Shareasale Reviews & Product Details
Shareasale is great in that it has lots of brands, and they pay ontim every month
The dashboard looks a bit 90s / outdated. It could do for a modern update.
Great tool for promoting brands and earning affiliate commissions. I've used it for years and earned thosands.
Ease of use, lots of opportunities to generate extra revenue
While there are endless opportunities, at times there can be too many.
Benefits of introducing new items to my clients
This is a great way to choose what add run on your website!
I have not found anything to dislike with Share A Sale yet!
I am currently in the beginning stages of making a blog. This will help me monotinize my new business.
I like the ease for introductory publishers -- Share a sale makes it easy to get started!
Share a Sale is not as user friendly as I would like. You have to search around to get links and performance.
I have really enjoyed the wide array of offers available on Share a Sale. I have worked at a wide variety of affiliates and every affiliate always has needs met through SAS
I love how easy ShareASale is to use, from setting up to getting connected with potential merchants and customize how you choose to display products or ads. You can also select what type of merchant you want to be associated with which would fit your personal site or blog the best. The platform is also very easy to use when communicating with merchants as well as seeing your performance.
The only downfall about the platform is the dashboard is a bit outdated and wish it was more tablet friendly. I am always on the go and don't always have a laptop handy so an app version for the platform would be better.
I have increased my number of readers and subscribers but also feel empowered when using ShareASale to really build my own personal brand. The platform also allows me to become a sort of blogger entrepreneur to reinvest in myself and blog.
It's really easy to launch an affiliate program with SAS because there are no contracts, so a brand can test the waters. Most larger affiliates are on this platform as well.
The reporting tools are limited to really in diving deep into the customer journey and extracting insights. There are also limitations on setting up different attribution models - everything is based on last click and rev.share.
We were able to launch and manage an affiliate program quickly and easily
It's fairly easy to join the program as a newbie who have zero to very limited experience working with affiliate programs. However, a little over basic setup will require to read ShareASale blog and research what to right in program rules.
Their database is full of coupon sites that have nothing in common to do with bringing actual traffic to your store. We learned hard way that coupon sites, if you want to work with them at all, have to be limited to minimum percentage.
We are getting access to more websites that promote our products using ShareASale links. I wish there were more quality blogging websites there rather than coupon websites.
ShareASale's UX is very intuitive for the most part and easy to navigate vs. some other affiliate networks I've used in the past.
The user experience with questions is challenging. If you have a question about the platform or on-boarding you're often directed to a video tutorial rather than a real person to ask questions to. Due to bandwidth, that was extremely challenging and time consuming to have to take the time to watch through full videos to see where my question might be answered (if at all).
It brings together the main affiliates we'd like to work with and takes the manual work out of tracking and payment.
I like the transaction reporting and being able to customize the commission amounts.
Bulk approval process. You either approve all at the same commission or you have to edit one at a time. Seems to take a while this way...
Reaching out to affiliates and paying affiliates in one location.
The upside to ShareASale (SAS, from this point forward) is that the network of affilaites and merchants is already very established- which is great. The benefits inherited from this vast network are great, yes- but I do feel there could be some polishing to the portal.
The portal interface is so outdated. The ability to retain reporting is very arbitrary, and there isn't a great way to consider different data sets. Not to mention, when checking through transactions- you should be able to filter out the ones you've already voided. Only leaving those awaiting their lock date/approval.
They aren't really problems, I suppose. I guess they are moreso limitations of the portal. I wish there was a way to sort through data better, filter and search in various ways.
Everything is at least in one place and you can track everything from one place. It’s easy to add new links and track performance by affiliate.
The UI still looks as though it was built in the 90s so it can be challenging to navigate. The recruitment tool is also challenging to use. There should be a better way to find new affiliates.
Affiliate marketing- tracking the program and managing it, along with payouts and creating links.
Great niche websites you won't find in other networks
Small, has been tough to scale the program
Low cost affiliate network
Partnership options available on ShareASale feel limited, but it is difficult to tell because the website is archaic.
The entire navigational experience is a deterrent from using ShareASale unless I am desperate to affiliate myself with a client.
None. I opt for alternative Affiliate networking sites.
In my experience there's not much good to say about them. I suppose they exist and that's helpful for some people? But there are certainly much better options.
Their affiliate program is a joke, as you can see in other reviews. They have terrible communication and customer service. Search out their competitors you'll have a much better experience.
They clame to offer a variety of integrated services which can help you establish, build and grow your Affiliate program. I disagree with the former however. They can help you with integrated services technically. They don't make it easy to establish, build and grow your affiliate program. There are much better options.
It's probably the most affordable affiliate program to set up, and they seem to have a pretty good network of affiliates.
Tracking wasn't very clear. We ran a CPL program, and we got billed twice every time lead came in, which bugged the good affiliates and made it hard to be a good partner. It also took a lot of extra attention. Also, their customer support was fairly prompt, but not very helpful. Very terse, and always directing you to poor help center articles.
Trying to develop a new marketing channel.
Setup was fairly easy if you are familiar with some technical aspects and understand a little bit of legal terminology for the affiliate program contracts.
Lots to dislike. I was skeptical due to the high cost to start the program at $600, but thought I was paying a premium for best in class. Upon getting everything setup, I was told they had a huge list of affiliates that would be interested in my product, but all I ever got was a huge list of off-shore coupon sites applying to become affiliates. They will list coupons for my store, but not actively advertise my products. Coupon sites are the scourge of internet sales - stay away from them at all costs!
I didn't solve any problems other than my own education. It was a grand experiment to see if affiliate sales would work. It turned out to be empty promises and an expensive startup. The system is "broken" with regard to coupon sites. If you get a buying customer, cart full, checking out, and they see you have a discount code, they typically then search the Internet for a discount code. If they find one of your affiliates and click on a banner ad for a coupon, even if no coupon exists, the affiliate with the coupon site has essentially registered themselves in the loop. So when the customer finishes their transaction, the coupon site gets a commission for doing absolutely nothing.