Affiliates eShop Light

This plugin integrates Affiliates with eShop.

With this integration plugin, referrals are created automatically for your affiliates when sales are made through eShop.

The plugin allows you to set a referral (commission) rate so that your affiliates get credited with a referral based on a percentage of each sale’s total net amount.

Affiliates allows you to maintain your own affiliate program to boost sales through your online store powered by eShop. This is what you need:

Install these, set up your shop, set the referral rate for affiliates and distribute your affiliates their affiliate links. Whenever an affiliate refers a client to your store and the client makes a purchase, you will see a referral created for the affiliate.

Feedback is welcome!

If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, you can leave a comment below.

Installation

1. Install and activate the eShop plugin. Configure your shop.
2. Install and activate the Affiliates plugin. Use the default settings or configure it to your needs.
3. Install and activate the Affiliates eShop Integration Light plugin.
4. A new eShop Integration Light menu item will appear under the Affiliates menu in WordPress. Set the referral rate for your affiliates there.

Note that you can install the plugins from your WordPress installation directly: use the Add new option found in the Plugins menu.
You can also upload and extract them in your site’s /wp-content/plugins/ directory or use the Upload option.

Frequently Asked Questions

What features does this integration provide?

When a sale is made through eShop, a referral is recorded for the affiliate that referred the sale.

How can I set the amount that affiliates earn on each sale?

Go to Affiliates > eShop Integration Light and set the rate there.

Example: If you want to give an affiliate 10% of each net total sales amount, set the rate to 0.1.

Screenshots

1. Referral rate setting – A 0.2 referral rate credits affiliates with 20% commissions on sales.

2. Referrals created automatically for sales – Each referral is linked to its order.

38 comments

  • Hi !

    Thanks for this plugin.

    But I have a problem on the affiliate area (default page created by the plugin) : referrals and earnings are blocked to 0 and total shortcodes (like [affiliates_referrals show="total" status="closed"]) aren’t displayed at all, even if there is several accepted referrals.

    Can you help me ?

    • This sounds as if your referral rate has not been set. Please check on the back end Affiliates > eShop Integration Light there must be a value set for Referral rate, for example 0.1 if you want to give a 10% commission on sales.

      • No, the rate has been set and I have an accepted referral report of 0.75 €

        • Just if anyone wonders what happened, the only actual referral on Arle’s site was attributed to Direct (the site, not any specific affiliate) and thus no referral data was displayed for affiliates.

          Here’s an example procedure to test your setup:

          1. Log in as admin, create an affiliate X, visit the affiliate’s link and make an order.
          2. Check the referrals (as admin) you’ll see a referral credited to affiliate X.
          3. Log out, log in as affiliate X and go to your site’s affiliate area*, you will see the data reflecting the order.

          * If you haven’t created one, as admin go to Affiliates > Options and click on Generate.

          • I have the same problem
            every order that I make using the affiliate’s link always attributed to Direct

            I’m using eshop, eShop Integration Light, and I have set the referral rate.

            please help

          • Which versions are you using? WordPress, eShop, Affiliates and integration plugin please.

  • I have a problem with the short code.

    I`m using woocommerce, done the proper steps installing affiliate>woocommerce light

    Generated the affiliate page area by pressing the “button”

    I`m stuck on how my affiliates on registering? etc

    You can check it out http://www.craigslistpostingservicez.com/affiliate-area/

    It only shows registration closed, so how do I get this open and have the short codes to work?

  • I am trying your plug-in and my testers are getting confused. When they log in to the affiliate page it then redirects to profile in wordpress and does not stay on the affiliate page when they log in. When they are in the backend they see the typical wordpress backend and don’t know how to get back to the affiliate page..

    • Are you using the generated affiliate area? If you are using that area, after logging in they will get redirected to the original page (the affiliate area) unless they fail to login.

  • I may have a new area. What is happening is the email says wp-login and I guess it is not redirecting when you first register. How can I manually edit the email that goes out?

    • The email you refer to is the default that WordPress sends when a new user registers. You should be able to find a plugin that allows you to change the default registration email’s content. I’ve advised to do that before but can’t remember a specific plugin right now, if you find one that looks good / works well, actually I would appreciate it if you could post a link to it here.

  • Nice posting Kento ! Can I receive Refferal data base with this pluggin to My email?

  • Yes Notification.I Mean,for instance: There’s buyer buy My products that come from one of My referral who register at My site and usually I will get database at my email where from the buyer come?

  • OK i love the plugins and have it integrated with e-shop. my web site is still in test mode and i came to do some work on it only to find out that affiliate plugins that i down loaded are not showing up. i deactivated and deleted the plugins and they have still not shown back up.

  • i just did that and they are still not showing up. i have them in plugins installation. but they are not showing up in the dashboard area so that i might edit that settings. this is werd.

  • ok i found the problem i installed the eshop e-mailer and for some reason that blocked the affiliate plugin from being seen. and that’s the answer if any one has a similar problem. thanks for your help and quick response.

  • how to display forum on the front end side

  • I have installed affiliates with woocommerc,e then woocommerce was using too much RAM so I uninstalled woocommerce and installed eshop on wordpress, but now I can’t see the Affiliate menu as with woocommerc,e maybe I have to uninstall and re-install affiliates? how to do that?

  • I have installed and active:
    Affiliates eShop Integration Light 1.0.4
    + Affiliates 2.1.9
    + WordPress 3.5 ita
    + eShop for WordPress 6.3.3
    + eShop Languages plugin 0.0.1
    + eShop Order Emailer 2.1.0
    But in my admin panel-dashboard I can’t see the Affiliate button, so I can’t administer it.

    • You can’t see the Affiliates menu? First try disabling all plugins except Affiliates and the integration plugin, make sure the menu is there. Then enable other plugins one by one and see when the menu disappears. That would be a conflicting plugin then. Let me know which one please so we can have a look.

  • Peter

    Every purchase through an affiliate link I made is recorded as Direct. I tried adding several affiliates, I changed the options and nothing… In Affiliates & Referrals I see 1 Hit and 1 Visit but 0 Referral and 0.0000 Ratio.

    • Assuming you have the integration plugin activated and set a referral rate, making a purchase after visiting an affiliate’s link will credit the affiliate with a referral, unless there is a conflict with another plugin or your setup. If all is set up correctly, disable all other plugins except eShop, Affiliates and the integration plugin and test.

      • Peter

        Hi kento. The problem was that I renamed /wp-content folder after installing wordpress. This caused conflict with some plugins including eshop integration plugin. Problem solved. Thanks for developing this great plugin!

  • Sotexis

    I have first tried to manage a web-shop with Woo-Commerce, I did have some referrals, but I am not happy with Woo-Commerce.

    When I change Woo-Commerce for eShop, do I loose those referrals or are they conserved in the Affiliates database because Affiliate-eShop light is just a data gathering skin of Affiliates?

    If so, when I have a multisite installation, can I use the strong points of Woo-Commerce in a dedicated web-shop (with an Affiliate-Woo-Commerce light plugin) and the other products in an eShop environment and still collecting affiliates from both web-shops in one Affiliate database?

    • The referrals do not depend on the integration used (in a limited sense), in fact you can have several integrations running at the same time within one installation. In short, those referrals will still be there after you switch.
      The way Affiliates behaves in a multisite environment is that it will run completely separate affiliate programs on each subsite. An option to centralize that has been discussed here during the last days (Google ;) ) and an option to do that will most likely be available in general.

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