WooCommerce Coupons for Affiliates

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• Tony

  July 27, 2012 10:57 am

  Hi, I recently purchased Woocommerce Affiliates Pro for the coupon functionality, it’s really good, but I’ve noticed an issue when setting referral rates against coupon codes. When referral rate is set to be say 0.2 (for 20%), the total to the affiliate isn’t calculated on the Totals page, if I choose a dollar value under Referral Amount the correct values are calculated.

  Is this a bug in the latest release, or am I missing something?

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  • kento

    July 27, 2012 12:39 pm

    Hi Tony, when you don’t choose a currency, it will show totals for all currencies. If you don’t see any, you probably have the status or another filter set? The filter settings are persistent through sessions.

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• Tony

  July 28, 2012 9:25 am

  Thanks for the quick reply. I have no filter set. When I use referral rates without coupon codes the Totals get added correctly, when I use referral rates with coupon codes they do not get calculated at all.

  Let me explain.

  I create a new affiliate and assign coupon codes and a referral rate of 0.2.

  A customer goes to the site (not via an affiliate link) purchases an item and uses an assigned coupon code to an affiliate.

  The coupon code is deducted correctly from the order.

  After the sale completes the affiliate is not accredited anything for the sale, although the sale is recorded under that affiliate under ‘Referrals’ as a 0.00 Amount – and under ‘Totals’ nothing is added – it should be 20% of the sale.

  Should a referral amount be used, then the referral amount is accredited to the affiliate.

  I’m using the latest versions Affiliate Pro & WooCommerce.

  Any ideas?

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  • kento

    July 28, 2012 9:46 am

    Let me check your setup please, I’d say it is related to some setting but it’s hard to say without having a look.

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  • kento

    July 28, 2012 10:33 am

    Everything’s working fine, the referrals with 0 amounts result from orders with 0 totals. The coupons you have applied to these orders result in 100% discount on the total order amount, you’re giving them away for free and the resulting referral amount is in line with that.

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• Tony

  August 1, 2012 8:52 am

  Hi Kento, thanks for everything, all perfectly clear, please can you confirm what the syntax should be if you select the referral method option for commission rates.

  Using your example online I’ve registered the custom method plugin, but whatever value I add in the value field after selecting referral method I get the error Invaild Data.

  I’m sure it’s something simple I’m missing?

  Thanks .

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  • kento

    August 1, 2012 11:53 am

    Do you use it in the Affiliates > Settings section or do you want to apply it to a specific affiliate?

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• Tony

  August 1, 2012 12:29 pm

  I’d like to add it to a specific affiliate.

  I installed the plugin via the plugin install tool and it activated fine, but can’t seem to access it without getting an Invalid data error when selecting Referral Amount Method.

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  • kento

    August 1, 2012 1:05 pm

    When you specify the custom method as an affiliate attribute, do it like this: ACM::custom_method – it will only accept valid methods, such as the one defined in the example plugin, in the form {class name}::{method}

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• femy

  October 23, 2012 3:40 pm

  I have a coupon site and was hoping to use your product for my coupon site. Will this work for that whereby my affiliates will be rewarded for links they help sell services through. Your feedback will be appreciated.

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  • kento

    October 25, 2012 2:23 pm

    I think that would not be suitable for your site as the coupons and products you have are external. The plugin is useful when your clients can purchase on your own site and apply a coupon code on a purchase. That coupon, when linked to an affiliate, would grant the affiliate a referral.

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