ClickBank has been the leader all this while in the world of affiliate marketing. All those who have even idea of this field know this as a fact, but no one can be truly the leader for long without competition and click2sell is the one who is giving ClickBank sleepless nights!
Click2sell has 2 major advantages over ClickBank. They are primarily:

NO SET UP FEES!

There are a host of differences between click2sell and click bank. It is easy to find out which is better for you and who is going to be the future affiliate market leader

Click2sell

1. Click2sell offers many more features as compared to ClickBank. The slow improvements in ClickBank allowed various third parties like PayDotCom to jump in. but all this is not needed at all in click2sell. It alone has the features put together by ClickBank and PayDotCom.




2. Click2sell has the great advantage of allowing you to sell all type of products. It may be digital products, subscription based or physical products. You may sell a wall clock and a membership site too. ClickBank allows you to sell only digital products. That is where PayDotCom helps it. However since these are just the early days of click2sell, it has 188 products listed right now.




3. It is free to join click2sell at the moment. You are allowed to deal in as many products as you wish. The choice is entirely yours. ClickBank however charges you $49.95 for joining, where you are allowed to deal in digital products only. For other products you need to join PayDotCom, where the joining is free but you need to pay $29 as activation fee. Thus it becomes a trifle expensive for the newbie as compared to click2sell.




4. The transactions fees at click2sell is between $1 to $3.The vendor has to pay it. At ClickBank the transaction fees varies from $1 + 7.5% for each transaction. PayDotCom charges the same fees as click2sell but the fees is split by the affiliate and the vendor.




5. There is a varied payment options in click2sell. You can pay via credit cards, money bookers, and paypal. Customers may make even make payments through Google Checkout merchant accounts by using the credit cards or world pay and through the vendor’s Authorize net.




6. Various currencies such as GBP, EUR and USD are supported by click2sell.

Paying affiliates
Paying to the affiliates is taken care of by the vendors; click2sell doesn’t have any role in it. On the other hand ClickBank takes care of the payments to the affiliates. This fact is usually liked by the vendors, they feel more secure. However it doesn’t pay through paypal.

The affiliates of click2sell are paid on a monthly basis and it is quite easy to pay them. There s a “Mass Payment Button” and all the payments are made through a credit card. Click2sell keeps track of the commissions paid and the defaulters are banned from the system. Customers can be refunded with a single click from the member’s area.

ADVANCED TRACKING

1. Click2sell has this excellent statistical facility for both the affiliates and the vendors. The vendors can easily see and collect statistics about their visitors, sales, the conversion rates, refund rates and all tat they have earned. You may also create your own various sources or channels of tracking your visitors and the profitability earned from them.




2. Another remarkable feature is you can also know the keyword which was used to visit your site and which keyword brought you sales. You can deduce high profit keywords in this manner. Each keyword is mentioned and you know exactly from where you are earning your revenues. You can also know which keywords were used in various search engines like Google and Yahoo.




3. You can also know how your affiliate is performing. The views, the sales, the visitors that each affiliate is bringing are pointed out. You know about the active and the inactive affiliates too. The vendors are free to set their own price to their products and if they so wish, pay commission up to 95%.




4. The pages are secure and no unauthorized person can access it. The links expire after 72 hours to prevent sharing of products by the buyers.




5. There is even a unique referral link system so designed that commissions can’t be stolen.




6. It is easy for the affiliates to contact merchants and the merchants too can contact the affiliates.




7. The cookies setting are effective for six months.

Custom commission rates

You may customize the commission rates for your affiliates. You may pay them separate rates and may ban or select your affiliates and their approval of the products you have to offer. There are many more reasons for joining click2sell.

You may also earn commissions if you refer vendors and affiliates to click2sell. If they pay any fee to click2sell for a sale, you earn 3% commission. The only condition required is that they should be active.

The company has promised that it will provide a dedicated customer support. “We aim to provide the best customer support for our customers and help them.”

There are separate user guides which can be downloaded. There are 2 different guides. One is for the vendors and the other is for the affiliates however. Affiliates’ user guide is a little confusing because it has various guidelines and sections which are applicable to merchants.

Egidijus also asserts that they are soon going to bring about a major change in the software of click2sell which will provide better services to its customers. The advantages of click2sell it seems a smart thing to join click2sell soon before it is overcrowded.