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Some of them do not give you a full insight into what you earned vs. what you've got paid out, nor you're showed your balance at any time, but you have to run various reports in order to get that info out from them.
In addition, they don't inform you about merchants that go out of business or simply decide not to pay their bills and therefore not to pay you (they leave the network, get deactivated, etc).
Depending on the balance that you carry from month to month, you may not even be aware that you did not actually get paid.
Do you, and how do you check on this? The strategy depends on the network.
Finally, which account balance maintenance method (of networks) do you like the most?
For example
Linkshare - in one report, it shows each merchant separately and their payments, but it does not show you your balance. Therefore, you have to remember to run that report every some time in order to be sure all your commissions have reached you.
CJ - if advertiser does not pay the bill, your commissions stay as locked and they remain as a part of your balance forever.
Unless you are aware of this, you may never figure you stayed short for a couple of grands as your balance is, i.e. around 30, 50, or even 200K each month.
Tradedoubler - they have a payment report, what has been paid, what's waiting, etc., which makes up your balance, but what's missing is the connection to the periods of activity.
Google - I haven't been active much lately, but I remember with Performics, there was accounting report that would kind of match your activity report for a period given, but still they would not show you explicitly if you're not getting paid because whatever.
and so on...
What I'm saying is that no network is really transparent and connected in reporting systems, respectively.
I think they should do it better by now...
