It is a known fact that having an affiliate program is the most powerful way to market your products or services online (Read more on the benefits of affiliate program).
If you own a WordPress blog/site and your answer to the following questions are ‘yes’ then the ‘WordPress Affiliate Platform’ is what you need:
- Do you sell products or services online from your WordPress blog/site?
- Do you want to increase your sales and explode your profits by using an affiliate program?
- Do you want to have your own affiliate program so you can cut the middle man and build your own brand?
WordPress Affiliate Plugin Summary
The WordPress Affiliate Platform is an easy to use WordPress plugin for affiliate recruitment, management and tracking that can be used on any WordPress blog or site. This plugin lets you run your own affiliate campaign/program and allows you to reward (pay commission) your affiliates for referring sales.
The admin can configure banners, links and creatives which the affiliates can use on their site to drive traffic to your site. All the clicks, leads, sales etc are tracked by this plugin.
If you are running online ad campaigns for your products and services then you can use the affiliate platform plugin to measure the true conversion rate of each campaign to find out the profitable ones. This allows you to weed out the non-profitable campaigns and save money in the process.
In a nutshell, the Affiliate Platform Plugin will help you achieve the following:
- Launch your affiliate campaign in a short time.
- Monitor clicks and conversions of visitors sent by your affiliates.
- Maintain your brand with your own product Ad Banners, Links and Creatives.
- Drive more traffic to your landing/sales page from your Affiliate’s site.
- Significantly BOOST revenue with more sales.
We use this plugin to run our affiliate program and it has had a positive effect on our product sales.
How WP Affiliate Plugin Works
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing where you (the store owner) reward affiliates for sending customers to your site. The following page explains how it all works:
WP Affiliate Plugin Features
Some key features of the WordPress Affiliate Platform include:
Easy Installation
Easy installation like any other WordPress plugin and very easy to use. Seamlessly integrates with your website’s look and feel.
Real Time Reporting
Real time reporting. All data (clicks, sales, commissions) are tracked, computed and displayed realtime with no delay.
Accurate Commission Calculation
Affiliate commissions are calculated accurately and awarded to the affiliate after a confirmed sale.
Two Tier Affiliate Structure
Can be configured to use as a two-tier affiliate structure.
Easy Affiliate Management
View your affiliate details, commission level, account status etc. Easily change commission, edit affiliate details, view affiliate referrals, commissions and much more.
Self Managed Affiliate Area
Your affiliates will be able to create an account, log into their affiliate account and get ad code, view referrals, commissions and payout details.
Affiliate Ad Code
You can offer text and image ads to your affiliates. Your affiliates will be able to copy the ad code and use it to refer visitors.
Offer Creatives
You have the ability to offer creatives (pre written text copy that) to your affiliates. Your affiliates can use it to promote your products easily.
Referral Link Generator
It comes with a built-in link generation tool in the affiliate area. Your affiliates can use this tool to generate referral link and share it easily via email, facebook, twitter etc.
Offer Signup Bonus
You can offer one time signup bonus to your affiliates. This can help you attract more affiliates to join you.
Autoresponder Integration
It can be integrated with Autoresponders (AWeber, MailChimp, Mailpoet). This way the affiliates automatically get added to your list/campaign for email marketing purpose.
Unlimited Affiliates
No limit on the number of affiliates you can have and no monthly fees to use this plugin. Have as many affiliates as you want!
Manually Approve Affiliates
You can choose to manually approve each affiliate account. There is also an option to send the affiliate an email when you have reviewed the application and approved the account.
Commission Notification
You can configure email notification that will be sent to your affiliate and you, when an affiliate receives a commission.
$0 Commission Recording
Ability to enable or disable $0 commission recording. If the commission from a transaction is $0, you will be able to show or hide it.
Option to Show EPC Data
Ability to show the EPC (Earnings Per Click) data to your affiliates in their affiliate portal (under the sales menu).
Export Data to CSV File
Ability to export all your affiliate commissions data to a CSV file so you can view it using Excel. You can export your affiliate leads data to a CSV file also.
Multi Site License
When you buy the WP Affiliate Platform plugin you can use it on as many sites as you own (you gotta love that!). There is no “Developer Option” here. One low price entitles you to use the plugin on all of your sites.
Plugin Stability
Our plugin code-base is very stable. We put a lot effort into testing and developing our plugins so it doesn’t break your site after you upgrade.
Easy Integration with Most WordPress Shopping Carts
Integrates with most WordPress shoping carts including WooCommerce, eShop, Shopp plugin, Cart66, WP Shopping Cart etc. Check the integration section on our documentation page to see the full details of the available pre-made integration options.
Fully Integrates with WP eStore
Fully integrates with the WordPress eStore (WordPress Shopping Cart) plugin. Selling products from your WordPress site using the WP eStore plugin is quick and easy.
PayPal Button Integration
You can easily integrate this affiliate plugin with PayPal buttons that you create from your PayPal account. It can work for both one time and subscription PayPal payment buttons.
Integrates with Some Hosted Shopping Carts
Affiliate platform integrates with some hosted shopping carts like e-Junkie, FoxyCart, Ecwid etc. Check the integration section of our documentation page to see the full details of the available integration options.
Easy Integration with WooCommerce Plugin
The affiliate plugin easily integrates with the WooCommerce plugin. When your customers complete a sale via Woo Commerce, the plugin awards the commission to the appropriate affiliate (if any). You can also integrate WooCommerce coupons with this plugin to track and award commission based on the coupon that was used in the transaction.
Easy Integration with the WP-eCommerce Plugin
Can be easily integrated with the GetShopped WP-eCommerce plugin. You can view the WP eCommerce plugin integration details on our integration documentation page.
Integration with Gravity Forms Plugin
Can be integrated with the Gravity forms plugin to capture leads referred by your affiliates. It also integrates with their pricing fields option.
Developer Integration
Developers can integrate the wordpress affiliate plugin with any shopping cart or a plugin via the API (read the 3rd party integration post to understand what is involved in such an integration).
Works with HTTPS Pages
Affiliate Platform plugin works with https pages out of the box (useful if you are using an SSL certificate on your website).
Always Kept Upto Date
We keep our plugins upto date to work with the latest version of WordPress. We have been doing this for 5+ years so rest assured that our plugins will always be compatible with any future WordPress updates.
Free Future Upgrades
Free future improvements and upgrades (there is no annual fee). You will always have access to the latest version of the plugin for free.
Great Support
Tired of listening to fake support promises? Checkout our customer only forum to see how we handle product related issues (usually within 24 hours). Our support forum is moderated by the developers who created the plugin(s).
View the full list of WP Affiliate plugin features.
Affiliate Platform Plugin Demo
Click on the following button to view live demo of the affiliate area that you will be able to create with this plugin:
Documentation & Technical Support
- Documentation page (Contains all the documentation for the WP Affiliate Platform plugin)
If you are having any issue with this plugin then feel free to post it on the customer only support forum.
Please make sure you visit the demo and the documentation page so you understand the capability of this plugin. Do not assume that this plugin will magically work with a 3rd party plugin/solution that is not listed in the “Integration” section of the documentation page. Contact us if you are unsure about something and we will try to clarify it for you.
Customer Feedback
We won’t waste your time with fake testimonials! Checkout the customer feedback page and see what some of our customers have to say about us.
I meant to say this the other day: your customer support is EXCELLENT! Pre-sales or post sales, you always get back it’s such a pleasure to work with you!
Combined costs for both products is a steal for the amount of functionality I get. A forthcoming review on my site will reflect that I hope I can support you any way I can.
Jay Versluis
http://www.versluis.com/
You can also check the comment section below for more customer feedback.
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WP Affiliate Platform Questions (F.A.Q)
Please leave a comment below if you have any questions.
Glad to see such a useful affiliate plug-in finally available. My clients are very interested in affiliate marketing and it will be a great addition to my web design package and includes all the bells and whistles I used to have to employ manually. Thanks!
Hey! I would like to just comment that in my opinion WordPress has brought the home user and the small business the benefits of what was once a specialty field for Information Technologists. Sure, in order to become the best specialists are required, however, to allow your small business to compete, this is the perfect initial solution.
Yes the affiliate plugin will be able to track the affiliate even the user has to login.
Yes the affiliate can just link to the homepage. As a matter of fact the affiliate can link to any page controlled by WordPress (example: post, page, archives, categories etc)
Yes the affiliate plugin will need a separate login because PHPurchase is an external plugin. The plugin developer might be able to include a similar feature that I have added to the WP eMember which makes the login the same for both.
You the admin will know who referred who. In the admin dashboard every sale will have a column that ties the sale to the product.
I want to integrate the affiliate plugin with PHPurchase (membership and shopping cart features).
1. I will have a ‘members only’ store that requires a user to login before displaying/seeing the store. So, there will be basic members and affiliate members. Will WP Affiliate still be able to track the affiliate who referred them, even if the user has to login first? Can the affiliate just link to the website homepage, or must it be to a specific item?
2. The affiliate will also be a PHPurchase member. Will the affiliate profile panel (like in the demo) require a separate login, or will it be tied to the member profile?
3. Lastly, is there any way to know which member was referred by each affiliate? I see the demo just shows date and time for referrals, but will I know exactly which basic member they are tied to?
Thanks.
Hi, Yes you can manually add or remove affiliate commission.
If my website accepts manual payments (cheque/deposit) from customers, can I manually update the affiliate’s account for that sale?
Hi,
LOVE your plugins!
Mary C.
Hi Parta, I believe this is what you are looking for:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/setting-up-the-affiliate-viewarea-315
See section “ii) Option 2 (On page affiliate area)”
how can we customize the preview of the “sign up affiliate or customers” like the website on the http://www.jimsimcoe.com (http://208.43.199.1/register.asp)
@James, yep it will work fine on a WPMS install.
Will the affililate plugin AND your membership plugin function properly together on the primary blog in a multie-blog enabled site?
It is quite sometthing. I remember back in 2002 how difficult it was to find software to run an in-house affiliate program. I did eventually find one, but it $1500 and offered only basic functionality. You look at where we’re at today with WordPress and these high quality plugins — it really is amazing.
Hi Alex, Yes the Affiliate Platform can be integrated with just a plain PayPal button.
You can read more about this here:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/plain-paypal-button-and-affiliate-plugin-integration-168
Can this integrate with just a Papal button?
it helps.. i like this plugin!
Hi Adam, You can manual change the Affiliate commission rates for each Affiliate.
Example:
Affiliate A = 25%
Affiliate B = 30%
Affiliate C = 50%
Can we assign separate commission rates for different affiliates? Or assign an affiliate level? For instance, we might have JV partners that are at a 40-50% affiliate commission…and we might just have random people who want to be affiliates at a 10-20% commission. Is this possible?
Thanks.
@Gavriel, nope it wont work in your case.
@Josh, if they don’t offer 3rd party integration option then I can’t really do anything from my side… sorry.
It’s a very essential plugin forr affiliates. I used it for my clients, Now I want to buy it for my Affiliate management site.
I know WP Aff works with wordpress. I also use Wishlist member. My sales pages for my wishlist member products are on several separate domains, as normal html pages, with buy buttons that feed into the wishlist system. Will WP Aff work if the plugin is on my central membership site but my buy buttons are on other domains, thus affiliates will send visitors to those other domains. thanks.
@Admin: The response I got from the Shopperpress support team is “we dont have any affiliate program within our theme therefore we dont have any “3rd party integration” for affiliate systems. Does this mean WP Affiliate Platform will not work with their theme then?
@Online, you can find the code in the “footer.php” file that is inside the “affiliates” directory.
@Josh, please let use know if shopperpress offers any 3rd party integration option for affiliate program and we will look into it. A link to any documentation on 3rd party affiliate integration will do.
Hi,
Again a wonderful plugin and I am just getting started with it but I see a lot of potential. I just signed up for YOUR affiliate program and was wondering where the code was located within the plugin files so that I can replace the text link on my website “Powered by WP Affiliate Platform†(located at the bottom right of each page) with MY Affiliate Code … the code that I was given when signing up for your (www.tipsandtricks-hq.com) program??
Please help and thanks 🙂
I am thinking of getting the Affiliate Platform Plugin for use with shopperpress theme (http://www.premiumpress.com/wordpress-shopping-cart/) but I do not see any references made here to a potential integration between the two. Do you know if these two will work together well.
Soooooo glad i found this! thanks. All the other affiliate plugins seem to have vanished or no 3.0!
I have been earning my living as a full-time affiliate marketer since 1999 so I can give the whole concept a big thumbs up.
It’s great to see that the WordPress Affiliate Platform can be integrated with WishList Member plugin. I am finishing up the WisjList integration on a new site. I find it very robust and full featured.
I have next on my docket to find a suitable affiliate management software program. Thanks for the tip.
James
Hi Nigel, Will you be using the eStore with the Affiliate or a different eCommerce plugin?
Hi Jamie, The following post will explain how to integrate the Affiliate Platform with a plain PayPal button:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/plain-paypal-button-and-affiliate-plugin-integration-168
I believe this is what you are looking for. Please let me know if it is not. =)
Hi,
Will the software track individual products?
I have 5 products but I only want to use affiliates with 3 of them can this be done?
Thanks
Thank you. I will be using PayPal. Will that work?
Hi Jamie, The eMember can be integrated with BuddyPress. Please see the following forum post on this:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/buddypress-integration#post-3149
As for the Affiliate this is usually integrated though the “Payment Processor” what will you be using to process your payments?
Does the Affiliate, shopping cart and membership software work with Buddypress?
Thanks
Hi Alex, You would need to use the 3rd Party Integration option, you can read more about this here:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/integrating-the-wp-affiliate-software-with-a-3rd-party-plugin-61
If you have any questions please let me know.
I’m using MemberWing and Tribulant shopping cart. Can this affiliate plugin be used with these?
Thanks for this post. I’m very interested in this type of plugin.
Please email a response.
Alex
Very nice plugin. I’ll get it once I can think of how to implement this to my site business model.
Hi Spencer, This can only be done with the eStore. Since the eStore is also our product we can integrate these 2 plugin fully. To do this with e-Commence there would need to be code modifications on their part. Since this is not our product it is very hard to modify their code. Also if we did make modifications when updates happen all the code modifications would then need to be replaced each time.
is there anyway to do this with WP Ecommerce? I already had it all built and everything… 🙁 .. haha. I would be willing to pay to have this option
@Spencer, If you are using the WP eStore plugin then you can link Affiliate ID with coupon code. When someone enter that coupon code the sale will be awarded to that affiliate (this way someone doesn’t have to follow an affiliate link).
@Daniel, Nope.. it can point to any of your wordpress post or page and the cookie will get set to track the click and the sales.
Is there a way to assign a coupon to an affiliate (wp e commerce) ? So that way they dont have to come from a website but more word of mouth?
does the affiliate link has to point to the page where the paypal button is in order 4 the sale to be tracked?
Cuz my website has several pages and one sales pages where the paypal button is, and when I was testing the plugin I noticed the affiliate link was gone when I navigate trough the pages.
i want this plugin
Wow This Plugins is Power Full. Is the best
Hi Marius, Does WishList use the IPN for its payment processing? If so then you will need to use the eStore for the affiliate to work, this way WishList and the Affiliate are integrated though the eStore. You can learn more about integrating the eStore and Wishlist here: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-estore-and-wishlist-plugin-integration-448
The Affiliate and eStore are already pre-integrated so once you purchase both plugins and step them up they are good to go.
I already got implemented in my site Wish Member plug-in and now i want to use WordPress Affiliate Platform from you. Are this two plug-ins compatible?
Is not about the price, I can buy you membership plug-in that you offer but I already got this membership plug-in installed and I’m kind of use to it.
Wish memeber has implemented Paypal, it is necessary to buy Estore plug-in to?
To make the long story short, I just want to but WP affiliate plug-in from you and implement to my site that’s have already Wish member installed. It’s that possible?
Thank you very much and wait for your reply!
Regards,
I am not familiar with the templatic theme but if it’s using the core eShop plugin for sale processing then there should be no problem. Remeber, you will need the latest version of eShop though.
hi!
i would like to ask if it can work with templatic eshop theme? the eshop is already bundled within the theme and it has its own affiliate tool but not as extensive as i’d like. would the integration tool for eshop work as it is?
thanks.
@Mashfiq, I know there are a few clients who have integrated with classipress. They are developers though. This is what you need to know about 3rd party integration:
https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/integrating-the-wp-affiliate-software-with-a-3rd-party-plugin-61
If the Classipress payment buttons use “rm”=2 option then PayPal will post the payment data back to the site and there is an even easier integration option for that.