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Originally Posted by ShellyCrash
Also, just to add, the reason why we added that feature is to match the needs of dating traffic, so not every sponsor may feel their product needs that additional step. Dating has a really long tail and you do have instances where people access their accounts from multiple machines, etc. The way we addressed the issue is to write the referral information into the user record at the time of registration, so your user is your user. If they upgrade same day, 10 days, 60 days or 366 days later or if they registered from home and upgraded from work, so on and so forth, the affiliate who referred them still gets credit for the sale.
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That makes sense. For most pay sites there is the issue that a sponsor might have a 3 day cookie (current CCBill default). If I refer a customer as part of a revshare program and they signup for a 30 day membership I will get my cut for the initial signup. Now let's say they cancel the membership (or perhaps they don't believe in recurring memberships and always choose non-recurring) and come back a week after it has expired by directly typing in the sponsor's url and signup again for another month and repeat the process many times over the next two years (let's say they do this six times). With most programs there is no "Customer-affiliate linking" or if there is it is grossly inadequate. The main tracking relies on the cookie (in this case 3 days) thus I only get credit for 1/6 signups despite originally referring the customer.
I can see potential issues with implementing this (won't detail, I rambled too much already) but overall it seems a better deal for the affiliate when it is implemented.