How is affiliate checks treated in your country? You need to find out about this before you receive your affiliate checks!

Most countries are friendly to checks, specially USA and therefore you will receive your payment in checks from most of the top affiliate programs, but if you live out side of USA you might not have the smoothest responses from your bank. I live in Sweden and the pay check system is really hated by the banks here, in fact they are trying there best to get rid of the pay check system along with a hole bunch of other countries.

In Sweden you will have to visit your bank and leave your check with them, they will control the check by calling your affiliate program, and it takes about 1 week before you get your money out. You will also have to pay them 350 KR (55 dollars) for all there work. Doing this twice a month can really get to you so you might want to find out how your countries attitude towards checks are before you decide who you could work with.

Clickbank sends out affiliate checks twice a month and checks is the only payment option. You might want to look at independent affiliate programs with paypal payment witch will make your cash a lot more easy to access. As well as look at some of the other big affiliate programs that allow more options that just checks. Of course, when you make a lot of money it will not be any problem to get affiliate checks out, but if your only starting out and making hundreds of bucks a month it might not be worth all the effort.