Having access to the big picture has always been quite a challenge for affiliates. Indeed, most affiliates work with about 10 different affiliate programs and must login to multiple accounts in order to download their reports and aggregate them into an excel sheet which will give them the ability to see how much money they’re making.

At the end of the day, affiliates don’t work for the glory, but for a bottom line!

So what’s a couple of hours a day to discover how much revenues you made? Eventually those 2 hours will end up with a nice smile on your face 😉

However, when it comes to associating costs and traffic sources, to each earned dollar, it gets a little complicated.

Either, you are very meticulate at setting up each and every campaign and link, using subid and custom parameters, and you will be able to have a pretty good idea of what your ROI is, or you’ll just look at your gross figures praying for your income to be higher than your expenses.

Being an affiliate comes with a great upside. You manage your time as you see fit. Therefore, having the ability to make the best of this time comes at a very high priority.

The ability to automate your reporting needs and get 24/7 access to a dashboard that will give you a precise view of your income, costs and earnings, is at the core of any affiliate that wishes to succeed.

When developing TrackingDesk, we obviously looked at many reporting / dashbord web applications. We realized how complex it was to configure such apps and we thought (perhaps pretentiously) – That if we have a hard time doing it, then others will definitely get lost.

So we put all our minds into building (what we think) is the most agile, flexible and yet easy to use reporting application so our users can play with all their figures in any way they want.

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But before playing with the reports, we had to build the workflows that would enable our users to simply integrate their traffic sources and affiliate programs within TrackingDesk. In simple terms, we’ve paved the way so you only have to copy / paste tracking links from affiliate programs to TrackingDesk and pixel tracking (image or post-back URL) to your affiliate accounts.

In this regard we took also the initiative to build a few tools to further ease your workflow:
– We built a full API integration with Hasoffers, which enables you to sync any affiliate accounts that you hold and run on the Hasoffers platform.
– We have built a tool that lets you bulk add hundreds or even thousands of links provided by your affiliate program.
– We have mapped and pre-configured tracking parameters (i.e. subid, sid, tid, s2) as well as pixel tracking format of popular affiliate technologies (Cake, Linktrust and others) and affiliate programs (CJ, PeerFly, Maxbounty, Clickbank), so you will only have to copy / paste the pixel tracking from your TrackingDesk account into your affiliate accounts.

Wether you are an experienced affiliate or a beginner, your resources are limited and working smarter rather than harder should be at the top of your priority list.
You can signup your TrackingDesk account for free and realize quickly how much you can gain from using it.