Alternate Pay Processors? Harmful?

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Hello:

Many of you have a lot more experience in this, so I'd like your opinion. I have discovered that a significant amount of my affiliate sales are to folks living outside the United States. One of my best affiliate programs is a pay per view streaming site, and their stats report the country my referral comes from. I'd say for them it's a third of my referrals.

Now I'm a lot more sensitive to marketing to, and capturing referrals for international surfers. Well I have inspected two other programs that I am in --- one is a ccBill program, and the other is a IBill program.

For the website that uses IBill, on their JOIN page, they have a
credit card signup for iBill, and directly under that it says
European Customers -- and an icon for something called 2000 Charge.

So what do you think - do I get credit for sales processed by 2000 Charge? Why do they do this? Does IBill only process United States customers?

Moving on - this other program which uses ccBill (and converts pretty well for me) has on their JOIN page - Instant Access billing by CCBill

But then in the next column it says Instant Access Billing by Verotel - EuroDebit. What is that? Is that something all the Europeans use? Once again, does ccBill not process non-US payments? What's the point? And do we get credit for those referred sales?

Thanks everybody.. I'm actually starting to make more money through my porn site, so I'm looking harder at these programs - and comparing them to the affiliate programs I use on my non-porn sites.

Steve :bow:

[Lee]

So what do you think - do I get credit for sales processed by 2000 Charge? Why do they do this? Does IBill only process United States customers?

You would be best of asking the afiliate program whethr they credit you for sales made to 2000 Charge which is basically just another processor however given the recent influx of the European surfer market over the last two years it markets itself as a 'European' processor.

But then in the next column it says Instant Access Billing by Verotel - EuroDebit. What is that? Is that something all the Europeans use? Once again, does ccBill not process non-US payments? What's the point? And do we get credit for those referred sales?

Eurodebit used to be a payment processor (not sure if they still are) but it is also a form of payment much like we have in the US when you go to a grocery store and pay by debit from your bankers card (when you have to put your pin number in the machine) however, in Europe whilst this is a good method of allowing surfers to join sites online there are better alternatives such as credit cards and also switch (Eurodebit's common name in Europe) along with Electron (Visas payment system) and also Maestro (Mastercards System) the thing to realize with all of these payment systems is that as long as the surfer has money in their bank account, the payments are guaranteed. As for CCBill, yes they do process for sites in Eurpe and you have to go thru http://www.ccbilleu.com although im sure Patrick or, Corvett can verify this when they see this post

Also, if you are looking for some programs that DO credit you for international transactions make sure you check out the listings over on http://www.europeanwebmasters.com

Regards,

Lee