Affiliates for WooCommerce – Affiliate Program, Referral Tracking & Commission Payouts for WordPress Plugin Directory

Affiliates for WooCommerce is a WooCommerce affiliate plugin that turns your store into a self hosted affiliate program. People sign up as affiliates, share a referral link, and earn a commission when someone buys through it. You approve the affiliates, set the rate, and pay them when you are ready.

Everything runs inside WordPress. There is no external affiliate network taking a cut of each sale, and no monthly platform fee on top of what you already pay your affiliates.

Affiliates get their own dashboard inside the WooCommerce My Account page, so they can check earnings, build referral links, and enter payout details without emailing you.

Quick links

Free demo

Pro demo

Documentation

Free vs Pro comparison

How the referral tracking works

An affiliate registers through your signup form and you approve them.

They generate a referral link for any page or product on your store.

A visitor clicks the link and a referral cookie is stored in their browser.

If that visitor orders before the cookie expires, the commission is recorded against the affiliate.

You review the commission list and record the payout.

Why run the affiliate program on your own store Hosted affiliate platforms charge a subscription and usually a percentage of every tracked sale, so you pay twice for the same order. This plugin keeps the affiliate data, the commission rules, and the payout records in your own database.

Commission amounts are calculated from real WooCommerce order totals, so what an affiliate earns matches what the customer actually paid. You decide whether tax and discounts count toward the commission base.

What the free version includes Affiliate registration and signup form Affiliates apply through a form you can place on any page.

An affiliate dashboard page with the login and registration forms is created for you on activation

[ddwcaf_affiliate_registration_form_shortcode] renders the affiliate registration form anywhere on your site

[ddwcaf_affiliate_dashboard_shortcode] renders the affiliate dashboard on a page of your choice

Rename either shortcode from Configuration > Shortcodes if you prefer your own tag

Show the login form next to the signup form, or show the signup form on its own

Add the affiliate signup fields to the standard WooCommerce registration page

Choose which WordPress user roles are allowed to become affiliates

Approve, reject, or ban applications from the affiliates list in your admin

Add a new affiliate yourself from the admin using the Add New button on the affiliates screen

Referral link tracking Every click on a referral link is matched to an affiliate through a browser cookie.

Set the referral cookie lifetime in days

Rename the referral URL parameter and the cookie name to suit your store

Turn click logging on or off

Every logged click stores the destination URL and the time it happened

Affiliates build their own referral links from the link generator in their dashboard

Commission calculation Commissions are recorded automatically from WooCommerce orders once an order reaches the status you configure.

One global commission percentage applies to every affiliate

Exclude tax from the commission base with the net of tax setting

Exclude the discounted amount so coupons do not inflate what you pay

Review every commission in the admin with the order reference, amount, affiliate, and status

Filter the commission list by status, date, or affiliate

Payout management

Bank transfer and PayPal are both available as payout methods, and you can switch either one off

Affiliates save their own bank or PayPal details from their dashboard, so you do not have to collect them by email

Create payout records from the admin and mark them paid once the money is sent

Filter payouts by status so you can work through them in batches

Each payout record keeps the affiliate, amount, method, and date

Affiliate dashboard Affiliates see their own numbers without any access to your WordPress admin.

Appears as an Affiliates tab in the WooCommerce My Account page, or on a standalone page through the shortcode

Total earnings, paid earnings, unpaid earnings, and conversions at the top of the dashboard

Commission list split by status so affiliates know what is pending and what has been paid

Payout history with the current status of each request

Visit log with the destination URL and timestamp of each recorded click

Top products list showing which of your products earned them the most

Referral link generator for any page or product

Payout details form where they choose bank transfer or PayPal

Optional WordPress sidebar widgets on the dashboard page

Admin reporting

Affiliates list with a status control and an earnings summary for each affiliate

Single affiliate screen with the full profile and that affiliate’s commission history

Commission log across all affiliates with filters

Visit log across all affiliates showing referral source URLs

Top products report showing which products drive the most affiliate revenue

Dashboard styling

Set the brand primary colour used across the affiliate dashboard

Control background, border, text, and value colours for the summary cards

Set table header background and text colours

Show or hide the summary card icons and change the icon size

Built for WooCommerce stores

Declared compatible with WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage (HPOS)

Translation ready with a .pot file, so it works with WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate

Works with standard WooCommerce compatible themes

Object oriented codebase with hooks and filters for custom development

Admin screens adapt to smaller displays with a drawer based navigation

Try the free demo

What the Pro version adds The free version covers a single global commission rate and manual payouts. Pro is for stores that need per product rates, automated payouts, and marketing material for affiliates.

Commission rules

Commission rates per product, per category, or per user role

Tiered rates that increase automatically as an affiliate reaches higher lifetime earnings

A personal commission rate for an individual affiliate that overrides the global rate

Exclude specific products or categories from earning commission

A holding period so commissions only become payable after your refund window closes

Coupon based referrals

Assign WooCommerce coupons to specific affiliates

Affiliates earn commission when a customer checks out with their coupon, with no referral link needed

Coupon assignment emails sent to the affiliate

A coupons tab in the affiliate dashboard

Automated payouts

Let affiliates request payouts themselves, or run payouts automatically on a chosen day each month

Set a minimum balance before a payout can be requested or processed

A step by step payout wizard for processing large batches

Pay through bank transfer, PayPal, or WooCommerce Wallet

Marketing tools for affiliates

Upload banners and text links as creatives that affiliates copy from their dashboard

One click sharing to 10+ networks including Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X, and email

Pinterest ready image uploads

Default share titles and messages so your branding stays consistent

Custom registration fields

Add your own fields to the affiliate signup form using text, select, radio, checkbox, and textarea inputs

Choose which profile fields affiliates are allowed to edit

Require affiliates to accept your program terms during signup

Fraud controls

Block affiliates from earning commission on their own orders

Set a debounce time so repeated clicks from the same visitor are not counted as separate visits

Decide whether a newer referral link overwrites an existing affiliate cookie

Clear the referral cookie after a purchase

CAPTCHA on the signup form through the WooCommerce Advanced CAPTCHA plugin by DevDiggers, sold separately

Email notifications

Automated emails for registration, approval, and commission updates

Advanced reports

Charts for earnings, visits, and conversions with month on month comparison

Conversion rate and earnings breakdown at a glance

Top products report filtered by affiliate

Dashboard endpoints

Custom URL endpoints and titles for each affiliate dashboard section

Custom endpoint slug and title for the My Account affiliate tab

Try the Pro demo or see the full comparison

External services This plugin connects to two services run by DevDiggers. Both are used in the WordPress admin only and neither is involved in referral tracking, commissions, or payouts.

DevDiggers plugin catalogue

The DevDiggers admin screen loads the list of DevDiggers plugins so it can show which of them you already have installed. The request is sent to https://devdiggers.com/wp-json/ddwcs/v1/plugins when that screen is opened. It sends no personal data and no store data, only a standard user agent identifying the plugin framework version.

DevDiggers newsletter signup

If you type an email address into the newsletter box on the DevDiggers admin screen and submit it, that email address, a “newsletter” tag, and your site URL are sent to https://devdiggers.com/. This only happens when you submit the form yourself.

Terms of service: https://devdiggers.com/terms-and-conditions/

Privacy policy: https://devdiggers.com/privacy-policy/

Source code and build tools The JavaScript and CSS shipped in assets/ are compiled with webpack and Babel from the sources in src/, which is excluded from the distributed zip to keep it small. The full source, including src/, webpack.config.js, babel.config.js, and package.json, is available from the plugin page at devdiggers.com.

To build from source:

npm install

npm run build