Written by Maverick | 14 May 2009
Posted in Joomla Extensions - Components

Article Cash Rewards(ACR) is an all in one Joomla Component to reward the members of your website for their contributions on your website. It can be through Articles, Web Links (New), Referrals (New) or through the Awards(New). Article Points & Cash Rewards component is Native to Joomla 1.5.

You can review and approve/dispprove the content using the component's easy to use interface and Control Panel. You can easily manage the pending/ approved/ rejected content, it could be the Articles or Web Links. Unlike the other reviews extensions, you can award custom points and cash rewards for the contributions.

Articles:

Articles are the best way to increase the scope of any website. A single person cannot contribute what a big site requires. Here comes the community into picture. Let your site members contribute the articles and you reward them with a small portion of your revenue to them. It is a Win-Win situation where in you will gain from your members and your members will gain from you.

Web Links

Most of the search engines loves the websites which are referred from many other websites. Again, instead of you do that tedious job, let your members do that for you and share them a portion of your revenue. This way you can increase the traffic to your website as well as the website ranking. It will be beneficial for both of you and your members.

Referrals:

Referrals are the best way to increase your site member space. Let your members refer their friends and get paid for their referrals. You can decide when to pay them. For example, referred user activate his account/post first few articles or gets his first payment etc. The more the number of users you have, the bigger your site will grow. Isn't it?

Awards:

Awards are the best way to retain your members as well as increase participation on the website. So now ACR is built in with the Award System.

Salient features of this component:

1. Article reviews and approval, assign points as well as cash rewards
2. Improved/in built Web Links feature that will help you in reviewing and approving the weblinks submitted by your site members(New).
3. Email notification upon approval/disapproval of articles and weblinks (New)
4. Rewards for referrals (Coming Soon)
5. Awards System for awards, bonuses etc (New)
6. Reports & Administration for easily view the earnings of the members and process the payments.
7. You can add remarks to the reviews you made where you can guide your members the best practices to improve themselves.
8. Add remarks to the reviews
9. Eye-candy front page menu extension for your members to view and administer their account/earnings.
10. Re-review approved articles & change the points/cash awarded
11. Top Earners menu extension.

Please send us your valuable feedback to improve the component and add new features.

If you use this component, please post a rating and a review at the !Joomla Extension Directory.

For the previous releases of the component please click here.