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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
It's not a shave option because you cant hide joins unless your payout options are set to not not pay for them, and Nats telegraphs this pretty well to the affiliate. This is usually used by pay-per-active programs, that do low cost trials and only pay out on conversions. Also most shaving works by hiding a portion of the affiliates sales, not all of them as in this case.
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I believe you are correct based on my research:
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There are seven (7) additional "Program Options":
Deduct Credits - Deducts Credits from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
Deduct Chargebacks - Deducts Chargebacks from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
Deduct Voids - Deducts Voids from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
Deduct Insufficient Funds - Deducts Insufficient Funds from Joins and Rebills from affiliate pay-out
Hide Rebills - Hides Rebills from affiliates (Used only when affiliate is NOT paid on Rebills)
Hide Joins - Hides Joins from affiliates (Used only when affiliate is NOT paid on Joins)
Retro-active Payout - Locks the affiliate pay-out based on member join date. This option is used in conjunction with "Payout Changes"
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http://wiki.toomuchmedia.com/index.p...rough_Programs
I do wonder though whether there is a page which shows the status of all these options and what prevents a sponsor from turning them off and on at will in order to "selectively shave". It would be interesting to hear the response from TMM.
For cariflav, I strongly suggest you start paying out on initials if you want to keep calling your program 50% revenue sharing. Otherwise it's somewhat deceptive since 50% revshare usually includes initial joins and rebills. I get that maybe this might be a honest misunderstanding for you. If so you should also consider paying webmasters for those initials retroactively. I know it's in your terms in theory but a lot of people will still feel cheated.