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CAKE Affiliate Marketing Software vs. Post Affiliate Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CAKE Affiliate Marketing Software
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
CAKE’s Affiliate Marketing Software is offered to ensure accurate measurement, data security and support to attract new partners and build profitable relationships. CAKE's solution is designed to allow users to optimize an affiliate marketing program through real-time insights into partner and campaign performance, customizable alerts, granular data and unique commission structures to reward partners. CAKE is a Perseus Group company, of Constellation Software.N/A
Post Affiliate Pro
Score 6.0 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
Pricing
CAKE Affiliate Marketing SoftwarePost Affiliate Pro
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CAKE Affiliate Marketing SoftwarePost Affiliate Pro
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CAKE Affiliate Marketing SoftwarePost Affiliate Pro
Considered Both Products
CAKE Affiliate Marketing Software
Iain Stratton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iain Stratton
Media Specialist
Chose CAKE Affiliate Marketing Software
There’s no comparison between the two, looker is amazing and blows CAKE out of the water
Post Affiliate Pro
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Post Affiliate Pro
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 …
Luis McDonnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luis McDonnell
Online marketing
Chose Post Affiliate Pro
Post Affiliate Pro contains more features than its competitors, and you can get it for a better price as well.
User Ratings
CAKE Affiliate Marketing SoftwarePost Affiliate Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CAKE Affiliate Marketing SoftwarePost Affiliate Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
CAKE is great for affiliates, but not the best for a large company with different types of offers and traffic
Iain Stratton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iain Stratton
Media Specialist
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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).
Luis McDonnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luis McDonnell
Online marketing
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Pros
  • Reporting across multiple verticals
  • Conversion data
  • Tcpa
Iain Stratton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iain Stratton
Media Specialist
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  • Tracking works brilliantly.
  • Split commission feature is great.
  • Multiple tracking methods, SEO friendly links are included.
  • SaaS version - didn't have to install anything.
Luis McDonnell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luis McDonnell
Online marketing
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Cons
  • It’s a little outdated in terms of UI
  • There’s a bit of a learning curve
  • Refreshing from the browser tab
Iain Stratton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iain Stratton
Media Specialist
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  • 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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Usability
No answers on this topic
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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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
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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Alternatives Considered
There’s no comparison between the two, Looker is amazing and blows CAKE out of the water
Iain Stratton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Iain Stratton
Media Specialist
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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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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
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  • 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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Anonymous
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