A
Ad / Advertisement
The promotion of an item, service, company, and/or idea. It may be a banner or a text which contains a link to the sponsors site.
Alpha (stage)
The site is still under construction (but already live).
Autopay
Auto-pay is paying for your rented referral for another day (renewing for 1 day) when he makes the first click of the day. If he does not click that day he is not extended for another day.
Generally with auto-pay you save 10% of the referral fees.
B
Beta (stage)
The site will invite some people to join the site to make sure there's no obvious bug that the effect the members of the site.
D
Direct Referral
Person who has joined a ptc site under a member's downline by using his referral link. Member earn from their clicks (depending in membership type) and doesn't pay anything to keep them. Although almost all ptc sites has a limit for direct referrals.
Downline
The total amount of referrals (direct, bought or rented) you got in a ptc site.
G
GPT
Get Paid To ... (click, read, sign-up etc.)
L
Launch
The site is officially running.
P
Payment processor (electronic)
Payment processor is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
There are many processors out there but the most known are Paypal, Alertpay, Liberty Reserve, Moneybookers, Neteller etc.
PTC
Paid To Click is an online business model that draws online traffic from people aiming to earn from home. Paid-To-Click, or simply PTC websites act as middlemen between advertisers and consumers; the advertiser pays for displaying ads on the PTC website, and a part of this payment goes to the viewer when he views the advertisement.
PTP CPM
PTP stands for "Paid To Promote". Every visitor, that goes to a PTC site through your ref link, is counted. The price is for 1000 visitors.
Pre - Launch (stage)
The site is ready to receive more members to see if there's any bug that the beta members didn't notice, see how's the site members growing and get some advertisers. Most ptc sites enable all their functions at this stage. Some sites do not pay members in pre-launch and reset all their earnings.
Profit-Share (site)
You get a share of the sites profits as a % of your clicks.
R
Recycle
Recycle is a service offered generally by PTC Bux siets to replace your inactive rented referrals. If a referral is not making you enough profit, then for a small fee, PTC site will replace that referral with a completely new referral. This referral will have the exact same time remaining with you as the last one did, but they will be a completely different human being.
Recycle fee
This fee is deducted from your ballance when you decide to recycle an inactive referral with a new one.
Referral
Person who has joined a ptc site under a member's downline by using his referral link.
Rented referral
Member of a ptc site that has been rented by another member for a specific time. Every site has a monthly referral renting fee that changes between $0,18 - $0,7.
T
Traffic Exchange
The person who submitted the website then has to browse other member sites on the exchange program to earn credits, which enable their sites to be viewed by other members through the surf system. This increases the number of visitors to all the sites involved.
Exchanges enforce a certain credit ratio, which illustrates the amount of websites the surfer must view in order to receive one hit through the program for their promoted website. Many sites offer the ability to upgrade one's membership level for a more equal credit ratio.
V
Vacation days
By this feature users can receive referral clicks even if they wont click their own ads (in case of vacation or any other reason). Specific number of vacation days (depending on the membership type) will be given each year and during that period member get 100% of his referral clicks.
Once the vacation mode is activated, member will be logged out and he cant log in for the number of days he selected for his vacation.
