Question

I have an app that aggregates apps from the app store for a specific audience, and I use the iTunes Affiliate program (via LinkShare).

When a user taps the download button, it opens safari with the affiliate link and redirects to the AppStore. That’s how I see it happening in other apps as well (“Free App Tracker”, for example).

However, while LinkShare counts the clicks, I don’t see any “orders”, and I know there should be a few.

The clicks count gets updated the same day, while the orders count didn’t get updated at all (still 0) for 3 days now.

Do I need to call the url in any specific way? or do LinkShare take their time with orders reports?

Thanks!

Answer 1

LinkShare track the orders in different way: there is the transaction date which is the date when the purchase was done, and then there is the “process” date which is when the transaction has been processed by the LinkShare system.
You can read more about it.