Moose on the Loose

Again there is lack of transparency on merchant information pages or where commission details are listed, affiliates should be informed if they are being paid commission on the net value of the sale or the gross value of the sale & i.e. Taking a product for £115 at 10% commission. If paid net this is 10% of £100 = £10, Gross it be £11.50. You only need to scale this up to say £100,000 worth or products and you’ll be better of by £1500 (15% or the current rate of vat). Also we need to know if affiliates get paid a % of the delivery cost.

 It’s important to look at whether the commission rate is inclusive or exclusive of VAT as there is still a lack of consistency here, plus if commission is paid on delivery costs. Something which is all part of the decsion making process.

Bug Bear Of The Day :

A few years on I am still disappointed that we are still seeing “Action Referral Occurrence” set to once or “Recurring Events” set to none on several networks & are all networks disclosing? If so are they absolutely sure? Basically this means no matter what cookie length is published after the first sale the cookie crashes & burns. Something I’ll come onto again another time.

We Still Have “No Recurring Events” & “Action Referral Occurrence” Set to Only 1

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