If you are involved with affiliate marketing or selling your own electronic product, sooner or later you will find yourself needing a Clickbank account. Clickbank is one of the leading ecommerce service providers on the Net because they not only make it easy to accept payments for your products, but because they also provide you with tools to manage and pay your affiliates. It's a great, affordable service.

Unfortunately, Clickbank has never had great online reporting. In fact, when you get right down to it, their reporting is pretty rotten. In order to track your sales, commissions, payments and refunds you will need a tool to manage and process all of this data. While there are a few tools available, CB Accountant is by far the fastest and most full-featured of the lot.

Two of the greatest ways CB Accountant really differentiates itself from similar products is: speed and presentation. Once configured with your Clickbank account information, CB Accountant downloads your data directly from Clickbank and it can be set to update itself at any interval desired. So you can leave this tool running in the background on your desktop, and every time you make a sale, you'll hear a chime and see the financial data updated. It updates so fast in comparison to other tools that it's not even worth comparing the. Best of all, if you are currently using CB Extract, the developer of CB Accountant includes a utility to import all of your existing data so you will lose nothing!

The presentation of the data is also quote fast and sharp. You can see your financial stats at the top of the screen and a graphical presentation of your revenue on the bottom. You can even select from line, pie or bar charts. The charts draw fast and you customize the look and feel, too.

One of the features I particularly like is the ability to issue a refund with a single click. While no one likes to deal with refunds of electronic products, you need to do so to maintain a good relationship with Clickbank and the customer. It's simply good business. Normally, you would send an email to Clickbank with a copy of the electronic receipt, but with CB Accountant, it's one step. You can even personalize the refund template if you want to. 

CB Accountant was developed by Rod Beckwith, the creator of Press Equalizer and Top Keyword Data among other tools. As I've gotten to know Rod, I have found him to be an extremely good listener, and willing to add new features quickly, so if you need help, expect great customer service.

All in all, CB Accountant makes it easy to do business with Clickbank, and it is an essential tool to manage your Clickbank data. You'd be foolish to manage your business in any other way. To learn more, click here.