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By on June 7, 2011 in Affiliates, Plugin Overview, Plugins, WordPress

The Affiliates WordPress Plugin

Features

Also refer to the Affiliates Plugins Feature Comparison.

  • Real-time reportingReferrals and affiliate link statistics are recorded and available instantly, as transactions are processed.

    Information for affiliates on the front end: show affiliates information about their referrals including totals by currency and referral status.

  • Integration with virtually any E-Commerce platformAffiliates provides an API which makes it compatible to use with virtually any E-Commerce and Membership system.

    Affiliates Pro Integration packs are available for several platforms. More integrations are added constantly on request.

  • Unlimited AffiliatesSimply have as many affiliates as you can get.
  • Easy affiliate recruitmentAffiliates can sign up automatically and can also be added manually with or without user accounts.
  • Feedback is welcomeDo you have feature requests or want to provide feedback? Please get in touch, the Affiliates plugins evolve with your needs.
  • Free or contribution basedThe Affiliates plugin is free and Open Source. If you want to use it, simply install it from your WordPress Dashboard or download it from WordPress.org.

    Affiliates Pro and Enterprise are contributor releases with additional features. Contributions help to make the plugins even more awesome. Thanks!

  • Quick & Easy InstallationUpload/install and activate the plugin from your WordPress Dashboard.

Affiliates Pro & Enterprise

  • Banner Management
  • Notifications
  • Videos : A collection of videos showing features available in the free Affiliates plugin and additional features available in Affiliates Pro and Enterprise.
  • Screenshots : Some sample pages set up with Affiliates Pro.
  • Fixed, percentage or formula based commissionsReferral amounts can be flat rates, percentage of net sales amounts and based on custom formulas.

    These can be set in general and per affiliate.

  • Flexible affiliate areasCreate as many pages as you need showing affiliates their stats, banners, links, profile, …
  • Mass Payments and Enhanced TotalsExport totals and generate PayPal mass payment files. Simply pay your affiliates all at once. Pay-outs can be based on accumulated totals.
  • Custom featuresThe Affiliates system provides an extensive API for developers which allows to customize it to any client’s requirements.

The Affiliates plugin provides the right tools to maintain an Affiliate Marketing Program.

Important features include automated affiliate registration, an unlimited affiliate management section and the ability to integrate Affiliates with virtually any E-Commerce platform. Free and premium integrations are available.

The Affiliates plugin provides an ideal affiliate system for sellers, shops and developers who want to get started with their affiliate program right “out of the box”.

It also provides a solid framework for developers, who wish to build customized solutions based on a sound data model. With unlimited affiliate program management tools available on the back end and a set of shortcodes to provide Affiliates information on their performance on the front end, there is everything you need to start an affiliate program.

Affiliates Pro and Enterprise provide additional features for sellers, shops and developers.

If you need to manage an Affiliate Marketing Program, track visits to your site with affiliate links, the affiliates plugin is right for you. It provides the tools to maintain a partner referral program.

Simply put, the affiliates plugin is used to manage affiliates, create referrals and track visits to your site through affiliate links.
Referrals are stored and attributed to an affiliate, for example if clients place orders on your site and you need to credit your affiliates.

Integrations

Free and premium integrations are available.

Pro & Enterprise

These integrations are included with Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise:

Light Integrations

These integrations are freely available to be used with any of the Affiliates plugins.

 

Documentation

Please refer to the Documentation pages.

 

What this plugin is not

It is not intended to keep track of links to other sites that you as a member of an affiliate program may have. For that, please try the Affiliate toolbox.

 

1,393 Responses to Affiliates

  1. Ross June 23, 2021 at 10:10 am #

    Hi there,

    We’ve been unable to remove the long slug that appears after all page URLs.

    e.g. https://cirrus.earth/?v=e4dd286dc7d7

    I assume it is the Affiliates plugin, though it appears irrespective of referrals. Does anyone have any ideas for how to fix this?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Kento June 23, 2021 at 7:44 pm #

      Hey Ross,

      Doesn’t look like anything related to the plugin … I’d check other plugins or your server settings.

      Cheers

      Reply
  2. caleb June 8, 2021 at 8:23 pm #

    Do any versions of the affiliates plugin allow me to set the commission to only pay out once a affiliates link is used 10 times instead of paying out after each time the link is used?

    Reply
    • Kento June 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm #

      Hi Caleb,

      How do you define “affiliate link is used” – do you mean a) clicks on the link or do you mean b) actual purchases referred by the affiliate? The Affiliates system (and all its variants) is designed to track visits to affiliate links and if e.g. a purchase has been made and can be linked to a previous affiliate link visit, the affiliate would get credited appropriately. This does not depend on how many times a link has been clicked, but whether the link has been visited by the customer previous to purchase.

      If you’re looking for something that rewards clicks, have a look at this documentation page Pay per Click; for rewards on referred ordered with WooCommerce, have a look at the WooCommerce integration documentation page.

      Cheers

      Reply
      • Caleb June 9, 2021 at 3:22 pm #

        By used I meant purchases made. How can I set the commission to not take effect until a single affiliate link has been used for 10 separate purchases? Can this be done in the free version or do I need to upgrade to the pro version?

        Reply
        • Kento June 9, 2021 at 5:22 pm #

          For this I would use Affiliates Pro which provides Formula-based Rates (links to documentation) and makes the whole thing a lot easier to implement.

          Please note that you would have to implement a filter (see Customizing Variables on that same documentation page). This is not something that you could do with a few settings, you must implement the algorithm that decides the commission rate granted.

          With that approach, you could grant 0 commissions on the first 9 purchases, and only apply a non-zero commission rate as of the tenth.

          Or you could combine it with the affiliates_record_referral filter, that would return false for the first 9 referrals.

          I should stress that the above requires ample knowledge of both the WooCommerce API and the Affiliates Pro API as you will need to check which referrals are related to orders referred by the same affiliate. Implementing this would certainly not be included as part of the support we provide, as that is a very particular customization.

          Reply
  3. Abel May 19, 2021 at 9:41 am #

    Hello I have a question in regards to the affiliate integration to WooCommmerce. Everything works fine except Affiliate doesn’t track sales done with WooCommerce.

    I’ve sent the referral link to a different VM and when I click on the link I can see the visit under “Visits & Referrals” but if I buy something in the store it doesn’t count towards referrals. It still show as 1. I bought a product worth 0.5$ for testing.

    The “Affiliates WooCommerce Integration Light” is active.
    The referal rate is at 0,05.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Reply
  4. Pratiksha Kulkarni May 7, 2021 at 6:57 am #

    need to add affiliate plugin which requires social sharing, affiliate compulsory need to enter an address, who enter the address that only allows creating an account. payout option needs to add. also can customize as per requirement

    Reply
  5. Cam April 11, 2021 at 9:25 am #

    Is there a way to set % based commissions on referrals?
    Can only seem to see fixed amount, maybe Im missing something?
    thankx

    Reply
    • Kento April 13, 2021 at 5:51 pm #

      Hi, yes that’s possible. Using the free version, please have a look at the various integrations that allow to do that, for example as documented here for the free WooCommerce integration.

      Cheers

      Reply
  6. Millicent Mildred April 1, 2021 at 9:50 am #

    Pre sale question – Clicks and Visits registered, but Referrals not
    I have installed Affiliates, which I really like, and followed all steps as documented. All clicks and visits are being registered correctly but once someone registers, the referral is not updated. I have enabled the button on “Enable the user registration integration” I have checked the recommended integrations but none seems to apply because I m using “AdForest – Classified Ads WordPress Theme” which has a custom registration form. How can this be sorted?
    Thanks.

    Reply
    • Kento April 4, 2021 at 1:16 pm #

      Hi Mildred,

      It seems that the custom registration form you are using does not tie into the normal user registration process and thus no referrals are recorded even though you have the User Registration integration enabled. I would recommend to use any of our supported form plugins instead, which we support via the appropriate integrations. Please have a look at http://docs.itthinx.com/document/affiliates/setup/settings/integrations/ where you will find details on those (Contact Form 7, Formidable, Ninja Forms).

      Cheers

      Reply
      • Millicent April 6, 2021 at 7:47 pm #

        Thanks Kento for your guidance. I have tested and they are breaking functionality of my Theme. Is there another option which maintains my current form?

        Reply
        • George April 7, 2021 at 2:56 pm #

          Hi Mildred, I’m following-up instead of Karim.

          If you really have to use your theme’s registration form, then you should ask your theme support to modify this form and use standard WP API for registering new users. In case this helps them further, the user registration integration used in Affiliates Pro, fires right after a user has been registered, using the do_action( ‘user_register’, int $user_id ) hook.

          Kind regards,
          George

          Reply
          • Millicent April 7, 2021 at 7:58 pm #

            Thanks George, let me explore and see how it goes.

            Reply
  7. Francesco March 11, 2021 at 4:43 pm #

    Hi, I’ve a problem, the plugin is correctly tracking visitors and clicks, but no reference is being tracked.. How can I fix it?

    Reply
  8. Murcus March 6, 2021 at 10:39 pm #

    For the free version of Affiliates, on the login page of the plugin, when a user tries to login and fails, he will be redirected to the WordPress login page ( wp-login.php).
    How to stop this redirect?

    Reply
  9. Paolo March 1, 2021 at 4:55 pm #

    Hello, pre-sale question:
    it’s possible to make general rules for affiliates like these?
    5% 0-20 products sell in a month
    7% 21-40 products sell in a month
    10% 41-60 products sell in a month

    Regards

    Reply
    • Kento March 2, 2021 at 1:02 pm #

      Hi Paolo,

      Thanks for considering our software! Yes, it is possible to set our system up using such a commission scheme. You would require Affiliates Pro or Affiliates Enterprise for that.

      You would be using formula-based Rates and a customized plugin that implements your commission scheme based on the monthly number of product sales referred.

      Our support team would help you with that if you decide to use our solution.

      If you decide to give it a try, please make sure to post a support request here after your purchase and our team will help you set things up.

      Cheers!

      Reply
  10. Matt February 24, 2021 at 8:56 pm #

    Hello, I am surprised to not see any option for changing the URL link for affiliates. All options are http://www.website.com/?affiliates=1 and the only thing that changes is the number at the end.

    It would be much nicer to provide partners with a link that had their name, something like http://www.website.com/a/henry , or literally anything cleaner than ?affiliates=1

    Is that possible?

    Reply
  11. ronald February 4, 2021 at 2:21 pm #

    Hello Kento.. Thank you for your job. Is there a way (from the side of the affilaiate) to keep the tracking on a vendor site where there is not shopping kart? If yes, Could you send me a link that explaines it? thank you a ton!

    Reply
  12. George January 23, 2021 at 10:59 pm #

    Hello, I am using this plugin along with Woocommerce Integration Light. How do I set it up so that when an affiliate refers someone that purchases a subscription, that they get a commission every single month? As in, every time that the subscription order goes through, for my affiliate to get their commission?

    Reply
  13. Arneld January 22, 2021 at 11:56 pm #

    Hello, I am creating a site with Affiliates
    And I would like to add additional content to the Affiliates Dashboard page.
    The problem is that if I put something on that page, it will automatically put it on all the others.
    And I tried to make them seperately with shortcodes but they don’t connect with each other.
    Can you help me?

    Reply
  14. Hesam Khoorabeh January 6, 2021 at 8:59 am #

    Hi i have use the normal affiliates with woocommerce light
    i want the commission to apply only for one of my product and not all. how i can achieve that ?

    Reply
  15. TC November 19, 2020 at 3:38 pm #

    Hi, I’m looking at recommending this to a client. It works well for what they need. I have tested it using the Contact Form 7 integration plugin. But I’m concerned because the Contact Form 7 integration plugin hasn’t been updated in 2 years and whilst it currently works I wonder how much longer it will. Do you plan to update that plugin?

    Reply
    • Kento November 19, 2020 at 10:33 pm #

      Hi TC,

      Thanks for asking! Yes, we update meaningful extensions regularly and my guess is that we will be supporting the Contact Form 7 integration further on.

      Cheers

      Reply
  16. Nishani Fors A November 17, 2020 at 10:29 am #

    Registration notifications to affiliates:

    This mail contains login URL, username and password. I want to edit that mail content. Is this possible?

    Thanks in advance.

    Please answer my question as soon as possible.

    Reply
    • Kento November 19, 2020 at 10:26 pm #

      Hi,

      You can use the notification filters documented here.

      Cheers

      Reply
  17. Richard October 25, 2020 at 10:59 am #

    HI admin, I’m trying to use this plugin for its “User Registration” (pay per lead) function with Memberful plugin. New user will subscribe/register via Memberful. Sadly from my end, it did track hit and visit but not referral. So I wonder if its really not working or its only not working at my end

    Reply
    • Kento November 1, 2020 at 8:28 pm #

      Hi Richard,

      I guess that the plugin you are using is doing it’s own thing and skips the usual actions and filters that are involved when a new user is created. In that case, it won’t be compatible.

      Cheers

      Reply
  18. Hugo October 16, 2020 at 9:06 am #

    Hi

    So Im responding for another issue and I have no clue where to submit it…honeslty your acces to support suck really really bad…I mean I have to log in to fill in a ticket…but i dont have an account…so th only option is to reset password…but I dont get one……Seriously Ive been figuring your support system out for the whole morning, this just doesnt add up at all

    Anyways your recaptcha pluging is mailfunction (i also see it hasnt been updates for 3 yers??) It worked last week, than I add a reCaptcha to another form via elementor (so I copy pasted the exact V2 keys in Elementor integrations)……..and than all of a sudden the reCaptcha doesnt work anymore at the registration affilaite page. And yes yes I did everything coorect, its V2 generated multiple time new keys, cleared cache.

    Currently I have set the lementor recaptcha at V3 (so other keys) and Affilaite recaptcha at v2…..still not working….

    And again…make your support system more transparant, this is hugely frustrating…I mean with YITH affilaite there is a support email which get responded the same morning………………….

    Reply
    • Kento October 17, 2020 at 12:38 pm #

      Hi Hugo,

      The Affiliates reCAPTCHA still works correctly, although the extension’s compatibility info has not been updated, I can confirm that our tests with the latest version of WordPress show that it works fine. Of course we should update it to reflect that. The source of your problem seems to be with what you try to achieve with Elementor, if the recommended use does not work within an Elementor block, then they’re simply not compatible.

      Cheers

      Reply
  19. Hugo October 9, 2020 at 7:24 am #

    Hi great plugin. I am aa bit confused though regarding linking a coupon-code to an affiliate: I understand that it should be possible via attributes, but I cant find it. Is that available in the free version?

    Reply
    • Kento October 9, 2020 at 2:45 pm #

      Hi Hugo,

      Thanks for the question, coupons are supported with Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise. You can see details in the documentation for Affiliates Pro under Coupons or for Affiliates Enterprise on Coupons. Extended features are available with the Affiliates Coupons extension which you will find documented here.

      Cheers

      Reply
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