Instruction.

Stampede Warning! Be sure you understand this before setting up your Bonus Stampede on your site.

This is a great tool you can use to really add urgency to your offer by providing fast action bonuses during your site launch or special sale, for example. While this can help you to increase sales, it can also work against you if you are not prepared to handle the mad rush by your members to your server.

If you are running the script on a shared server or have a large number of members in your database all going for the bonuses at once, you could have a problem with server load and connection speed for your members.

This was fully live tested on MarketingMainEvent3.com during June, 2007 on a dedicated server equipped to handle high load and traffic volumes. Over 1,000 members hit the bonus stampede at once during the live test.

Result was the site loaded slowly for some members but didn't go down. However, if you are using a shared server or not prepared for the load, your server will most likely go down.

Admin users have the added option to manually add and remove bonuses from member's profiles. This is a fail safe for admin users to ensure mistakes can be corrected for your members. You can also give bonuses to certain members if you like, or remove them for whatever reason. Just search on a member and you'll be able to see a link called Add Bonuses. Once they have claimed bonuses, you'll see another link called See Current Bonuses.

We advise you to contact your hosting company and to test this thoroughly on your server before actually using this.

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