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OK I have started the test. Initial findings are not encouraging. The retroactive switch does not affect affiliate earnings that have already been reported as far as I can tell, which makes a lot of sense but also would help to hide sneaky program changes.
I have some screen grabs but I don't know what the point is to post them unless somebody starts calling me a liar.
The program I used was a disabled program of which my own personal affiliate account was the only active member. Program was set to payout 50% of joins and 50% of rebills.
I switched it to hide joins, hide rebills and pay 0% of joins and 0% of rebills. I also set the program to Retro-Active Payout.
I refreshed stats from affiliate and admin side to see if there was any effect on existing sales and rebills, there was none.
Then I did 3 signups with a test credit card # provided by Netbilling.
On the admin side I could see the joins, on the affiliate side I could not detect any change at all, apart from one additional unique.
I guess the next step is to change it back and see if the joins and rebills show, unfortunately this program has a 7-day trial membership so those could be a long time coming.
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