The Ready! Ecommerce plugin seems to be getting popular and it was quite easy to integrate it with the Affiliates plugin.
If you’re interested in an affiliate solution for your shop based on Ready!, you can give it a try: Affiliates Ready Light is a free solution that works with all versions of the Affiliates plugin series.
Ecwid is offering a really cool and easy to handle shopping cart that you can set up within a few minutes.
Their system allows you to deploy a fully featured e-commerce solution within a single HTML page. It doesn’t get easier than that!
The premium integration with Affiliates Pro for WordPress and Ecwid has been around for quite a while now, but for those who just get started with their store and are looking for a free and efficient affiliate program, I’m happy to announce that a free integration with the Affiliates plugin is now available: Affiliates Ecwid Light.
Groups Forums claims to be a powerful and yet light-weight forum system for WordPress sites. Ok, the plugin is rather innocent regarding these claims, it’s me who thinks it does quite well 
Let’s see how it performs compared to bbPress and Simple:Press. Just to be clear, this post and the results exposed are intended to shed some light on how much these plugins will actually slow down your site. Godaddy provides a nice tool called P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler), which allows to create performance reports for sites, and the following data has been obtained with it on three different test sites, each with the Twenty Twelve theme, running WordPress 3.5.1 and the absolute minimum of plugins and with no caching plugin installed. The tests have all been run on installations hosted on a HostGator shared hosting account. These are the plugins that were active on each test site when running the P3 performance scans:
The performance scans were done manually on pages relevant to forums – totaling 41 visits in each case. No other posts or pages were present and on the test sites for Groups Forums and bbPress, some widgets related to forums and topics and the default Meta widget were shown in the sidebar (Simple:Press doesn’t provide any widgets related to forums or topics OOTB, the only widget active on its test site was the Meta widget). In each case, three test forums were created, 100 test users, and the following test topics:
Have a good look at these numbers when comparing the results
The Plugin Impact, defined as Percent of load time on your site dedicated to plugin code and indicated by P3 under these conditions for each is:
Here’s the Detailed Breakdown for Groups Forums …
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I’ve been asked if it is possible to hide the WooCommerce Shop page based on Groups’ access restrictions. As it is, trying to apply the normal way (checking a capability in the Access restrictions of the page) simply doesn’t work.
So what does work? Here’s an example:
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December is here at last! And a good bunch of new extensions for the Affiliates plugins brings useful tools to shop owners, so that your Xmas sales can get a pretty boost thanks to your business partners.
Talking about a bunch, after so many requests for a generic multi-tier solution have been received, Affiliates Enterprise is now available with support for unlimited tiers and rate-based commissions. It also comes with all currently supported extensions and during this happy month, it’s available at a discount – it’s a steal 
So here’s what’s new:
More coming up soon!
The new Groups Notifications plugin has been released. This is a free extension to Groups and adds notification features:
Affiliates Pro 2.2.1 has just been released and adds a new exciting feature: graphs on the front end for affiliates. This allows to show combined or individual diagrams to affiliates including performance information about hits and visits on their affiliate links or the number of referrals they have been credited with.
Details about the new shortcodes and how to use them are available in the Graphs section of the documentation.
Here’s a list of useful WordPress plugins that provide often asked for features:
A list of useful plugins is now maintained on the new Useful Plugins page. New suggestions will be added there. If you think that a WordPress plugin should be added there, please post a comment with a link to it.
Here is a video on the EDD – Easy Digital Downloads integration with Affiliates Pro explained by EDD’s author Pippin:
EDD is a great system to sell digital products, give it a try! You can download it on WordPress.
The Affiliates Pro integration pack for EDD is available here.
The Affiliates Pro integration with Ecwid has been released.
Affiliates Pro for Ecwid fully automates affiliate commissions for sales handled through Ecwid and provides additional Ecwid-specific options. Referrals are automatically accepted, rejected or put on hold according to the actual status of the related order.
Affiliate commissions based on Coupon Codes and Affiliate Links:
Ecwid store coupons are fully supported: assign one or multiple coupon codes to an affiliate to give credit when these are applied to a purchase. This provides an attractive alternative to affiliate links and gives an additional incentive to both the affiliate and customers who seek to buy your products at a discount. Normal affiliate links are of course supported as well.
The integration pack for Ecwid can be obtained here: Affiliates Pro for Ecwid
Affiliates Pro for WooCommerce now supports coupon codes.
Coupon codes are assigned to affiliates to credit them with a commission for each purchase the code is applied to. One or more codes can be assigned to an affiliate.
Details about how this works are outlined on the Coupons documentation page.
The integration with WooCommerce is the first to directly support coupons with Affiliates Pro.
Groups File Access is a WordPress plugin that allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership.
To be able to download a file, a user must be a member of a group that is assigned to the file. If an access limit has been set for the file, the user must also have accessed (downloaded) the file fewer times than the file’s access limit.
Download the plugin on CodeCanyon
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This integrates Affiliates Pro with PayPal Payments Standard. Using any PayPal payment button on your site, the integration captures PayPal’s IPN messages to track sales referred by affiliates. It provides various flexible shortcodes and an API that are used to work with PayPal HTML forms:
Detailed information is available on the Affiliates Pro PayPal Integration page and the integration pack can be downloaded through the Affiliates Pro for PayPal product page.
Just released: Affiliates Pro for Contact Form 7
This integration collects submitted form data and tracks each form submission to the referring affiliate. Possibilities are huge. The integration has really been requested a lot, especially by businesses who needed to track sales referrals but do the actual sales offline. It’s taken a while because other priorities had to be taken care of first, on the other hand, the integration now provides more features than initially planned and with the latest version of Affiliates Pro, delivers a set of powerful tools to track and evaluate form submissions, referrals and more to marketers.
About Affiliates Pro:
The Affiliates Pro plugin provides an affiliate management system for sellers, shops and developers, who want to increase sales through their own affiliate program. The integration with Contact Form 7 provides an ideal solution for businesses that need to track referred leads to handle offline sales commissions.
About the integration with Contact Form 7:
Important features include fully automated affiliate registration, unlimited affiliate management, flexible affiliate areas, automated form data collection, access to individual data from submitted forms on the back end, front end and in notifications, customizable affiliate notifications and all the standard features that already come with Affiliates Pro.
The integration can be obtained here: Affiliates Pro for Contact Form 7.
The Affiliates Plugins Feature Comparison shows key features that the Affiliates WordPress plugin provides against those included in Affiliates Pro and its integrations with various e-commerce and membership solutions.
Current integrations include eShop, Jigoshop, s2Member, WooCommerce and WP e-Commerce with new integrations under development and scheduled for release.
Finally! I’m happy to announce that the Affiliates Pro integration with eShop is available.
The pack includes the Affiliates Pro plugin with full features and automates referrals for sales made through eShop.
To download the pack go to this page.
For those who want to try our Affiliates with eShop first or who simply don’t need the advanced features provided by Affiliates Pro, the free integration with the Affiliates plugin has been available since almost a month and can be obtained here.
The Affiliates Pro WooCommerce Integration Pack is now available.
The pack includes the Affiliates Pro plugin with full features and extended settings to control the integration with online shops powered by WooCommerce.
To download the pack go to this page.
If you don’t need the advanced features or want to try it out first, there is also a free integration with the Affiliates plugin which you can obtain here.
Groups is a WordPress plugin that provides group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control. It integrates standard WordPress capabilities and application-specific capabilities along with an extensive API.
Read more on the Group plugin’s official page.
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