[loxly]

We are in the process of moving the Viator affiliate program from Commission Junction to Shareasale. Don't worry, we won't kill your CJ links too quickly, but we do want to make the move quick and painless.

As of this afternoon you can apply to the Viator affiliate program at Shareasale:
http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantID=18208
and your application will remain pending until next week when the Shareasale tracking goes live during a Viator site build. Once the build is live and tested, we will begin approving affiliates. Be sure to note in the comments box that you are an ABW affiliate. It will also help if you will tell us if you are new or are switching from Commission Junction.

This is the off season for travel affiliates, that is why the transition is now. I apologize in advance to retail affiliates that have no plans to be changing site links in the midst of Black Friday and the holiday retail madness, but we had to do this when the Viator tech team was able to.

I view this move as a very positive one for Viator and all of our affiliates, there are many tools and features planned to help you promote Viator to your site visitors easily and keep information fresh. Popshops, WishAds, Make A Page, Widgets, and a multi-currency datafeed are all being worked on.

Any questions, email me at deborah at viator.com

[Bill]

Hooray! Just clicked the "Join This Program" button. :)

[loxly]

Thanks Bill! Looking forward to working with you at Shareasale now :)

[Vinny O'Hare]

Signed up a little while myself - Can't wait to get some links up

[loxly]

I know many people have been waiting for the move off of CJ, I'm glad we got it to work out. Now off to email bunches of people to get them started with the switch.

Many thanks go out to the Shareasale tech team, Viator had special requirements due to the nature of the business. As many of you already know, Viator batches the sales reporting, it isn't going to be live. Upon completion of the booking affiliates will see a zero commission sale, and then at the completion of *travel* affiliates will see the commission added to their account. All of this is not the "normal" tracking for Shareasale and their tech team has been working with the Viator tech team for several weeks testing all the steps to make sure this will work smoothly.

More details to come....

[lostdeviant]

That's great news!

[2busy]

Excellent news! I'll get in there shortly to take a look:)

[tohca1]

Thanks for the introduction to shareasale. And oh yes,

WISHING YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

[loxly]

Thanks for the introduction to shareasale. And oh yes,

WISHING YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Thank you :) And Welcome to Shareasale, Viator and ABestWeb :)

[loxly]

We are officially live and open on Shareasale, and the Commission Junction program will be closing December 31, 2008. So if you are an affiliate in the Commission Junction program please apply at Shareasale and in the comments box, indicate you are currently a CJ affiliate to speed up the approval process a bit. We manually approve ALL affiliates and will give all sites a once over, so if the site you will be promoting Viator on *isn't* the main site listed in your Shareasale profile, please please please put the link to the site you *will* be promoting us on in the comments box as well.

[affninja]

Just did my application with SaS. Looking forward to getting started.

[loxly]

Just did my application with SaS. Looking forward to getting started.
Awesome! Send me a quick email to deborah at viator.com with your Sas ID and I'll get you approved.