Well, I'm one happy chappy!

Over the past week, I uploaded 1245 photos on to the Zoonar website, after reading the financial incentive the company is currently offering to photographers uploading to the site.  Out of these 1245 images, 902 were accepted on to the site.  Out of the 902 accepted, 886 were accepted on to Polylooks. 

For the 886 what were accepted on to Polylooks at .15Euro cents each, I received 132.90Euros.  I lodged a request for payment less than 48 hours ago, and an hour ago, I received the payment in my PayPal account!  Now, that's prompt payment!!!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've had reason to send a few e-mails to the site, requesting advice and assistance.  All my correspondence ended up being with Michael.  I was surprised by the promptness of his replies. This gave me the impression that this company realises how important to their business photographers are.  I'm very impressed!

Now that I've received my payment, I'm really looking forward to seeing how my images sell on this site.  With all the dealings I've had with the company, I truly believe they deserve to be successful!

I can do nothing else but strongly recommend Zoonar!

Thank you all for your comments, suggestions and help.

I took notice of your suggestions.......clearing my cache didn't help.   However, I installed all of the available updates for Windows, then turned my modem off, and restarted everything, now it's working fine!


Cheers

Phil

I sent an e-mail to them to request my final payment.  I promptly received a reply, asking me to delete all of my images.....a real pain, deleting one at a time.......around 1100 of them!  Within a few days of doing that, I received my final payment today.

Bob, I just tried to get my DP stats working.  When I try to do a 'Test' in the Custom Polar area, it comes up with this mesage:  Parse failed with error: tooltipRegex test resulted in no match.

When I try to do a test in the Custom Polar area for BS, it comes up with the same message.

As I said, in the 'Agencies' area, BigStock is listed, however, all of the boxes are blank.  I can't add my username etc. 

BobbieMac...a bit of feedback for you.

For some reason the 'old' BigStockPhoto icon is still appearing in my statistics bar.  It has never worked for me.  Now, the new BS icon is there as well...it's not working either.  My 123RF icon is there, however, it hasn't updated for a few days.  The CanStockPhoto icon is there as well, however,it only works occasionally.  The DepositPhotos icon is there, but it's not updating.

Apart from that, the FT, SS, IS, DT, Veer, CC, FP, PM, and StockXpert are all working fine.

For several weeks, on and off, I�ve felt uneasy about the daily updated balance on my account. 

I use the PicNiche add-on tool, which keeps me up to date with my sales throughout the day.....except for 123RF, which only updates once at the end of each 123RF day.  The strange thing is that the update process for 123RF, at times, can take up to several hours to complete - adding and subtracting various amounts....none of which, most of the time, bear any resemblance to the amount that should have been added for my sales in the previous 24-hour period.  I felt that on a number of occasions my daily sales amounts were not being correctly added to the weekly and, consequently, monthly balance and, at times, they actually appeared to drop, rather than increase.

A couple of weeks ago, I started to check my sales several times each day....bearing in mind that the 123RF day ends either at 1.00pm or 2.00pm Sydney time.....I'm not 100% sure....as some days the subtracting and adding commences at around 1.00pm, and other days closer to 2.00pm.  Some days, this can go on for a number of hours.

A couple of weeks ago, on a couple of days, first thing in the morning, I wrote down my monthly total, and my total sales amounts.  Throughout the day, up until 1.00pm, I recorded any sales that I had accumulated.  What I found was that after the adding/subtracting process completed (after the end of the 123RF day), the monthly/total balance amounts seemed to be less than the figure that I�d come up with, after adding the sales from that particular 24-hour period to the monthly/total balance.  It appeared that I was receiving the correct amount earned from credit sales; however, it seemed that I was missing out on my earnings obtained from subscription sales.

I wrote to 123RF about this matter, and expressed my concerns.  I even captured screendumps to substantiate my query, and attached them to my e-mail.

Within a short time I received the following reply:

I would advise against checking your earnings on 123rf 10 to 15 times per day. This is because pulling up the detailed earnings report does take a heavy toll on our system. It has to recalculate all the earnings from previous months and tally things up for you. As a result the system may or may not report your earnings accurately as the script does take some time to calculate out everything.

My advice to you is, if you find any problems with your earnings and if it persists for more than 2 days, do bring the matter to our attention, I believe checking your earnings 2 times a day at most is more than sufficient.

Thank you very much!

I'm afraid I didn't find that answer very helpful, and I felt my concerns were not addressed.

Over the past week, I just haven't had the time to keep a close eye on what's been happening to my account, however, a couple of days ago, I started to take a particular interest in it, and once again, the total sales figure did not match what I felt it should have been after the sales I'd achieved during the previous day.

Once again, I wrote to 123RF.  I sent a detailed e-mail, documenting a number of additions and subtractions that occurred at the usual time of the day, on that day.

Yesterday, at 12.16 pm, Sydney time, I wrote down my current monthly balance......$22.65.  I had two sales.....one subscription sale, and one credit sale of $1.29....totalling $1.65.  After the update yesterday afternoon (again after the usual subtracting and adding process), my monthly balance stood at $23.94.  The increase in my monthly sales is exactly $1.29.  So, what happened to the 36c from my subscription sale?   This confirmed in my mind that it appears to be the credit sales that seem 'go missing' at times.

After the update today, I�m more confused than ever. 

In the 24 hours period of the 17th, I had two subscription sales.  Earlier in the day, my account updated to $24.30�and increase in 36c, which appears to be the amount of the subscription sale that was not recorded yesterday.  However, after 1.00pm, my account updated again�.this time; it dropped $1.55 from $24.30 to $22.75.  Hours later, just a few minutes ago, it updated again back to $24.30.  However, once again, the funds for the two subscription sales have not yet been added. 

To be honest, there are so many updates, both adding to, and subtracting various amounts from my current balance, none of which make sense most of the time, that I�ve completely lost track of what the balance of my account should be.  I just can�t see why 123RF don�t have set out all of the sales each photographer has in a similar way to iStock and other sites.

Unlike last time, when I received a reply from 123RF within 24 hours, as yet, I have not had a reply from the detailed e-mail I sent two days ago.

Am I the only one having this problem, now, or are others still experiencing this problem?

Last weekend I uploaded the required 10 images to comply with the application process.  Today, I had eight of my images approved, and I was permitted to upload another 100 images.

IMO it's a very user-friendly site.

I do, however, have a slight problem.......how can I view my portfolio?  I'm able to view my approved images in the Dashboard, however, I'm trying to find a way of viewing my online images, like I can on iStock, Dreamstime, Fotolia etc.  On all of the other sites that I upload to, my public profile page either incorporates my portfolio, or a link to my portfolio.  Perhaps the link is staring me in the face, and I just haven't found it.  Oh, and by the way, I haven't been drinking!