It is beyond essential, critical, to make the affiliates more usable. Unless i am missing the mark, i have to open each and every affiliate, trying to track who *might* be responsible for an order. This is just very wrong. Each order must have an optional affiliate attribute so i can see immediately if a sale is affiliate-driven.
Without this, i will have to hire somebody full-time to track this. I don't want to do that. Either that or use a separate system just to track affiliates, and then i am disconnected from Orders, and then i might as well find another eStore.
sigh.. i hope i am just missing something!