How does Post Pay Counter Pro track story views?

Ok great. So I just bought the plugin to work with Google Analytics. Let’s say I set my time period for “This Month”, does that mean it only tracks views collected for posts that were posted this month alone?

Ok I think I found it. Ideally I want to pay my writer XX dollars for the first 30 days of their posts going live, so I will set it to something like 30 days in the “Visits time limit for posts” box.

However, I may not pay them via the inbuilt PayPal option, so I’d like a way to correctly ascertain how much views they’ve gotten for manual payments.

Let’s say on July 31st, someone writes a post but then on August 1st-10th, they get 95% of their views. In theory, that post would be counting views from July 31st to August 29th.

If I chose to view “This Month” only, then that post from July which earned most of its views in August would not get counted in the stats. Right?

However I could set my viewing window to be July 1st to August 31st, but then every month going forward, I would end up double paying posts if I checked it manually.

How do I get around this?

UPDATE: After I deleted the payment history.

1. On backend Basic -> $50 Bonus->0 Total payment -> $25 Due Pay -> $25
2. On frontend Basic -> $50 Due Pay -> $25

Backend and frontend now appear to show the same data. But I still can’t help but imagine what caused that issue. Now it claims I have paid $25 when before I deleted the history I saw that it marked $10 paid on each post so that should be $50 in my opinion.

Hello Stefano,

I sent you the login info to access my site in order to get a clearer idea into the problem I’m faced with. But, you’ve neither responded nor suggest a solution?

Hello Stefano,

I tried your suggestion. I first disabled all post-pay-counter plugins including the addons and then deleted post-pay-counter and post-pay-counter pro. So after I installed the update you sent me, the settings were completely shattered and I had to set my preferred options again in settings. Now, it shows (in backend – Total Payment $50; Due Payment $50) but there’s no checkbox to mark as pay nor the buttons that used to sit below stats to pay via PayPal. Maybe I’m not seeing those buttons and checkbox because I had already marked the post as paid and/or because I deleted the payment history while trying to fix the problem then, but then again, why does it say “Due Payment $50” doesn’t that imply that I still owe the user $50? although that’s me in this case, but it could practically be some other authors on the site, and I’m a little worried for that.

In the frontend, however, it keeps saying that:

Showing posts for: This month
Your query resulted in an empty result. Try to select a wider time range!

Which I guess makes sense, since there are no new post published in this month october. But what if I want a specific user to see an all-time earning reports(i don’t mean the payment history, but the actual earned payment if user has not been payed in months) from the frontend and not just a view for the current months’ earnings. Any shortcodes attribute that can help?

On a new NOTE:

I currently set the plugin to pay users a basic of $10 per post and nothing more. Now, lets say in the future I decided to increase payments on post to maybe $20 and set more options for people to earn, like on comments, shares, views etc.
Will the changes also affect the post I had already paid in past or just on new posts submitted? Because if it applies the payment options to post already paid in the past, that could mean having to pay a whole lot more than one can afford assuming there are already hundreds of posts published and paid for.