As I suspected, CCBill appears in late stage development on a completely new affiliate program, admin area and stats package that they expect to roll out in the summer time frame. A couple of their new features appear to be 1 affiliate code for all sites you promote that are ccbill sites, as well as instantly loading signup pages no matter where they are in the world.
Glad to hear there is a new product on the way...
I long for some better stats from them. The current system is dreadfull! I hope they are going to start showing more stats like nats, where the clicks and sales come from, campaigns etc. Right now something that searches quickly would be nice!
That's great news... their current stats and reports is a jungle to navigateLooking forward to see what they cum up with :bigears:
they're going to need to step up their game to compete with the new marriage between Epoch and MPA3
this is great news, anyone have any inside info on any other new features it will have?
It would be great if someone from CCBill would come on here and tell us more about the features that are coming. All I know is they said it's a top to bottom overhaul of the system, faster stats, faster loading signup pages, global signup pages, better affiliate reports, single affiliate ID codes for all your ccbill sponsor accounts, etc. Sounds to me like a long overdue overhaul.Originally Posted by Chilihost
Rather than waiting to be told what features this new system is going to have, why dont we all come up with some features that CCBill should try to include in this new system if it isnt to late to do so?
Regards,
Lee
I think Ccbill systems just fine now, I do not think they should be chancing the “tends”. Personally going back to sleep would be fine with me, so if I have to pick a feature it would be a snooze button
The only feature I hope it will add is intuitive logic! That admin area is the biggest piece of shit in the online biz today, and I can say, without a doubt, navigating it is the biggest time waster in my working day.
Okay so some features id like to see in the new CCBill admin system are...
1) I want to be able to see how much traffic a specific affiliate has sent in a specific timeframe, i also want to be able to put in a date range and if no affiliates have sent traffic during that date range, i want to be able to grab a list of their email addresses so i can contact them and find out why.
2) Affiliates that have made sales, i want to be able to pull a list of affiliate sales in a 3 month period, and actually see how much traffic they sent, month by month to make however many sales they made, along with referring URLs.
3) I want to be able to run reports for MORE THAN 90 DAYS at a time, i want to be able to pull a whole 12 months of reports figures on 1 page, especially sales data.
4) I want to have a breakdown of ALL accounting based figures on 1 page, when a sale is made, i want to see how much of that sale went to the affiliate, how much went to CCBill in charges (in addition to what those charges were for) and also i want to see Visa fee's all on the same report.
5) It would also be nice if i could get the affiliates mailing addresses without having to contact them so i can send them 1099's at the end of the year! I have closed more affiliate accounts because they were to lazy to send out their 1099's than i care to think about. Alternately, you guys need to collect their 1099 information for us and report their income on the program owners behalf.
6) Would be nice if affiliates only needed 1 affiliate code to promote multiple programs, for example, instead of an account # have an account name 'affiliate' and the affiliate could link to any of the HunkMoney sites, Condom Cash sites, UKNakedMen site, etc using that SAME affiliate ID.
7) In the emails that get sent out when a sale is made, instead of saying 'Account 929078-0003' tell me the site name, i really dont want to waste time logging in to WebAdmin to lookup what site '0003' is. I also want the fact that an affiliate made the sale, who the affiliate was, the time of the sale and everything else on 1 email not 2 or 3.
Thats enough for now but im sure ill think of some more stuff soon
Regards,
Lee
I used to love CCBill, but 80% of the time they blow my refferers, and there is no campaign function, so while i was nervous about so many using NATS before, i prefer NATS i know where i sold what and can repeat it, with CCBill, i have no idea wtf i am doing, so i got a sale so what where did it come from and how did i get it, that's what i need to know
Another feature that would rock is being able to raise payouts on a 'per site' basis.
I have a couple of sites right now that get 1/10th the traffic of the other sites but, they retain about 50% better, id like to be able to offer affiliates a raised payout on THOSE specific sites so they start sending more traffic to them and ultimately making more money.
I hate having to run raised payouts across all of the sites knowing that the ones that are doing exceptionally well are going to be losing me money whilst the ones that arent doing as well in terms of traffic are probably not going to improve much traffic wise.
Regards,
Lee
how about the ability to be able to decide who to cascade to on declines, with affiliate credit being passed through to the other processor?
Boy, wasn't it though?That's great news... their current stats and reports is a jungle to navigate
Anytime I visited the ccBill affiliate stats area, with it's oblique navigation and the website help explanations written in a near impenitreble form of Programmer English... my laptop would auto play Welcome to the Jungle during the visits.
Steve
Lee, I agree that the stats need a major overhaul, more detailed reports, referral URLs for clicks and for sales etc.
And also, PLEASE CCBill, get rid of the long obsolete country name "Yugoslavia" - it ceased to exist in 2002 - and place Serbia at its place.
Please don't put Serbia into the countries banned by default. There might have been problems during 1990s while Serbia was under sanctions and there was possibility of fraud, but now the risk with Serbian webmasters is the mostly the same as with all other European countries.
It doesn't make any sense to have e.g. Saudi Arabia (where porn is punishable by death I think) enabled for all sponsors by default, and Serbia banned by default.
Last edited by Ben; 03-06-2007 at 08:30 AM. Reason: sp
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