MPA3 or NATS

[basschick]

if he's only going for the basics and is happy with having epoch as primary, there's no reason he couldn't run off the epoch MPA system. i personally don't see pierre sitting down and writing checks each week - he's got a lot going on already.

[darling]

I have never used MPA3 so I can't comment on it. We are happy so far with NATS. If you don't want to be tied to epoch then its far cheaper than Executive Stats and MPA3.

We have had some minor glitches with it, but nothing a few support tickets couldn't handle. About writing checks, then NATS offers a feature to dump the payments into quick books so its easy to mass print the checks from there.

It is also a bit of a learning curve. Unfortunately there is not a step by step tutorial of the system, other than that they give you by phone after buying it. The documentation is more like a reference. But reading all the knowledge base articles has been a great help.

Just think very carefully before you decide on a system. You will be stuck with it for a long time. If you change your mind later on then affiliates (including me) hate nothing more than to change links on hundreds of pages. Especially on submitted galleries which will be automatically delisted if changed.

$0.02

[YanksTodd]

Well, MPA3 has a full featured version as well, that is much more mature and less problematic then its NATS counterpart. I have know three people who have in the last few months worked for a program with MPA3, and one with NATS, and all three having the experience with both prefer MPA3. My two cents.

[basschick]

i found NATS to be less problems, but that was during MPA2 and the folks from NATS seemed to have more time to help back then, too.

in all seriousness, pierre, adding either NATS or the full MPA3 to your sites and program will take a lot of time, there will be a lot of frustration and you will have to pay out your affiliates - and if you're late, people will post on the boards and drop your program. since you are very busy and not that good with html, unless you have a partner or pay someone to help make all the changes in order to use NATS or MPA3, it might be better to simply use the epoch MPA3 stats for now...

[Chilihost]

of course you could still use nats and have epoch as your only biller in nats, and then use epoch's mpa3 cascade to do the secondary biller and all payouts.