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Originally Posted by TheDoc
We've had/created our own affiliate software that produced 100's of sales daily and I've used mpa and nats for years as well. It sure wasn't a perfect world making our own... we went down during shows, had processors upgrades to deal with all the time, hacks to work with, it was an endless list.
The advantages to mpa/nats is it being used by many people, lots of people watching for errors, processor updates/issues, hacks, someone else adding in technology you totally don't understand and can't wrap your head around, someone else to manage coders that you may not be able o manage... with both you sometimes wait, sometimes you don't.
NATS/MPA3 can both look, offer, be greatly different than the next guy. You can expand them in endless ways, offer unique tools, change stats, add in any code you want really, build dating, vod, paysites, shopping sites, and make them all look different. Anything, any program has, any feature, can be built into NATS.
People play this game because it costs $1000's up to $10,000's less each month and plenty of people are wildly successful, millions a year and larger, using 3rd party software.
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How can a premade affiliate software package cost up to $10,000 less per month?
I like NATS a lot but I don't think it's worth the $20k purchase price (I know, monthly leasing is less, which is affordable for small operations). A custom built solution if well made would cost a lot less to make and contain exactly, and only the features you need. I don't think processors modify their APIs that often to say upkeep of a custom built solution is costly and a pain - a processor is but a module plugin to a well-built system, and would contain what, 50-100 lines of code. Hardly a pain to modify.
I wonder if you've ever dealt with a well-built web app, built on a MVC-style framework? Because I can tell you, upkeep is not a hassle at all and adding new modules is so simple that working with such a framework is indeed a pleasure.