Welcome to the 'Affiliate Program Updates' section.
News and marketing tips to help you stay ahead of the curve with the best affiliate programs.
Although RXL offers one of our favourite affiliate programs, we’re disappointed to see affiliates hit with a big increase in the minimum payment threshold — from 500 to 1000 dollars. So, if you’ve become accustomed to seeing a regular wire every week, two weeks, or month, plan to see that increase to two weeks, four weeks, or two months.
One of the old-timers of the online pharmacy industry, Integra RX has long been known as a premium-priced but highly reliable outfit. Amongst a raft of recent personnel changes at the outfit, Integra has also recently eliminated wire transfers from their payment options, leaving only PayPal and paper check. Support staff continue to insist that PayPal’s prohibition on making MLM payments does not apply to them.
January isn’t even finished yet, and we’ve seen the first casualty of 2006 in the pharmacy affiliate space: Rx-Mex has shut down. Since many affiliates had already moved on to more attractive offers from XLP, APN, and others, we believe the fallout from this particular collapse will be minimal.
A recent change in PayPal’s terms of service means they will no longer permit sending or receiving payments involving tiered programs of any kind. While some multi-tier programs are trying to convince themselves the rules don’t apply to them, others are scrambling to come up with alternative ways of paying their affiliates. If you get paid by a tiered program via PayPal, it’s not just their account at risk — it’s yours, too.
RXL has added Gzip compression to its XML templates, cutting loading times by up to 85%. If you’re using one of the free XML templates, you can update now to cut the waiting time your visitors experience before they can make a purchase.
One of our favorite programs has added nearly two dozen new affiliate templates to make the job of getting your new site up and running easier than ever before. If you haven’t joined yet — or if you haven’t yet taken advantage of the free templates — be sure to have a look!
With a new PHP-based datafeed that has been nearly 1 year in the making, XLP has now made it possible for affiliates to grab live pricing data as well as to place items directly into the XLP shopping cart. While the direct connection to the shopping cart promises higher conversions, the overall setup leaves quite a few loose ends for the affiliate wanting to leverage standard datafeed tools. Is there a better way?
The folks over at RXL — one of our ‘top picks’ affiliate programs — have completed their previously announced pricing updates and have made some small changes to the overall product catalogue. Together with earlier hikes in FedEx fees, which have been passed on to customers by most affiliate-driven programs, these increases provide further evidence of firming in the prices paid by pharmaceutical end customers.
The folks over at RX Limited have boosted their product catalogue with over 100 new products and have updated their ready-to-fly affiliate templates to incorporate the new products. There is also news of some small changes in FedEx shipping charges.
We hear from the folks at XLP that a sudden spike in the number of chargebacks is due to a large number of fraudulent orders which hit the merchant over the last several weeks. Apparently it is under control now, and affiliates can look forward to the chargeback rates dropping back toward zero.