First, I'd like to give you the details on how I designed my own associate program. I decided that the key to an effective associate program would be to allow my associates to promote a URL, or web page and let the program process sales and track orders automatically. These other systems required customers to enter a number that identified the associate. In my opinion, this does not work. Customers are not interested in remembering a code so that an associate gets credit for the sale.
Many customers have no idea there is as associate involved at all.
When they see this they are either turned off or confused. Instead of buying, they click away to another website. The other key aspect of an effective associate program is to allow all customers to order instantly and securely, using a major credit card. If you cannot satisfy a buyer at the moment they are ready to buy, you will lose more sales than you can imagine. Based on the above objectives, I designed my solution.