History Of AlphaUserPoints

Eleven years ago, French software developer Bernard Gilly had a dream. His dream was to create a powerful points management software platform for the Joomla Content Management System (CMS). His dream was ‘birthed’ with the development of AlphaUserPoints (AUP), which quickly became Joomlas’ #1 user reward or points management software component.

In 2006, Bernard couldn’t have possibly known that he had created one of the Internets’ first digital currencies—that would serve as the foundation for revolutionizing Internet-based rewards management.

In 2016, the Pamper Me Network (PMN) acquired AlphaUserPoints from AlphaPlug, founded by Bernard Gilly. PMN quickly accelerated its efforts to integrate AlphaUserPoints with the Matrix 6.0 software platform. In doing so, PMN created a revolutionary new digital currency called Social Rewards designed specifically for individuals that wish to monetize their online popularity and the popularity of their friends. The upgrade of AlphaUserPoints allow social media users to convert traffic into points, points into Social Rewards and Social Rewards in cash (fiat) money.

AUP INSTALLATION BASE:

AlphaUserPoints (AUP) is marketed as Joomla open source software. It is available as a free component as well as a premium add-on. AUP allow webmasters to reward visitors to their websites with points for registrations, referrals, successful login, adding content, engaging with content and engaging with users.

Today the combination of AlphaUserPoints and the Matrix 6.0 software platform supports over 145,000 websites, JV projects and web-based affiliates. It supports some of the leading open source Joomla components including:

| Jomsocial;
| Virtuemart;
| Hikashop;
| K2;
| Joobi Jstore / Jmarket;
| Many more.

REDEEMING POINTS:
AUP operates much like Air Miles or a frequent buyer program—allowing AUP users to redeem points for physical goods and services sold in Joomla-based shopping carts supported by AUP including Virtuemart and HikaShop.

BUYING POINTS:
Bernard Gilly created a prototype marketplace where AUP users can purchase points using Paypal (and all credit cards accepted by Paypal). However, points can only be redeemed on the website for which the points were earned.

ADMINISTERING POINTS:
AUP boasts a sophisticated dashboard that allow webmasters to administer user points. The integration of AUP with Matrix 6.0 eliminates the need to administer or report user points through the frontend dashboard as AUP points will be replaced with Social Rewards currency. Webmasters can set rules for buying points as illustrated below.

Webmasters can check all user activities related to the points they consume or generate as illustrated below.

ENABLING POINTS RULES:
For webmasters that wish to continue assigning points to users for website usage the legacy points management features including rules assignments will remain.

MANAGE POINTS & USERS FROM ADMIN DASHBOARD:
The AUP dashboard supports the following features:

• Manage user accounts;
• Assign points rules;
• Check user activities;
• Customize notification messages;
• Synchronize users;
• Recalculate points totals;
• Assign coupon codes;
• Create raffles;
• Export active users;
• Create medals;
• Generate reports from your admin and frontend dashboard.