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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
The issues usually are:
1. Losing affiliates
2. NATS integration
3. Fiscal responsibility
4. NATS fees
1. When affiliates were vitally important a company like CCBill had an advantage since affs could merge payments and promote many Programs. Moving away from CCBill would mean upsetting the affiliate applecart.
2. Integrating NATS is famously a PITA (Pain In The Ass) with a lot of technical obstacles to overcome.
3. The "this Program does not pay" threads you see here on GFY are always NATS Programs. Having to payout affiliates and partners instead of having a CCBill do it can lead to fiscal irresponsibility and even temptation. Not good.
4. Monthly NATS fees just to process affiliate info? Based on volume? So hundreds spent monthly on a NATS license...add that in and the savings with your own MID is minimal.
Bonus reason: Plus, once you go NATS you cannot really 'go back' to a CCBill easily. So once you make the decision to switch you are stuck with it.
These are some of the traditional concerns with switching from a 3rd party biller.
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You don't need NATS to process through Netbilling.
You can just make your own scripts or use other affiliate software.
For payouts you can just use a company like Chexx Inc
I understand it's a lot easier to use third party biller because they take care of payouts, customer support, affiliate tracking etc.
But you are losing a lot of money in the long run.