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Best Tracking Software 2016? (31)

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And why? Would love to see more detailed comparisons of all the options.

Update: Props to Thrive, FunnelFlux, Prosper202, Voluum and AdsBridge for chiming in on this thread. Awaiting others. Let's hope this healthy competition drives them to make better, faster solutions.

Update 2: See Amy's in-depth review of the top 3 trackers from this poll - Voluum, Thrive, and FunnelFlux.

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might want to add Thrive in there

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Fixed. (thanks zeno)

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^ yah IMO Voluum likely has more bells and whistle but... I prefer Thrive for how simple it is to setup.

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I disagree only with 1 minor part as I think Thrive has more bells and whistles

Landing page pixel (no redirect required!), Cloaker/Bot Filter, Multi-User Access, SSL + encoded DMR, complex upsells/branching, batch offer inserts, global 3rd party post-backs, landing page protection from organic traffic, fully documented API, transparent raw click data, etc.

And some big things coming soon. Thanks Jason!

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I am bothering with moving my server and tracking solution for about 3-4 days. needed a self-hosted solution cuz of Voluum's click prices and tried both thrive and funnelflux. all of them has advantages and disadvantages.

thrive is more easy to use if you are familiar with Voluum. you can set your traffic sources by just 1 click with all tokens. you can easily set your offers, landing pages and campaigns. but since its using cronjob to refresh data, there is a little bit delay to see your results(it's refreshing data once a minute i guess). spamming that refresh button doesnt work. also if you have a complicated funnel, setting up things isnt easy for a beginner like me. and you need to pay for cloaking feature.

for funnelflux, at first it looked like a bit complicated to me. at my first setup, i made a decision not to use it and then tried thrive. after that delay issue on thrive, returned back to funnelflux. set it again and tried to understand the logic behind that tracker. It isn't so much newbie friendly but once you got the logic, its impressive. and also you can see your results on the air. you can setup more complicated funnels easily with its impressive funnel interface. and has a built in cloaking function for free. but its reporting interface is a bit complicated and needs more manual things to set out.

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I have edited, consolidated Voluum and added Thrive :-)

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+1 for Thrive... we use the managed option with AWS

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Voluum & FunnelFlux seem to be coming out on top. A lot of mention of Thrive in the comments, give it a little time to catch up.

Shocked at CPVlab & Propser with zero votes. No one using them these days?

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I think you need to run the poll longer. Right now the sample size is still quite small.

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+1 for Thrive for being developer friendly and having a well documented API. I'm very disappointed about Voluum in this area, we need to figure out how their API works, their limits, etc because they don't have anything documented...a huge waste of time which shouldn't happen in these days for a product at that stage.

For the normal affiliate this is not important, but for bigger agencies with programmers in-house and with so much technology getting into this space which needs integrations(wave of new spy tools is just an example), being open to developers becomes a requirement.

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In my opinion, Voluum is the way to go.

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Nice to see FunnelFlux is leading the poll so far

You may want to read this post to see why it's better than the other trackers and this one to see how much faster.

Also, a search for FunnelFlux in STM will show you what other marketers think about it.

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Big props to Thrive and FunnelFlux for being active on the thread. I know the guys behind Voluum have been active on the forum recently too... results will become more clear as the week goes on. It's all very tight at the moment.

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I'm currently using Voluum though lately with their team working on other things, their product feels a bit abandoned to me.

I like this poll and was thinking that an independent feature comparison could be useful, but didn't vote because to give my opinion on which is the best, I would need to give them a serious try-out.

Very interested though in the opinions of folks who have in-depth experience with multiple of these solutions.

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Re Funnel Flux

Did anyone try these features? Are they as good as they sound?

Funnel Heatmaps
View your campaign's performance visually. Pinpoint the exact bottlenecks in your funnels for each traffic source, country or any other metric combined or independently.

Collect Conversion Data from Competitors
Found a competitor's page you want to test? No need to copy their lander, remove their tracking and upload on your server. Just enter their page url and you will be able to test it with your offers right away ( more details inside).

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Which of the trackers can handle Google gclid and preferably send conversions automatically back to Google Adwords?
Which trackers can trigger retargeting scripts for BOTH clicks and conversions?

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Prosper202 Pro currently captures the gclid for Adwords and all utm variables. We don't have a way to automatically send to Adwords yet. But in 1.9.30 we generate the correct csv format for manual uploading.

I think pretty much all of them can trigger retargeting pixels on conversation by doing a piggy back.

We are working on also triggering on a direct link click. The current downside is that it slows down the redirect.

1.9.30 is scheduled to be done the week after next. But ping me if you want to test the gclid upload, because it's done.

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@EricNyc, Yep, tryed and working fine :-)

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I think this is an important note.

I don't think it would be unfair to say that if you are running higher volume (which I consider to be >100k/day) or traffic from multiple geos, or even just multiple regions within the US, a self-hosted solution is simply not in the same league of considerations.

There are a ton of affiliate businesses where a self-hosted solution is not in consideration. It's a different customer who wants to self-host and configure/optimize/admin their own server.

I see this as we offer both. The needs and demands and the size of these customers are hugely different.

With that said, the mods might also want to add Adsbridge to the poll.

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This thread is amazing as are the tracking solutions in it (except Prosper202 that shit has sucked forever). Back when I started getting serious with IM nothing even close to the worst solution on this list existed you basically had to pass a bunch of SubId's to track anything you broke down. So many of you guys have no idea how easy these tracking companies have made it to run successful campaigns now.

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Great poll, great timing. A feature comparison chart will also be amazing after the poll.

It's really important to give trial options so we can test each other to see which suit our specific needs best. I know FF has $1 trial. I read Voluum also has a trial, but didn't find it on their website. Did they stop giving trials? I'd like to test both FF and Voluum to see which is best for me, then go with it. So, for now, since FunnelFlux has a trial I'll start with it.

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Pixelk. Because high volume = only self hosted (i want pay 2-3k$ for Voluum). im with my admin test Thrive, its good, but when i launch 4-8k and more visits in 1 minute, tracker cant stand ok. Redirect time up from 0.3-0.5sec (in normal mode) to 2-5sec. 2-5 sec can kill all ROI.
We chat with support so much and this guys reccomend their cloud thrive. But cloud with high volume work worst than self-hosted thrive. lol
Voluum ok with volume, but expensive.

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Self-hosted depends on your server configuration. If you'd be so kind to PM me your Thrive user, I'll do a multi-geo and high load benchmark on your install for you and prove our speeds.

I found a user in our system that matches your STM user name, but that user has never used our Cloud Service.



Update: this @woohooman person never responded.

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Can't wait to see how FunnelFlux evolves in the next few months... it's already a really nice tool and if the reporting gets even better it would be awesome (right now reporting is the only part of this tracker that I don't find as polished as the rest)

Regarding Voluum, when running large volume it becomes sooo pricey that you can even get yourself multiple self hosted trackers + multiple servers around the world + a server admin to manage everything for the same price.

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I've ran all of these trackers excluding Adsbridge and a few others that are not so common. I've also not tested the latest version of CPVlab which just came out.

1. Voluum is not for newbies any more.
2. Two best self-hosted apps are Funnel Flux and Thrive.
3. Thrive campaign setup is more newbie friendly and quicker to launch than Flux as stuff like landers in Thrive are handled easier.
4. Flux redirect is fastest at the moment.
5. Reporting I will also give to Flux as heatmaps and other options for reporting are currently the most expansive in details.

Overall I will go with Flux as it makes campaigns profitable faster with the array of options. These trackers nowadays need two-factor authentication and stop relying on ioncube to hide bad coding. I was impressed with Flux coding before it started arriving encoded and I assume the practices are same. Last thing I will say is to be careful with self-hosted and hosted solutions as my team discovered backdoors that allow data access in popular self-hosted tracking apps over the years. If your budget allows you to, hire your own developers and do your tracking in-house.

Side note: Still want to see proper auto optimization added in trackers, better alerts for when shit goes wrong, options to load my lander lp from elsewhere if my domain is flagged and so on.

Tip: If you run tech, use wildcard domains to make your campaigns last longer before being flagged. Simple javascript and it will load your lander from a different "sub-domain" everytime.

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I understand that you may feel this way, however Voluum is anything but abandoned. Most of our resources have been shifted to our upcoming Voluum DSP and tracker development has slowed down as a result.

I have plans to continue growing Voluum TRK (tracker) this year, and with 85 people now at Codewise (still mostly developers) we have all the means to do so once we get our DSP going. Our new office is being built right now and we'll start heavy recruitment when we move in June -- we're running out of room in our current office. Also, we recently poached one of the top UX guys in Poland, so he'll be helping us with everything to come.

In the end, competition is great for everyone. I personally am impressed with the FunnelFlux UI -- kudos to them for pushing boundaries!

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Google Analytics was getting no love, so this option has been changed to Adsbridge - welcome to the party!

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I LOVE FunnelFlux!

It took sometime to get used to it as it's a lot more different than other tracking tools...

FF's customer support is outstanding, I had issues on server side and they came in to manually help me getting it fixed. Vitavee is always around and he makes sure to have happy customers. Their monthly fee is reasonable for the value you're getting.

It's greatly designed for affiliates who love to model their competition. It's super easy to set up multiple LPs for testing.

Funnel Heatmap is another great feature that lets your easily swap out offers with 2 clicks. You only need to set up your offers once then you can use those on multiple LPs, no need to dig into coding, it is all taken care of in one platform. Pretty dope!

In overall, FunnelFlux isn't just a tracking tool, it makes my affiliate life easier when it comes to setting up multiple landing pages with multiple offers to rotate.

If you haven't tried - I encourage you to give it a shot, you won't regret it, pinky promise. They even have 1-month trial period!

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How do you guys get rid of latency problems with self-hosted solutions like Funnelflux and Thrive? If you're doing offers from all over the world (US+UK+MY+SG+MX+BR+RU) and your VPS/dedi server is hosted in the US, how do you ensure competitive loading speeds as compared to Voluum with load balancing?

I'm currently using Voluum but as my traffic is increasing by the day, my overage costs are increasing. So I'm considering on other plans.

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Since we are talking about trackers i have one question for Thrive users. What's the deal with Thrive and Linux? I have some PCs with Ubuntu, Kali & Fedora, and on none of them i can load the Thrive dashboard, or when it does it takes ages.

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