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Would you like to be informed by ClickBank each time you make an affiliate sale?

Even though ClickBank makes this service available to its affiliates, only a small number of ClickBank affiliates know that instant notification is available for them. Because of this, few use the service. In this article I am going to try to help change the current state of affairs by teaching you more about ClickBank's instant notification interface, and letting you know how you can use it within just minutes of finishing this article.

ClickBank announced its instant notification service at the start of 2008. However, the company did not make it easy for their non technical audience to use the service, and the news of the instant notification protocol went largely unnoticed.

Here is how it works. Assuming that you enable instant notifications from inside your ClickBank affiliate account, ClickBank will try to transmit to any web program (that you specify) that can receive it, a record of each transaction that goes into your account during the course of the day.

Herein lies the real problem. You need to have a web application installed on a site that you own, which can accept the transaction data from ClickBank (in the form of a POST request). Your application is then expected to also email you the same information.

To its credit, ClickBank has provided some code which explains how to accept the information that it transmits to you. It also instructs you on how to establish that the data you received has not been tampered with during transit.

Regardless, most affiliates would have liked to have been given a web program that does the job for them without them having to spend time trying to create something on their own.

Luckily, these days affiliates can bypass all of this technical tom foolery and get ClickBank affiliate sales notifications simply by downloading a FREE web application that logs your ClickBank sales transactions and emails you alerts. All you have to do is configure the application and visit ClickBank to switch on your instant notifications.

There are advantages to doing this, both for you, and for ClickBank. Many affiliates tend to log into their ClickBank account several times a day to see whether they have managed any new sales. But this is no longer required if you are being informed, in real time, about new sales that are coming in. It is also a boon to ClickBank, because by offloading you from their servers - which are somewhat overburdened - the login experience for remaining affiliates gets better.

So, the moral of the story is that you do not have to be a ClickBank merchant to get special treatment in the form of sales notifications. Affiliates can enjoy the service too. It is simply a matter of knowing how to set it up, which can be done by visiting this ClickBank instant sales alerts page to download CB Alert.

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