Since most sponsors allow the option, I would think NATS version 2.x ships to allow the use of the encode/uncode option set 'on' by default.

Why would a few not allow the affilate the option?

Some have claimed that they have affiliates that want the link encoded to battle fraud.

Read into that what what you will.

Now, that is stupid on their part. Sponsors with NATS can offer their affiliates to have it either way - encoded or unencoded They do not have to decide for the masses.

Since I am a dumb fucker, it would be better for someone knowledgable of the NATS script to tell me.

Long time no speak chop merry xmas mate -

Thats nothing I pushed a site which was on CCBill then moved via some other system to Nats. - sorry my Nats rant |loony|

Since the move they have added sms as a payment option because they said Nats supported it, now I make like 3 US cents per sale instead of $14.99!

For one month now I have asked when it will be fixed and nothing has been done, to top all this off they also LOST my sales - on the friday night they were there, me and the sponsor saw them the next morning they were gone, about 400 USD.

To this day no one has explained what happened, I got paid the missing money not before the sponor offered to pay half as a good gesture.

I have two other Nats one I had started to build up though after getting the above issues I am not doing anything till I get paid and told what happened to the figures.

I've said this before - The person/company the comes out with something that combines the flexibility, cascading, and tracking power of NATS with the timely and combined payouts of CCBill will make a killing. That's my biggest gripe (sorry, nothing about encoded urls, etc). Internal payouts almost required a shift to higher payout levels, which smaller fish (like me) may take ages to reach, especially when testing new sponsors... I guess I'm just spoiled by CCBill's combining sales and timely payouts. Imagine if NATS were partnered with a company to do all payouts; instead of having to make $100 PER SPONSOR to get a payout, all sales from all sponsors counted together a la CCBill, and you KNEW you'd be getting a check every week instead of wondering whether or not a sponsor who pays out internally has their shit together, struggling with some sponsors to hit a high payout level, etc. Pipe dream perhaps, but somebody should get on that and make some bank! :)

Hello, Mr Smith
Maybe not. I snoop around from time to time trying to uncover secrets. :D I think there is a script out there that meets most of the things on your wish list. Hoping it is released to the masses soon.

Let me pull a DD here. The above is nothing more than a Chop speculation.

If NATS annoys you, take heart, NATS may not be used by very many people
much longer. There's a new system about to be unvieled that's objectively
proven to be better than NATS in many ways and costs a LOT less.
The NATS folks stole code from the wrong people and rather than hiring
lawyers to go after NATS legally they hired programmers to go after NATS
business - very good programmers. NATS' days are numbered.

I would have gone after their wives.
|smooch|

|blowjob|

|assfuck|

|cheers|

Moral of the story: Don't fuck with programmers.

Will it use encoded affiliate ID's?

It'll be an option for the webmaster if that feature exists at all.
No encoding of your ID needed that I can see, though, just let you
use either any of the below URLs, whichever you choose.
This is easy enough:
http://domain.com/hosted/index.html?nads=chopsshit
http://domain.com/hosted/?nads=chopsshit
http://domain.com/hosted/index.html/nads=chopsshit
http://domain.com/hosted/nads=chopsshit
http://domain.com/hosted/index.html/nadsEQchopsshit
http://domain.com/hosted/nadsEQchopsshit

Chop would probably want to use this version:
http://domain.com/hosted/index.html/nadsEQchopsshit

As far as on hosted promos, all that foreign characters like "EQ" needs to be left out.

E and Q are foreign characters? So what, no letters allowed?

If my affiliate id is 'chopsshit', yes the 'EQ' is foreign to my affiliate ID.
Now if the "EQ' is static, it is not a problem to do gnats=EQ%affcode%.

I fully understand the "QMYDPHPRDX" in StrongBox, but that kind of bullshit has no purpose in passing affiliate ids on promo stuff. If affiliate ids are top secret, then I might be the second most trusted person in this biz.

Ah, yeah, the EQ is static. These are equalivent:
http://domain.com/hosted/nads=chopsshit
http://domain.com/hosted/nadsEQchopsshit

EQ means =

:D The equal sign will work just fine for old Chop. Only have to hit one key.