How Does One Track Their Own Affiliate Sales

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Hello all,
I am new to the world of affiliate marketing, and I have a few questions.

If a company offered me a "coupon code" for my customers to enter on the company's website for my customers to receive a discount and i receive an affiliate commission, how would i be able to track that? If i were making 20 sales a month, couldn't the company just simply state that i only made 10 sales a month?

Thank you for your time!
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  • Profile picture of the author marks7225
    its all about you trusting the company. Normally good companies don't cheat you.
    I am a bluehost affiliate and i trust them and i think so they never cheat.
    Yes there are few scam affiliate program online, just check the reviews of affiliate program u want to use.
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  • Profile picture of the author deekay
    Hello Good day

    I prefer you make a list of your own, so that you have a record and you can accurately count the sales you make, because if we only depend on their record they own it they can edit it anytime.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author hafeehathim
      Hi,
      Most of the company have tracking software for this. At the end of the month they might send the sales report to their affiliates. In that report we can see no. of clicks and no. of sales made through our affiliate link.
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  • Profile picture of the author koksalatik
    I would start with an affiliate network as a newbie. Otherwise, you should setup your tracking system which may not be easy for you as a starter.
    If the products you want to promote are not on any respectable networks, then choose reputable companies' products to promote.
    regards
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  • You can typically use SubIDs for tracking your affiliate sales. Either that or use many of the available software to do it for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
    Well... I'm sure that everyone who has responded so far is well-meaning, but...

    Originally Posted by sharkbaitwoohaha View Post

    If a company offered me a "coupon code" for my customers to enter on the company's website for my customers to receive a discount and i receive an affiliate commission, how would i be able to track that? If i were making 20 sales a month, couldn't the company just simply state that i only made 10 sales a month?
    they either didn't understand your question, or they just "think" they know the answer.

    One person DID get it right.

    You are at their mercy, so it is important to know/trust the merchant or affiliate network

    Other than the software that actually sends the visitor to the payment processor and subsequently receives confirmation from the payment processor of a completed sale - no other sortware/script has any way to record the completion of that sale. A vendor running his own affiliate program will have installed software specifically for that purpose, or a 3rd party affiliate network providing that service for the vendor are the only ones that can tell you whether someone you sent to the vendors sales page, actually purchased the product.

    Any stats that may be provided to an affiliate are the result of the vendor or affiliate network accumulating and tracking the specific visitor/sales information and reporting it in their affiliate area.

    The affiliate networks, as far as I know, can be trusted simply because they depend heavily on a large number of affiliate members to generate sales transactions (of which they typically get a small percentage as a processing fee), so they wouldn't exist very long if they ever got caught cheating the affiliates.

    Those vendors who run their own independent affiliate program, are also very dependent on their affiliates not only for the promotion of a given product, but also on the promotion of future products that the vendor might release. I'm sure there are some who just don't get it, but by and large, if a vendor has gone to the trouble and expense of setting up their own affiliate program and recruiting affiliates... he/she would be foolish to jeopardize the relationship with those affiliates by skimming affiliate commissions.

    That said, you should always research any affiliate program before committing any large sum of money to an ad campaign for a vendor's product.
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