If you are using Post Pay Counter to calculate and keep track of how much money each author should be paid for their posts, there are currently at least four ways to pay authors per visit.

Google Analytics visits

Post Pay Counter PRO allows you to automatically pull views data from your Google Analytics account and use it to compute payments. Since Analytics is possibly the most accurate and reliable visits-counting method, this should be the preferred choice. We cover its setup and workings in this documentation page.

WP-PostViews

Although WP-PostViews data can easily be hacked by dishonest writers, and thus is not recommended if you are relying on it for payment purposes, it is a really simple plugin to count visits. Once you have it installed and active, you need to go to Post Pay Counter > Options > Counting settings > Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (postmeta) and type views in the Postmeta name field.

WP-Slimstat

WP-Slimstat is by far the most complete visits tracking plugin I have ever encountered. You can use its data with Post Pay Counter by downloading a little free addon first. Extract the archive and put the file in your /plugins folder, making sure it comes just as a single file and not in a folder.

Once you have both plugins installed and active, go to Post Pay Counter > Options > Counting settings > Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (callback) and type ppc_wp_slimstat_views in the Callback name field.

Post Views Counter

If you are using Post Views Counter to keep track of visits, we provide a little free addon to Post Pay Counter that will allow integration between the two. Once you have both plugins installed and active, go to Post Pay Counter > Options > Counting settings > Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (callback) and type ppc_pvc_views in the Callback name field.

WordPress Popular Posts

PPC can also draw visits from the WordPress Popular Posts plugin. Head over to this topic to learn how.