Programmers or people who have converted to NATS

[RyanLanane]

Here is my problem. I have an old affiliate system running off the base domain that is tracking sales I want to leave in place for the affiliates currently sending traffic through that program - assuring they have no downtime or lost sales.

I however feel it is essential that a new click through program is installed which has much better stats - I took a look at NATS and it seems like it would work well and provide webmasters with all the proper stats they need to promote the program effectively. So we will be installing NATS (hopefully) very soon.

The problem is if I install NATS in the base directory of the site being promotes (as the other program is) then all the people who come through links on the old system would not have their sales tracked as when something is purchased it would be with the nats join links not the old programs.

The first thought that came to mind was a very simple fix - installing the NATS program to run through to a subdirectory or a subdomain... i.e.

http://nats.domainname.com or http://www.domainname.com/nats

I think the subdomain would obviously appear much more professional if I had to go this route, but I would prefer avoiding if at all possible. Is there anyone here who went through a similar transition ? Anyone have any other suggestions that could be implemented?

I also thought about the possibility of redirecting traffic from the old link codes to go an account on the nats system which we would generate ourself with the same pay to info as the old account but this could be confusing for some webmasters and that is the last thing that is needed right now.

If anyone has any ideas, post away ...

Thanks,
Ryan