Affiliate For WooCommerce

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

Installation

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Download the .zip file of the Affiliate for WooCommerce plugin from your Woo account.
Go to WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New and upload the file you downloaded.
Activate the plugin.

More information at: Installing and Managing Plugins.

Enable plugin updates

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Follow this doc to manage and enable plugin updates for Affiliate For WooCommerce.

You can also install/update manually by following the steps mentioned here. No plugin data will be lost during this.

View our changelog.

Demo

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Want to try/test the plugin before purchasing? Test it on our live demo:

Onboarding: Setup and Configuration

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Upon activating the plugin for the first time, the onboarding process will guide you through the initial setup of the plugin. Please refer to the Onboarding Guide.

Affiliate for WooCommerce Settings

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You can configure various settings of the plugin from WordPress admin > WooCommerce > Settings > Affiliate.

Visit here to learn more about all the settings.

How to make a user an affiliate?

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There are three ways to make users as affiliates:

By individual user

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Go to WordPress admin > Users > All users (learn more).
Search for the user you want to make an affiliate.
Click on the Edit link for the user.
Under the Affiliate For WooCommerce settings section, check the box next to Is affiliate?.
Click Update user to save the changes.

By user role

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You can make users of any user role as affiliates by following these steps:

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Affiliate > General.
In the Affiliate user roles setting, select the user roles.
Click Save Changes.

By registration form

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You can allow users to sign up as affiliates via the affiliate registration form. Simply add the [afwc_registration_form] shortcode to any page or post, and the affiliate registration form will appear.

You can also build a custom affiliate registration form with Elementor Form Builder or Contact Form 7.

Learn more: Create an affiliate registration form to let users sign up for your affiliate program.

Affiliate dashboard

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Learn more: How to access the affiliate dashboard (Affiliate Area) and customize it.

Tracking for store admin

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Store admin can see a detailed overview of each affiliate’s activity.

Admin Dashboard to view all Affiliate activity — Admin Affiliate Dashboard

How is commission status set for a referral order?

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Commission status for referral orders gets automatically set based on the order status of the referral order.

How does it work for default WooCommerce order statuses?

Paid order statuses (Processing, Completed)
- Commission status: Unpaid.
Rejected order statuses (Refunded, Cancelled, Failed)
- Commission status: Rejected.
Pending payment order statuses (Pending, On Hold)
- Commission status: Draft (Draft commissions are ignored in KPIs until the order is paid).

Note: WooCommerce defines only paid order statuses. We grouped other statuses into Rejected and Pending payment for clarity, so it’s easier to understand how commissions are handled.

How does it work for custom order statuses?

Paid statuses

WooCommerce provides a filter hook to define which order statuses are considered paid (using the woocommerce_order_is_paid_statuses).

If your custom order status is registered on this hook, it will behave just like Processing/Completed, and the commission status will be Unpaid.

Rejected statuses

WooCommerce doesn’t have a built-in rejected group. For this reason, our plugin has its own filter hook: afwc_rejected_order_statuses

If your custom order status is registered on this hook, it will behave just like Refunded/Cancelled/Failed, and the commission status will be Rejected.

Others

If a custom order status is not registered as paid or rejected as mentioned above, the commission status will be Draft (ignored in KPIs).

Locate, customize, and share an affiliate referral link

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How to find, customize and share an affiliate referral link

How to shorten affiliate links for free to boost CTR

Create and assign coupons to affiliates

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Create and assign tags to affiliates

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How to create and assign affiliate tags

Commission plans

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Set up a multilevel/multi-tier affiliate program

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How to set up a multi-tier affiliate program/multi-level marketing (MLM)

Lifetime commissions

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How to set up lifetime commissions

Assign/unassign an order to an affiliate

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How to assign/unassign an order to an affiliate

Commission payout

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Affiliates can set or update their default payout method anytime from their dashboard by following these steps:

Go to My Account > Affiliate > Profile tab (learn more).
Scroll to the Payout setting.
Choose a default payout method from the dropdown next to Select payout method (only the methods enabled by the store admin will appear here).
1. If you choose Stripe, follow this guide to connect your Stripe account.
2. If you choose PayPal, enter the email address of your PayPal account where payout can be received in the PayPal email address field, and click Save.
3. For other methods, simply select the option and click Save.