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Originally Posted by basschick
on the one hand, yes - NATS and MPA offer superior stats for affiliates and program owners. it's much faster and easier to add promo content and free hosted galleries and it's easy to add linking options like trial, no trial and no console. and you can offer alternative payment methods ccbill might not offer like epassporte or wire...
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I agree with some & disagree with others:
Stats - yes, they are better then CCBill in that they have the individual totals for each site in the program (something I really wish CCBill would add since they looked be be set up for it)
Adding Content/Hosted Material - I can't really see how one is that mush easier than the other. With each, I assume you still have to upload it to the server. You then tell NATS/MPA where it is OR you edit your html pages with the location & upload them for the CCBill affiliates - different steps that take the same amount of time & end with the same results.
Trials/Consoles - I can't see how this is any different for either option - hell, it's probably another step with NATS/MPA because you still have to contact CCBill to get the options set up for the trials & then put that link code in your affiliate admin. With the fancy versions, you have to contact CCBill & then tell the admin where the trial option is & then generate the link codes. Consoles would be the same thing - make the console tour & set up the link codes in the admins for each.
Payouts - I could be mistaken, but I think you might be able to have CCBill send you (the program owners) the money for certain webmasters & then pay them yourself (I Know you can have all the money sent to you & then pay all the webmasters yourself, because NATS & MPA programs do that)
I think it really boils down to this: Do you (the program owner) have the money to pay for the fancy admins while not passing along the cost to the webmasters?
(and this is all assuming that you're still only using CCBill & not multiple processors)