TradeDoubler

A third affiliate scheme to consider.

TradeDoubler is another high profile scheme with absolutely loads of merchants to work with.

TradeDoubler has so many merchants to join that even after a few years of using them, I've hardly scratched the surface of the big and small names they work with. The downside of the TradeDoubler network is that all merchants have to accept your application and if you are working with multiple sites, then you have to apply to each merchant for each site.

But the choice of merchants is fantastic. The only other problem is they do have about the slowest of the payment schedules of the three schemes - for some merchants.

The merchants can either prepay or not. Those that prepay deposit with TradeDoubler and when you earn a commission, it's in a pending status for a short while then it's ready for payment in the next payment schedule.

But the majority of the merchants I use aren't on this scheme. Instead these are invoiced after the transaction and should pay TradeDoubler by a certain date, which allows you to be paid by TradeDoubler a couple of months after the transaction. For example, in theory, commissions earned in October are invoiced in November asnd paid in December. But sometimes merchants pay late, which means affiliates being paid late. One commission for £120 earned in October is still waiting to be paid now - hopefully it will be paid late February.

But that's not the norm. Most TradeDoubler transactions are paid to me within the two months time scale, so with the variety and payments on offer, it is well worth joining.