Wanting to protect your affiliate registration page from potential bots signup? Why not enable the reCAPTCHA feature. What is reCAPTCHA? "Easy on Humans, Hard on Bots" reCAPTCHA is a free service offered by Google. It is used globally on sites where a form or call to action button will be submitted. Implementing reCAPTCHA ensures that only 'real humans' can submit a form. This protects your site from being mass spammed by bots. The reCAPTCHA can be easily answered by a human with the click of a … [Read more...]
WP Affiliate Custom Registration Fields Addon
This documentation will outline the basic usage of the 'Custom Registration Fields' addon. In order to use this addon, you will need the base WP Affiliate plugin. Overview of the 'Custom Registration Fields' Addon The main WP Affiliate Platform plugin comes with a registration form where your potential affiliates can come and enter in their basic details to sign up as an affiliate. The basic registration form asks your potential affiliate form their name, their addresses, an affiliate ID and a … [Read more...]
How to Manually Approve Affiliates on Your Site
The WP Affiliate plugin has a feature that allows you to manually approve your members. Step 1) Enable the Settings Option Go to the settings menu of the affiliate plugin and enable the Manually Approve Affiliate Registration option. Now, all the affiliate that signup will have an account status of "pending" so they cannot log into the affiliate portal. Step 2) Update the Email Settings Update the "Affiliate Signup Email" section to say something like the following in the email body (so the … [Read more...]
WP Affiliate ActiveCampaign Opt-in Form Submission Tracking
The "Affiliates ActiveCampaign Optin Tracking" Addon can be used to track your ActiveCampaign opt-in form submissions. If you are using your affiliates to bring visitors to your ActiveCampaign opt-in page then this addon will be very handy to track which affiliates are sending visitors that are resulting in a form submission. Here is how it works: You place an ActiveCampaign opt-in form on your landing page or squeeze page (you get the form code from your ActiveCampaign account). An … [Read more...]
WP Simple Pay for Stripe and Affiliate Platform Integration
The WP Simple Pay for Stripe plugin can be easily integrated with the affiliate platform plugin. What to Expect from the Simple Pay for Stripe Affiliate Integration The following points shows the usual flow of events that you can expect from this integration: You add buy button on your WordPress pages using the WP Simple Pay for Stripe plugin. An affiliate sends a visitor to your site (The affiliate plugin detects this referral and tracks the click). The visitor decides to buy your … [Read more...]
Apply Discount Automatically to eStore Cart for Affiliate Referred Customers
You may have a business where you want to give your customers an incentive to use an affiliate link when they purchase from your site. If you are using the Affiliate Plugin with the WP eStore plugin then there is a solution for that. This addon will allow you to configure a discount percentage (example: 20%). When a customer (who was referred by an affiliate) adds item to the eStore cart to purchase, it will automatically apply the discount you configured. Installing the Addon You can … [Read more...]
Show Affiliate Leaderboard
You can embed an affiliate leaderboard on your site to show the top performing affiliates of your site. Use the following shortcode to show a leaderboard widget like the above example: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard] You can also specify how many top affiliates to show. Example shortcode usage below: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard number="5"] You can also show an affiliate leader-board based on the number of affiliate clicks. Example shortocde usage below: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard … [Read more...]
Track Media Buys and Split Test a Landing Page with WP Affiliate Software
Aside from having an army of affiliates promoting my products, I also use the WP Affiliate Software plugin to track media buys and other advertising. In this article I will explain exactly how things are setup for tracking, but I also want to explain how I split test a landing page using the same software. How Does the Tracking Process Work? First, let me explain how I use the software for tracking. There's nothing really sophisticated here, as you will see. The first thing I do is rent … [Read more...]
Product Specific Affiliate Commission for WooCommerce Products
If you want to specify different affiliate commission rate for different WooCommerce products then use this documentation. Step 1 (Download and Install) Download this addon plugin and install it just like any WordPress plugin. a) Upload the "affiliate-woocommerce-advanced-addon.zip" file via the WordPress's plugin uploader interface (Plugins -> Add New -> Upload) b) Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu in WordPress. Step 2 (Edit the Product) Edit the WooCommerce product … [Read more...]
Show Referring Affiliate’s Details to the Visitor
Sometimes you may want to show the referring affiliate's contact details to the user. You can do this simply by using one of the shortcodes explained below: Affiliate Details Shortcode: You can display certain details for the referring affiliate on your site using the "wp_affiliate_referrer_details" shortcode. The following example shows you how to display the email address of the affiliate who sent the visitor in to your site. [wp_affiliate_referrer_details info="email"] More … [Read more...]