What affiliate- / payment software shoud I use?

1shoppingcart has had many problems over the years, but the nice thing is that it's a solid system and most affiliates are familiar with it.

If you're launching a digital product, honestly I recommend clickbank. If you're a new seller on CB, they would probably restrict you to a $200 max price though. But it would certainly solve your problem of having to send cheques to your affiliates.

As an affiliate, I like to promote products on CB because I know I'll get paid. As a vendor, I like selling products on CB because I don't have to handle any of the affiliate stuff.

you'd miss out on the ability to do one click upsells though...

Hi eholmlund,

Thanks for your info but clickbank isn't an option.
This software product will have a higher price.
I'm already running a product thru clickbank which works fine but this isn't an option with this big software product I'm going to launch.

But again, thanks for your help.

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

1SC is a good option and they seem to have worked through most of their problems of the past and they've recently partnered with/been promoting PowerPay as their integrated/preferred merchant processor. PowerPay is good and has reasonable fees in line with industry standards.

As for the affiliate piece...if you want to do that separately and use any one of a bunch of availaable processors, take a look at Post Affiliate...reasonably priced, very solid and flexible.

You could also look at paydotcom.com which integrates the affiliate piece with PayPal as the processor. I can't speak from personal experience about that one though...ask folks around the forum here about it.

Hope this helps!

Abby

Oh...BTW...that 1 click upsell deal you mentioned I think is only currently available when using an authorize.net as the gateway for your processor (which PowerPay does). I have no idea how to make that work but am looking into it. I also saw it mentioned on a video for a guy named Jordan's new product called Turbo Continuity.

Hi Dennis,

I would suggest Idev affiliate. The guy who wrote the software was actually the first one to write 'any' affiliate program and has refined it to run as smooth as silk. Plus there's no restrictions or monthly fee.

It costs $99.99 but you'll probably need to hire someone to install it. I think he may offer it for $50 or so.

You can check it out at http://freetoolsandtips.com/idev

Good luck!

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