It seems that we can’t go a week with out adding exciting new features to ECU which are designed to maximise your commissions.  This week it’s something which can increase your comissions by 400% or more.

The performance plan for Amazon is great – it gives you a fab tiered commission structure meaning the more you sell, the more you earn. There’s only one downside – On the Performance Plan, any Electrical items are capped at £7 commission, meaning if you sell a £1,000 TV, you get £7 commission (less than 1%).

If you sell the same TV through the Classic program however, you get a flat rate of 4%, meaning you’d pocket £40 commission – £33 more for the same product!  Let’s look at some figures:

option 1 Classic – 4% on all products…
sell a £100 tv, and get £4 commission
sell a £200 tv, and get £8 commission
sell a £500 tv, and get £20 commission
sell a £1000 tv and get £40 commission
option 2 – performance based, starts at 7.5% (for a direct link) but theres a £7 cap on electronics
sell a £100 tv, and get £7.00 commission (better than option one)
sell a £200 tv, and get £7.00 commission (worse than option one)
sell a £500 tv, and get £7.00 commission (worse than option one)
sell a £1000 tv and get £7.00 commission (over 400% less than on the Classic plan)

So what have we done?

Well, we’ve now set up ECU so that if you have seperate Amazon IDs for Classic and Performance, you can enter both of them into ECU, and the system will automatically use the best link for you.  It’ll use the performance link as default, however any items in the electrical category priced over £175.00 will automatically switch to the Classic plan, ensuring you don’t miss out the full commission for on any big ticket electrical items!

Check your Amazon IDs:

Log into ECU and on the ‘My Details’ page you’ll see that you can enter an ID for the performance plan (first box) and a different one for the Classic Plan (second box). It is set that electronics items (priced over £175) will show the classic ID (if entered) under/all other products will show performance plan ID.

Amazon products v 3rd Party Sellers

Affiliates have asked us to distinguish between products being sold by Amazon and those being sold by their 3rd Party Sellers.  You can now see by the logo in the search results this information, what’s more, if you click on the logo, you’ll be taken to the product page so you can check it’s the corrent item before adding it to your ECU.

If you have any other ideas for development of ECU, please send in a support ticket.