General questions

What is the difference between the free and the commercial version?
The free version adds a custom reciprocal to each created page. The commercial version give you the ability to remove or change this reciprocal with one of your own. There is no time limit to the free version.

Also, the free version lacks some extra features. Here is a list of the most important of them:

- Auto submission mode & submission log
- More description and more category fields
- Fill Browse Fields Support
- Image Recognition Support
- Browse Multiple Sites at once, auto scroll to the exact form position, disable javascript / activex and so on
- Email Submissions
- Internal ftp
- Email auto-confirmer
- Integrated statistics (as an additional module)
- Site copying to different submission types 
- Saving / Loading of submission states
- Aggregated gallery duplication and submission for several submission-types at once
- Advanced gallery naming options and reciprocal's placement
- Free technical support (via email or icq)

Why you wrote this program?
I was looking for a highly sophisticated  submission tool and couldn't find one that would fulfill all my needs. Furthermore I couldn't afford buying pictures and certainly was not fond of the submission process itself. So I though I could do what I know and like best (that is programming) and through the tool I could get my advertising share. However, since then, Advanced Submitter has become much more powerful and much more complete than any other similar tool in the market. And I found that it takes me more time developing it than previously submitting :-(

What is the ultimate goal of this program?
The ultimate goal is to develop a program that would take less than an hour work a day and could get back more traffic than any other tool out there.

To hand-submit takes a long time. Why should I prefer it and not choose an auto submission software?
Hand submission gives you full control to the submission process. You can become partners to several big sites and get easier approvals, you can avoid to confirm emails, you can add your own preferred sites and avoid being blacklisted. Furthermore, many sites today use sophisticated techniques to ensure that a user actually pass through the submission page. The highest quantity and quality traffic comes from these sites.

How much traffic should I expect from each submission?
This totally depends on the amount of sites you submit, their quality and of course the quality of your gallery and the descriptions. However a good gallery submitted to about 50 well selected sites should produce more traffic than most of the auto submitters that post to more than 1000 sites.

Do you offer database updates?
We offer database updates through our dedicated database updates site http://updates.advancedsubmitter.com. However, note, that if you want to make a lot of $$$ you have to invest some time on building a custom database according to your needs. The program itself has a database that is updated at the time of each program's release. Depending on the time that has passed since then a portion of the database may have been outdated (site comes and go all the time)

Do you offer statistics about submissions?
Yes, we offer statistics through our dedicated statistics service. You have to buy an extra license at http://stats.advancedsubmitter.com to activate this option on the program

Can I fill drop-down lists, radio, check boxes of upload fields?
Advanced Submitter can fill ALL type of fields. To check a specific check-box put as value the words "true" or "yes".

Can I fill thumbnails fields?
Yes, AdvancedSubmitter can autofill thumbnail fields by using site-specific rules. The program treats thumbnails fields as regular fields although the mechanics of filling such fields is a lot different. However, for user's prospective the difference is minimum.

Can I fill passcode fields?
Yes, AdvancedSubmitter includes a highly advanced OCR module to recognize images and transform them to characters. Read at http://www.advancedsubmitter.com/ocr.html for the details

Can I automate the filling of my partner login/pass for several sites?
Yes, just use site specific rules. If you are uncertain on how this can be done read the basic AdvancedSubmitter's step-by-step tutorial at http://www.advancedsubmitter.com/tutorial/index.htm

Is there a way to auto-submit sites?
Yes. There is a special mode in which the program auto submits the sites that have their special attribute "auto submit" set to true. Right Click the sites list on the Page Submitter page and choose start Auto Submit. To stop Auto submission right-click again and choose "stop Auto submit". Keep in mind that the auto submission process differs from the way other programs do it because it passes through the actual submission page. This has certain advantages but also disadvantages.

When auto-submitting I get an error message " the requested resource is in use"
This problem is caused because of javascript errors on some submission pages. The best way to solve it is to disable javascript. This option has been added on AdvancedSubmitter 2+ and can be found on the browser settings.

Is there a way to submit to sites that don't require a reciprocal.
Yes. Move all no-recip sites to their own dedicated submission type (e.g., TGP_NoRecips)  and when creating galleries for this submission type set a high number (1000+) to the recips-per-page field- this way the program will use the initial gallery for all submission.

Is there a way to group sites together when creating recips?
Yes, use the 'Weight' field to order and group sites when creating reciprocals. This order is also used at the pageSubmitter tab.

Some sites that use TGPBrownie give me "sorry, fix your bot and try again"..
I know what you are thinking, that this guys somehow found that you are using a submitter. Wrong! The problem is with TGP Brownie script and it means that your description was too long. Make a smaller description and try again. Ha! 

I want to download and install the new program version but I don't want to loose my previous database customization
It is easy to delete the database that comes with the program and replace it with your existing data. 

(a) make a backup of the file TGP.mdb that relies on the program directory just in case ...
(b) Export all sites, generic rules and site-specific rules. You must have three text files now.
(c) Clear all database from database tools tab
(d) import sites, generic-rules and site-specific rules in that order

Or you may just copy the file TGP.mdb at AdvancedSubmitter program directory to a safe place and then replace with it the TGP.mdb file that the program writes on your disk.

The program cannot be installed or it doesn't work after installation or when I create galleries I get a memory error at address FFFFFF
If you cannot install the program try to re-download it. If it shows a message about something not working after installation try to download the proper for your language and windows MDAC and ADO versions. These ships with windows 98,ME,XP but they were not installed in some early windows 98 and windows 95 versions. Also, some international versions of windows use older MDAC and ADO versions (even in windows ME or 2000).

What if I have more questions?
Visit our dedicated support forum at http://forum.advancedsubmitter.com. This is an invaluable resource of answers to any issue you may encounter through program's usage.