WP Affiliate platform can be integration with ECWID so that affiliate commissions can be awarded automatically for the products that you sell from your site via ECWID.

What can you expect from this integration?

The following points shows the usual flow of events that you can expect:

1. You place buy button(s) for ECWID  product(s) on your sales/landing page.
2. An affiliate sends a visitor to your sales page (The affiliate plugin detects this referral and tracks the click).
3. The visitor decides to buy your product so he clicks on the “Buy” button which will add the product to ECWID shopping cart.
4. Clicking on the checkout button takes the visitor to the payment page where the visitor can pay for the product.
5. After the visitor makes a payment, he/she gets redirected to the “Thank You” page.
6. The affiliate plugin detects that this sale was referred by an affiliate so it awards appropriate commission to the referrer.

ECWID Integration Steps

Please contact us after you purchase the affiliate plugin and we will send you the ECWID integration instructions.

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 campaign.

How to Track Online Ad Conversion

Step 1: Create a dummy affiliate account for yourself (you can create as many affiliate user account you want for yourself).

Let us assume the "Affiliate ID" of this account is "ad_grp1" for this example

Step 2: Create an affiliate link pointing to your landing page using this newly created affiliate account. For example:

Step 3: When placing your ad on the external site or PPC network, use the link created in step 2 as the target page URL.

This will ensure that every time a visitor comes to your site clicking on that ad, the plugin will record the click and you will be able to see how many clicks you got for the "ad_grp1" affiliate.

Step 4: Integrate the affiliate plugin with an eCommerce or lead capture software (see the “Integration Options” section in the documentation).

This will ensure that every time a visitor comes to your site following that ad (created in step 3) and makes a purchase or fills in a lead capture form, it will track that conversion.

Now, you will have insight into exactly how many visitors are coming through that ad and converting. This will help you determine how well that ad is performing and do cost benefit analysis.

We have been informed by the developer of the Group Buying Sites (GBS) plugin that they have integrated with the WP Affiliate platform plugin. This will allow you to reward your affiliates when they refer a customer and the customer purchase a deal. The commission will be awarded after the sale is complete using the Group Buying Sites plugin. Please contact the Group Buying Sites plugin developer for the integration details as it is only available to the members of that site.

If you are a plugin developer and want to integrate your plugin with the WP Affiliate platform plugin then you can use the action hook mentioned in this documentation to do so.

This documentation is only for WordPress plugin developer. If you are not a WordPress plugin developer then you have no need to read this.

Awarding Commission From Another WordPress Plugin or Theme Using a Hook

When you want to award the commission from you plugin (for example: after a payment is confirmed or after a user submits the contact form) you can simply add the following line of codes and pass in the details and the affiliate plugin will credit the appropriate affiliate account:

$sale_amt = "19.95"; //TODO - The commission will be calculated based on this amount
$unique_transaction_id = "Txn-ID"; //TODO - The unique transaction ID for reference
$email = "Buyer-email-goes-here"; //TODO - Customer email for record
$referrer = $_COOKIE['ap_id'];
do_action('wp_affiliate_process_cart_commission', array("referrer" => $referrer, "sale_amt" =>$sale_amt, "txn_id"=>$unique_transaction_id, "buyer_email"=>$email));

You only need to adjust the values in the first 3 lines of the above example (marked with “TODO” tags)

How To Get Referrer ID (Affiliate ID)

There are two ways to get the referrer ID value (use one of the following options):

Option 1: The referrer value is stored in the browser cookie by the affiliate plugin and you can access it like the following:

$referrer = $_COOKIE['ap_id'];


If you need to pass the referrer value to a back end post payment processing script (for example: an IPN handling script) then you can add this cookie value to the custom field.

Option 2: If you know the IP address of the user then you can call the following function and pass in the IP address. This function will return the referrer ID for that user (if any):

$referrer = wp_aff_get_referrer_id_from_ip_address($ip_address)


WP Affiliate platform can be integration with e-junkie so that affiliate commissions can be awarded automatically for the products that you sell from your site via e-junkie.

What can you expect from this integration?

The following points shows the usual flow of events that you can expect:

1. You place a buy button for an e-junkie product on your sales/landing page
2. An affiliate sends a visitor to your sales page (The affiliate plugin detects this referral and tracks the click)
3. The visitor decides to buy your product so he clicks on the “Buy” button which will add the product to e-junkie’s shopping cart.
4. Clicking on the checkout button takes the visitor to the payment page where the visitor can pay for the product.
5. After the visitor makes a payment, he/she gets redirected to the “Thank You” page on e-junkie.
6. The affiliate plugin detects that this sale was referred by an affiliate so it awards appropriate commission to the referrer.

The PHPurchase/Cart66 is integrated with the WP Affiliate Software plugin by default. So you do not need to do anything special other than just keeping these two plugins active on your WordPress site.

The WP Affiliate Platform (plugin to recruit and manage affiliates for your products) can be easily integrated with GetResponse (Autoresponder, Email marketing and Email list manager) to automatically sign up your affiliates to your email list when they create an affiliate account.

When you use this integration your affiliates will be signed up to your GetResponse email list so you can communicate with your affiliates via the autoresponder.

To integrate GetResponse with WP Affiliate Platform simply go to the “Autoresponder Settings” tab from the Settings menu of the plugin and set it up.

GetResponse Integration Settings Menu

The WP Affiliate Platform (plugin to recruit and manage affiliates for your products) can be easily integrated with MailChimp (Email marketing and Email list manager).

To integrate MailChimp with WP Affiliate Platform simply go to the “Autoresponder Settings” tab from the Settings menu of the plugin and set it up.

MailChimp Integration for WP Affiliate Plugin

This will make it so after an affiliate registers on your site he/she will automatically be signed up to your mailchimp list.

The WP Affiliate Platform (plugin to recruit and manage affiliates for your products) can be easily integrated with AWeber (Email marketing and Autoresponder service).

Step 1: Create an Email Parser

AWeber use email parsers in situations where you want subscribers to add to your list via an email from a third party, typically a payment processor, rather than the subscriber sending an email directly from their email program.

To add a new custom email parser select “Email Parser” from the “My Lists” menu and choose “Add New” from the “Custom Parsers” section.

• My List -> Email Parser
• Custom Parsers -> Add New

The new email parser configuration will look similar to the following (Click to enlarge)

New Email Parser

There are only two fields (Description and Trigger Rule) that need changing here.

• Give a description for this parser, eg. WP Affiliate Parser
• In the Trigger Rule field, replace the “user\@domain\.com” with the email address that you have specified in the “From Email Address” field in the WP Affiliate’s email settings menu (This step is also very important).
• If you have multiple lists in your account then edit the parser you just created then check the “Enable parser for all lists in this account” checkbox and save it (This step is also very important). Enabling this option will not harm any of your other lists… all it does is that it activates this parser so it can filter signup request from eStore and assigns the contact to the correct list.

For example, the email address I have specified in my “From Email Address” field is “superadmin@tipsandtricks-hq.com so I need to replace:

with

Below is a screenshot of my email parser (click to enlarge):

My Email Parser

Adding an Email Parser is really simple but even a small error can throw everything off.

Step 2: Configure the WP Affiliate Platform’s Autoresponder Settings

Go to the “Autoresponder Settings” tab from the WP Affiliate Platform’s settings menu. Now, all you need to do is specify the AWeber list name that you want your affiliates to be signed up to and enable AWeber Signup.

AWeber Settings Menu

Below is a list of the main features of the WP Affiliate Platform.

Installations, 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 etc. Easily change commission, edit affiliate details, view affiliate referrals, commissions and much more

Design/Customization Options

• Stand alone page or embedded affiliate area – You can either have the affiliate view area as a stand alone page or embed it on a WordPress page or post that you create
• Customizable affiliate emails – You can customize the emails that are sent by the WP Affiliate Platform to your affiliates. eg. the welcome email
• Any texts or messages that your visitors can see, can be customized through the language file
• Some language files for the commonly used languages are already included but others can be added upon request
• Provide affiliates with multiple creatives - Your affiliates will have a variety of ways to promote your products and services
• Create Unlimited Banners and Creatives - (e.g articles, text links, graphic banners, videos, eBooks and so on)
• Customize the appearance of the affiliate view – You can use CSS to customize the look and feel of the affiliate view area

Reporting

• Real time reporting of clicks and sales
• Custom affiliate panel (your affiliates can log into their affiliate account and view real time clicks and sales statistics)
• Search affiliates or commissions from the admin dashboard

Integration Related

• Integrate the WP Affiliate Software with a 3rd Party plugin (Overview)
• API – Awarding Commission Via WordPress Hook
• API – Awarding Commission via HTTP GET or POST
• Plain PayPal button integration
• ClickBank integration
• Instinct’s WP-eCommerce Plugin integration
• Shopp plugin integration
• eShop (by Rich Pedley) integration
• PHPurchase/Cart66 and the WP Affiliate Software Plugin Integration
• S2Member integration
• Group Buying Sites (GBS) and WP Affiliate Software Integration
• E-Junkie and Affiliate Platform Integration
• cForms Plugin integration for pay per lead affiliate model
• Gravity Forms integration
• Contact Form 7 and Affiliate Platform Integration for Pay Per Lead Model
• Contact Form 7 and Affiliate Platform Lead Capture Integration
• Capture Lead on WP eStore’s Squeeze Form Submission
• Simple WP Shopping Cart and Affiliate Platform Integration
• Pre-integrated with the WP eStore (the WP eStore plugin is not included with the WP Affiliate Platform)
• When integrated with the eStore you can set custom commissions per product
• When integrated with the eStore you can automatically turn your customers into affiliates

Affiliate Payouts

• Pay your affiliates using PayPal Mass payment in one go or pay them via bank transfer or check
• You can easily filter your affiliate payout by minimum payout amount, date range or individual affiliate ID

Affiliate Commission Types

• Percentage based commission
• Fixed amount commission per sale
• Pay-Per-Lead

Support

• Free lifetime plugin updates.
• Free technical support for our plugin. Please see our support site to find out the available support options