Post Affiliate Pro - Experience So Far
I have been working on setting up an affiliate program for the PC Mechanic store. The shopping cart I use, X-Cart, does have an affiliate program add-on which you can purchase for an additional fee. I bought it, but found that it was too basic for what I wanted to do. It was also cumbersome to use, but that’s typical of X-Cart. X-Cart is a good, solid online store solution, but some things in there are just cumbersome as hell. Anyway, I went ahead and picked up a license to Post Affiliate Pro, by QualityUnit. I picked up the software for $99 (pretty good deal) and was able to pay via Paypal (convenient). One of the reasons I chose this software is because it has plug-and-play support for integrating with X-Cart.
The software itself is pretty powerful, but I’m finding that, like X-Cart, it can be a bit cumbersome to use. Installation was easy - pretty typical for a web-based system. But, here is the annoying part:
- Set up after the fact is confusing. Settings are all over the damn place and there is really nothing walking you through it.
- Email and page templates are simplistic and contain multiple spelling/grammar errors
- As of this writing, their company server is frickin’ SLOW! I’m sure its temporary, but its pissing me off when I’m trying to write a blog post about them.
- After install, all emails coming from the system had blank headers. In fact, the email headers were IN the email body.
Despite the annoyances, don’t be hating! 
The software is still pretty good. Its pretty well documented and the support is definitely there. What’s good about it:
- Good support
- They offer some cool freebies in the members area when you buy a license
- Some helpful video tutorials of how to use the software
- Pretty capable software, once you iron out the annoyances
For today, I’m kind of at a stand-still because of the problem with out-going emails above. I’m running the most recent version of the software and the emails just don’t look right. I’ve brought it up with Support and they said they would try to get a patch up tomorrow. We’ll see what happens.
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Comments
Hey all. Thanks for the info. I have been running PAP for 1,5 month now and keep getting errors with certain options like “Pay affiliates”. When i click this option I get the internet explorer error “Cannot display webpage”. Also, the system is INCREDIBLE SLOW! Even though I am running the program on a HostGator PRo server with absolute maximum power. Anyone experiencing the same thing?
In meantime we released new version of PAP, which is redesigned from scratch and optimized for best performance.
Problems with performance of PAP3 we solved already.
Current PAP4 version is Web 2.0 application with userfridnly user interface.
To see it in action just check out our demo.
Yes PAP4 is a whole different animal - this blog post is almost 2 years old so much has changed.
Did you drop your affiliate program? I don’t see a link anywhere.
Cheers.
do you know if Post Affiliate Pro has fixed there server issues. I am thinking of purchasing the program today and was wondering how it is now. Any advice would help, thanks!
Doug