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So if you lose your Stripe account, you lose your entire network of affiliates and all the marketing they're doing for you too? It's generally bad business to t
by dangrossman 14y ago
So if you lose your Stripe account, you lose your entire network of affiliates and all the marketing they're doing for you too? It's generally bad business to tie yourself to single providers like that. Write the few lines of code it takes to integrate with one of the affiliate networks that already exist.
The good affiliates know these networks, they know that they track accurately and they get paid on time. They don't know that about you or some new software you plug in to your site and promise to send PayPal payments with. For a few hundred bucks you can get on one of the first-tier networks with access to thousands of existing marketers. Integration is dead simple (put one piece of code on your "thank you" page to track the new signups, write a few lines of code to POST a commission through an API each month for the recurring part).
- whichdan 14y agoAny affiliate network suggestions?
- casjam 14y agoSuggestions? What I'm talking about is an app that will handle the registration of affiliates, tracking saas payments (<-- this part would talk to Stripe), and calculating commissions on an ongoing basis. The database of affiliates wouldn't be lost if I were to switch payment processors (this app should integrate with others too, like recurly, etc.. I say Stripe because I haven't seen any affiliate systems that have stripe integration). "write a few lines of code to POST a commission through an API each month for the recurring part" As you can probably tell from my original post, I'm not a developer and I'm unable to do this myself. Sure, I could hire a dev to build one custom just for me, but wouldn't it be better if someone released an affiliate management app that is designed for saas sales and integrates with the popular saas payment processors like Stripe and Recurly?