Who has a problem with the way that NATS codes are output?

[Greenguy]

Aren't the 1st 4 or 5 letters/numbers the same in each link code for a particular webmaster?

Like in your example:
NTY2

I've had to search for a few sponsors in my admin to pull or edit links that use NATS & that's the only way I could find them all.

To me, that's the stupidest fucking system every - almost like someone blindly hit a keyboard for the account info.

rfezd5fslsl

And why we're on it - doesn't NATS use CCBill? Why can't these fucking programs that change from CCBill to NATS keep the fucking old info? 4 programs in the last month I've had to fucking search & replace - I said "Fuck It" with the last one.

(sorry - a bit off topic & really has nothing to do with OC Cash - LOL)

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Aren't the 1st 4 or 5 letters/numbers the same in each link code for a particular webmaster?

Like in your example:
NTY2

I've had to search for a few sponsors in my admin to pull or edit links that use NATS & that's the only way I could find them all.

To me, that's the stupidest fucking system every - almost like someone blindly hit a keyboard for the account info.

rfezd5fslsl

And why we're on it - doesn't NATS use CCBill? Why can't these fucking programs that change from CCBill to NATS keep the fucking old info? 4 programs in the last month I've had to fucking search & replace - I said "Fuck It" with the last one.

(sorry - a bit off topic & really has nothing to do with OC Cash - LOL)

Yes, the way the code is output does leave something to be desired. We are trying to see if it would be worth our time to write a workaround for our affiliates to deal with this. So far the answer has been a resounding "yes".

For question #2: Programs switching from CCBill to NATS don't *have to* close their CCBill programs. Our old CCBill accout is still open and processing sales. To use NATS after switching to CCBill you just need to add in new CCBill subaccount for NATS and leave your old account open (there is a little more to it than that), so if you have buried CCBill links to OCCash -- they still work. We still run a decent bit of traffic in the old CCBill account.

If a program tells you they must close out CCBill -- it is beacsue they have been too lazy to look into the options, like we did.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by xxxjay

If a program tells you they must close out CCBill -- it is beacsue they have been too lazy to look into the options, like we did.

Yeah - it seems that there'd be a way for me to get a new account, & just plug in my old CCBill info & life would be good

So you guys are looking into correcting NATS & putting out a 3rd set of link codes?

[xxxjay]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Yeah - it seems that there'd be a way for me to get a new account, & just plug in my old CCBill info & life would be good

So you guys are looking into correcting NATS & putting out a 3rd set of link codes?

Comment #1: Yes, that is the way to handle it. There are some complexities about parsing the CCBill database, so there's more to it than just adding another account. You can switch to NATS and keep your CCBill program open at the same time - OCCash is proof of this. We allow you to promote through CCBill only now, for the stalwarts that just love CCBill.

Question #2: No, the link code we generated are more aimed at remote thumbs, rabbit's reviews, and adultreviews.net, but we could make them available to webmasters if they wanted them, but why the hell would you want to switch your codes?

LOL