WordPress Affiliate Platform Admin Screens
Categories: Additional Resources
After you activate the WordPress Affiliate Platform plugin, the settings/options menu can be found on the left hand side menu similar to the following screenshot (on WordPress version 2.7 or above)
WP Affiliate Platform Admin Menu Screenshot
Short Description of Each Menu Item
In this section I have added a short description of all the menu items. I have also included some screenshots where I think it adds value (some are really obvious so didn’t bother to add a screenshot of each menu item).
1. The WP Affiliate screen shows a summary stats.
Stats Summary Page
2. The Settings menu allows you to set various general settings of this plugin.
General Settings
reCAPTCHA Settings
Index Page Customization Settings
3. The Manage Affiliates screen allows you to manage your existing affiliates.
Manage Affiliates Page
4. The Add/Edit Affiliate menu allows you to add a new affiliate account manually or edit/delete an existing one.
5. Manage Banners screen lists all the existing affiliate banners/links.
Manage Banners Page
6. The Add/Edit Banners menu allows you to add a new banner/link or update and existing one so the affiliates can use them to direct traffic.
Add/Edit Banners Page
7. The Click Throughs screen lets you see all the traffic your affiliates are sending to your site.
Clickthrough Data
8. The Sales Data screen lets you see all the completed sales that you got from the referrals of your affiliates.
Affiliate Sales Data
9. The Manage Payouts menu is used to manage affiliate payments.
Manage Affiliate Payouts Menu
10. Payouts history screen allows you to see all the payouts you made to your affiliates.
Feel free to leave a comment if you want to see more screenshots.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Can affiliates get a report for tax purposes from this plugin?
Can the plugin integrate with a paypal button generated through paypal?
Does the plugin integrate with buddypress?
Thanks for all the help.
Best Regards,
Justin P. Madigan
justinpaulmadigan@gmail.com
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 am
Hi Justin, The Payouts menu list all the payouts you made to the affiliates in a table which you can use to tax purpose. Also PayPal will give you a transaction receipt when you pay your affiliates via PayPal.
Yes, this plugin can be integrated with a PayPal button generated from your PayPal account. There is a little bit of custom code that needs to be in place for the integration but I will help you with that.
No, the affiliate plugin does not integration with Buddypress (I just haven’t looked into it yet).
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 am
Hi ..
Can this plugin supports payments through the bank (bank wire)?
What is integrated with eStore means every sale that happens every member will be recorded for many products?
Thanks
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:04 am
@Prayitno, This plugin is not going to do the bank transaction for you. It will give you the report of how much commission each affiliate has made. Now, you need to collect the bank details from your affiliates and do the bank transfer yourself. Once you pay the money you need to mark that as “Paid” from the “Payout” menu.
Integrated with eStore means the affiliate commission is awarded for any sale that happens through the eStore automatically (you don’t need to do anything extra)
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Hi Ruhul,
Thank you for quick reply
To collect detail bank every affiliates can / have been provided by your plugin?
So estore like amazon affiliates?
regards
Prayitno from Indonesia
October 27th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Hey there!
This looks like a great plugin. Does it offer the ability to message affiliates or integrate with an email service provider?
Thanks
Sean
October 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Hi Sean, It’ doesn’t have the ability to email affiliates but it can give you a comma seperated email list of all the affiliates that you can take and use an email management program to do your email communication.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Hi mate
I need to integrate with Zen-cart, I assume that’s not an issue. I know where I need to place the script code so all I need is the code please. The cart is at http://handsoninternetmarketing.com.au/shop/ (not configured as yet)
I will purchase the plugin as soon as you confirm that integration isn’t an issue.
Have a great day
Wolf Skafte-Zauss
http://handsoninternetmarketing.com.au
Discover how to increase your sales using e-commerce
October 29th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Hi Wolf, If you know where to put the code then the integration should be easy. Please let me know what payment gateway you are using.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Hi Ruhul,
I am interested in this software for some clients.
Here are my questions:
1. In the product description, you wrote that this software supports pay per lead, but the screenshots only refer to % payments. Please clarify.
2. Is there a simple, automatic way to backup all the information contained in my Affiliate database to my own server or computer?
3. Can I customize the affiliate sign-up form (so that I can add tax info) and add terms and conditions? (I really don’t know how any affiliate program can accept new affiliates without them agreeing to the terms and conditions – preferably by ticking a little box.)
I await your response.
Naomi
October 30th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hi Naomi, The plugin doing the selling (eg. eStore) does the commission awarding as thats the plugin that knows when a payment is confirmed. So you can specify how much commission to award after a sale/conversion instead of the commission percentage and you essentially have a pay per lead system.
All the data is stored inside the wordpress database (the plugin creates tables inside the wordpress database). So when you backup your full wordpress database the data for this plugin is backed up too. I use an automatic database backup plugin that backs up my wordrpess database for me periodically.
You can customize the affiliate signup page but you will also have to modify the corresponding database to store the values. I am going to introduce the Terms & Conditions checkbox to this plugin anyway so I can maybe add the Tax info textbox at the same time if thats all you need.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Hi Ruhul,
My website uses WP eStore to sell some kits in the form of electronic downloads (which I’m really happy with).
I also offer some consulting services, but I do not sell these as services through WP eStore. I advertise the services on a static page, and users fill out an order form rather than using WP eStore to checkout through PayPal. It’s a long story, but for legal reasons, I need to provide the service before charging the customer. This means I accept the order form, do the work and then send them an offline invoice when I’ve finished.
I would like to have an Affiliate Program where I pay a % commission on sales made through WP eStore, and a flat $ figure for leads (i.e. when my order form is completed).
Can your system do this?
Thanks in advance,
Yvette
November 12th, 2009 at 2:40 am
@Yvette, I can give you a small bit of code that you can put on your order form.. when the customer hit’s the submit button this code will award this specific commission to the appropriate affiliate. Let me know if this solution is okay with you.
November 12th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Great. What you offer sounds like just what I need. I currently use the “CForms” plugin to manage my order forms, and I hope that I’ll be able to get it up and running with a little bit of help from you.
I’ll purchase the plugin later today!
November 12th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
This looks great! 1 question…
Could an the eShop coupon code area accept an affiliate code instead of the cookie passing the affiliate code? My client wants his affiliates to send their code around to other potential customers.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Does the affiliate pay commission in a matrix form based on upline commission payouts for downline affiliate sales.
As I give 50% commission to the first line of affiliates who in turn may sign affiliates downline:
1. The firstline get 25% of the sales of the 2nd line of affiliates that they have recruited on all sales made.
Can this coding be included.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Hi Ruhul,
I’ve purchased your Affiliate Platform Plugin, and I’ve installed it on my site.
I’ve got three things that I’m hoping you could help me with:
1. I’ve actually loaded a banner on a friend’s web site, and completed a purchase of one of my eStore products. It looks like the Affiliate Platform Plugin is registering clicks, but not sales made through the eStore plugin (v2.3.1). Can you suggest why this might be?
2. Do text links work in emails? If so, is it just a matter of getting the Affiliate to include “www.my-domain.com/?ap_id=##”" in their emails?
3. Could you send the code through that I need to track leads in my CForms plugin?
Thanks
Yvette
November 13th, 2009 at 9:12 am
@KennyP, the eStore’s coupon code field doesn’t accept affiliate ID but you can insert it in the browser’s URL and achieve the same result. Basically add the following at the end of the URL:
?ap_id=your-affiliate-id
November 13th, 2009 at 9:13 am
@Vik, the affiliate software doesn’t do multi tier affiliate commission just yet.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:32 am
@Yvette, 1) Please post a link to the page so I can have a look.
2) Yes, the text links work in emails and you are correct about the URL.
3) I will email you the code.
November 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@admin If we paid for the custom development, could it be done that the eStore coupon code field accept affiliate ID?
November 13th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
@Kennyp, we will discuss this over email.
November 14th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Hello,
I have a question. I am looking for an affiliate plugin to install into my wordpress site that can change the affiliate links dynamically when someone arrives to the site from the affiliates link.
Once the person arrives all the affiliate links that have been activated by the affiliate would actually be the affiliate links. If the affiliate did not activate a link it would refer back to the default sites main links.
Can you plugin be modified to do this?
Thanks,
Jim
November 14th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Hi Ruhul
Thanks for the code. I’ve sent an email to you with the requested information.
Cheers
Yvette
November 15th, 2009 at 12:45 am
@Jim, I don’t think this can be done.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
@admin I would say that kennyp’s request that the coupon code field accept affiliate ID’s is desirable. Just one idea is that Affiliates can offer a discount to a customer when they use the coupon code and then use sense of urgency marketing techniques in the process etc…
Leon McKee
December 4th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I can add an additional input field that takes an “affiliate id”
December 15th, 2009 at 9:37 am
would this be able to be used in conjunction with this membership plugin http://www.newmedias.co.uk/wordpress-membership/
December 19th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Tyler, The affiliate plugin can be integrated with many programs, but this depends on how the other plugin works. Please read the following information for more on this: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/integrating-the-wp-affiliate-software-with-a-3rd-party-plugin-61
Ivy
December 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
can i use the eStore to offer a $1 trial for a month to a membership site for my affiliates reverting to a $19/month recurring fee?
December 21st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Salam n Hola
Looks to me like this is the plugin I am looking for. Quick question, though.. Do I have to install the plugin on the same site as the store? Can the affiliate plugin run on a totally different domain from the store?
Regards
Hadee Roslan
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 am
@Phil, yep. this way for the trial period the affiliates will receive commission on that $1. for recurring payments they will receive commission on the $19.
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 am
@Hadee, nope, the affiliate plugin needs to be on the same domain where the store is.
January 9th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Hi!
Does this plugin integrate with e-Junkie?
Thanks!
Felisha
January 9th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Felisha, The affiliate platform can integrate with many 3rd party software. Please read the following page for more information about 3rd party integration.
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/integrating-the-wp-affiliate-software-with-a-3rd-party-plugin-61
Ivy
February 6th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Hi, how is this better than idevaffiliate and what is the differences? I know that idev is the “market leader” for affiliate management and I guess I would be concerned that if I bought your plugin I might miss out on some features I need. Anyone here have any experience using either of the two? The benefit to your plugin is seamless wordpress integration.
February 9th, 2010 at 3:36 am
Hi Robert, Our Affiliate Platform is a simple affiliate program. We try to keep our plugins lightweight and easy to use. If you are looking for a more complex and feature loaded plugin then this is not the plugin for you. When it comes to being better than someone or something it all depends on what you are looking for. I find that most the time when you have too many features (that you never seem to use anyways) it just makes things frustrating. When choosing a plugin its best to look at what you really need it to do and then think about how it will grow with your site. If you have any questions about the plugin please feel free to contact us though the contact form.
Ivy
February 25th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
In my list of Affiliates I know I can assign all affiliates to have a default say 25% commission BUT can I go into one individuals affiliate profile and let only that person have a 50% commission rate?
Andy
February 26th, 2010 at 1:14 am
Hi Andy, Yes you can do this under the Manage Affiliates Menu and then selecting edit for the member you wish to change the commission for.
Cheers,
Ivy
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:44 am
is it possible to input the sales cost manually? since our products is in a form of services and procedures. our client usually pay on the spot and not online?
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Hi, Yes you can add affiliate sales manually. This can be done under the “Sales Data” menu of the affiliate platform.
Cheers,
Ivy