Affiliate payment systems using pre-paid credit cards

Recently I came across an international affiliate network that is working with a pre-paid MasterCard company offering their affiliates a pre-paid credit card that can be used around the world for payments.

This appears to work exceptionally well from the feedback I’ve seen on it.

It is an on-going challenge for affiliate companies to find just the right way to pay affiliates. In New Zealand at least, it’s quite common for direct online bank-to-bank transfers to take place and it’s usually considered to be ok to pass your bank account details to a trusted affiliate company.

The idea of a pre-paid credit card that is sent directly to an affiliate on their first payment (especially for an affiliate network) is brilliant. It circumvents all the transfer issues a company would usually have, including extra costs associated with online payment wallet systems like PayPal, Neteller and the like and it allows the network to have the funds available immediately for the affiliate.

Hopefully we’ll see this implemented in a few more of the affiliate programs and networks both internationally and within New Zealand as the technology becomes easier to integrate with online administration systems.

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Finding the right affiliate program for your site…

One of the great things about working online from New Zealand is that we’re already in a local community that’s small and isolated enough from the rest of the world that we’re usually happy to help each other out.

Kotitihaere, a poster in our forums, has come up with some brilliant feedback to both affiliates and affiliate managers in what they, as an experienced affiliate, are looking for when searching around the web trying to find the right affiliate program to promote.

I like the start;

Nothing is more annoying than finding a site in a search engine that has an affiliate program then finding the link to it is a mission in searching!

You can read more on their Guideline for Good Affiliate Programs to sign up to.

Great feedback…

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