How to create and assign coupons to affiliates

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.

The plugin uses standard WooCommerce coupons that you can assign to affiliates for promotional purposes.

These WooCommerce coupons function as they work by default, you can set up any usage restrictions or limits in the coupon. Along with this, you also get an option to link coupon(s) to specific affiliates, allowing them to earn commissions on sales generated using these coupons.

This doc article explains how you (store owner) can create and assign a shareable discount coupon to your affiliates.

To use coupons for referral purposes, enable the Coupons for referral setting.

Use of the WooCommerce Coupons must be enabled from WordPress admin > WooCommerce > Settings > General, as mentioned here.

To create a coupon for an affiliate, follow these steps:

1. Go to WordPress admin > Marketing > Coupons.
2. Click on the ‘Add Coupon’ button to create a new coupon or select an existing coupon to edit.
3. You can give any Coupon Code, then, fill in the coupon details like discount type, coupon amount, and any other restriction that you want.
4. You will see a setting named ‘Assign to affiliate‘. You can search for the affiliates in it by either email, username, name, or the affiliate’s user ID. Search for the affiliate and select it from the results.
   
5. Publish/update the coupon.

That’s it.

You can repeat the steps to create and assign multiple referral coupons for the same affiliate or different affiliates.

To check which coupons are assigned to an affiliate, follow these steps:

1. Go to WordPress admin > WooCommerce > Affiliates > Dashboard.
2. Select the affiliate from the list and go to the ‘Profile’ tab.
3. You will see the list of coupons assigned to the selected affiliate next to ‘Referral Coupons’ under ‘Referral Details’.

An affiliate can find their coupon code and discount details from My Account > Affiliate > Profile.

An affiliate can request a coupon from the store owner by following these steps:

1. Go to My Account > Affiliate > Profile.
2. If an affiliate doesn’t have any coupons assigned, they will notice the following text: “Want an exclusive coupon to promote? Request affiliate manager for a coupon”.

   

3. The ‘Request affiliate manager for a coupon’, contains a ‘mailto’ link, clicking on which will open your default email application, to compose a new email, filled with a ‘To’ email address, a default Subject, and a sample body of email.
4. Send the email to request referral coupons.

Note – the above section is only visible if you have set the email address in the Affiliate manager email setting.

When a customer uses a referral coupon at checkout, the sale is attributed to the affiliate assigned to the coupon. The commission calculation will be based on what you set in your commission plans.

You can also set commission rules based on referral medium (link/coupon) as explained here.

Ensure that the coupon is properly assigned to the affiliate and that the coupon is active.

Verify the coupon code, expiration date, and any usage restrictions to ensure they are set correctly.

Referral/visitor tracking issues may arise in some instances with referral links or referral coupons from your caching plugin.

If you encounter any such issues, you may need to make a few changes to your caching plugin settings. Visit here to learn more.

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