How to assign / unassign an order 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.

It may happen that when your affiliates promote your product, someone lands on your website through it, but without that referral link and purchases the product.

In such a case or any other where referrals are not recorded, you can manually assign that order to the desired affiliate.

Also, for unwanted referrals (such as an affiliate’s self-referrals) or commission, you can unassign an order from an affiliate.

This doc explains how you (the store owner) can manually assign/unassign an order to an affiliate.

Steps to assign an order to an affiliate

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Go to WooCommerce > Orders. Add or edit an order.
Locate the Affiliate details box.
You will find a search field below Assigned to affiliate to search for the affiliate by email, username, name, or user ID.
Search and select the affiliate once it appears.
Click on Update or Create under Order actions.

That’s it. You have assigned that order to the affiliate. The affiliate commission will be automatically calculated and updated once the order is updated.

The total commission amount will be visible under that search box. If you have a multi-tiered setup, it will mention like: including multi-tier commissions.

Steps to unassign order from an affiliate

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Go to WooCommerce > Orders. Locate and edit the order.
Locate the Affiliate details section. You will find the affiliate linked to that order below Assigned to affiliate.
Click on the cross ‘x’ icon next to the affiliate name to remove the affiliate linked to that order.
Click on Update under Order actions.

That’s it. You have unassigned that order from the affiliate.

Note – if a commission is already paid for an order, it won’t be possible to unassign that order from an affiliate.

How to assign a subscription to an affiliate

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If you are using the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin and want to assign an existing subscription to an affiliate, then you can link a subscription’s parent order to the affiliate by following the above steps.

After that, all the upcoming renewals will be automatically assigned to that affiliate. Visit here to learn more about giving commission on renewal orders.

Please note, that if a renewal order is already created for a subscription, then the above method will not assign an affiliate to that renewal order. You will need to manually assign it.