Well, we’ve been busy adding lots of features and functions to ECU without giving too much creedance to how things were looking, and for new members, things must look a bit daunting. Over the coming weeks we are going to be tweaking the layout, to make things a little more intuitive for you, so that common tasks are easier to accomplish.

As part of this, you may notice things disappearing from your account area, don’t panic we’re not taking away any functionality, just moving it, or hiding some things which are not used. If you notice something missing that you really need, let us know and we’ll reactivate it for you.

First thing we have done is removed the two ID boxes for Amazon on the My Details page. this was confusing many affiliates as there is effectively only one ID possible now. So we’ve hidden the ‘Classic ID’ box. For those of you who have already given us the ID, don’t worry it’s safely stored and being used, if you’re a new member who has a Classic ID, please contact us and we’ll add it for you.

Why does it matter? Well if you have a Classic ID it effectively removes the Cap on commissions for items over £175. So older affiliates may have one (they abolished it in July), if you do, then we will automatically work out which ID should provide the best commission, and serve that in your unit

We have also changed the ‘Create a Unit’ page to avoid confusion. We have removed the options for the random units, and put them on the next page, so that affiliates are not confused as to where to put product information.

So now you just need to put in a Name for the unit, and then choose whether you want a random unit (where the system generates the products based on a keyword/brand/category) or a Search based unit (where you choose the products you want to feature).

The next pages are the same for you, at the moment, however the options for the Random Units will be spread out to avoid the confusion surrounding Amazon and Networked Merchants.