First there was Clickbank standing alone in allowing affiliates to sell digital products. Then along came PayDotCom and took them on. Clickbank responded to this challenge by giving their site a long overdue makeover and tweaking their system a bit.

Both networks have survived in the market place and both continue to prosper. It was only a matter of time before someone decided to challenge them and create another network.

Enter SharePayNow. SharePayNow has recently gone into public beta and is fully functional, recruiting both Publishers and Affiliates.

Similar in many ways to PayDotCom, SharePayNow has looked at where the two main networks have perhaps not served their customers as best they could and tried to rectify it.

The most obvious difference is that SharePayNow doesn’t charge affiliates any fees. They also allow product images in the marketplace, which is a great help when trying to choose a product to promote. Like PayDotCom SharePayNow affiliates can be paid via PayPal. But unlike PayDotCom they insist that Publishers sign an Affiliate Payment Guarantee, which will hopefully go some way to ensuring that affiliates are paid on time and the correct amounts.

As with most start ups it is difficult to tell where SharePayNow will be a year down the line. But it’s often worthwhile getting in at the start just so so you can take advantage of all the opening offers designed to get the program off the ground as quickly as possible. There are affiliates and publishers already making sales through SharePayNow, so why not check it out.