Affiliate For WooCommerce helps add and manage affiliates and track performance from a single place – commissions, sales, payout, leaderboard, etc. Earn money without hard work. Increase your brand outreach, and get potential customers.
Installation
- Download the .zip file from your WooCommerce account.
- Go to: WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New to upload the file you downloaded.
- Activate the extension.
More information at: Installing and Managing Plugins.
Enable plugin updates
Please follow steps listed here to enable plugin updates for Affiliate For WooCommerce.
Setup and Configuration
Upon activating Affiliate for WooCommerce, you will see a welcome page. It explains how to use the plugin.
Settings for Affiliate For WooCommerce
Find in detail from here.
Make a user as an affiliate
There are three ways in which you can make a user as an affiliate:
By individual user
You can make a user as an affiliate from All users > edit user. Check ‘Is Affiliate?’ and click on ‘update user’.
By user role
You can make users from a particular user role as affiliates. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Affiliate > Affiliate Users Roles. Select user role and save settings to make them as an affiliate.
By registration form
You can use a shortcode [afwc_registration_form] on any page or post of your site. This will show the registration form to visitors on your site and they can request to join your affiliate program.
Read more: Create affiliate registration form to let users sign up for your affiliate program
Tracking for affiliates
Each affiliated user will see a new tab in their My Account > Affiliate:
a. Reports
It will show data how much traffic, referrals an affiliate has sent along with a few KPI’s.
- Total Commissions: It will show how much amount is paid and unpaid to an affiliate.
- Product wise commission: This will show each product purchased with quantity and how much earned for that product purchased via an affiliate’s referral link.
- Converted Referrals: This will show how much commission an affiliate has earned on each successful referral. It will show the date of a referral order, referral customer’s name, referral commission, payout status i.e. if the payout is accepted, rejected or unpaid.
KPIs:
- Gross Commission: Total revenue earned by affiliate along with number of orders.
- Refunds: Total amount refunded from the affiliate’s referrals along with number of orders.
- Net Commission: Total revenue affiliate is eligible for payout along with the number of orders less any amounts for discounts, refunds, reversals, payment processing fees, and Taxes.
- Sales: Total revenue earned by store from affiliate’s referrals.
- Clicks: Number of hits affiliate’s referrals have sent.
- Conversion: Conversion rate for the affiliate.
b. Profile
Here affiliate users will find all information about their affiliate i.e. affiliate id, their affiliate link. Affiliate user can also generate a custom affiliate link using ‘Referral URL Generator’. Just enter the path of the page and you will get custom referral URL.
Tracking for store admin
Store admin can see a detailed overview of each affiliate’s activity.
How affiliate commission is calculated for an order?
Affiliate for WooCommerce plugin automatically marks commission status for various orders based on the order status. Here’s how the commission statuses are calculated/marked for orders:
- For paid WooCommerce order statuses (Processing, Completed), the commission status will be marked as ‘Unpaid’. The store admin needs to later review them and mark them as ‘Paid’ after paying to the affiliates.
- For rejected WooCommerce order statuses (Refunded, Cancelled, Failed), the commission status will be marked as ‘Rejected’.
- But for those orders wherein the order is placed but payment is not received yet (Pending, On Hold), the commission status will be marked as ‘Draft’.
Orders with commission status as ‘Draft’ will not be considered while calculating KPI’s.
Customize affiliate’s referral link
How to customize affiliate referral link
Create and assign coupons to affiliates
How to create and assign coupons to affiliates
Set different affiliate commission rates for affiliates
How to set different affiliate commission rates for affiliates
Set different affiliate commission rates for product or product category
How to set different affiliate commission rates for product or product category
Assign / unassign an order to an affiliate
How to assign / unassign an order to an affiliate
Commission payout
How to payout commissions to affiliates
FAQ
Where can an Affiliate login?
An affiliate can log in from My Account area.
Where can an Affiliate get their statistics from?
An affiliate can get their statistics from My Account > Affiliate.
Where can an affiliate find their affiliate link?
An affiliate can find their affiliate link under My Account > Affiliate > Profile.
How can store admin add/make a user as an affiliate?
Please refer here: How to make a user as an affiliate?
Where can store admin find an affiliate link for an affiliate?
Store admin can see any affiliate’s ‘affiliate link’ under their name in the Affiliate For WooCommerce dashboard. Additionally, go to Users > All Users. Locate the user and click on edit. You will see their affiliate link on their profile page.
How are referrals tracked?
Referrals are tracked via cookies.
I’m using this plugin. What information I should write in my privacy policy to comply with GDPR?
Go to your WordPress admin > Settings > Privacy. There you will see an ‘Edit’ link. Click on it and it will take you to the edit privacy policy page. Once you open the privacy policy page for editing, you will see a notification on top with a link to the default WordPress privacy policy page guide. Click on that link. Here you will find the content to write in your privacy policy under the section => Source: Affiliate For WooCommerce
Where can store admin set cookie expiration to identify referrals?
A setting “Cookie Expiration” is provided under WooCommerce > Settings > Affiliate. Here the store admin can set the number of days for the cookie expiration.
Can affiliates earn commission on their purchase?
Yes. Currently, the affiliate system calculates commission for those orders which are placed by the affiliate himself. If the store admin doesn’t want to give the commission for such orders, they can mark such orders as “Rejected” from the affiliate dashboard in the admin panel.
I can’t find transaction id of the commission payout done via PayPal?
The transaction id should be visible under WooCommerce > Affiliate > Select an affiliate from left panel > Payout tab > Note. If it’s not appearing, make sure that PayPal IPN is configured correctly.
Is this plugin compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions?
Yes
Using WooCommerce Subscriptions, can I control whether to pay recurring commission or one-time commission?
Yes, you can. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Affiliate. If you want to allow commission on each renewal, then enable ‘Issue recurring commission?’ and click on save changes. This will issue the affiliate commission on each renewal. Leave it disabled to issue commission-only during sign up.
How to automatically apply a discount to the user when they visit using affiliate’s URL?
You can use another plugin – Smart Coupons – which will allow you to apply the coupon via URL. Here is a doc that explains how to apply discount coupon via URL. You can append the affiliate’s referral param in it to track the affiliate and apply a discount for the user.
Example:
This is the affiliate link:
https://demo.storeapps.org/?ref=2
And this is the shareable coupon link from Smart Coupons:
https://demo.storeapps.org/?coupon-code=20discount
Then this will be your final link:
https://demo.storeapps.org/?coupon-code=20discount&ref=2
Feature request
Have a feature request for Affiliate For WooCommerce? Submit it from here: Submit a feature request