Affiliate Payment Question

Batch Process Merchants

[affnewbie]

Hi,

I'm hoping some of you who are much more experienced in the affiliate space can help me understand thi.

If one is signed up with a merchant who transfers/validates transactions through batch processing, is there any way to find out if the clicks you're receiving are fruitful and actually resulting in transactions? Do you just have to wait and see how you did at the end of the week or month or whenever they upload?

Thanks,

affnewbie

[maximillianos]

Some affiliates offer the option (though usually not published) to put a 1x1 pixel image on their order confirmation pages. This helps you track successful conversions. But many programs don't have access to the actual order confirmation pages, since they themselves are just middle-men. In these cases it is very hard to track.

With most batch reporting affiliate programs it takes several weeks before you start to see results in some cases, so patience is a must.

Good luck.