Affiliate Aquarium – #affaqua

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

At the Affiliate Summit a week or so ago, we launched a new social platform within our network called the Affiliate Aquarium. #affaqua You'll find all the usual suspects in social networks such as searching for and making friends, groups, blogs, events, etc... Our goal is to create a more ...

Merchant Timesaver – Multiple Email Addresses

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Hey Everyone, just a quick video to show you how to setup, as a Merchant, multiple email addresses where important notifications can be sent such as "New Affiliate Signups" and "Low Balance Notifications". Here is a quick video to show you how to get it done... (Click here to open a new ...

ShareASale ThinkTank Golf Video – A Tutorial Bonus!

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

We hosted a golf event at the most recent ShareASale ThinkTank (#thinktank09) and shot a really fun video that was shown later in the event. I decided to take the opportunity to teach everyone a little bit about the ShareASale Make-A-Video and how Affiliates can use it to take their own ...

Affiliate Interface Timesavers – Quitting Programs

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Hey everyone, just a quick post complete with video on a new addition to the "Activity Summary" report on the Affiliate side which is designed to help you save some time when you need to remove yourself from multiple affiliate programs at once. There is a filter added for "Closed" Merchants, ...

Pay Per Call – Open and Ready

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

For Merchants and Affiliates who are interested in opening a Pay Per Call program, the time has come.  ShareASale's Pay Per Call platform, which has been running in a testing mode for the past few months, is now open for any Merchant. Here are some highlights: You control who, in your program, ...

Things We Need to Fix

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Today we launched a new mini-site to allow everyone to drop us anonymous feedback ... called "ShareASale Needs to Fix This". As part of our "Fix It" campaign - we will be posting some of the things we fix as suggested by everyone here as comments on ...

Merchant API Available

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Merchant API interface is available currently, allowing Merchants a more advanced method of interacting with real-time transactions as well as reports. The following are the types of things that could be done utilizing the Merchant API ... Real-time voiding or editing of a transaction as it happens on your site. Recurring commissions ...

Datafeed Specification and Format Changes

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

On August 1st we will be implementing a change to the format of datafeeds hosted on ShareASale. These changes have been engineered so that they should only affect you if you want them to. Merchants will be able to continue sending old formats, and the fields will all ...