How to assign a custom user role to an affiliate

Affiliate for WooCommerce plugin helps you to add, manage affiliates, and track performance from a single place – commissions, sales, payouts, leaderboard, etc. Earn money without hard work. Increase your brand outreach, and get potential customers.

You can securely add code snippets to your site using either of the methods mentioned here: How to properly add WooCommerce custom code.

We recommend backing up your site before adding custom code and testing it thoroughly in a staging environment.

When a user signs up for your affiliate program they are assigned a user role set under the WordPress Admin > Settings > General > New User Default Role.

However, there may be instances where you want to assign another user role to users while approving as affiliates, whether the approval is automatic or manual (learn more).

The following code snippet will help to add a user role to a user while approving as an affiliate:

// Function to be executed during the 'init' action.
add_action( 'init', 'sa_afwc_init_action' );
function sa_afwc_init_action() {
    add_action( 'afwc_affiliate_approved', 'sa_afwc_trigger_auto_approval' );
}

function sa_afwc_trigger_auto_approval( $user_id = 0 ) {
	if( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}

	add_action( 'profile_update', 'sa_afwc_add_user_role_upon_approval' );
	sa_afwc_add_user_role_upon_approval( $user_id );
}

function sa_afwc_add_user_role_upon_approval( $user_id = 0 ) {
        if( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}

	$user = get_user_by( 'ID', $user_id );
	$user->add_role( 'affiliate' ); // the user role that you want to add upon approval.
}

Remember to replace the user role with the role you wish to assign to your affiliates under the function sa_afwc_add_user_role_upon_approval as mentioned in the comment.

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