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OfferVault vs Affpaying
OfferVault and Affpaying both help publishers look for CPA campaigns. They do not do the same kind of looking, and neither one is the network that pays you. OfferVault is a directory of offers. Affpaying is a directory of networks, programs, and ad platforms, with reviews written by affiliates. Mixing either site up with a CPA network is how a publisher sends traffic to a public page and never sees the click on an account.
This comparison is published by Maxlead, a performance network with its own desk. OfferVault and Affpaying are separate companies. Their pages change. Use them to research. Confirm the offer after you are approved on a network.
What OfferVault is
OfferVault is a search catalog for offers. Networks and advertisers list campaigns so you can scan a payout, a vertical, a country, and the network name without opening every desk first. The listing is not your tracking link. The network named on the card is the company that can approve you, create a link, and pay an approved conversion.
What Affpaying is
Affpaying says it exists to help CPA marketers join the right affiliate networks. The site lists those networks, plus affiliate programs and advertising networks. A network page shows the description the network submitted, a Join button, and scores from publishers. Reviewers rate five areas: offers, payout, tracking, support, and overall. Networks can ask to be listed, and Affpaying says that listing is free.
Join does not keep you on Affpaying. It sends you to the network. Offer cards on the homepage are fed from Affplus, a separate offer search, and “run offer” is still not a tracking link on your publisher account. A step-by-step of the directory is in how to use Affpaying.
How to use each one
Use OfferVault when you already know the vertical and you want to see which networks claim to have an offer in your country. Use Affpaying when you are choosing the network itself: how other publishers scored its offers, its payout, its tracking, and its support, and which payment methods the listing shows.
On OfferVault, the field that matters is the network name next to the offer. On Affpaying, the field that matters is the network you are about to join, and whether the reviews mention the source you actually run. If a review never names a country or a banned source, you still have to read the live offer. A star rating does not approve you.
Both sites go stale. A directory card can keep a payout after the advertiser cuts it. A review can praise a network for a payout speed the network no longer offers. The offer inside your approved account is the page that counts.
Who pays you
OfferVault does not pay the CPA. Affpaying does not pay the CPA. The network you join pays its own publishers, and only for conversions it accepts. If you want the link, the report, and the payout on one desk, that network can be Maxlead. A conversion that breaks the country or the traffic rule can still be rejected after an ad platform has counted the click.
Where the tracking link comes from
From either site, follow the network name and apply there. The tracking link is created on that network, on your account, after you are approved for the offer. It should carry your publisher id. Add sub IDs only in the parameters that network accepts. Do not paste a public listing URL into an ad. If you are still pending, you do not have a link yet.
A worked example
You buy social traffic in the United States and you want a finance offer. On OfferVault you filter finance and the United States and write down the network names, not the biggest payout. On Affpaying you open those same networks and read whether publishers rated payout and support well, and whether the listing’s payment method is one you can use. You apply to one network. You do not wait for Affpaying to pay you.
After that network approves the offer, you set one sub ID to us-social and another to the ad name, then send a small test. The network report should show the clicks. OfferVault will not. Affpaying will not. They are not your tracker.
Where Maxlead fits
OfferVault helps you discover an offer. Affpaying helps you compare the networks behind those offers, using affiliate ratings and a public directory. Maxlead is the performance network where the link, the report, and the payout live. It has operated since 2015. Approved publishers get tracking links, sub IDs, weekly payment of approved earnings, and an account manager. Public offers open after the account is approved. Other offers need a request.
Open the Maxlead homepage when you are ready to run a campaign instead of reading about one. The checks are the same as on any listing: country, allowed source, the action that gets paid, the cap, and a tracking link that keeps your sub IDs. For the full list, read how to compare CPA networks.