Approve/Decline affiliate application quickly

[Adarsh]

Merchants please approve/decline affiliation applications quickly. Affiliates understand that merchants have thousands of things to look after but why keep affiliates waiting for months?

If you like an affiliate's website(s), APPROVE the affiliation request within 24 to 48 hours. If you don't wish to include a particular affiliate in your affiliate program, DECLINE the affiliation request.

[msladybug]

Good advice, Merchants/AMs need to realize that delaying the acceptance process for an unreasonable amount of time will result in the affiliates promoting their competitors. That equals a bad business move.

[~Ed~]

If/when I have a full blown affiliate program, I'm going to be wanting to sign up all the affiliates I can get. That's like... a no brainer!

[Adarsh]

You know what is funny ..

I applied for affiliation with a few merchants around 3 months ago and since then I didn't apply for affiliation with any new merchants. Now whenever I get an email with subject:

XYZ Merchant affiliate program: Approved

I'm like oh wow .. you guys do check whats going on with your affiliate program.

It took them 3 months to evaluate my websites and find out if I'm good enough to be promoting their products or not. I delete such emails without reading them. And in future, any merchant that does not approve my application within a week, it is not worth waiting to get approved, find a competitor and promote them.

[morellhenrik]

I agree with this, its really not worth that we keep them in the waiting list, its better to take the decision quickly or you can even auto approve all the new affiliates joined.