Affiliate Management - Feature Requests

[darrenrowse]

Let me start by saying that E-junkie has been great for me. I've used it to build my business incredibly over the years. However I'm increasingly noticing areas that it needs to improve in if I'm to stay with it. As my own business grows it is harder for me to justify not finding another solution with other features.



One of the areas that this is the case in is the whole affiliate management side of things including:



- being able to email affiliates. I have several thousand affiliates that I'd like to keep up to date on product launches, promotions etc. To have to export them and then import them into an email system is an antiquated and problematic process. To be able to email them directly from within e-junkie would be a feature I'd pay for in a similar way to the way that we pay to email buyers.



- Alternatively it'd be good to be able to give affiliates the option to subscribe to a newsletter with another service (like Aweber) as we're able to do with those who buy our products.



- managing affiliates - today I wanted to increase the commission on an affiliate who had been performing well. To do this I had to scroll through 40+ pages of affiliates listed and search for their email address. There's no search function to find them quickly. I'd love to see this feature added for those of us with a lot of affiliates.



- a system to offer affiliates banners to use in their promotions. I have a page on my site for affiliates to get them but it'd be much better for them to be able to choose banners in their affiliate area of e-junkie and for e-junkie to generate code for them to be able to copy and paste onto their sites.



These are just a few of features that I think would take E-junkie to the next level in the area of affiliate management. I'd be willing to pay more to get them and would prefer to keep paying E-junkie to deliver them than some other system.



Darren Rowse

ProBlogger.net

Digital-Photography-School.com

[E-junkie_Monster]

Hi Darren,



Thanks very much for your feedback, we appreciate it. I'll flag these requests for our development wishlist.

[joegilder]

If I could piggy-back on Darren...first off, you guys are FANTASTIC. I used lots of different services before landing on e-Junkie, and it's been such a pleasure.



Really my only request is for the ability to set up recurring payments for membership sites. About half of my business is based on recurring income, and unfortunately, I can't use e-junkie to sell those products. I would happily pay more for this feature, since not every will need it.



I've read where you guys have said you CAN'T support recurring payments through Paypal because you're not a payment processor, but I would simply ask that you give it another look. PayDotCom.com and WP eStore (wordpress plug-in) can both do it easily. They're not processing payments, they're simply redirecting to paypal and creating a recurring payment profile for the customer.



To be able to handle ALL of my business through e-Junkie, and to be able to use e-Junkie's affiliate program for my membership sites, would be fan-freaking-tastic. I'm on the $18/month plan. I'd happily pay much, MUCH more for this feature.



Thanks again for a great service!

[serge]

Hi guys, you have a really great service here. Thank you.



As far as the features are concerned : totally agree with the previous two requests. For the affiliate management it would be nice to have at least a new affiliate data sent to a url - so that could be done outside if really needed. ( say wordpress integration).



As for me, your site needs go worldwide. I'm in France and aiming Russian territories later on. Those fellows not often speak English. Say the cart needs to be translated and just some admin pages ( and affiliate subscribe page ). Simply translating in 3 languages ( French, Russian, Spanish) would take you to the worlwide market.



Thank you for your attention.

net beginner