Can I use two different merchant accounts?
 

Hi all,

I have a quick question for those of you with some merchant account experience.

I will be selling numerous reports from my site priced from $4.97-$9.97. I would like to use 2Checkout.com for these products for various reasons - one of which being that Clickbank takes a big chunk out of inexepensive info products ($1 per transaction plus 7.75%).

2Checkout's rates are much better, plus they allow me to accept AMEX and Discover. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Clickbank has some limitations here I believe.)

The problem is in creating an affiliate program. If I choose to do this later on down the road, it appears that Clickbank is my only option for doing so.

Can I create a Clickbank account for affiliate hop-links, but continue to use 2Checkout for my own site and sales?

Any thoughts on this are appreciated. :-)

Thanks!!

Mike Long


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Re: Can I use two different merchant accounts?
 

Mike,

I don't think you can do it that way. The only time an affiliate gets paid, using a hop-link, is when ClickBank actually sees payment through their system. If the product is paid for through another merchant, ClickBank never sees the purchase and therefore assumes the purchase was never made.

Good luck with your products.

Dennis Anglin


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Re: Can I use two different merchant accounts?
 

Hi Mike:

Dennis is correct about clickbank.

Clickbank isn't the only way of handiling affiliates though. There are affiliate scripts available. The advantage to Clickbank is no merchant account required, and they do all the paper work for the fee they charge, something you would be responsible for if you ran an affiliate script.

There is a way to have sales go through Clickbank for your affiliates and still do your own sales through the other one, but it is quite involved and requires doing a duplicate site within your site...which means double the work of maintaining and updating the site...not recommended, but it is doable.

Cornell

Re: Can I use two different merchant accounts?
 

Here are 2 affiliate software solutions that are compatible
with 2checkout.

1.Ultimate Affiliate- http://www.groundbreak.com/ $200.00 ($100.00 installation)

2.Quickpay Pro - http://www.QuickPayPro.com $37.00 monthly

The Ultimate Affiliate is a great script.




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