How to pay store credit as affiliate commission

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.

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The plugin offers multiple payout options, including:

• PayPal
• Stripe
• Coupons (Fixed cart discount)
• Store Credit Coupons
• Manual Payout

This document explains how to send commission payout via store credit coupons.

Store credit is a virtual balance that customers can use for future purchases in your store. Visit here to learn more about it.

If you choose it for commission payout, it will allow affiliates to redeem their earned commission as store credit for any purchase on your store, which can increase their engagement with your store.

To pay affiliate commissions using store credit, you need to ensure that you have the following plugins installed and activated on your site:

1. WooCommerce Smart Coupons – This plugin provides a powerful, “all-in-one” solution for gift certificates, store credits, discount coupons, and vouchers. It’s required to generate and manage store credit coupons during commission payout.
2. Affiliate Store Credit Payouts Integration For WooCommerce (Free) – This plugin integrates the Affiliate for WooCommerce system with WooCommerce Smart Coupons, enabling you to pay commissions as store credit.

Select Store Credit / Gift Certificate in the Payout via Coupons settings to enable payouts via store credit.

This will allow you to pay affiliate commissions via store credit for any future payouts.

1. Go to WordPress admin > WooCommerce > Affiliates > Dashboard.
2. Select an affiliate to send a payout.
3. Click on the Referrals tab (default tab).
4. Select the commission records to process payouts, and the amount will accumulate only for orders with an Unpaid commission status.
5. Once done, click on Send Payout (the total amount of commission to be paid is displayed next to it), located above the Referrals list table header.
6. It opens up a popup, where you can choose Coupon: Store Credit as Payout Method from the dropdown.
7. Add Notes if you want, which can be used for your reference.
8. Click on Send.

This commission payout will be visible under the Payouts tab.

Also, selected commission records’ commission status will be marked as Paid.

Upon sending the payout, it will create a store credit coupon for the affiliate and the affiliate will receive their payout details along with the coupon code in the email.

Note: This amount will not be debited or sent in the form of money.

Affiliates can also check their store credit coupon and balance in their My Account > Coupons section.

Once the payout is sent, the affiliate will receive the coupon code via the Affiliate – Commission Paid email. This email goes to affiliates when their commission is processed and it contains information about the commission amount, payout method, etc.

Affiliates can find Payout records under their My Account > Affiliate > Reports > Recent Payouts section. It will show the payout method as Coupon: Store Credit.

It’s the Affiliate – Commission Paid email that goes to affiliates when their commission is processed. This email contains information about the commission amount, payout method, etc.

In the case of payout via store credit, email will also show the coupon code.

Setting a default payment method helps the store admin understand the preference of the affiliate for receiving a commission. Also, it’s required in the case of automated commission payouts – as it directly goes to the affiliate.

Affiliates can set store credit as their default payout method by following these steps:

1. Log into their My Account > Affiliate > Profile > Payout Setting.
2. Select Coupon: Store Credit from the Select payout method dropdown.
3. Click on Save.

As a store admin, you can view affiliates’ payout preferences under the Payout Details section in the Profile tab of the affiliate on the WordPress Admin > WooCommerce > Affiliates > Dashboard.

Also, you can check it on the Pending Payouts dashboard for the selected payout method of each affiliate.

Automatic payouts work on predefined schedules, which ensures timely, accurate payments for your affiliates without any manual effort from your end.

To automatically pay commission via store credit, you need to follow these:

1. Enable payout via Store Credit.
2. Affiliates need to set Coupon: Store Credit as their default payout method.
3. Enable the automatic payout for the affiliates.

Visit this doc to learn more.

Yes, the store credit coupon will have usage restrictions by email of the affiliate. So, it can only be used by the affiliate to whom the payout was sent.

It will not have any coupon expiry date set. So it will be available forever to the affiliate.

You can modify the usage restrictions of any coupon from WooCommerce > Marketing > Coupons, selecting the generated coupon, and adjusting the Usage Restrictions tab.

The coupons that are generated for commission payouts will have a description stating that the coupon was created as an affiliate commission payout.

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