The next version of AmALfi hit the Google Play Store for beta testers overnight and if testing goes well will be available in plenty of time for Black Friday deals week.

As well as the usual tweaks and small improvements, v2.2 brings a great new feature that makes creating affiliate links even quicker and easier - a built-in Amazon™ browser with Instant Affiliate Link button!

We also noticed that Amazon™ are using a new (?) URL format for their early Black Friday deals items. And while AmALfi was creating affiliate links from these without problems, it was not detecting the ASIN so was not creating image URLs or Image+Text (iFrame) links foe these items. It is now!

So, fingers crossed for the testing. Beta testers should receive the update now, and if testing goes well, everyone else should get the update by the end of this week!

How did you find Prime Day this year?

Personally I was a bit disappointed with what was on offer, but it seems AmALfi users still found plenty to promote.

Over the two day event, non-Pro short link creation almost trippled for two days running and has taken the full since week to tail off back down to normal levels.

As a result, the non-Pro short link creation quota has taken a big hit this month, and at the time of writing has just hit 95%. This time yesterday we had just topped 90%, so it looks like the quota will be exhausted some time tomorrow.

Once the quota is exhausted, non-Pro users will be unable to create new amzn.to short links until 1st November when the new monthly quota kicks in. (Remember, this is a Bitly quota that is allocated to AmALfi by Bitly.com)

If you absolutely rely on short links, then an AmALfi Pro upgrade will allow you to use your own Bitly account and your own Bitly quota and therefore avoid AmALfi's limits. You can find out more about AmALfi Pro here.

As of 1641 UTC today AmALfi has used 50% of its short link creation quota for non-Pro users and users non using their own Bitly account.

If short links continue to be created at the current rate then the quota should not be exhausted in September.

Version 2.1 released including NEW Instant Search Link generation - just enter a few keywords and get an affiliate link to search results.

See Release Notes for full details.

A new beta version of AmALfi has just hit Google Play for our beta testers.

The new version - v2.1 - includes a great new feature that was originally planned for v2.0 but was delayed due to a last minute redesign (redesigned to make it easier to use).

If you are already a beta tester you should receive the v2.1 update automatically via Google Play.

To join the beta test team and get access to new versions early click here.

As of 0518UTC today, AmALfi has exhausted its new amzn.to short links generation quota for August.

New short link creation will not work for non-Pro users and other users using AmALfi's Bitly account.

It will start working again on 1st September.

See our FAQ for more information about the short links quota.

As of 1408UTC today, AmALfi has used 90% of its new amzn.to short links quota for August.

New short link creation is expected to stop working for non-Pro users and other users using AmALfi's Bitly account by around 24th August and will only start working again on 1st September.

See our FAQ for more information about the short links quota.

As of 1410UTC today, AmALfi has used 50% of its new amzn.to short links quota for August.

New short link creation is expected to stop working for non-Pro users and other users using AmALfi's Bitly account by around 26th August and will only start working again on 1st September.

See our FAQ for more information about the short links quota.

As of 0840UTC this morning, AmALfi has used 100% of its new amzn.to short links quota for July.

New short link creation is therfore temporarily no longer working for non-Pro users and other users using AmALfi's Bitly account and will only start working again on 1st August.

See our FAQ for more information about the short links quota.

As of 1730UTC this evening, AmALfi has used 90% of its new amzn.to short links quota for July.

New short link creation is expected to stop working for non-Pro users and other users using AmALfi's Bitly account by 25th July and will only start working again on 1st August.

Seven months in the making and AmALfi v2 is here.

v2 is a major milestone in AmALfi's devlopment because as well as general improvements and UI/UX tweaks, v2 also brings new functionality and a Pro version for heavy users.

And that's not all. As well as the changes you can see we have rewritten a lot of AmALfi's internal code and we've even laid the groundwork for some new features that we hope to reveal soon.

You can find full details of v2's changes on our Release Notes page.

To coincide with the launch of AmALfi v2.0 and the introduction of AmALfi Pro we decided to launch a full AmALfi website.

This is that site.

The purpose of the site is not only to promote AmALfi but also to collect as much useful information for our users in one place as possible.

We will continue to use our Social channels as well, but having a dedicated site gives you one place to find all things AmALfi.