Thanks for your input.

The system at PayDotCom does not actually send any money to the affiliate. What it does is calculate everything for you and the affiliate so you can both see how much commission is due.

But you still have to pay it yourself. PayDotCom do let you download a mass pay file that you can use to import into Paypal and pay all your affiliates in one go. That saves typing in all the details for each affiliate, but it’s not quite what Sean said he wanted.

When you say you want a page that meets Clickbank’s requirements, which requirements did you have in mind? Are you talking about the wording on the page, or the actual implementation of the download integration with Clickbank?

That latter is outside the scope of a standard thank you page and you would need some additional software to do it unless you wanted to send customers to an unprotected download page. Of course for some sales that might be ok.

If you give me a little more information of what you were thinking about I’ll see what I can do.

Amin

I see that what you’re wanting is very much a ’show me what to do’ rather than just a ‘tell me’. I think most people learn better by being shown, don’t you?

Let me put something together for the Adsense sites and I’ll see what I can do about installing the WordPress themes for you. I think if you see that done you’ll be surprised how fast and easy it is.

Amin

In answer to Sean’s question (the first one), doesn’t paydotcom.com work like that? And charge less than Clickbank? I think I read that they do.

What I would like is a thank-you page and sales page for the Facebook report I bought from you. Not for selling resale rights, but just for sellling the book itself. I’d like the kind of page that meets Clickbank’s requirements.

john

Those are excellent questions and I think what you suggest would make an excellent training series.

For you, as a newbie, what kind of information seems to work best? Do you prefer a step-by-step report with lots of screenshots, a simple list if instructions, or training videos? Or do you prefer one-on-one help?

I’d be interested to hear what sort of things work for you and if anyone else has some ideas on what they’d want from such a training series please join in.

P.S. Peter, can you tell me exactly how much of a ‘newbie’ you are? Do you have webhosting? Have you installed WordPress yourself? What things do you know how to do already?

Clickbank does indeed work very much like Sean was describing, although it takes a goodly chunk out of your revenue.

There are so many different ways to handle affiliate commission that everyone will have a slightly different take on what will work best for them. In the end you have to go with the nearest fit for what you want.

well, that’s a tall order as far as I’m aware. Clickbank are about the nearest to what you’re describing, as far as I know, although they’re also very expensive compared to the rates you mention.

You can’t have split payments with Paypal – not the way you’ve talked about, so they’re out and you mention that 2CO is in beta with this. I wasn’t aware of that with 2CO, but then again I’ve only recently signed up with them myself.

Can I ask you if there are any imperative reasons you want an affiliate scheme to operate that way? Or is it for convenience of accounting?

Does anyone else know of a merchant account that operates like this?

2Checkout has this program it is in BETA but they charge 5.5 percent plus + 42 cents.

I think a fair price would be 3.5% +42 cents?

Any suggestions?