Options to handle different payment processors and affiliate systems

You'll need to look into some sort of merchant account with an API key. Not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but it sounds like you want to manage all of your products in one place yea?

If thats the case, check out 1ShoppingCart. They are pretty sweet!

For this particular purpose, I don't want to get a merchant account as I'm just helping a friend set up a site to sell an ebook.

Currently the add to cart button just goes to Paypal (premier account) and a simple link to the download (will be changing that to a secure download very soon).

Now if he wanted to attract affiliates (say through Clickbank), then he would need to change is direct link to Paypal to go via Clickbank. Correct?

Now say, he wanted to also advertise his affiliate program on another provider. Possible?

Perhaps it's just a little too complex for something small like this, but I'm still curious as to the options.

Digital Delivery App lets you do both at once. It will send affiliate sales to Clickbank for payment and non-affiliate sales to PayPal or GoogleCheckout. This reduces your transaction costs as Clickbank takes a big cut.

I never heard of a system that has all that, will follow this thread.

I have seen multiple versions of a book with slight variations, sold under different titles to allow different pricing for various sales channels.

DigitalDeliveryApp looks pretty cool with secure download and pdf stamping, wonder if people use it for WSOs.

Forgot to say...we will start plugging it a lot more and get some special offers for warriors in the next month or so - we just want to add a 2nd affiliate option baked right into the app rather than just via Clickbank which is the only option right now

A thought for you, Peter, before you get too far into technicalities about "how": very, very few serious affiliates will be willing to promote a Clickbank product that's openly sold elsewhere.

Would you?

The affiliates' problem here is that our prospective customer (with our Clickbank cookie on his PC), not having bought at his first visit to the sales page (which most don't, of course), can find the product again the following week via a Google search, which then takes him to the PaySpree/PDC/E-Junkie/whatever sales-page, and our Clickbank cookie is no good to us there.

If the Clickbank sales-page is the only sales-page (as is usually the case, of course), we still get paid, even if the customer gets back to that page via Google. This is why vendors on Clickbank who have another sales page elsewhere, or another non-Clickbank way to pay, can attract only affiliates who haven't quite thought it through. Call me a judgmental skepchick but I would venture to suggest that those are perhaps not the affiliates whom many vendors would ideally wish to attract?

In other words: it will make a difference to some affiliates, but those will typically be the ones who make most of the affiliate-referred sales.

Some of us feel that with over 14,000 active products from which to choose (and that's just at ClickBank), there's no reason for us to select a product that gives us that particular problem, which is just an additional, potentially income-affecting thing to worry about. It's a form of "leak", from our perspective - a "payment leak".

There's a kind of way round it, but it involves repackaging the product under another name (some vendors do this). This can work, but you can also get a few refund requests from people who've inadvertently bought it twice, and it might be less than ideal for "goodwill".

I have multiple account I find the the best solution!

You make some really good points Alexa.

I agree with Alexa. It would potentially scare affiliates with the big sticks.

There is a script which does that. with that script I can have one website and use multiple affiliate networks without making multiple payment pages for each network. It does exactly what UMS asks. And it's not ripping off affiliates like when you create mulitple payment pages on one website.

With this script I can easy rotate payments with different processors depending where traffic comes from. If it's clickbank's traffic then the script shows clickcbank payment link. If it's paydodtcom traffic then it will show paydotcom payment link. Affiliate cookies are preserved as it normally would.

For example, you sent a visitor via your clickbank link. The sale page will show clickbank payment link. Let's say a visitor did not buy anything. Then after some time the same visitor found the product in google and came to the sale page he will still get clickbank payment link with your affiliate ID. So there is no payment leak.

You do not need multiple payment pages. It's all done on one page.

As for sticking to clickbank only as described above is a very questionable marketing approach.

It's been a while since I got the script but I can find out more about this script if there is still enough interest here.

Click Cutter,

do you realize you were replying to a thread started (and ended) in June 2011???