Prepayment Must Be A Prerequisite
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It’s about time prepayment becomes a prerequisite by all merchants on any network. We get assured it won’t happen but it always does.
How often do programs close with immediate or short notice, curiously these emails often go out late on a friday afternoon, and we always get the same chesnut reasons like “we apologise but”, “circumstances beyond our control” etc etc.
Then you have merchants who are late paying invoices, it’s really about time that the networks guilty of this are charged either a flat fee or standard rate intrest charge.
Also, lost tracking, as a precursor to any program going live, a compulsary remuneration package should be set up for periods of lost tracking. These occur often when a merchants site is redeveloped, the first thing to come out is the affiliates tracking, but it’s forgotten to be replaced. The problem is that though assurances of remuneration are sometimes made, these can get forgotten about over a duration of time or worse still network & merchant think that if a fuss about it hasn’t been made, then they can get away with it.
… rest to follow
