I was excited to see this thread, thanks Trixie for pointing it out! Not to be offensive, but ccbill is the most archaic system still running (although last time I was inside Paycom/Epoch admin/stats, which was a couple years ago, they were actually light years behind) -- which is why I'm so pleased to see changes on the horizon! Yay! Here's my .02 Any of these may already be on the plate, but here they are
-- Ability to do transaction lookups (mostly affiliate-side), like by last 5 digits of transaction id. I keep a running log in excel of all ACTIVE subscriptions so I have an idea when rebills are expected, and can then project anticipated income from rebills. The way I have to do this now is, run a lookup for past 30 days, and go through one by one (trial then recurring then rebills) and remove cancelled subscriptions, and add any new trials or recurrings that I may have neglected to add when the sale was actually made. Perhaps even better would be a "Display all active" tool, which would simply display (
without duplicating like past lookups does) all active subscriptions from all programs for the affiliate.
-- MAYBE track ALL referring URLS instead of on SALES ONLY. Beautiful feature of nats, I can derive what sites are sending traffic, how much, AND how effective that traffic is. I'm sure this would likely increase the overhead due to added storage requirements on the database files, but it's pretty helpful information and something we get with the software guys (mpa3, nats)
NOTE: To the guys talking about site breakdown within stats remote, right-click CCBill Affiliate, select SHOW BREAKDOWN. If you were meaning breakdown of your own program account, yeah, I don't see where that's an option yet, but surely JB and the crew over there could at least let it break down by subaccount id? That'd be a stats remote update though, not CCB.
The other things are just simple well known issues that I assume are already being fixed and have already been mentioned, like the AGES it takes to run large historical lookups, stop the timeouts, track uniques not raws, etc.
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Originally Posted by micker
universal affiliate ID's. Affiliates should have the same ID across the network regardless of the site they are promoting.
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Thank God micker! Excellent, of course that'd royally fuck up the 100+ sponsors I already have links hanging out for in millions of places, but going forward this would be the best thing EVER!!! Glad to see it's in progress corv.
All I have for now
--Scottie