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    Post Affiliate Pro

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Post Affiliate Pro is designed to run an entire affiliate program from top to bottom, with the exception of processing the financial transactions. However, most payment processors and shopping carts can be fully integrated with Post Affiliate Pro. According to the vendor, this solution is intuitive, fast, effective, and infinitely expandable, and designed to grow with the user’s needs. This solution is targeted for any merchant or business who wants to start a successful affiliate program.

    $129

    per month

    Smaato

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASmaato is a supply-side publisher platform (SSP) from the Verve Group since the 2021 acquisition.N/A
    Pricing
    Post Affiliate ProSmaato
    Editions & Modules
    PRO
    $129
    per month
    ULTIMATE
    $249
    per month
    NETWORK
    $599
    per month
    STARTER
    $4,900
    one-time fee
    ELITE
    $12,900
    one-time fee
    NETWORK
    $24,900
    one-time fee
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    Pricing Offerings
    Post Affiliate ProSmaato
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Post Affiliate ProSmaato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Post Affiliate ProSmaato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    QualityUnit, LLC
    Post Affiliate Pro is suitable for any online business that's interested in more sales that come from affiliate partners (and are willing to pay them commission from sales).
    Incentivized
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    Verve Group
    Smaato is very well suited for user acquisition and retargeting companies. Their overlap in terms of audiences and publishers with other exchanges is very limited, which makes it a great alternative when you need to scale a campaign and want to maintain your frequency cap. They work very well in branding campaigns as well as performance campaigns.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    QualityUnit, LLC
    • Tracking works brilliantly.
    • Split commission feature is great.
    • Multiple tracking methods, SEO friendly links are included.
    • SaaS version - didn't have to install anything.
    Incentivized
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    Verve Group
    • Fill - the ad requests we send to Smaato have seen a great requests-to-impression ration.
    • Revenue - We've seen a lift in overall revenue thanks to the high CPM bids we get from Smaato.
    • Payments are always on time and they have a responsive financial team that is helpful in answering any questions.
    • Customer service - They are very fast to respond to any issues. The set up was streamlined thanks to their professional customer service.
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    Cons
    QualityUnit, LLC
    • Does not provide out of the box integration with Salesforce/HubSpot
    • Requires knowledge of PHP in some use cases
    • User interface and on-screen instructions are not always user friendly
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    Verve Group
    • Inventory can be a bit pricey in competitive markets like the US.
    • Reporting dashboard is limited, needs work.
    • They don't offer a lof of transparency about margins over media cost.
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    Usability
    QualityUnit, LLC
    It takes some time to learn how to use it. I do believe it could be a little more usable, but the support helps every time. Even new partners learn to use it relatively fast, and as the time goes by, you can help them yourself and they do not need to reach reach out to customer service.
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    Verve Group
    Smaato has a UI where you can control your line items on the traffic you want to receive. That is a key unique selling point that other SSPs don't offer. Most of the items that you will need like reporting can be done on a self serve manner and that is a big plus, specifically for changes that need to happen really fast and you don't need to deal with account managers that may take some time to answer emails.
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    Support Rating
    QualityUnit, LLC
    Post Affiliate Pro has excellent support. It has improved over time and has a great customer support, if you have any problems. They respond quickly and so far have solved all of our problems. There could be more languages besides English, but it still works great. I can tell that the costumer service staff has a lot of experience.
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    Verve Group
    Smaato's account management team is very professional. They are quite fast in terms of customer support, which is very helpful. One item that stands out is that they are willing to understand what you need for each campaign and what is the best way to move forward. They don't just jump quickly into trying to upsell more of Smaato's products (audiences, data) like other SSPs do.
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    Alternatives Considered
    QualityUnit, LLC
    Basically both are great. Post Affiliate Pro has more integration features with CMS and Payment solutions (Joomla, Drupal etc.) but has the drawback of not integrating with Salesforce and required PHP knowledge in some cases. On the other hand, Referral Rock integrates well with Salesforce and required no coding knowledge as far as I know.
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    Verve Group
    With over 20 demand partners in our stack, Smaato is in the top 5
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    Return on Investment
    QualityUnit, LLC
    • Started using it several month ago; I can see that I can profit
    • Gained the trust of my customers, as they see it is rock-solid software
    • It is very flexible; it can adapt to your business needs
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    Verve Group
    • Increased overall revenue
    • Strong demand pool
    • Easy reporting
    Incentivized
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