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Clickbank| Article #319 : THE COMPLETE CLICKBANK GUIDE – PART 5

In this installment of our complete Clickbank guide, we’re going to go over yet a few more of Clickbank’s policies. Yes, I know there are a lot of them, but it’s important to know exactly what can and will happen to you and your account if you become a Clickbank affiliate or vendor.

Return Allowance

We withhold a fraction from each payment that is credited back to your account after six pay periods (about 90 days). These funds are used to manage quality issues that may arise with products you publish or promote. The standard return allowance is 10%. ClickBank may adjust your return allowance at any time.

So, in other words, let’s say that you earned $754 during a pay period through Clickbank. When they issue you your check for that period, they will issue you a check for $678.60. However, that’s assuming that there was no previous allowance added to your paycheck. But we’ll get to that later on.

Determination of affiliate

The affiliate (if any) associated with any ClickBank sale is determined by an automated customer tracking system. Any decision made by this system is final and not subject to petition or debate. Though we believe our tracking system to be more fair and accurate than any alternative, we make no representation regarding the ability of the system to track any specific customer, for any specific length of time.

This is another hotbed issue with affiliates. Many times an affiliate will make a sale and not get credited for the sale, either because the customer didn’t have cookies enabled on their machine or the cookie system didn’t work right. Whatever the reason, it’s irrelevant because it’s an automatic system. There is no higher authority to appeal to. The automated system has the last say. Just thought you’d want to know that. If you lose a sale, you lose a sale. End of story.

Postal Delays & Reissued Checks

No national postal service is 100% reliable. If your check is significantly delayed you may request that we send you a new check. To issue a new check we have to pay a service fee to the bank network to recall (void) the first check. A $20 cancellation charge applies. New checks will only be issued on days when regular checks are cut (twice monthly). ClickBank must receive the reissue request by the 10th of the month in order for the check to be processed with the payment for the pay period ending the 1st and by the 26th to be processed with the payment for pay period ending the 16th. There are no exceptions to these deadlines. To request that a check be reissued, please use the Account Questions form.

This is another policy that drives affiliates and vendors up the wall. The post office loses your check but you’re the one who gets charged $20 to get another check cut. I guess if you’re making $10,000 a pay period it’s not a big deal, but for affiliates who are only making $75 a pay period, this is over 25% of their income.

In our next installment of our series on Clickbank, we’re going to go over a few more of their annoying policies.

See you then.

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