multiple billers on same site- possible?
 

Is it possible to offer more than one billing/affiliate/merchant thingy option on a single website? Ccbill, zombaio, epoch etc? So affiliates can promote the site of their choice, possibly through a different tour for each biller? I haven't seen it on any of the sites I've promoted as I've always used ccbill so I'm assuming it's not.

Yes. Lots of sites do it. :)

Is there a term for this? right now I'm not searching with the right words obviously. :)

Of course... this can be done... You control your own site... not your processor.

Many sites do this, its almost a must...to keep maximum profit.

I am not sure if it has a name/term in our vernacular.

you just need a separate tour for each, or a script to direct certain links via different join pages, probably something that should be more common, gives affiliates the ultimate choice.

You wouldn't need different tours - Just code it so that it goes to the corresponding biller based on the criteria you set.

It could be based on the affiliate ID, Geo Location so that Asian surfers go to a different biller than Euro or US surfers. You could use pretty much any criteria and combinations.

Doesn't NATS allow you to set this up?

Looks like it does! NATS looks like what I'm looking for to manage things :D Thanks!

Yes, there is a term for this :winkwink: It's called billing cascade/cascading billing. You can indeed to that via NATS, wehre you can switch between billers easily.

However, CCBill also offers an own cascade solution. You can use Epoch as secondary processor, but still CCBill does all payouts to affiliates for you, even for sales generated through Epoch.

YES - we introduced cascading billing to our industry and is one of the leaders providing such a solution.

I thought cascading was something different I have to admit.

I thought it was more to do with declines and moving through billers until one approved.

Oh well!!

I do this with NATS on my sites. I use rules to send traffic to different billing cascades depending on affiliate program, type-in traffic and geo-ip. :thumbsup

Doesn't everyone do this?

If you do this, it's best to keep each processor in their own password file. That's because most biller's scripts have a bug which will empty the file under certain conditions. Getting all of them synced to the same file all at once is a real pain. Also when you move a site to a new server the same can apply. The password file can get out of sync during the transition and it's a lot easier to correct if each processor syncs their own file.

Lol password file? That's so 2002. Just use a database.
If you use nats it's all handled by the database. .htpassword is very old fashioned and can indeed cause the file to be emptied if it's locked wrong etc.
.htaccess with mysql database is much better. And has a lot more posibilities.

many sites do this so yea it can be done..