Affiliates for WooCommerce – Affiliate Program, Referral Tracking & Commission Payouts vs YITH WooCommerce Affiliates

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

YITH WooCommerce Affiliate allows you to run a powerful affiliate campaign to drive traffic to your shop, get new customers and grow revenue. With this plugin you can easily build partnerships with customers, bloggers, influencers, etc. and ask them to drive traffic to your shop through articles in their blog, posts in their social channels and so on. It’s a win-win relationship because you will get quality leads, traffic and sales and your affiliates will earn a commission on the generated sales. Affiliate marketing is very popular and more than 80% of the online companies (like Amazon, Zalando, Shein, etc.) offer an affiliate program to its users. With YITH WooCommerce Affiliate you can quickly launch an affiliate program in your shop: the free version has all you need to manage affiliates, commissions and check the stats (visits, commissions, conversion rates, etc.) Features of the free version Use the default form included for your affiliate registration process: you can enable/disable the fields Name, Surname, E-mail, Password and choose which of these fields are mandatory Show the Terms and Conditions checkbox and make it mandatory Show the affiliate registration form as part of the default WooCommerce registration form shown in the user’s My Account page Use the affiliate registration form shortcode to create a custom registration page for your affiliates Choose to reject or ban an affiliate and show a message to explain the reason Add an affiliate manually choosing from an existing user or by creating a new one Get the referrer ID via query string during the user’s purchase Enter a name to identify cookies that will store the referral token Set an expiration time for referral cookies (in this way, if the visit and the purchase do not happen in the same session, commissions can still be credited correctly) Execute an AJAX call to set up affiliate cookies whenever the system finds a referral query string in the URL Enable the affiliate dashboard in a specific endpoint inside the My Account page Create a custom affiliate dashboard page using the shortcode In their dashboard, affiliates can easily monitor visits, commissions and the status of each payment received Allow affiliates to share their referral link on social media Set a default commission rate for all affiliates Prevent affiliates from getting commissions from their own purchases Exclude taxes and discounts from commissions Associate old commissions to new users with same token Pay commissions manually via direct bank/wire transfer Automatically deduct the total of affiliate commissions in case of order refunds Check the Live Demo of the free version > Features of the premium version The free version of our plugin works like a charm, but the premium one is even more interesting. By upgrading to the premium version, you can: Create a custom advanced form for your affiliate registration process: add unlimited fields to the form, such as Website or Blog URL, Links of their social channels, a small bio, etc. Ask anything you want and choose which fields are mandatory Automatically approve all affiliates after their registration to avoid the manual enabling Exclude specific products, categories or tags from affiliates commissions Exclude specific users or user roles from the affiliate program Register visits and visitors’ IPs Assign coupons to affiliates: the affiliate can use the coupon to promote your site and each order that uses the coupon will generate a commission for him/her Override the default commission rate and set a different rate for specific users, user roles or products Pay commissions automatically when the affiliate reaches a threshold; on a specific day of the month (e.g. each 1st day of the month); on a specific day of the month, only if the threshold is achieved; or schedule a daily payment Let affiliates ask for the payment of their commissions (and upload or generate invoices for their withdrawal requests) Set a minimum and maximum amount for the withdrawal request Affiliates can get an email notification when a new commission is generated Affiliates can get an email notification when a commission is paid Pay commissions through PayPal, PayPal Payout (with YITH PayPal Payouts for WooCommerce), Stripe (with YITH Stripe Connect for WooCommerce) or Account Funds (with YITH WooCommerce Account Funds) Send an email to the admin when a payment is issued Monitor advanced reports (visits, commissions, earnings, popular affiliates, popular products, etc.) in the new integrated dashboard Detailed report of visits generated from referrers in a summary table with the main information and their conversion status Access to the affiliate’s detail page from the affiliates table to check the affiliate’s personal info, commissions, statistics, etc. Associate an order with a specific affiliate Replace the referral cookie if another referral link is visited Save cookies history Choose to delete the affiliate cookie after the user’s checkout Set the time lapse after which the same user’s visit with same referrer ID counts as a new visit Automatically delete the visits log after a specific time interval Export commissions and affiliates into a CSV file Check the Live Demo of the premium version >