We are looking to start our own multi tier affiliate program on our website and was hoping to get some sage advice from some folks who have used software/scripts for this application. I found a few using Google, but there is no way to determine which ones work best, and nobody seems to have a phone number. Some of the ones I found are iDevAffiliate and Post Affiliate Pro. We need it to work with a Miva shopping cart as well. I hope we can build this thread into a good resource for merchants that want to create an affiliate program for their products/services, and want the control that a CJ site won't give you. I haven't been able to find a lot of info regarding self administered programs. If there are other threads related to this topic, please link to them below. Thank you in advance for any contributions.
Shazbot, check out JAM, they integrate with a lot of carts. If they don't have one for yours you can request an integration plugin in their support forum... they have a very good support system (you can read my review here) It's very hard to say which one is the best. It all depends on the features you want..do you know what stuff you're looking for in particular? I personally use JAM but have setup iDev systems of clients...both are excellent really...Just think though the features you want..
We have one built into our MyStore program. We generally sell it as a bundle with the products that are already loaded into the database. However, we could easily upload your products instead. If you were not looking for hosting, we could probably carve out the affiliate management pieces fairly easily. We have a phone number and would be happy to talk about this. PM if interested.