It is a known fact that having an affiliate program is the most powerful way to market your products or services online (Read more on the benefits of affiliate program).
If you own a WordPress blog/site and your answer to the following questions are ‘yes’ then the ‘WordPress Affiliate Platform’ is what you need:
- Do you sell products or services online from your WordPress blog/site?
- Do you want to increase your sales and explode your profits by using an affiliate program?
- Do you want to have your own affiliate program so you can cut the middle man and build your own brand?
WordPress Affiliate Plugin Summary
The WordPress Affiliate Platform is an easy to use WordPress plugin for affiliate recruitment, management and tracking that can be used on any WordPress blog or site. This plugin lets you run your own affiliate campaign/program and allows you to reward (pay commission) your affiliates for referring sales.
The admin can configure banners, links and creatives which the affiliates can use on their site to drive traffic to your site. All the clicks, leads, sales etc are tracked by this plugin.
If you are running online ad campaigns for your products and services then you can use the affiliate platform plugin to measure the true conversion rate of each campaign to find out the profitable ones. This allows you to weed out the non-profitable campaigns and save money in the process.
In a nutshell, the Affiliate Platform Plugin will help you achieve the following:
- Launch your affiliate campaign in a short time.
- Monitor clicks and conversions of visitors sent by your affiliates.
- Maintain your brand with your own product Ad Banners, Links and Creatives.
- Drive more traffic to your landing/sales page from your Affiliate’s site.
- Significantly BOOST revenue with more sales.
We use this plugin to run our affiliate program and it has had a positive effect on our product sales.
How WP Affiliate Plugin Works
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing where you (the store owner) reward affiliates for sending customers to your site. The following page explains how it all works:
WP Affiliate Plugin Features
Some key features of the WordPress Affiliate Platform include:
Easy Installation
Easy installation like any other WordPress plugin and very easy to use. Seamlessly integrates with your website’s look and feel.
Real Time Reporting
Real time reporting. All data (clicks, sales, commissions) are tracked, computed and displayed realtime with no delay.
Accurate Commission Calculation
Affiliate commissions are calculated accurately and awarded to the affiliate after a confirmed sale.
Two Tier Affiliate Structure
Can be configured to use as a two-tier affiliate structure.
Easy Affiliate Management
View your affiliate details, commission level, account status etc. Easily change commission, edit affiliate details, view affiliate referrals, commissions and much more.
Self Managed Affiliate Area
Your affiliates will be able to create an account, log into their affiliate account and get ad code, view referrals, commissions and payout details.
Affiliate Ad Code
You can offer text and image ads to your affiliates. Your affiliates will be able to copy the ad code and use it to refer visitors.
Offer Creatives
You have the ability to offer creatives (pre written text copy that) to your affiliates. Your affiliates can use it to promote your products easily.
Referral Link Generator
It comes with a built-in link generation tool in the affiliate area. Your affiliates can use this tool to generate referral link and share it easily via email, facebook, twitter etc.
Offer Signup Bonus
You can offer one time signup bonus to your affiliates. This can help you attract more affiliates to join you.
Autoresponder Integration
It can be integrated with Autoresponders (AWeber, MailChimp, Mailpoet). This way the affiliates automatically get added to your list/campaign for email marketing purpose.
Unlimited Affiliates
No limit on the number of affiliates you can have and no monthly fees to use this plugin. Have as many affiliates as you want!
Manually Approve Affiliates
You can choose to manually approve each affiliate account. There is also an option to send the affiliate an email when you have reviewed the application and approved the account.
Commission Notification
You can configure email notification that will be sent to your affiliate and you, when an affiliate receives a commission.
$0 Commission Recording
Ability to enable or disable $0 commission recording. If the commission from a transaction is $0, you will be able to show or hide it.
Option to Show EPC Data
Ability to show the EPC (Earnings Per Click) data to your affiliates in their affiliate portal (under the sales menu).
Export Data to CSV File
Ability to export all your affiliate commissions data to a CSV file so you can view it using Excel. You can export your affiliate leads data to a CSV file also.
Multi Site License
When you buy the WP Affiliate Platform plugin you can use it on as many sites as you own (you gotta love that!). There is no “Developer Option” here. One low price entitles you to use the plugin on all of your sites.
Plugin Stability
Our plugin code-base is very stable. We put a lot effort into testing and developing our plugins so it doesn’t break your site after you upgrade.
Easy Integration with Most WordPress Shopping Carts
Integrates with most WordPress shoping carts including WooCommerce, eShop, Shopp plugin, Cart66, WP Shopping Cart etc. Check the integration section on our documentation page to see the full details of the available pre-made integration options.
Fully Integrates with WP eStore
Fully integrates with the WordPress eStore (WordPress Shopping Cart) plugin. Selling products from your WordPress site using the WP eStore plugin is quick and easy.
PayPal Button Integration
You can easily integrate this affiliate plugin with PayPal buttons that you create from your PayPal account. It can work for both one time and subscription PayPal payment buttons.
Integrates with Some Hosted Shopping Carts
Affiliate platform integrates with some hosted shopping carts like e-Junkie, FoxyCart, Ecwid etc. Check the integration section of our documentation page to see the full details of the available integration options.
Easy Integration with WooCommerce Plugin
The affiliate plugin easily integrates with the WooCommerce plugin. When your customers complete a sale via Woo Commerce, the plugin awards the commission to the appropriate affiliate (if any). You can also integrate WooCommerce coupons with this plugin to track and award commission based on the coupon that was used in the transaction.
Easy Integration with the WP-eCommerce Plugin
Can be easily integrated with the GetShopped WP-eCommerce plugin. You can view the WP eCommerce plugin integration details on our integration documentation page.
Integration with Gravity Forms Plugin
Can be integrated with the Gravity forms plugin to capture leads referred by your affiliates. It also integrates with their pricing fields option.
Developer Integration
Developers can integrate the wordpress affiliate plugin with any shopping cart or a plugin via the API (read the 3rd party integration post to understand what is involved in such an integration).
Works with HTTPS Pages
Affiliate Platform plugin works with https pages out of the box (useful if you are using an SSL certificate on your website).
Always Kept Upto Date
We keep our plugins upto date to work with the latest version of WordPress. We have been doing this for 5+ years so rest assured that our plugins will always be compatible with any future WordPress updates.
Free Future Upgrades
Free future improvements and upgrades (there is no annual fee). You will always have access to the latest version of the plugin for free.
Great Support
Tired of listening to fake support promises? Checkout our customer only forum to see how we handle product related issues (usually within 24 hours). Our support forum is moderated by the developers who created the plugin(s).
View the full list of WP Affiliate plugin features.
Affiliate Platform Plugin Demo
Click on the following button to view live demo of the affiliate area that you will be able to create with this plugin:
Documentation & Technical Support
- Documentation page (Contains all the documentation for the WP Affiliate Platform plugin)
If you are having any issue with this plugin then feel free to post it on the customer only support forum.
Please make sure you visit the demo and the documentation page so you understand the capability of this plugin. Do not assume that this plugin will magically work with a 3rd party plugin/solution that is not listed in the “Integration” section of the documentation page. Contact us if you are unsure about something and we will try to clarify it for you.
Customer Feedback
We won’t waste your time with fake testimonials! Checkout the customer feedback page and see what some of our customers have to say about us.
I meant to say this the other day: your customer support is EXCELLENT! Pre-sales or post sales, you always get back it’s such a pleasure to work with you!
Combined costs for both products is a steal for the amount of functionality I get. A forthcoming review on my site will reflect that I hope I can support you any way I can.
Jay Versluis
http://www.versluis.com/
You can also check the comment section below for more customer feedback.
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WP Affiliate Platform Questions (F.A.Q)
Please leave a comment below if you have any questions.
Hi Eric, The sale is tracked after the payment for the product is confirmed. If you use the affiliate software with the WP eStore plugin then you don’t need to do anything as the WP eStore plugin knows what to do and handles the sale tracking.
If you want to use it with some other e-commerce plugin or your custom sales page then you need to add a small bit of code (I will provide this code) in your post payment handling script to track this sale. You can contact me detailing the system you are using or thinking of using to sale your products and I can give you more details.
Hi,
Thinking of buying… My question is simply, how does the Affiliate platform plugin track a sale? I understand the cookies, and affiliate tracking.
But how is the “action” of an actual sale tracked and recorded?
Do I need to have a WP shopping cart installed (WordPress eStore)? Or can I set up my own product sale page within WP and track the sales from there?
How do I track individual products? Is there tracking code that I plug into my individual products sale page to track completed product sales?
Regards,
Eric
I don’t have that decided yet – looking at Suma (like the API concept) and Wishlist Member. Right now, I am using an adaption of the CYC – customize your community plugin.
Hi Julie, “Can I use your plugin to track who referred a registered user?” – The answer is yes but you need to add a small bit of code (I will provide this code) in your member signup handling script so it can award the referrer the commission after someone registers. Let me know what sort of membership signup/registration system you have in place and I will be able to give you a definite answer.
I have a site in a pre-launch state where we are allowing users to register for free and will then convert them to paying members. Can I use your plugin to track who referred a registered user – without the user having to make a purchase? I would like to give the affiliate credit for any user they referred that converts to a member at the time they convert.
Hi Tom, Yes, it automatically sends the email to paypal’s email address.
“Just wondering – the transaction was very smooth and quick!” – I did say that the checkout is very simple didn’t I? 🙂
@Leon, One of my customers who is using WishLish has asked the wishlist guys to provide info on how to create membership from an IPN handling script. Once he gets back to me I will give you an update.
The Affiliate software tracks referrals (knows who is a referred customer and who is not) and manages all the affiliates but it depends on the e-commerce plugin (eg. WP eStore) that does the actual payment processing for the awarding of the affiliate commission. The reason is that you want to award the commission after a confirmed sale (this prevents customers from clicking the checkout button and getting commission without going through the full checkout) and only the plugin that processed the payment knows when the customer’s payment has been processed successfully.
The same principal applies to “Rewarding affiliates when they refer a customer and he/she registers” situation. The affiliate software will be able to track who is referred by who but the script that handles the registration will have to award the commission after a customer successfully registers. You just need to add a small bit of code that I will provide you in the registration handling script so it can award commission to the affiliate after someone registers. Let me know if this makes sense.
Hi There – so I bought the combined package through paypal and didn’t have to fill in my email address anywhere – so I was wondering how you know where to send the email for the download links?
Do you automatically send it to the email address that’s the paypal login?
Just wondering – the transaction was very smooth and quick!
I’ve been asked if I know of a plug-in that would allow the tracking and crediting of referrals and I’m not sure if your plug-in fits. The question revolves around being able to refer someone to a wordpress blog and then simply get credit when they register via WishList Member or SimplePress. The webmaster of the site in question wants to run contests and reward those that make the most referrals that register for access to their forum (the forum is protected behind WishList Member). Any thoughts?
Leon McKee
Our interests also center around WishList Member so looking forward to your feedback.
Leon McKee
Cheers for that, I was intending to use wishlist member as it integrates with paypal perfectly and just need to track the affiliate stuff but I’m very happy to use your store program if you’re already working on integrating it. The site is a modular course download site that I am planning to use wishlist member for in order to manage course purchases as membership levels. Seeing as you do the bundle I’ll get them both anyway and you can let me know how to integrate it all!
Cheers
Tom
Hi Tom, The affiliate program handles the tracking of traffic from all the referrals. awarding the commission is done by the e-commerce plugin (eg. WP eStore) that processes the transaction. This is done after the payment when the plugin does the post payment processing (eg. sending confirmation emails) to make sure you award the affiliate only after a confirmed sale. Normally this is achieved by inserting a small bit of code (which I will provide) into the post payment processing script of your e-commerce plugin (the plugin that processed the payment).
Now the question is.. are you going to use WishList to process the payment or are you using some other e-commerce plugin? Basically, you need to find out where and how (IPN, PDT) this plugin perform it’s post payment processing and I should be able to give you a bit of code that you can insert in that script to award affiliates after a sale has been confirmed.
At the moment I have a customer who uses my WP Affiliate Software and WP eStore plugin and i am trying to integrate it with the WishList Plugin so that the WP eStore does all the payment processing and it communicates with the wishlist plugin to create a member after the WP eStore processed the payment.
Hi there, setting up a membership site with wishlist member because I want to sell modular e-courses, will the affiliate programme integrate with wishlist member and paypal recurring billing? Will affiliate get credit for recurring sales?
Sounds great. Can’t wait to see what it looks like.
Thanks for your time in answering.
Regards
John
Hi John, Yes, the new version is going to have the variation control option. It’s also going to have a coupon/discount code feature, the option to configure a subscribe button for subscription payment and a few other things that I can’t remember from the top of my head 🙂
Hi
Will the your newest release in a fews days allow for the set up of non digital product options.
Saw it mentioned somewhere within your blog earlier that you would be incorporating this capability when you could, so that it has the same capability for non digital products options that your free shopping cart version has.
Hope this capability will be in the upgrade, if not when do you think it will be, really need this option capabilty for my needs.
Care to give us all a look at whats new in the forthcoming upgrade, can feel the suspense rising now. LOL.
Keep up the great work on your products.
Regards
John
Great!!!!! 🙂 I can wait a few more days 🙂 no rush no bugs ok? 🙂
Thanks!!!
I didn’t contact the webhost support yet, but I tried to move the site to another webhost.
Now the plugin is working 🙂
I really like the plugin.
Thank you for your reply.
Hi Riva, I had a quick look and looks like your the PHP session variable is not getting passed to the next page. It could be related to the PHP installation of your webhost so you can try asking them if they know how to make PHP session work properly. Let me know how you go.
I will keep this in my mind… you can always delete their account if you don’t like someone 🙂
I have bought your WP eStore + WP Affiliate Plugin and installed it on my blog.
http://www.articlewritingcenter.com
But I’ve got a problem in login into the affiliate account.
http://www.articlewritingcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-platform/affiliates/
When I tried to login by entering username and password, it will redirect to the login page again.
I have tried both ways to access the affiliate page (redirect & copy directory), but still does not make any changes yet.
Please advice.
Thank you,
Riva Sinjal
LOL… I am currently working on the next release of the WP eStore plugin. I will include this feature on that release. I intend to release it at the end of this month though so you will have to wait for a few more days but i will try to finish it early.
Is there any chance yo could implement, the commission fee per product soon?
I really need it 🙂 Anyone else, who could benefit from this?
Thank you!
Great! You could even make a cut on it 🙂 Buy being the affiliate 🙂
Also! In the admin setting,
I think that’s quite important, is to give the admin the option to make some fields mandatory when a new user signs up! I.e. website address or addresses. Eventually with an authorisation byadmin before the affiliate can promote.
It is good to know from where people are going to promote your stuff!
Even if at the end of the day they can promote through a tweet or what ever else.
Got some people signed up now. Made a search for their e-mail and found some dodgy stuff. getting paranoid if they are hackers or are going to use dodgy techniques to try to sell. That’s not good for our image. So admin should really be able to add mandatory fields if he wished to. And also a standard optional, condition/agreement text box/field that affiliate have to tick as agreed before signing up.
I’m not into the legal stuff myself. It would be up to the person who set up the program to decide how technical they want to get in their agreement. Personally I would keep it quite simple. But still! Clear enough so that they do understand the basic ‘community’ rules.
Thanks as always for your quick feedback 🙂
LOL… you read my mind. I have been thinking about creating something like a ‘Marketplace’ where all the people using the e-commerce plugins can promote their sites and stuff. I even have the layout ready… it’s just finding the time to do it. I will eventually implement it and send an email to all the existing customers.
I had seen this was possible! Guess it’s kind of ok that way too 🙂
Thanks for the feedback! As always! By the way, not sure if you got this! Why don’t you create a section where all people who use your platform can promote their sites? and their affiliate programs? 🙂
@Yoso, glad to hear you like the plugin… thanks for the feedback, I will try to incorporate them in a future release.
Regarding the “Ability to un-publish a product”.. you can specify the number of “Available copies” to zero (0) and that will replace the ‘add to cart’ button with a ‘sould out’ image (this can be customized) until you change the “Available copies” value. Not sure if it would serve the your purpose but thought I would mention it.
couldn’t wait for feedback to buy it 🙂 So Just bought the combined package.
So far all good, and very easy to install! I have a few suggestions for added functionality I’ll send soon! The affiliate plugin seems to work a treat! Haven’t made any money yet! But have tested it. It’s more simple to install your affiliate plugin than signing up with one of the affiliate giants! And it’s so great to be able tos et up your own term, while remaining ‘informal’. God I have corporate speech.
The e-commerce seems great too! Just testes the simple buy at the moment. All Good! Asked a friend yo order my product! all great! Perfect for digital downloads for sure! A couple of suggestions if you can integrate as soon as you can!
1- ability to duplicate products! Some product are similar, and its a waste of time to have to re-entry all the data.
2- Ability to un-publish a product , but being able to keep it encoded in the database. I.e. I will sell some products I want to take off the public shop when out of stock. Or. simply want to remove the product and add it back later.
3- affiliate plugin. (That’s quite urgent for me) Ability to set the commission per product as opposed to per affiliate. I.e. I can afford to give 50% of sale price for our e-books, but I won’t be able to for rare Japanese Items I want to send online.
Thank you!
Keep up the good work! Be ahead of the game 🙂 I would hate to see other plugins doing better than yours 🙂 haha 🙂
Hi Yoso, Questions are no problem.. here are my answers:
1. Yes I offer refunds if it doesn’t work or you are not satisfied but within reasons (I should explain a little bit so you don’t misunderstand me. I am very easy going and don’t really have any strict refund polices but this is a digital product which means once you get it I can’t really take it back so I need to protect myself. I spend a lot of time developing and supporting these products so all I expect is a little honesty and there won’t be any problem with refunds).
2. Not that I know of (I am using it myself)
3. yes the updates are free for the existing customers.
4. As long as WordPress lives and there is demand for it (a very long time I hope 🙂
This the kind of plugin I was looking for! Thank you!
I was going to press the buy button from within paypal 🙂 To buy the Combo Estore and Affiliate program!
Just thought I would ask a couple of questions first!
1- If for any reasons, it does not work or we are not satisfied with the products, do you offer money back?
2- Any known bugs with wordpress 2.8.2?
3- Are the next versions (updates) of those plugin free for those who have purchased the previous versions?
4- For how long are you planning to develop those plugins?
Sorry for so many question 🙂 I don’t want to waste my time installing, then having to do it all over again because supports or development stop.
Many thanks!
Looking forward to read your answer soon, so that I can buy and set up!
Yoso.
Thanks for the quick reply. I just sent you an email, didn’t want to clutter up the thread… 😉
Hi Ron, I will add more clear instructions on the documentation site on this topic later but basically an affiliate can link to any product just by appending his/her affiliate id at the end of a URL like the following:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/some-awesome-product?ap_id=AFFILIATE_ID
so basically the affiliate just needs to append ?ap_id=AFFILIATE_ID at the end of any URL and that will be tracked by the plugin (Replace AFFILIATE_ID with the true id of that affiliate)
I wasn’t able to find any info on link building outside of the admin page. For instance, if an affiliate wanted to link to a specific product of their choosing, can that be easily facilitated? I really don’t want to have to create several hundred links.
Thanks,
Ron
Released a new version of the Simple WordPress Shopping Cart plugin which allows the integration of WP Affiliate Platform plugin.
Ok sounds great. I’ll wait I’m still working on banners and specifics for my affiliate program.
LOL… I like questions 🙂
Yes, the affiliate will be credited for every order within the cookie time. This gives the affiliate more incentive to signup for an account and direct traffic.
Hi David, You will need to add a bit of tracking code in the Simple PayPal Shopping Cart to make it work with this one. Give me a few days and I will release an updated version of the PayPal Shopping Cart Plugin.
It seems like when I have one question it always turns into more. Let’s say someone orders today through an affiliate link. Then tomorrow they order again without the affiliate link. Will the affiliate be credited for every order within the cookie time? So if I set up a 365 day cookie can they be paid for every order made since they are already cookied?
I just got this because I know your plugins are excellent and it will help me take my site to the next level. It says that the plugin is integrated with the e-store plugin which I have but not using on the site I want to have the affiliate program on…I want to use this on a site running your Simple Shopping Cart, will this work with no problems on the site or do I have to make any changes? Thanks again.
Hi Jeremy, Sorry to hear that you missed out on the combo deal. Ofcourse i can offer price for another combo deal.. you are my customer and I always try to take care of my customers 🙂
I will contact you via email.
Thanx for that. Very much appreciated. Oh…and by the way…this is an excellent plugin.
Maxx
Hi Maxx, The affiliate page gets setup automatically after you install the plugin. You don’t have to do anything special other than just telling your potential affiliates to visit the following URL to signup for an affiliate account:
http://www.your-domain.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-platform/affiliates/
You can customize that default URL if you want. How to customize the URL of the affiliate page is explained in the WordPress Affiliate Platform Documentation site
wow…this sounds great…I just bought the other program (store) a couple days ago and did not know about this affiliate one. Had I seen the combo offer, I would have done that. ( I am really liking the store so far )
Any chance you can offer price for the affiliate program and theme combo, since just bought the store?
Will await your reply…
Hi,
I am just wondering, how do you setup the affiliate page (affiliate view)?? I have the admin area setup, but do know how to setup affiliate view page.
Maxx
Love the blog mate, keep up the good work – I’ll definitely recommend your blog to some friends of mine ^^
Hi Banago, Glad to hear that you found some of my plugins useful. Yes, I offer support for them. I offer support in the sense that I make it work for you 🙂 These plugins are very easy to use but if you need help installing them or getting them to work or if you need some tweaks then I will guide you.
When I developed the WP eStore plugin I made sure that it has a simple one click checkout system (I as a customer get annoyed when people make me sign up to buy something but I agree that it has it’s uses). With some slight modification it is possible to make the WP eStore plugin do what you described though (make sure the users are signed up before they can checkout).
Feel free to contact me if you have any other queries.
Hi Ruhul,
You have produced a handful of great plugins – well done!
Actually I am interested to buy the eStore and Affiliate pair. However I have a couple of concerns. I need to know if you offer support for them and if yes, how. Also, is it possible to make user register for a wp account while they check out a product with the eStore?
Looking forward to your answers.
Thanks
@Ray, Yes you can still use it (The WP Affiliate Platform can potentially be used with any WordPress eCommerce solution). Please email me with the details of the eCommerce solution you have on your WordPress site/blog and I will give you instructions on how to integrate this plugin (The integration generally involves adding a little bit of code so the sale can be tracked after someone pays for a product).
Hi, I am very interesting in this product but I don’t use the WP eStore plugin. Can I still use it?
Wow, you just don’t stop with the great plugins! Once I get some eBooks ready for sale from my site, I’ll be back here in a flash to buy this one.