Depending on the network you're working with they may be able to help you get stats in pretty much real time when users complete offers. Here are a couple of options:
#1 - Pixel - Some networks (ours is one) will allow you to place an image pixel on the conversion page of a campaign. When the pixel is called your server will know that a conversion has occurred. When a user clicks on the link you can cookie them and then when your pixel is called you can have your server read the cookie so you know which user completed the action. I'm not too tech savvy but thats my understanding of how that works.
#2 - Pinger URL - Some networks (again ours is one, I know incentaclick and adteractive offer this as well) allow you to place a url with them that will be called every time a conversion occurs. Somewhere within that url you can have the offer name and your subid prepopulated. Should look something like this: yoursite.com/?offer=<offerINhere>&subid=<SUBIDhere>.
#3 - API/Webservices - Every directtrack network offers webservices. Our webservices are launched in beta right now. This will allow you to have your server do calls to the network to download stats at specified intervals (Every hour or so).
#4 - You can login manually, download stats, then upload them to your system. (NOT FUN
Cheers
-Jordan
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