If you're currently using PayDotCom and thinking to use Click2Sell service, you may want to know the differences between the two services and how Click2Sell compares when stacked up against the PayDotCom service and what it offers that isn’t available with PayDotCom. Listed below users are some certain features that have been compared and the advantages that Click2Sell has over PayDotCom in these areas.

Account Costs - PayDotCom offers free user accounts for both classes of members whether they are affiliate or merchant account holders. However while affiliate accounts are free and you can get a free merchant account, the nature of the service provided on such merchant accounts is limited. Merchant users are only allowed to upload a limited amount of products via the website. Anyone who wants to do more will need to pay costs for a premium account ($29). Click2Sell on the other hand provides both merchant and affiliate accounts to all its users without charging a fee for operating these accounts. Merchants may also upload as many products as they wish without being billed for doing so.

Payment Options - PayDotCom offers a limited amount of payment options when compared to Click2Sell. The service exclusively recommends the use of PayPal and doesn’t provide any other options other than the occasional use of cheques to withdraw and deposit money into the service. This is as much a limitation to affiliates as it is to merchants who appreciate the needs of having various payment systems in order to receive money from customers. Click2Sell gives its affiliates the dual option of withdrawing with either StormPay or the use of PayPal. Merchants have a wider option and can receive payments from various payment systems. Some payment systems which Click2Sell uses to process merchant payments are: WorldPay, Google Checkout, PayPal, StormPay and Authorize.net

Customer Support - PayDotCom clients complain about slow customer support whether in their forums or e-mail based support systems. Queries and requests may take between 3 weeks to 9 weeks tor receive responses from contact staff. It also takes an equally long period for forum posts on the website to get approved by the forum administrators.Click2Sell on the other hand has a free forum and e-mail support system that prides itself on prompt responses to users of the service. This helps users who want to make enquiries about any problems they have which may not be answered on the FAQ page.

Server Speed - When processing queries on PayDotCom the servers are often slow to respond and this can be annoying especially when a lot of requests have to be processed. Though PayDotCom has reportedly made some efforts to address this issue, it is yet to be fully resolved. Processing queries through Click2 Sell on the other hand is a fast process. Despite the fact that the service is new users may process any queries they may have on their sales or commission related figures and receive this information faster than they would with the PayDotCom service.

Processing Affiliate Payments - Processing affiliate payments from PayDotCom merchants has to be done manually. If the manual process was on servers functioning at full speed users would hardly have a problem. The slow servers of PayDotCom make it stressful for merchants who wish to process payments for affiliates.  Affiliates on the other hand are made to wait a long period of time for a system that is somewhat unreliable before they receive their funds from the merchants using the PayDotCom system. Click2Sell offers a semi-automated payment option on their fast servers helping users get their money promptly while merchants retain some form of control over the affiliate payment process as well.

Reporting, Statistics and Sales Tools - Both Click2Sell and PayDotCom provide their members with advanced sales and statistics reporting tools, however the sales information offered by PayDotCom is not categorized in a user friendly manner. Users constantly have to click from one link to another trying to find the precise link that gives them the desired information to monitor their progress. Click2Sell organizes its links in two-tier bars. The main bar is for general account information such as : Affiliate Account, Merchant Account, Payments , Reports, Marketplace, Promote Click2Sell and Support. Clicking on any of these links will reveal the secondary bar with the necessary information. This organization level is user friendly and helps you find what you’re looking for without breaking a sweat.

Click2Sell also provides readily available statistics on information such as conversion rates for sales under the links provided under the link for Reports. With PayDotCom some of these statistics have to be extrapolated by manual calculations.Click2Sell provides the necessary statistics without overtly focusing on statistics of little interest to either affiliates or merchants.

PayDotCom certainly has its benefits but its flaws are a debilitating factor and hamper the progress of both merchants and affiliates alike. Click2Sell provides as many benefits as PayDotCom and more, it also provides a service that suffers from none of the crippling factors affecting the PayDotCom service and people with accounts of that same service.

On the other hand since Click2Sell is a new service it has fewer affiliate groups to choose from, unlike PayDotCom which has a more diversity in this are due to the fact that it has been in existence for a longer while. This situation however will change in the near future the level of users currently flocking to enjoy the advantages of the Click2Sell option.

Some of these added advantages and features are listed below:

* Advanced statistical tracking - Merchants can easily see how many views their sales page has recorded as well as the number of visitors and sales they’ve gotten as well. They can also determine other statistics as well such as the real product conversion rates, refund rates as well as income derived from their marketing campaigns

* Create different tracking channels – By using different tracking channels for different products, you can determine the amount of traffic and the profit generated by a particular product.

* Track your sales page referrers – You can easily track all your traffic sources. With this you can easily find out which websites and search engines are bring in the visitors and how many visitors you get per traffic source. You can also track your traffic sources separately as well so you can determine conversion rates per traffic source.

* Track your Pay-Per-Click campaigns – Members can find which keywords used on Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search   Marketing and FindWhat will bring in the most visitors and sales. You can also determine the conversion ratio per keyword as well.