

Btw an idea / request for a future improvement

Emailing gets broken in lots of NATS programs all the time. By that I mean NATS emails being sent to affiliates (notifications, account change approval emails, etc) aren't being delivered. Probably also member emails.

At any given time, there are many NATS programs with this issue.

I know it's not NATS' fault, it must related to problems/changes with their email servers.

I think it would be a nice feature for NATS:
1. it sends a test email to a central server once a day
2. if the test email doesn't arrive, the NATS admins are notified. They get a big warning in the NATS admin that there are problems with their NATS email configuration

[GrandeRevenueMark]

Originally Posted by BigFurry

Btw an idea / request for a future improvement

Emailing gets broken in lots of NATS programs all the time. By that I mean NATS emails being sent to affiliates (notifications, account change approval emails, etc) aren't being delivered. Probably also member emails.

At any given time, there are many NATS programs with this issue.

I know it's not NATS' fault, it must related to problems/changes with email server.

I think it would be a nice feature for NATS:
1. it sends a test email to a central server once a day
2. if the test email doesn't arrive, the NATS admins are notified / get a big warning in the NATS admin that there are problems with their NATS email configuration

NATS allows you to use any external SMTP.

[BigFurry]

Originally Posted by GrandeRevenueMark

NATS allows you to use any external SMTP.

The server's default email setup or an external SMTP... both can get broken or have temporary issues.

In both cases NATS should send a test email daily, and if it's not delivered to the test email box successfully, warn the owners.

Many programs don't notice that emails to affiliates are broken. I'm often naive and skip warning them, thinking they'd notice soon anyway. In most cases, they don't notice in my experience. Their emails are broken for 3 months, 6 months, sometimes even longer.

[GrandeRevenueMark]

Originally Posted by BigFurry

The server's default email setup or an external SMTP... both can get broken or have temporary issues.

In both cases NATS should send a test email daily, and if it's not delivered to the test email box successfully, warn the owners.

Many programs don't notice that emails to affiliates are broken. I'm often naive and skip warning them, thinking they'd notice soon anyway. In most cases, they don't notice in my experience. Their emails are broken for 3 months, 6 months, sometimes even longer.

With a serious SMTP service like SparkPost you can check is messages has been sent and then opened.

[BigFurry]

Originally Posted by GrandeRevenueMark

With a serious SMTP service like SparkPost you can check is messages has been sent and then opened.

It's good that you use something like that, but most NATS programs don't use such paid solutions for these emails I believe.

Also, you could still think of some possibilities when that doesn't help. I could think of some right away:
1. DNS resolving on the NATS server broken, so SMTP host cannot be resolved
2. NATS server firewall issue, blocking the connections to the SMTP server
3. Intermediary routing issue, so the NATS server cannot connect the SMTP server

Noone can think of all possible issues ahead of time, the only way to make sure something works is to test frequently. :-)

[Miguel]

NATS program has to configure the most of email templates at least in NATS 3.
If they are not configured by program admin there is no emails for affillates.

[BigFurry]

Originally Posted by Miguel

NATS program has to configure the most of email templates at least in NATS 3.
If they are not configured by program admin there is no emails for affillates.

That's good to know. I thought emails would be sent with the default template.

That said, it's not the source of the problems at most programs. Most of them already have working affiliate emails, then they suddenly stop working.

[NaughtyRob]

bumping non-political threads to the front page.

[Neighbor]

Post 4th bump...