Trackdesk

"Simplifying affiliate marketing and a helpful customer support team)"

Overall: My overall experience with Trackdesk has been very positive. The platform is intuitive, easy to navigate, and packed with all the essential features I need to manage my affiliate marketing programs. I especially appreciate how easy it is to set up campaigns, track performance, and manage payouts. The customer support team is also very responsive and helpful, which is always a plus.

Pros: I have tried a lot of affiliate platforms and I was fed up with their old-school designs and lack of features. Trackdesk changed the game for me. It's super easy to use and has everything I need to run my campaigns smoothly. Tracking performance and working with affiliates is easy now.

Cons: As a satisfied user of Trackdesk, there isn't much I dislike about the platform. If I had to point out one area for improvement, it would be the reporting features. While the basic reports are helpful, I would like to see more advanced options for analyzing campaign performance and affiliate activity.

"Generally confusing."

Overall: Overall I'm very frustrated but at the same time I get that they are a new company and probably have limited resources. My frustration is borne out of the simple things I want to get done and get started but am falling at the first hurdle. Once they have these sorted then I'm sure it will be good software and that they'll do well. My suggestion is that they start to treat even the free customers as golden. Because we are the ones who will spread the word to our facebook friends in business groups, compatriots in the business world etc etc; the other startups and small companies that will become Trackdesk's bread and butter. But if we're treated as second class citizens that just won't happen. I also, as an aside, don't understand why affiliate companies don't just charge an affiliate charge per sale. Surely as an affiliate company believing in this way of selling should be the best sales pitch ever. Just charge me £0.25 per sale. At least that way you make money from everyone and have an income from the start too. But that's just a thought. So in summary, treat all your customers as gold and put some tool tips written in human speak to guide us round implementation :-) Other than that keep up the good work, with dedication and a good customer feedback loop this will go very very far! Jools

Pros: I like that it's free until a certain revenue level. Other companies give you two weeks and if you're a start up or have no affiliates then you may not even sign up an affiliate in those two weeks. It was easy to set up and the UI looks good. It's early days for them so some user feedback will probably help them tweak this.

Cons: Oh my god it's confusing to set up a deal. I simply want to make a 12.5% commission for all affiliates and it needs me to set 'revenue' (no tool tips explain why). And then an amount to pay, well I don't know the amount as it's a percentage. Support not answering: So I dropped support a line about the above but they seem to not answer. It's been nearly 24 hours and just bots referring me to helpdesk articles that aren't helpful. The helpdesk articles seem to be written in developer speak rather than human. It also seems to be maybe written by a not English native speaker. It's just confusing to try and find the details. They restrict certain parts of the software unless you pay, that's fine. But it seems counter intuitive to have your free option convert to paying when your income level gets to £5k a month, then to restrict the tools that will help us get to £5k a month. I seem not to be able to run multiple affiliate campaigns through WooCommerce?? Free customers are put to the back of the support queue.