The WordPress Affiliate Platform works like most other affiliate recruitment, management and tracking program.
- A visitor visits your (the admin who installed the wordpress affiliate platform) blog/site and decides to become an affiliate after viewing the products/services you offer.
- The visitor signs up for an affiliate account
- He can now get affiliate banner/links for your products that he can put on his website to direct traffic to your site.
- A customer visits this affiliate’s website and clicks on an affiliate banner/link (WordPress affiliate platform tracks this click)
- The customer decides to buy product(s) from your site and pays for it (WordPress affiliate platform tracks this sale)
- The WordPress Affiliate Platform rewards the affiliate (who directed the traffic) with a commission
The following diagram illustrates the concept of affiliate marketing
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@Rob, this URL should answer your question..
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/integrating-the-wp-affiliate-software-with-a-3rd-party-plugin-61
@Admin, what is the code?
Thanks.
@Khalid, I have sent it to your email.
Hello Admin,
I have a variation of a newsletter marketing business and my wordpress site serves as a location for subscribers to sign up and modify their subscription. I had originally intended to use wishlist to manage my subscriber base but have found it to be too closed to modification for my needs, especially in regard to affiliate tracking. I’m considering a combination of WP eMember and Affiliate platform for my needs. I have a few questions before I make a decision:
1. Can WP eMember easily hook to an API from my email service provider so that my member database can communicate with their database?
2. I want to use the affiliate platform to track all referrals made by my members. Essentially, every time a member signs up, they would automatically be enrolled in the affiliate program and when they use the on site sharing tools (an invite a friend field that sends a pre-written email) it will track any conversions. I also want to track at least 2 tiers. How difficult a project would an integration of both plugins be for a semi-experienced programmer, or is it even possible to do what I’m trying to?
3? Can the registration be linked to any HTML form? My registration forms currently exists in a jquery colorbox popup.
Thank you in advance for your prompt reply
Hi David, I understand that many people like to customize the plugin to their needs so I do not put any restriction on what customization you do with the plugins for your own use.
With that said, its hard for me to tell you how easy or hard it would be to hook to an API without knowing what you are actually going to use. If you have PHP programming experience and you know about their (your email provider) API then I don’t see why you can’t do it.
Number 2 again depends on your implementation. The plugin was developed for a common usecase:
i) a person becomes an affiliate
ii) the affiliate refers other visitors to the main site
iii) a visitor makes a sale or becomes a member
iv) the appropriate affiliate is awarded a commission for the referral
The tools are there but it will require tweaks to achieve what you are looking for.
The affiliate plugin only tracks incoming referrals that lands on any WordPress post or page (It doesn’t track referrals on a standalone HTML page as it’s not part of WordPress)
This sounds fantastic! I have a couple of questions. I use ejunkie and paypal will this work with ejunkie? Thanks!
We sell ebooks using your very nice WP eStore plugin. Currently, we manually pay commission to the ebook authors. Can we use your WP Affiliate Platform Plugin to automatically pay the authors a commission whenever we sell their ebooks?
For further reference, it might be typical for a purchaser to have 3 items in their cart: 1 is authored by us and 100% payment would go to our PayPal, 2 could be authored by person A and a we would like to pay them a 60% commission to their PayPal while retaining 40% in our PayPal, and 3 could be yet another person who receives 30% commission. This was all mentioned to illustrate we may have different commission structures, and the unit prices can be different also.
I am eager to hear if you may be able to provide the solution we are looking for. Thank you.
Hi John, the automatic commission awarding works based on the referrer value (depending on which affiliate sent the traffic). So if you want to award different commission to different affiliate in the same transaction it won’t work.
You can however customize the plugin so each product can have the authors information saved with the details so after a sale instead of giving the commission to the referrer it will give it to the author that you have specified.
An affiliate marketing business can be a profitable business if you have a site that offers important information and can make business connections with the right merchants, the right content on your website is what will attract visitors.
Will this work with wp-ecommerce [instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/] or getshopped [getshopped.org]?
Hi Justin, Please see the following post on how to integrate with WP-eCommerce:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/wp-affiliate-software-integration-with-the-instincts-wp-ecommerce-plugin-70
Let me know if you need anything else.
Cheers,
Ivy
Hi,
I just bought the plugin and it work wonder at my membership site.
The ONLY question I have is how do I integrate the plugin
with the wishlist membership plugin?
Thanks,
Eric
Hi Eric, The Affiliate Platform does not integrate with Wishlist directly. You will need to do this via a payment processing method such as the eStore.
You can find out more about how Wishlist integrates via the eStore here: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-estore-and-wishlist-plugin-integration-448
Please let me know if you have anymore questions.
Cheers,
Ivy
Hi webmaster, I noticed the comments about the additional lead functionality and was wondering if that’s in place. Reason being I would want to use it for selling my services but of course they are on a quote for quote basis so any commissions wouldn’t be paid until both a quote had been made, and full fee received. Would I be able to log who referred who? Even if they leave the contact page, look at my portfolio and then return to the standard contact page to get in touch?
Thanks, and keep up the awesome work, I’m very interested.
It turned out that people can use Pay per lead model with the existing structure anyway so didn’t need to implement that. This URL should explain more on this:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/how-to-use-pay-per-lead-affiliate-model-114
In your case you will award the commission later so I would have your registration form email you the “Affiliate ID” so you can manually award the commission later from the admin dashboard. Yes, you will always know who referred who even if they leave the page and come back later.
I LOVE the affiliate info page at http://www.ninjablogsetup.com/affiliates/
Is that a template you provided? How can I get that same look?
Hi, Yes this is our plugin (http://www.ninjablogsetup.com/affiliates/) for the most part this is what the affiliate sign up page looks like. You will need to change some CSS to make this look how you want. You can see the default sign up page here: http://tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-platform/affiliates/
Cheers,
Ivy
I bought your Affiliates plugin (and others) and found the index.php file in the link you gave, so that works for me now. Now where do I find the content text on that page so I can customize it? And where do I change the top banner link? Thanks.
You can customize the index page content from the settings menu of the Affiliate plugin. Look in the “Affiliate Center Index Page Options” section.
“where do I change the top banner link?” – The look and feel can be controlled by modifying the CSS file. The css file is named “style.css” and is stored in the “affiliates” directory.
Hi:
I have an income issue/question. I am doing affiliate programs for some other products for other people, and we have to fill out a w-9 form that we return for tax purposes on the income we make from selling their product. Does this affiliate program software provide that information and form, or is it something that we have to add on ourselves? Thanks!
At the moment the affiliate plugin do not do anything special for W-9 as different country has different tax laws and forms.
I don’t see any bank account field in Affiliate Profile. How can I let the affiliates to enter their bank accounts?
It is a common practice to pay affiliates via “Cheque” or PayPal. Usually you will always have affiliates that are outside of your country and paying them via bank transfer is not practical because:
1) International money transfer via a bank is expensive
2) Different countries will have different set of banking information that is needed for the money transfer. How are you going to fit them all?
If you really need to use bank transfer then this can be accommodated as it is a matter of collecting banking details from the affiliate.
I don’t think I will need international money transfer for the population of more than 250 million people here. My country is big enough. We mostly use bank transfer locally for online transactions. Paypal is also used for my English websites version but it’s not my concern at the moment.
So, what do you think if I use “Payable To” field for bank accounts then? I don’t really like this way actually as I will need to enter the data manually.
Please consider regarding the bank accounts field for the next version if possible. That would be useful for people like us. TIA.
Hi..
I was wondering if i could use your script for recurring payment..actually i wanted to setup an affiliate program that pays every time the person that he sponsored a certain percentage of commission..glad to hear if this script support that feature..
thanking you in advance.
@Nugie, okies
@ismail, yes if you use it with a PayPal subscription button. Here are your two possible solutions
1) Use WP eStore to create a subscription button (http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/?p=400)
2) Use a plain PayPal subscription button (http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/?p=168)
Hi, I bought your plugin and here’s my question. If affiliates are sending visitors to an opt-in squeeze page first and then after opting in they are re-directed to another website at which they can purchase, does your plugin still track the sale?
Thanks,
Betsy
Nope, the affiliate plugin needs to be installed on the domain where the actual sale is being processed.
Hi there.
Am interested in purchasing just wanting to make sure the plugin will do what Im hoping.
I sign an affiliate up he refers people from his site, visitors to my site decide if they join up, once joined if the user meets certain usage requirements my affiliate gets paid.
There is no actual financial transaction taking place on the site.
Can your plugin track visitors, and assign them to an affiliate for as long as it takes for them to complete the usage requirements easily?
Thanks alot
@Sean, I believe you are after Pay Per Lead model. Let me know if this link answers your question:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/how-to-use-pay-per-lead-affiliate-model-114
Does this plugin work with 3.0
Hi Duane, All of our plugins are compatible with the latest version of WordPress.
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