How long does the amazon program take to tell me if any orders have been placed using my id number? Becasue i know someonee brough today but it has not come on yet?
Updates to the Amazon Affiliate data are only done once every 24 hours, sometime between 12:00 and 14:00 GMT depending on the day and traffic the day before. Note, that will update your "Orders". Your "Earnings" only update when the item has shipped and is deemed eligible for a referral, which may happen days later, or never. I typically see at least 5-10% of my orders each month never show up as Earnings. Likely people who had credit card or shipping issues who then generated a new order rather than attempt to fix the original (I've done that myself on occassion) Things you order yourself will appear under "Orders" but will never appear under "Earnings" for example.
Yes Updates to the Amazon Affiliate orders will be only done once every 24 hours. But you will not earn referral fee until those orders were shipped out.