Affiliates for WooCommerce – Affiliate Program, Referral Tracking & Commission Payouts vs Fast eBay Listings

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, Stripe, or WooCommerce Wallet Send the money without leaving WordPress Free payouts are a record keeping exercise: you send the money yourself and mark the record paid. Pro can move the money for you. PayPal Payouts sends the commission straight to the PayPal email address on the affiliate’s profile, with nothing extra required from the affiliate Stripe Connect transfers to a Stripe Express account the affiliate connects once from their own dashboard, so Stripe collects their identity and bank details instead of you Sandbox and live environments for both gateways, with a connection test before you send anything real Payouts are sent through whichever gateway matches that affiliate’s chosen withdrawal method A retry limit per payout, a per payout audit log, and an email alert to you when a transfer fails Keep automatic sending switched off and both gateways still work for one off manual sends Stripe keys can live in a wp-config.php constant instead of the database Lifetime commissions Bind a referred customer to the affiliate who first won them, so their later orders keep earning The binding is written once and never overwritten, so the affiliate who did the work keeps the customer Set a lifetime window in days, or leave it unlimited Pay commission on WooCommerce Subscriptions renewals, not only the first order Public affiliate leaderboard [ddwcaf_affiliate_leaderboard_shortcode] ranks your top affiliates on any page Card, compact list, or podium layout with rank badges and medal colours Choose how many affiliates are listed and whether the top three are highlighted Show or hide earned amounts, referred order counts, and Gravatar avatars Anonymise affiliate names if you would rather not publish who is who The leaderboard stylesheet only loads on pages that contain the shortcode 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

Use Fast eBay Listings to integrate WordPress with eBay. Quickly display up-to-date eBay items and feedback on your WordPress blog. Promote items from your eBay store or promote any items on eBay as part of an affiliate marketing strategy using the eBay Partner Network. Fast eBay Listings is a certified eBay Compatible Application and is actively maintained to ensure continued support for the latest eBay API updates. Display single items or a grid of search results from eBay Show feedback ratings and comments from your eBay seller account Slideshow presentation or ‘load more’ buttons for continuous scrolling Simple to use Blocks with live preview to arrange eBay items in the WordPress Block Editor Easy UI to add eBay search shortcodes in Classic Editor Dynamic widget to show eBay items relevant to the current page Show items from a given seller, any seller, or items specific to a post’s author Filter results by category, price range, seller type, buying options etc. Handy eBay category chooser tool – no manual lookup of category ID numbers by hand! Items are shown with thumbnail size and aspect ratio of your choice Full item details can be shown: price, end date, BIN, condition, location, description etc Deferred loading and inbuilt caching of listing for faster page loads Geotarget eBay results to the local eBay site of your visitors Earn commission on click-throughs via the eBay Partner Network and track with your own reference IDs Highlighting of priority listings that earn high rates of commission SmartLinks features to make other eBay links on your site promotable affiliate links → More details and documentation can be found at fubaby.com A key feature of Fast eBay Listings is the ability to utilize the eBay Partner Network to earn commission on click-throughs from the listings to eBay. A great way to monetize your website, whether you present your own items on eBay or others. With the free version of this plugin, 50% of the links presented will earn the developer commission to cover the support and maintenance of this plugin. As such, the display of an ad disclosure notice is mandatory. A premium subscription version of the plugin is available that will attribute 100% of all clicks to your eBay Partner Network account, to maximize your earnings. It also provides full control of the ad disclosure notice, including the option to remove it. Do also check out the sibling Fast Etsy Listings plugin, offering similar functionality to integrate your WordPress site with Etsy. Support Fast eBay Listings has been maintained and supported since 2016 and has been kept up to date with the latest eBay API changes. You will be supported for many more years. You can get support, help, or assistance in using Fast eBay Listings in a number of ways: Visit the plugin support forum on the WordPress.org site here Contact me directly via email here I’ll endeavor to follow up as soon as I can and resolve any issues you’re having. Usage Utilize either easy-to-use Blocks in the Block Editor or visual editors for Classic Editor shortcodes, no need for you to type any shortcodes manually. The key blocks / shortcodes you can add to your pages are: eBay Search Presents a list of eBay items, based on given search criteria. You can narrow down items to display by entering eBay search query, an eBay category, eBay seller(s) or min/max prices. The display of the results can be tailored into a grid with dimensions of your choosing and optionally as a slideshow. If any parameters are left blank, defaults from the plugin setting will be used. eBay Seller Feedback Present the feedback rating and comments from your eBay seller account or shop, with links to it. A great way to show your reputation on your company website. eBay Item Present details of a single eBay item listing. Simply enter the eBay item ID of the product. eBay RSS Feed Present a list of eBay items from an RSS Feed as generated from RSS Ground or Auction Request. Results can be presented in a grid with dimensions of your choosing and optionally as a slideshow. Use this to migrate your existing RSS feeds until you can replace them with the more feature-rich eBay search Block/Shortcode. Shortcodes For reference, if you wish to manually enter shortcodes in the Classic Editor text view, you can find the syntax and details of shortcode parameters supported here. Fixed Search Widget This widget presents an eBay search similar to the eBay Search shortcode and will show the results from a fixed eBay search query. Dynamic Search Widget This widget presents an eBay search similar to the Fixed Search widget, however, the search query is dynamically driven by the current page displayed. For pages and posts, either custom metadata can drive the query, or the title is used as the search query. Custom meta key you can use are: ‘ebay-query’, ‘ebay-category’, ‘ebay-seller’, ‘ebay-minprice’, ‘ebay-maxprice’, ‘ebay-minbids’ and ‘ebay-maxbids’. When browsing categories or tags, the category or tag is used as the eBay query. As a fallback, a default query can be specified in the widget settings for other pages. Use this widget to display eBay items related to the page visitors are reading. You can of course filter this by a given eBay category, seller, price, etc. SmartLinks Fast eBay Listings includes a SmartLinks tool to turn all other eBay links on your site into promotable affiliate links. When enabled, it will automatically convert all of your eBay links and connect them to your Campaign ID. This is a great feature if your site already has many links to eBay that you wish to make affiliate links and thus earn on click-throughs via the eBay Partner Network. SmartLinks will not update any existing affiliate eBay links, it will only update unaffiliated eBay links you may have on your site. Affiliated links will be made ‘nofollow’ links and optionally, open in a new window/tab. Terms & Conditions By using this plugin you must abide by the eBay and eBay Partner Network code of conduct. Including, but not limited to: Always display the ‘Right Now on eBay’ logo alongside eBay results. Promote eBay items alongside unacceptable topics, e.g. sexually explicit material, violence, weapons, illegal goods, and discriminatory or hate-orientated content. Improper influence, to trick or mislead an end user into clicking a link to eBay (ensure links to eBay contain the term ‘eBay’ in their text). All sites displaying links monetized via the eBay Partner Network (EPN) must show an ad disclosure notice in accordance with the EPN Network Agreement. Fast eBay Listings reserves the right to block usage for non-complying sites.