ShareASale Details, Reviews & Opinions

ShareASale is, without question, the best affiliate network!

With over 3000 merchants to promote, your niche selection is only limited by your imagination.

From an affiliate standpoint the entire team is easily accessible and willing to lend a hand. The network interface may take a little getting used to but they have great features like merchant auto approve, free datafeeds, coupon feeds, make-a-page, widgets, pay-per-call. They take pride in being an adware/parasite free network and have tons of options for reporting and stats too.

I have found the tracking to be spot on and actually love that stats update in REAL-TIME! The support is first class! Brian and the crew are always looking to improve SAS by reaching out to merchants and affiliates alike to make the network better.

For Merchants I believe they offer one of the most cost effective affiliate solutions around, if you are a merchant I would HIGHLY recommend SAS.

In ShareASale I Trust!

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ShareASale has lots of low quality offers unlike those present in CJ, Linkshare and Google Commerce.

When I earned my first $500 and was about to receive a check, they didn’t sent it to me and did block my account. When they were sending payment, they have found out that some part of my web-site had non-english content. That was a reason to block my account and NOT to send a payment to me. What a scam!

I highly recomment to avoid ShareASale.

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Jason Rubacky just helped me, called me instantly after me sending him an email. Super helpful on email, phone and twitter. Some great tools like deep linking, custom videos and afftrack parameters. Keep up the great work!

Will

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Seriously, there are some things I would change about shareasale. The interface actually sux. The navigation is clunky. Too many clicks to just search for stuff. Common get it sorted out, I am certain that I am not the first to complain about this.

Paypal should be an option for payments. This is fast becoming a standard option. For international affiliates this is faster and easy than waiting for a check in the post that is in U.S. dollars and having to wait several weeks for checks to be converted and cleared.

Affiliate managers. Where are the dedicated affiliate managers on sign up? If you don’t think the affiliates are going to worth it to support then don’t sign them up until they can show at least some evidence that your time and support is going to pay you back. CJ sux in this manner too, so it seems to be a CPS network thing. NEWSFLASH: affiliate managers help make your network money! At least the good ones do anyway.

Shareasale is ethical. No BS forced rebill offers. I seriously hate those and actually peeves me off most of the CPA junk that just aims to mislead consumers. So 2 thumbs up for shareasale for keeping their offers 100% reputable and legitimate.

Tracking is supposed to be A+ and so far I think it has been.

Offers – there are tons and tons in any niche you can think of. Just don’t expect to see any Acai, Teeth Whitening, Google Home Biz, IQ Quiz, scammy ripoffs – because there aren’t any. This is the main reason I like shareasale.

Conversion Pixels: Shareasale, you need to give us affiliates the ability to drop our own conversion pixels on the offers we are promoting. This saves time and allows us to get on with our job a lot quicker instead of waiting for lazy merchants to get back to us if ever.

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As an affiliate marketer on ShareaSale there are many things I like about their system. My favorite has to be the interface. It’s easy to navigate and for me personally anything else more technical would be frustrating and a waste of resources well spent elsewhere such as promoting more merchants and affiliate marketing education.

The customer service is stellar, at any point someone has a question merchants and the ShareaSale staff are just a click away – rare and very much appreciated in this day and age.

If I could make a couple of wishes it would be to have payout via my PayPal account and an easier way to identify merchants that are no longer participating in the program.

I’m hanging in there and recommend ShareaSale without hesitation.

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The website looks very un-professional (looks like made by a 7 year old).
The website is terribly organized.

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I’ve been working with ShareASale for just under two years now and have had extremely positive experiences with their team.

We have launched several programs in their network and we find the experience of managing these programs come with an always responsive, available and courteous response team. There are few other networks in the industry that I could honestly call friends.

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I’ve had nothing but positive experiences working with SAS. They are one of the most transparent and ethical affiliate networks I’ve ever worked with.

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Dan, that deposit amount can be as little as few hundred dollars I believe. And should be setup to charge a card when the balance hits zero. So you only put more money in when your sales have resulted. All major affiliate networks require deposits again commissions…

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Shareasale does have a problem with funding from a merchants perspective, that they just refuse to address or fix. There is no way to keep your account balance above zero at all times without depositing a large sum of money (which is not refundable and which earns no interest). When it drops below zero all your affiliates are emailed and many leave the program. Have been with Shareasale since they first started and this one glitch has prevented it becoming a serious traffic source. My only conclusion is that they need the deposited money for some reason, rather then just replenishing a low account balance when necessary.

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SAS is without a doubt the most ethical network, but also the most innovative.

The three things I REALLY enjoy about them are that while they are innovating and coming up with new ideas all of the time, they are still looking to improve, they are easy to work with (even for a total IT doofus like me), and their support is amazing.

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Best support! Most reliable! Interface needs updating.

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Shareasale is a great affiliate network and a must for affiliates to join and get active with. I would put them as the #2 affiliate network behind CJ. Great customer service, great affiliate base and good merchants to choose from. I always recommend companies to join Shareasale as part of a good affiliate strategy.

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SAS seems okay, much cheaper to go with them than something like CJ, however the affiliates aren’t as good. Most of them are coupon sites and never really get good visitors.

I have 80+ affiliates and only get about 30 views a month of our banners.

Not worth it, esp since you have to pay $500 to even start up.

Control panel is very ugly and hard to navigate through, however support is good.

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SAS without question is great! Customer service from them was prompt and friendly.

I find the interface a little less clean than some other networks, but it’s still pretty easy to navigate, and it gets the job done. If you want to working with the best up and coming aff. network, SAS is the way the go, hands down!

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Having the rare and separate experiences of being both a retailer on the ShareaSale network and an affiliate working with many retailers on the network, I have pretty much seen all that SaS has to offer. From the professional and diligent support of people like Carolyn Tang and Brian Littleton to the ease of use in managing the programs, ShareaSale is the total package. In addition, because SaS is so cost effective, it is a program that really benefits the overall business. Whenever I have the chance, I recommend SaS to both affiliates and merchants alike.

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We have worked with Shareasale for around 5 years now, right from when it was a “small” netwotrk through to now when it is one of the most popular networks.

Shareasale support is without question the best around. The team are highly responsive to requests, happy to make custom changes where possible and generally fast to get back to us when we need them.

Reporting has improved in leaps and bounds over the years, I’m very much a LinkShare reporting fan, so in comparison to the depth of data that is available there, Shareasale has some catching up to do, but in terms of speed to change, add new features, custom tools and the like, there are few networks that can match Shareasale.

Ethics wise Shareasale has always led the way to protect both merchants and affiliates from unethical marketeers. It is an uphill battle but it is one that Shareasale is constantly active in.

Due to the pricing Shareasale does attract a lot of “hopeful” merchants who want to throw up a program and see what happens. This can be a little frustrating for affiliates as it means some of the programs are not managed or well set up, however that’s hardly a fault of the Shareasale team

Overall I highly recommend Shareasale as a great network for both merchants and affiliates

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ShareASale.com is the most ethical, professional, and trustworthy affiliate network in the industry. Many of their merchants are small, inexperienced merchants with very little potential, but they have some real gems as well. Their PowerRank rating is an easy way to find some of the best merchants.

I’ve been to all three ShareASale Think Tank conventions, and Brian and his team have proven time and time again that they are dedicated to making affiliate marketing a level playing field. In every decision they make, they consider the small affiliates and small merchants.

They are extremely agile, as evidenced by their “Month of the Interface” where they introduced a new feature to their site every weekday for a month.

I highly recommend ShareASale for both merchants and affiliates.

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SAS is a nice little affiliate network, very similar to CJ and Linkshare. I think the big difference is the crappy interface it has and the poor structure. I know recently they have upgraded the interface and I know brian is a cool guy. The only problem I have is the interface of the backend and the way the advertisers approve affiliates.

Some (ones that I have tried to get approved by) do not want us to do the traffic, since it would be competition to them, but then why add yourself to an affiliate network?

there are also great things about it, I like how they show you the upcoming seasons or holidays – they even will show you some of the offers pertaining to that holiday or season. very helpful when trying to be a seasonal affiliate.

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