Hello all,
The affiliate program has been in the works for a good part of a decade..
Finally it is finished but it does not serve a purpose at all.
1. Affiliates can see their signups in their account only after 60 days! Hello, did i miss something here???
It doesn’t matter when the affiliate would be paid but they should be able to see their signups real time or as soon as order is approved. I believe this is an industry first!!! 60 days!!!
2. No affiliate ID is passed back to our backend after a signup!
Vendors might need to take different actions depending on different affiliates. Affiliate ID is a must. So many useless parameters being passed, why is the affiliate ID being left out?
3. Affiliates go through the same kind of screening process vendors do.
This is outright wrong and extra hassle for people interested in our items. Our affiliate is not selling a product — we are. Already we, the vendors, are scrutinized for hte products we are offering. An affiliate is just a person who markets our products… they do not sell anything of their our own. If they want to sell something their own, let them sign up to be a vendor and check their products/account accordingly. This defeats the whole purpose of an AFFILIATE/RESELLER scheme.
Fine there is fraud with the affiliate. So what? We are the vendors, we scrutinize our own orders from wherever it is coming… and it is our CHARGEBACK from our products — not our affiliates. Why all this hassle for a person who wants to market our product?
9 years and you have still nothing functional.
I am disappointed.
R.T
PS: Cannot submit on AFFILIATE SECTION… Goes to Getting Started even if AFFILIATE PROGRAM is chosen! Duh!