I wrote a blog post last year on the subject of sales notifications. In the post, I mentioned that I used the Affiliate Window application to receive notification of sales. Since then, Buy.at have launched a widget which does a similar job, synchronising itself with your stats every few minutes and letting you know when a sale has come through. That's all well and good but I really like to minimise what I install on my PC to keep it nice and spritely.

I mentioned in my post how RegNow sends you an email when you get a sale. I was really pleased to see when I logged onto Paid On Results the other day, for the first time in a while, that they now have this functionality too and I can get an email alert when a sale is made. Definitely one of the reasons why "do more work with POR merchants" remains on my to do list for next year.

Who else offers this? I think DirectTrack based networks probably have this functionality available, but I'd really like to see everyone offer it. Maybe email isn't as sexy as new toys, or maybe sending large volumes of email introduces a new point of failure that networks want to avoid, but personally speaking, it's a really convenient way for me to keep tabs on sales, with email's automatically being assigned to a folder gmail label so I can geta quick overview of activity when I go into my inbox - and whilst I'm in the can't be bothered mood, it saves me looking it up.

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