Displaying 1 To 7 Of 7 Comments Affiliate Program For Digging Into WordPress Closes I do think it’s a clever idea. For more things to think about though: - What about sellers who sell your book but just never pay you? Their customers are happy, they got what they paid for, but then you gotta go fight these non-paying sellers. - Is each seller in charge of their own digital delivery? (not trivially easy) » Posted By Chris Coyier On March 5, 2011 @ 10:52 PM Clever, but giving people the right to charge on your behalf is mega scary. For example, they could change the price if they felt like it. That might work for gas stations but I think I’d want tighter control over something as personal as a book. » Posted By Chris Coyier On March 5, 2011 @ 9:21 PM We did learn some interesting stuff through all of this. I just wrote someone an email about this so I figure I’ll publish it here too, with more detail on our problems and what things could make any affiliate system better. —– - With E-Junkie there is no approval system. All affiliates are automatically approved. So even if you find a bad guy and delete them, they can just sign up again in immediately and you’d never know. Being able to have some kind of approval system where you can have a quick back and forth with potential affiliates (hi, are you human? where are you going to put your affiliate links?) would be ideal in our case. - Delayed payments… It sucks as an affiliate to have to wait months and months to be paid, but that’s the safest way for the person running the program. If you pay at the end of every month, you can pay bad guys before the people with the stolen credit cards even get their statement and notice. The longer you wait to pay the affiliate, the better chance you have of people reporting fraud and canceling the would-be affiliate payment. - Synchronization… Even if we started waiting months to pay out, cross referencing the fraudulent transactions and making sure that affiliate gets deleted and not paid for that transaction is still a very manual process. If the second you refunded the PayPal transaction that was done automatically, that would be ideal. » Posted By Chris Coyier On March 5, 2011 @ 8:59 PM Chris Coyier Lays Out His Wish List I got a few of my wishes already =) I’ll be sharing as soon as I can write them up. » Posted By Chris Coyier On January 8, 2010 @ 7:36 PM Digging Into WordPress Is A Great Read Thanks for the shout-out Jeffro! Files for the print version should be going to the printer this week, so that’s pretty exciting. All PDF buyers will get a discount on the print book, so if anyone is interested in that, snagging that PDF now will save you money. » Posted By Chris Coyier On December 6, 2009 @ 11:14 PM Yes that’s a very good point how widgets all have unique ID’s. That hook alone allows you to do pretty much anything through CSS and JavaScript – each widget can look totally different! » Posted By Chris Coyier On September 9, 2009 @ 9:20 AM At Least Three Books To Look Forward To Thanks for the shout-out Jeffro! Awesome to see how much good stuff is coming for WordPress. » Posted By Chris Coyier On July 17, 2009 @ 7:44 AMComments Posted By Chris Coyier
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