Lead Distribution Software

Capture, validate, and deliver quality leads. And more of them with the right lead distribution software.

Lead Distribution Software that Delivers

Real results. How our customers drive business growth across 250+ verticals with CAKE Leads+.

Quality Leads

Quality Leads

“Our clients care about quality. CAKE helps us capture the metrics that matter most, so that we can deliver traffic that truly performs.”
- LenderEDGE

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Business Expansion

Business Expansion

“By streamlining our affiliate and lead distribution programs on CAKE, we are armed with significantly better insights into campaign performance and the ability to maximize profitability. This empowers us to provide our clients with the best leads at the best prices, helping them drive and expand their businesses.”
- Surge Logics

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Single Solution

Single Solution

“CAKE’s flexible, robust software is a vast improvement for us. Rather than flipping between two independent solutions, having both lead management and affiliate tracking within one platform has streamlined our approach to managing and optimizing our customers’ performance marketing campaigns.”
- Adleader

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Discover CAKE Leads+

Increase
lead value

Fill lead buyer demand through intelligent routing that prioritizes the most lucrative method for selling leads.

Simplify
workflows

Save valuable time and resources by streamlining the management of lead flow, budgets, and the control of information.

Activate new
revenue streams

Advance your affiliate campaigns to the next level. Now also expand to selling leads.

Fraud impacts 30% of leads sold.

The reality is that poor lead quality can negatively affect lead return rates, buyer relationships, and your bottom line. But it doesn’t have to.

Take control over your lead quality with CAKE

Maintain the integrity of the leads you deliver through real-time lead validation and enrichment tools and gain an accurate pulse on lead quality with buyer lead status updates.

Guide: Launch and Grow A Lead Distribution Program with Technology

An essential read for sellers on how to streamline the process of lead distribution with the right software.

Ping/
Post

Sell leads for the highest price and maintain buyer satisfaction by providing a preview of the lead details, enabling buyers to indicate the amount they are willing to pay for each lead.

Data privacy, security,
and compliance

Safeguard platform security with SOC I Type II and SOC 2 Type II certifications and ensure consumer data protection and compliance through adherence to the CPRA, TCPA, DPF, and GDPR.

Advanced
real-time routing

Automate and validate buyer delivery requirements, scheduling, bids and budgets. Plus, route leads based on buyer rank, round-robin functionality, weighted prices, pre-defined buyer volumes, and more.

Additional Capabilities

CAKE Pay

CAKE Pay simplifies and streamlines partner payments and tax document production so you can focus on what you do best – running a profitable performance marketing program.

Powerful Field Validation

Filter incoming leads by vertical, offer and more. For example, block leads submitted by minors on credit card offers.

Multi-touch Attribution

Properly attribute credit for leads generated across marketing channels, traffic sources and campaigns.

Active Alert System

Let CAKE keep an eye on your operation after hours with our customizable active alert system. Example alerts: Lead Buyer Credit Low, Excessive Duplicate Leads and Outbound Post Failures.

Delivery Schedule

Set lead delivery schedules for individual buyer profiles.

Routing Rules

Restrict the routing of leads based on buyers, affiliates, offers and campaigns.

Multiple Lead Delivery Methods

HTTP Post, JSON, XML, SOAP and Email.

Super Simple Lead Return

Leverage one click lead returns. Set rules to refund or replace with additional leads.

Call Tracking

Track digital and call center leads from one platform using our integrations with DialogTech, Velocify and Invoca.

White-labeled Interface

Customize the platform with your brand name, logos and color scheme, as well as the login domain, tracking domain(s) and more.

Scalable and Reliable

99.9% Uptime guarantees and a global infrastructure hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for intelligent scaling to meet business needs.

Superior Support

Get industry-leading phone and email support; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in addition to your dedicated Client Success Manager and Implementation Specialist.

Smart Insights

Access insights into lead quality, buyer activity, traffic source performance and KPIs for cost analysis, revenue, and lead status.

Real-time Reporting

Visualize reports, export data to a CSV file, S3 or access via API in real-time.

Powerful Open API

Make changes through flexible internal automation tools and allow programmatic ingestion of reporting data.>

Customizable Reporting

Create customized metric calculations and additional reporting reviews with the option to share these views across the organization.

Fraud Prevention

Take immediate action on revenue-impacting fraud with pixel whitelisting, custom alerts that recognize abnormal campaign behavior and integrations to Xverify, BriteVerify and e-Hawk.

Managed Services

Receive additional consultation and technical integration services based on your unique business needs.

Lead Deduplication

Identify a duplicate email address or phone number within a specific time frame. This will ensure that the leads you are selling to buyers are not duplicates.

Lead Enrichment

Use third-party enrichment tools or a lead-enrichment process such as a call center, that provide additional information about the lead.

Audit Trail and History

Track all changes made by account managers and system administrators to help identify who made changes and understand why changes were made.

More than 500 of the world’s most successful advertisers, networks and publishers build their business on CAKE.

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