I joined a new CJ advertiser and I've referred a few friends on my buddy list to try it out, unfortunately I haven't been credited yet to my account. I'd expect it to be an instant thing but still haven't receive anything, when do (on average) advertisers pay you?
If sales are made, they will show up on your CJ Reports page. CJ is the one that will pay you, usually around the 20th of the month, if you have reached the minimum payout amount.
Thats the problem, I had some people complete a offer yet my account still hasn't been credited for their completion. Does it credit instantly once they complete or what? The offer is a NEW advertiser as well.
Sounds like you might be talking about a Pay for Lead advertiser. You would have to check the sign up page for that advertiser, they will tell you there what has to be completed to get paid.
Yes, it is a pay-per-lead and the people have completed all of the information apparently. So is it true that you get paid instantly upon someone completing an offer or something?
There isn't any "real-time" advertisers on CJ that I am aware. Normally any sales/leads/etc appear within a few hours if it tracked correctly. Though many advertisers are also "batch" advertisers who upload sales/leads sometimes daily (such as ebay does with sales, but not with leads). You need to check the advertisers information and see if they "batch" or not, but even if they don't it can still take hours for any lead to show up. After credited to CJ then you get paid on (or around) the 20th of each month for the previous months commissions if they are "locked" (which happens around the 10th of each month). While it SOUNDS complicated it's really not. However CJ doesn't have any real-time reporting (again that I am aware of and I use hundreds of advertisers on CJ) like some other networks like Shareasale, etc.
Hey DealWorx... I checked over the advertisers page and it doesn't say anything about them being a "Batch" advertiser. I requested why I wasn't credited and the person sounded a bit skeptical about my leads by asking if I knew the people personally and everything, now I need the emails that the people completed the lead with so they can double check.
What advertiser is this asking such things? (if you don't mind me knowing) A lead is a lead, either it's real and a real person or not. Whether you know them personally or not doesn't matter it's the ones you DON'T know personally that will end up losing you money as you will not know they are not being credited. Still, CJ doesn't update in real-time, so it's also expected to take 4 hours (sometimes more and sometimes less) to update any stats including impressions and clicks.
Then odds are they didn't complete the offer in the way the tracking needs it to be completed to track properly. So unless you pester the advertiser (don't), you won't get credited, nor paid for it.
The merchant you told me about it should show up within 4 hours - 24 hours. It should NOT take days or weeks. So they need some further testing and they are on our list. We shall see!
Which advertiser is this? If they're not tracking properly, CJ & the advertiser should complete another pixel test to verify whether the tracking process works correctly.