I'm pleased to announce that the GPWA is rolling out a new program to track when affiliate programs pay affiliates created by Affiliate Guard Dog.
The goal of the application is to let affiliates anonymously share when they are paid by different affiliate programs. That will make it easy for affiliates to understand when payments are received by other affiliates for a given program, to see which programs pay promptly or slowly, and to know when their payments from a particular affiliate program are late as compared with other affiliates.
In order to use the new application to enter your affiliate program payments you must be logged into the GPWA website. Once you are logged in you can select the "My Payments" menu item under the "My Account" section of the top navigation bar on the GPWA website.
That takes you to a page where you can record payments you have received. First you select the payment method with which you received an affiliate payment. Then you select an affiliate program that paid you using that method and drag the affiliate program name to the date on a calendar on which you received payment.
Over the coming weeks we will be rolling out a variety of ways to see the payment information provided by GPWA and other affiliate forum members. Initially when you are in the "My Payments" application and you mouse over a date, a pop-up appears showing payments recorded by other affiliates on that date. Soon we will also display recent payment information on the home page of the GPWA website.
This is actually the beginning of a very large effort that is underway to develop applications that allow affiliates to share information with one another using techniques that go well beyond simply posting information in the forums.
Michael