Hello all,
I've been trying to gather some reviews and personal experiences with software for an in-house affiliate solution, but all I find dates back to 2009-2010 or before.
We are an intermediary between clients looking for a product and shops that sell. Some of these shops have their own affiliate program and so we subscribe to it, but there are many small online shops that don't (but it's very important for us to have them). Therefore, we are looking for a solution to track sales on all those little shops were we will creating an affiliate program... just for ourselves, to be able to track the conversion from the traffic we derive to them.
We've seen many different possible solutions such as PostAffiliatePro, iDevAffiliate, Euraffiliates, osiaffiliate, etc... Some solutions such as HasOffers (of which people talk wonders) are just too expensive, since we can't afford to pay such a high price for each and every little shop and on a monthly basis.
I've read some bad opinions of PostAffiliatePro being buggy, but again, those were from 2009 and many things may have changed.
We even considered using Google Analytics E-Commerce tracking, but the problem with that is each shop would need to have their Google account and we wouldn't have much control over it (I think). A scenario where a report for each one is set up is feasible but we feel is a lot of trouble dealing with so many different Google accounts. We liked that Google is a recognized provider and people trust them though.
Any links of reviews, personal experiences of yours, or ideas that might help? We're really stuck with this :S.
Thank you!
P.S: Just in case... we need CPA and we can put tracking code on the shops' system as we will be making a contract with them allowing us to.
I've been trying to gather some reviews and personal experiences with software for an in-house affiliate solution, but all I find dates back to 2009-2010 or before.
We are an intermediary between clients looking for a product and shops that sell. Some of these shops have their own affiliate program and so we subscribe to it, but there are many small online shops that don't (but it's very important for us to have them). Therefore, we are looking for a solution to track sales on all those little shops were we will creating an affiliate program... just for ourselves, to be able to track the conversion from the traffic we derive to them.
We've seen many different possible solutions such as PostAffiliatePro, iDevAffiliate, Euraffiliates, osiaffiliate, etc... Some solutions such as HasOffers (of which people talk wonders) are just too expensive, since we can't afford to pay such a high price for each and every little shop and on a monthly basis.
I've read some bad opinions of PostAffiliatePro being buggy, but again, those were from 2009 and many things may have changed.
We even considered using Google Analytics E-Commerce tracking, but the problem with that is each shop would need to have their Google account and we wouldn't have much control over it (I think). A scenario where a report for each one is set up is feasible but we feel is a lot of trouble dealing with so many different Google accounts. We liked that Google is a recognized provider and people trust them though.
Any links of reviews, personal experiences of yours, or ideas that might help? We're really stuck with this :S.
Thank you!
P.S: Just in case... we need CPA and we can put tracking code on the shops' system as we will be making a contract with them allowing us to.