Comments on: APS CashPlus affiliate program – be careful

By: EBook Ads Affiliate Program

EBook Ads Affiliate Program — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:01:38 +0000

I ran into the same problem with them a while back, after a few days of no responses and emails that didn’t make sense I immediately dropped them. If an affiliate company is making you do all that work just to get commissions them something is wrong, its not worth all the bull, move on.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:29:44 +0000

It seems perfectly reasonable that APS wouldn’t want a third part tag on their checkout page – I know how I feel about implementing some tags on pages containing private data, and not every web merchant is as loose with their visitors privacy. Tracking in this manner is going to be more reliable, too – if APS mess up their page, the click (and lead) is still recorded with the affiliate scheme. Seems fairly straightforward, really, just slightly unusual.

By: Jake Cop

Jake Cop — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:59:15 +0000

This is very off putting, I for one will avoid this.

By: Nick De Roy

Nick De Roy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:45:22 +0000

I was going to apply for this programme on my site. but was put off by all the negative feedback and tracking problems and hate it when you get ripped off by companies who clearly dont know what they are doing.
I have just signed up to pixpay affiliate programme it was simple, quick and easy, how good is that.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:45:06 +0000

Guys,

Thanks for your comments – here’s some answers you your questions:

1. Due to security restrictions we cannot track all the way through to the final completion point using third party tracking, we therefore rely on a pass back of data from APS to validate the leads that affiliates see in the aff win interface.

2. We’ve updated the merchant section to inform affiliates of this for those that don’t read the email correspondence.

3. We’ve been informing affiliates through emails and phone calls individually and through the use of affiliate window’s communication system. Hopefully this, with the updated merchant description should cover all areas.

I can assure affiliates that the current system is robust and accurate and we’re working on improving it’s simplicity ASAP

Any affiliate with any questions please contact me on 01133940000

Thanks

Martin

By: Kieron

Kieron — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:10:27 +0000

Hi Chris, yes I’ve spoke to AW and they didn’t know anything about it. APS is managed by an outside agency “Brilliant” which is why this has happened. They are on the case though and talking to the agency as we speak.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:55:29 +0000

if I cut and paste the banner code straight from Affiliate Window, will it track? The answer was �no�.

That is shocking! Have you spoke to AWin about this too, as I’d be interested to know what their response is.

By: Kieron

Kieron — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:33:05 +0000

Martin,

I won’t be calling, but will leave your phone number up here incase any other affiliates wish to do so. Here are my main concerns, maybe you could address them here so that all affiliates can benefit?

1. I promote another prepaid credit card merchant and they don’t need any additional tracking, neither does any of the dozens of other credit card merchants I promote, so why does APS?

2. Why haven’t you mentioned this additional tracking in the Merchant section of Affiliate Window? As I said in my original post a lot of affiliates don’t read “welcome” emails from merchants so you need to really shout about this and make sure we know.

3. Likewise, your colleague created a thread over on the A4U forum http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/affiliate-marketing-lounge/64108-aps-cashplus-prepaid-mastercard-programme-goes-live-affiliate-window.html introducing the program. I posted a couple of questions on that thread 10 days ago and nobody has replied to it.

My issue is that if you absolutely “must” have this additional tracking added manually by affiliates then you need to ensure that you tell us. That means mentioning it in the merchant descriptions on AW as well as forums etc. Otherwise it all looks a bit shady, which I’m sure isn’t the case at all.

By: Martin Corr

Martin Corr — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:15:23 +0000

Kieron,

We’d like to speak to you personally about this and why we need to track in this fashion, we feel we’ve developed a robust method that can reward affiliates accurately under the constraints.

Please call on 01133940000 and I’ll be happy to talk this through with you.

Martin

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:50:57 +0000

That sucks… I wonder how many other merchants have such quirks to enable commissions. I know when I bulk apply to companies at say shareasale I dont bother to read the welcome email… perhaps I should from now on!.

Thanks Kieron!