Recommended Portals to track All Affiliates In One?

[818sfv]

Hello everyone,

Tried searching and didn't find this but I have a feeling it had to have been discussed.

I'm a fairly new affiliate 4 months in, and luckily have revenue from 4 of the sites. All are US based gambling/sports betting (betting partners, 5dimes, betdsi/clickswagger and a few more).

It's kind of addicting, and I find myself constantly circling through the sites to see clicks, revenue etc. I know there has to be some all-in-one tracking portal. I'm happy to pay for something that's slick and makes life easier.

I looked at some recommended on Quora but none of them supported gambling related affiliate programs. I also looked at Nifty Stats quickly, but I run a mac and it looks like its windows only (and don't want to run Parallels just for that... and prefer a saas solution).

All that backstory aside, what do people recommend and/or if you can point me to a thread. Thanks in advance!

[universal4]

You might want to have a look at

https://www.gpwa.org/forum/nifty-sta...on-230187.html
https://www.gpwa.org/forum/binom-aff...rs-247712.html

Rick
Universal4

[ihubbz]

I have been using Voonix for quite a few months now, took a bit of time to set it all up + quite pricey, but it's worth the price for me.

[gil.langelaan]

As Rick mentioned before, try one of these software, I'm using Nifty Stats for myself.

[PROFRBcom]

I personally don't trust other sites having access to my raw affiliate data. I looked at a couple of them and found out they were also affiliates themselves. In my opinion there is too much temptation there for a stats aggregator to use your data, and that of other users, against them.

I finally broke down recently and had someone with Excel experience create a tool that will aggregate stats for us, keep them locally, provide custom data dashboards, etc. It is still a work in progress, and I can't say that it is cheap, but there is virtually no risk of giving away proprietary data this way.

[universal4]

I agree that giving any third party access to an affiliate's stats has a certain amount of risk associated with it. (allowing this data to be housed in a cloud service anywhere adds to that risk)

That was why it was sad to see statsremote go dark. They did not have have access to usernames or passwords to the affiliate programs for which they pulled stats, and they did not house the stats data itself, it was all stored locally on the user's system using their service.

Profrb, if it is ever viable to publicly release the system you are having written for you, please let us know so we can evaluate it and help with that.

Rick
Universal4

[casinoportal]

There isn't really a lot of choice, in the end I went with Nifty Stats, they keep it updated with new programs, and it does what I want.

[eenzoo]

I have been using Voonix for quite a few months now, took a bit of time to set it all up + quite pricey, but it's worth the price for me.

That's a nice service but the cheapest account is €500 a month with up to 50 operators. Seriously, for that money, I could hire here a full-time staff to check stats hourly and making the coffee.

[nodeposit]

That was why it was sad to see statsremote go dark. They did not have have access to usernames or passwords to the affiliate programs for which they pulled stats, and they did not house the stats data itself, it was all stored locally on the user's system using their service.

As far as I understand Nifty Stats does the same. You download their software and you enter your usernames/passwords into the software itself on your computer. So it's not an online interface.

[PROFRBcom]

I agree that giving any third party access to an affiliate's stats has a certain amount of risk associated with it. (allowing this data to be housed in a cloud service anywhere adds to that risk)

That was why it was sad to see statsremote go dark. They did not have have access to usernames or passwords to the affiliate programs for which they pulled stats, and they did not house the stats data itself, it was all stored locally on the user's system using their service.

Profrb, if it is ever viable to publicly release the system you are having written for you, please let us know so we can evaluate it and help with that.

Rick
Universal4

Given the cost, I would probably only sell it. And even then, only to a select few people who I don't think would run amok giving it out as a free torrent or something :P

[promotiontailor]

I personally don't trust other sites having access to my raw affiliate data. I looked at a couple of them and found out they were also affiliates themselves. In my opinion there is too much temptation there for a stats aggregator to use your data, and that of other users, against them.

I finally broke down recently and had someone with Excel experience create a tool that will aggregate stats for us, keep them locally, provide custom data dashboards, etc. It is still a work in progress, and I can't say that it is cheap, but there is virtually no risk of giving away proprietary data this way.

even Bill Gates won't be able to crawl stats with excel.
If you are manually login to each account, download CSV, manipulate the table column names and upload this data to excel that just an aggregator. the hardest part is the stats crawling. with so many platforms and new programs that use in-house programs, it is impossible to keep your database up to date. I'm not even talking on different technologies on the client-side (plain HTML, react, angular, etc..)

I've been doing this for so long, in house and for other affiliates in my platform, and I can tell you that stats scrapper isn't easy as it may look.
http://prntscr.com/p81s61

the only risk when dealing with 3rd party is where and how your data is stored. if I had to choose between stats remote, voomix and nifty, I would have chosen nifty.
i don't get this thing with stats aggregators. what difference does it make?

[Maxfalcon]

Affiliate programs will be integrating S2S services in the near future. Outside gambling it's starting to be done. Basically it's small APIs that you can use to crawl your own data / stats with your secured key. It's "easy" to write programs and then agregate all your stats for you and do backups or whatever else. And also no longer any problem of privacy. Some also offers web hookups.

Affiliate programs, it's up to you!

[nodeposit]

Affiliate programs will be integrating S2S services in the near future. Outside gambling it's starting to be done. Basically it's small APIs that you can use to crawl your own data / stats with your secured key. It's "easy" to write programs and then agregate all your stats for you and do backups or whatever else. And also no longer any problem of privacy. Some also offers web hookups.

Affiliate programs, it's up to you!

I guess for regular affiliates with little programming/coding knowledge it would be still better to pay for a software ~$20/mo instead of hiring a programmer then paying again when something comes up (php upgrade, API update etc).

[promotiontailor]

Affiliate programs will be integrating S2S services in the near future. Outside gambling it's starting to be done. Basically it's small APIs that you can use to crawl your own data / stats with your secured key. It's "easy" to write programs and then agregate all your stats for you and do backups or whatever else. And also no longer any problem of privacy. Some also offers web hookups.

Affiliate programs, it's up to you!

I first heard about it 10 years ago, yet there are still more than a few programs without dynamic variable tracking, not all use pixels, some develoo thier own programs and lots of 90s softwares.

If you just want to track your earnings, use nifty.

[Maxfalcon]

I guess for regular affiliates with little programming/coding knowledge it would be still better to pay for a software ~$20/mo instead of hiring a programmer then paying again when something comes up (php upgrade, API update etc).

Yes, sure. It can take some time to handle this, and to manage it, and it's best to use tools when you don't know or don't have the time.

[universal4]

As far as I understand Nifty Stats does the same. You download their software and you enter your usernames/passwords into the software itself on your computer. So it's not an online interface.

In order to clarify a recent statement I made above, I have recently had a discussion with the folks over at Nifty, and have confirmed the following:

Usernames, passwords and statistics data (traffic, sales, etc.) are stored in file at your PC (the stats.db file in NS installation). It is not sent to NS servers. (don't forget to backup the database regularly).

If you choose to use android application, limited statistics data (without usernames/passwords) are encrypted and sent to our server which sends them to android application. We cannot decrypt the stats if you protect them by encryption (password).

If a person wanted to check stats hourly, program have to run at all times on the user's PC (minimized, the window does not have to be visible).

Regards
Jowel

This is great to hear and does in fact seem a fairly secure way to handle stats at multiple programs, however I would personally feel more comfortable only using the PC version and not the phone version.

Rick
Universal4