Technology

How are leads & sales tracked?

There are multiple methods to track both leads and sales. The most common method is by using our cookie/pixel system. This method works based on the cookies that are placed on a users computer upon a click, interacting with a ‘pixel’ code that is placed on a Confirmation or Check-out page on the advertisers site (also called a ‘thank you’ page). The pixel tracking reads the cookie on the users machine and credits the appropriate affiliate with the lead or sale.

What type of commission structures does Profitistic support?

Profitistic offers merchants multiple campaign types. Each campaign can be set up with different commission structures. You can pay affiliate for sales (known as Cost Per Sale or CPS) as either a percentage of the sale or a flat sale amount. You can also pay affiliates for sales on individual products. You also have the option to commission affiliates on repeat purchases, also called sub-sales, or on an ongoing rev-share model (subscription basis).

In addition to sales, you can commission affiliate for leads (Cost Per Acquisition or CPA), clicks (Cost Per Click or CPC), and impressions (Cost Per Thousand Impression or CPM). Profitistic also supports hybrid payouts. For instance, you can pay an affiliate a flat fee per lead AND a percentage of sale, all from one affiliate click.

How Do You Control Fraud?

We take affiliate fraud very seriously. After years of running the network, we know first hand how to handle fraud and we have tools that we use to monitor and prevent fraud. There is a panel within the Admin interface called FraudMeter, which is used to help manage, report on, and prevent fraud.