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...]
Formidable Forms PayPal Addon Integration with WP Affiliate Plugin
The Formidable Forms PayPal addon can be easily integrated with the WP Affiliate Plugin. What can you expect from this integration? The following points show the usual flow of events that you can expect when you integrate the Formidable Forms PayPal addon with the WP Affiliate plugin: You place a Formidable Forms PayPal contact form on your service/landing page. An affiliate sends a visitor to your landing page (The affiliate plugin detects this referral and tracks the click). 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...]
ActiveCampaign Integration with WordPress Affiliate Plugin
You can integrate the WordPress Affiliate Software with ActiveCampaign so that the affiliates can be automatically signed up to your list (with any tags that you want to apply). Installing the ActiveCampaign Addon You can install this addon the same way you install any WordPress plugin: Go to the Add New plugins screen in your WordPress admin area Click the Upload button Browse for the addon file (affiliate-active-campaign-addon.zip) Click Install Now and then activate the … [Read more...]
Adding an Affiliate Login Widget to Your Site’s Sidebar
After you have setup the affiliate area, you need to show your visitors where they can go and do the affiliate program related tasks. Normally, you would just add a navigation menu/link on your site that points to the affiliate area of your site (see example below). Visitors can click on this link/menu item to go to the affiliate area and do the following: New visitors can signup for an affiliate account Existing affiliates can log into their affiliate dashboard The … [Read more...]
Track Online Ad Conversion with the WP Affiliate Software
If you're advertising your product or lead capture pages via text link, banner ads, PPC networks and email marketing, you need a conversion tracking software to track exactly where the sales and leads are coming from. This allows you to efficiently manage your ad campains without losing a lot of money on low performing ads. The affiliate platform plugin can be used to measure the number of visitors you are getting from a particular ad and measure the true conversion rate of each ad … [Read more...]
WordPress Affiliate Platform Features
Below is a list of the main features of the WP Affiliate Platform. Installation, Usage and Management Easy to install and use No limit on how many affiliates you can have Recurring Commissions - For subscription payments via PayPal Individual Commissions - You can set different commission levels for different affiliates Simple banner and text link management Two tier affiliate structure Edit or Remove Affiliates View your affiliate details, commission level, account status … [Read more...]
Custom Field Tracking with WP Affiliate Software
You can track a custom value or field with the WP Affiliate Platform to help with your ad campaigns. This can also be helpful if your affiliates want to track custom values so they can see which of their affiliate campaign is working better. The custom field tracking can be used to measure the effectiveness of individual campaigns. For example, you have created an affiliate account whose affiliate ID is "tips21". You have placed affiliate links/ads on two different sites using this same … [Read more...]
Setting Up the Affiliate View/Area/Portal
The affiliate portal is the section of your site where potential affiliates can sign up for an account and log in to access their affiliate codes for promoting your products or services. Affiliates can also view referral statistics, including clicks, sales, and payouts, from the affiliate portal. When you install the plugin, an affiliate portal page is automatically created. You can find the URL of this page in the plugin's settings menu. The following information is only provided if you wish … [Read more...]