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...]
How to Manually Approve Affiliates on Your Site
The WP Affiliate plugin has a feature that allows you to manually approve your members. Step 1) Enable the Settings Option Go to the settings menu of the affiliate plugin and enable the Manually Approve Affiliate Registration option. Now, all the affiliate that signup will have an account status of "pending" so they cannot log into the affiliate portal. Step 2) Update the Email Settings Update the "Affiliate Signup Email" section to say something like the following in the email body (so the … [Read more...]
Show Affiliate Leaderboard
You can embed an affiliate leaderboard on your site to show the top performing affiliates of your site. Use the following shortcode to show a leaderboard widget like the above example: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard] You can also specify how many top affiliates to show. Example shortcode usage below: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard number="5"] You can also show an affiliate leader-board based on the number of affiliate clicks. Example shortocde usage below: [wp_affiliate_leaderboard … [Read more...]
WP Affiliate Getresponse Opt-in Form Submission Tracking
The "Affiliates Getresponse Optin Tracking" Addon can be used to track your Getresponse opt-in form submissions. If you are using your affiliates to bring visitors to your Getresponse 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 a Getresponse opt-in form on your landing page or squeeze page (you get the form code from your Getresponse account). An affiliate sends a … [Read more...]
Optimizepress and WP Affiliate Plugin Integration
Optimizepress uses standard PayPal button code for accepting payment. So you can use our standard PayPal button integration method to integrate Optimizepress with the affiliate plugin. Alternatively, you can use our eStore plugin with Optimizepress to sell your products/items from the landing page. You use Optimizepress to create the landing page and eStore to create the "buy button" to sell the product. The eStore plugin has built in integration with the affiliate plugin. … [Read more...]
WP Affiliate MailChimp Opt-in Form Submission Tracking
The "Affiliates MailChimp Optin Tracking" Addon can be used to track your MailChimp opt-in form submissions. If you are using your affiliates to bring visitors to your MailChimp 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 a MailChimp opt-in form on your landing page or squeeze page (you get the form code from your MailChimp account). An affiliate sends a visitor to … [Read more...]
Allow Your Visitors to Manually Set the Referrer or Affiliate ID
If your affiliates refer customers to your website via various offline methods (example: face to face communication) then you need the ability to let your visitors enter the Referrer or Affiliate ID manually. This can also be very helpful if you have a sales team that will be doing offline promotion of your products and you want to track who is performing well. Let Your Visitors Enter Their Referrer's ID Create a WordPress page where you explain how it works then enter the following … [Read more...]
API – Retrieving Info from an Affiliate’s Profile
This documentation is only for developers. If you are not a developer with good PHP coding skills then you have no need to read this. It is very hard to troubleshoot another coder’s code. So if you use this documentation and do a custom integration yourself then please note that we cannot offer you any support in terms of what is wrong with your code. You will need to hire us to take a look at your code and correct any mistakes you made. You can also retrieve referrer details using … [Read more...]
Integrating Optimizemember Plugin with WP Affiliate Software
The WP Affiliate Platform plugin can be easily integrated with the Optimizemember plugin. Minimum Requirement You must be using the official shortcodes or functions provided by optimizemember plugin to create your payment buttons. Optimizemember offers shortcodes that you can use to embed your membership payment button on posts, pages or template files. If you are not using them then the affiliate plugin integration won't work. Integration Steps Step 1 (Get the Integration Addon) Contact us to … [Read more...]
Show Referring Affiliate’s Details to the Visitor
Sometimes you may want to show the referring affiliate's contact details to the user. You can do this simply by using one of the shortcodes explained below: Affiliate Details Shortcode: You can display certain details for the referring affiliate on your site using the "wp_affiliate_referrer_details" shortcode. The following example shows you how to display the email address of the affiliate who sent the visitor in to your site. [wp_affiliate_referrer_details info="email"] More … [Read more...]