Affiliates vs WC Affiliate – WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin

The Affiliates system allows you to run a successful Affiliate Marketing Program. It comprises a set of the most powerful growth-oriented tools. Designed for Growth A fresh and intuitive dashboard helps your partners to spread the word about your site, products and services easily. Affiliates can share links to any page on the website, using simple tools that are built into its dashboard. Designed to deliver an intuitive experience out of the box, it is ready for virtually any theme, even without customizations. Yet you can refine the design and facilities provided for your affiliates even further, with its flexible template-based dashboard sections. You will find extensive information and detailed instructions in the Documentation. Important features include an intuitive affiliate dashboard, automated affiliate registration and unlimited affiliate management sections. Affiliates can integrate with virtually any platform, including e-commerce, memberships, forms, lead generation, lead tracking and many more. Commissions on referred users are built-in, free and premium integrations with today’s most popular e-commerce and other systems are available. The Affiliates plugin provides an affiliate system for sellers, shops, distributors, blogs, membership sites, microsites for product launches and many more. It allows to quickstart your affiliate program and start growing fast. It also provides a solid framework for developers, who wish to build customized solutions based on a sound data model. With unlimited affiliate program management tools available on the back end, its flexible affiliate dashboard templates, blocks and shortcodes, you can provide your affiliates with a really intuitive experience. Partners get the tools and information about their earnings and performance on the front end. There is everything you need to start an affiliate and growth marketing program. To manage an Affiliate Marketing or Partner Referral Program and track visits to your site with affiliate links, the Affiliates system is the most powerful free solution. The system is used to manage affiliates, create referrals and track visits to your site through affiliate links. Referrals are stored and attributed to an affiliate, for example if clients place orders on your site and you need to credit your affiliates. Free Integrations and Extensions Affiliates Import : Allows to import affiliate accounts in bulk from a text file. This is also useful to migrate to Affiliates, Affiliates Pro or Affiliates Enterprise. Affiliates WooCommerce Light : Run your affiliate program with WooCommerce, referrals are created automatically for your affiliates when they refer sales. Affiliates Events Manager : Grant commissions to affiliates for referred bookings with Events Manager, supports referrals based on coupons, records essential booking data for referred bookings. Affiliates Ninja Forms : Affiliates can register through Ninja Forms forms and form submissions can grant commissions and record referrals. Affiliates Formidable : Affiliates can register through Formidable Forms forms and form submissions can grant commissions and record referrals. Affiliates Contact Form 7 : Lead tracking and store data from submitted Contact Form 7 forms. Tracks form submissions to the referring affiliate and allows to record referrals and commissions. Affiliates BuddyPress : Display affiliate content in the BuddyPress user profile. Affiliates reCAPTCHA : This integrates reCAPTCHA with the affiliate registration form. Additional resources can be found on GitHub. Premium Integrations and Extensions included with Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise Affiliates Pro provides all features available in the free Affiliates system, a more detailed Dashboard with additional Dashboard Sections, additional features like referral Rates (supports formula-based rates), Banner Management, advanced Notifications, additional Dashboard sections and Shortcodes, advanced commission Rates, affiliate export features, advanced Totals with mass payment files and exports, more integrations and advanced integration features. Affiliates Enterprise provides all features and integrations available in Affiliates Pro and also supports mulitple tiers, campaigns and pixel tracking with image and iframe tracking pixels among other features as well as additional Dashboard sections, blocks and shortcodes. Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise come with additional features, extensions and integrations. Among these are: E-Commerce and Events Affiliates WooCommerce : Our advanced integration for WooCommerce includes automated status synchronization, recurring referrals and product rates. Affiliates Events Manager The integration records referrals and essential booking data for referred bookings. It allows to grant commissions on bookings with Events Manager. Social Sharing Platforms … make it even easier for affiliates to share their links Affiliates AddToAny : This integration with AddToAny converts URLs to share into affiliate links automatically for affiliates who are logged in. Advertising Affiliates Pay per Click : Pay affiliate commissions based on clicks or visits to affiliate links. Forms Affiliates Ninja Forms : Affiliates can register through Ninja Forms forms and form submissions can grant commissions and record referrals. Used with Affiliates Pro or Affiliates Enterprise, this integration opens up additional features and integrates seemlessly with our premium versions. Affiliates Formidable : Affiliates can register through forms handled with Formidable Forms, record and track form submissions to pay affiliate partners commissions on leads or successful purchases. Used with Affiliates Pro or Affiliates Enterprise, this integration opens up additional features and integrates seemlessly with our premium versions. Affiliates Gravity Forms : This extension allows to record referrals for form submissions and to create affiliate accounts for new users based on Gravity Forms. Affiliates Contact Form 7 : Lead tracking and store data from submitted Contact Form 7 forms. Tracks form submissions to the referring affiliate and allows to record referrals and commissions. Used with Affiliates Pro or Affiliates Enterprise it unlocks advanced features. Premium Extensions available separately Affiliates Coupons to create WooCommerce coupons for affiliates automatically and in bulk. Affiliates Users to automatically create affiliate accounts for new users Affiliates by Username which allows affiliate links to indicate usernames in addition to the affiliate IDs Affiliates Permanent : This extension is useful if you want to grant your affiliates commissions on all purchases made by customers they refer. Affiliates Products which handles WooCommerce product commissions for product partners and affiliates on product sales Features Affiliates Dashboard Fully integrates affiliate login, registration, statistictal overview, affiliate links and profile in a setup-free dashboard. Available as block and shortcode and highly customizable using templates. Individual dashboard sections are also available as blocks and shortcodes and can be customized using templates. Real-time reporting Referrals and affiliate link statistics are recorded and available instantly, as transactions are processed. Integration with virtually any E-Commerce platform. Traffic Statistics Records browseable traffic statistics with source and landing page, user agent and related referrals per affiliate. Unlimited Affiliates Simply have as many affiliates as you can get. Easy affiliate recruitment Affiliates can sign up automatically and can also be added manually with or without user accounts. Affiliate approval and notifications Affiliates can be approved manually or automatically and notifications are sent that inform them and the administrator of their status. API Affiliates provides an API which makes it easily integratable with virtually any E-Commerce and Membership system. Quick & Easy Installation Upload/install and activate the plugin from your WordPress Dashboard. Feedback is welcome Do you have feature requests or want to provide feedback? Please get in touch, the Affiliates plugins evolve with your needs. Free or Premium The Affiliates plugin is free and Open Source. If you want to use it, simply install it from your WordPress Dashboard or download it from WordPress.org. Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise are premium releases with additional features. Your support of our work helps to make all versions even more awesome. Thank you! Documentation You will find extensive information and detailed instructions on the Documentation pages. Social Please follow @itthinx on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins. Support For more immediate and preferential support, we kindly ask you to obtain Affiliates Pro or Affiliates Enterprise. If you need help or want to ask a question about the free version, please leave a comment on the Affiliates plugin page on our site, or post a topic in the Support section. Feedback is welcome! If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please leave a comment on the Affiliates plugin page. Please work with us to try to solve problems before you rate this plugin less than 5 stars or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! We appreciate your feedback and are happy to help. Thanks! What this plugin is not It is not intended to keep track of links to other sites that you as a member of an affiliate program may have. We suggest you have a look at the Affiliate plugin if you’re interested in that. Translations If you want to add a translation, please review Affiliates Translations. Many thanks to those who have contributed translations: Dutch by Kathleen den Dekker from The Dog Company, French by Johan Walter from Massage Factory, Hebrew by Yair from temoni.org, Italian by Alessandro Bergamin from VoglioClienti.it and Roberto Castaldo from InArte, Indonesian by Ganis Irawan from Bisnis Internet 101, Lithuanian by Vincent G from Host1Free, Polish by BizExpert, Portuguese by Carlos Gouveia from iNovve, Slovak by Cr3o from životné poistenie, Spanish by David Perez from Closemarketing, Ukranian by Michael Yunat from GetVoIP

If you’re running a WooCommerce store and not using affiliates, you’re leaving sales on the table. WC Affiliate fixes that. 🔥 Rated 4.6/5 stars on WordPress.org and trusted by hundreds of store owners, WC Affiliate is the WooCommerce affiliate plugin built exclusively for WooCommerce stores – not a generic WordPress affiliate tool bolted onto WooCommerce, and not a watered-down free tier with a paywall around every useful feature. A fully functional affiliate program – free to start, built to scale. Your affiliates get a dedicated dashboard to track their clicks, referrals, and earnings in real time. You get full control over commissions, cookie durations, payouts, and performance data – all without leaving WordPress. Unlike AffiliateWP and other solutions that charge annually and treat WooCommerce as an add-on, WC Affiliate is WooCommerce-native from the ground up. That means tighter tracking, cleaner integration, and commission handling that actually works the way your store works. 📝 Full Documentation 👉 Upgrade to Pro 💰 Join Our Affiliate Program – Earn up to 25% commission 📍 Facebook Community 🎯 Why WC Affiliate? Most WooCommerce affiliate plugins charge you monthly, cap your affiliates, or lock basic features behind expensive plans. WC Affiliate is the exception: Built exclusively for WooCommerce – not a generic affiliate tool bolted onto WordPress Unlimited affiliates – never pay more as your program grows Clean affiliate dashboard – affiliates can self-serve without emailing you Lifetime pricing available – no recurring fees, ever Free version that actually works – not a stripped demo 🎁 Everything Inside This WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin ✅ Admin Dashboard & Affiliate Dashboard Two dashboards, zero confusion. The admin panel gives you a complete command center for your WooCommerce affiliate program – active affiliates, pending approvals, visits, referrals, commissions, and payout status all visible from one screen. No digging through menus, no switching between tools. Everything you need to manage affiliates for WooCommerce is right there. Affiliates get their own private workspace to track clicks, referral links, earnings, payout history, and real-time stats – without ever needing wp-admin access. They stay informed, stay motivated, and stay active without generating support requests on your end. Less back-and-forth, more selling. ✅ Multi-Level Commissions (Pro) Turn your affiliates into recruiters. When an affiliate brings in a new affiliate, they earn a commission on that sub-affiliate’s sales too. Set unlimited tiers with different commission rates at each level. WC Affiliate tracks every tier automatically and distributes the right commission to the right affiliate – no spreadsheets, no manual calculations, no errors. This is the fastest way to scale a WooCommerce affiliate program organically. Your top affiliates have every incentive to grow your network for you, because their earnings grow with it. You set the rules once, and the system handles everything else. ✅ Coupon-Based Tracking (Pro) Give affiliates a unique WooCommerce coupon instead of – or alongside – a referral link. When a customer uses the coupon at checkout, the commission is credited automatically with no link click required. This opens your affiliate program to influencers, podcast hosts, and content creators who can’t easily embed trackable links in their content. Coupon-based tracking also works on platforms where links are stripped or shortened by the platform itself – Instagram bios, YouTube descriptions, TikTok profiles. Affiliates promote your store the way their audience expects, and you still capture every sale. It’s one of the most underused tools in WooCommerce affiliate marketing. ✅ Shortlink Generator with Custom Slugs (Pro) Long, ugly affiliate URLs kill click-through rates and look untrustworthy to buyers. With the built-in shortlink generator, affiliates can create clean branded shortlinks with custom slugs they define themselves – like yourstore.com/go/blackfriday or yourstore.com/go/john. Easier to share in videos, social posts, email newsletters, and spoken out loud in podcasts. Affiliates manage all their shortlinks from their dashboard – create new ones, view click stats, and reuse existing ones for different campaigns. Full referral tracking still runs in the background on every click, so no commission data is lost. This feature alone is a strong enough reason for content-heavy affiliates to join your WooCommerce affiliate program over a competitor’s. ✅ Auto Payout via PayPal & Stripe (Pro) Processing affiliate payments manually doesn’t scale past a handful of affiliates. WC Affiliate connects directly to PayPal and Stripe, so when an affiliate submits a payout request, you review and approve it – and the payment goes out instantly through whichever method the affiliate prefers. No logging into payment apps, no copy-pasting amounts, no back-and-forth over payment details. Every transaction is automatically logged with the amount, payment method, date, and affiliate name, so your financial records stay clean without any extra effort. If you ever need to audit payouts, every entry is traceable. For store owners running a growing WooCommerce affiliate program, this alone saves hours every month. ✅ Cross-Domain Cookie Sharing (Pro) If you operate more than one website under the same brand or affiliate program, standard cookie tracking breaks the moment a visitor moves between your domains. Cross-Domain Cookie Sharing fixes this. Referral cookies follow the visitor across all your connected domains, so if they click an affiliate link on site A and complete a purchase on site B, the affiliate still gets full credit. Setup is handled in your WC Affiliate settings – list your domains, enable the feature, and it works silently from that point on. There’s nothing for affiliates to configure and nothing for buyers to notice. For store owners running WooCommerce across multiple domains, this is the feature that makes a true multi-site affiliate program possible. ✅ Affiliate Registration Form Builder (Pro) Your affiliate signup form is the first impression of your program. A generic form signals a generic program – and serious affiliates notice. With the drag-and-drop form builder, you can add custom fields, remove defaults, reorder inputs, set required vs optional, and write your own labels and instructions to match your brand and gather exactly the information you need. Whether you want to ask for their website URL, their social media following, or their niche, the form builder gives you full control over the signup experience. Once approved, affiliates get instant access to their dashboard and can start promoting immediately. A better form attracts better affiliates – and better affiliates drive more sales to your WooCommerce store. ✅ Banner Builder (Pro) Give your affiliates promotional assets they’ll actually use. With the banner builder, you create branded banners for product launches, seasonal sales, and ongoing campaigns – and affiliates access and download them directly from their dashboard without emailing you or waiting for assets. No Dropbox folders, no Slack requests, no delays. Affiliates can use these banners on any website – WordPress or otherwise. The more professional your promotional materials, the more confidently affiliates promote your store. For WooCommerce store owners running time-sensitive campaigns, having banners ready and affiliate-accessible the moment a sale goes live is a meaningful conversion advantage. ✅ Flexible Commission Structure Set a global commission rate as a fixed amount or a percentage of the sale – whichever fits your margins and business model. Override it per affiliate when you want to reward top performers with higher rates or bring on partners with negotiated terms. Override it per product when margins vary across your catalog and a flat rate doesn’t make sense. Three levels of control – global, per affiliate, per product – means your WooCommerce affiliate program can be as simple or as nuanced as your business requires. New store owners can start with a single global rate and expand from there. Established programs can fine-tune commission structures without needing a developer or external tool. ✅ Advanced Reporting & Analytics You can’t optimize what you can’t see. WC Affiliate gives both admins and affiliates a full picture of program performance through visual charts, graphs, and filterable tables – affiliate visits, referral conversions, top-performing affiliates, best-converting products, and total earnings, all updated in real time. No waiting for end-of-month reports. Admins see the full program view, while affiliates only see their own data. Both can export to CSV for accounting, deep-dive analysis, or sharing with a partner. For store owners managing a growing WooCommerce affiliate program, clear reporting is what turns raw traffic data into actionable decisions about which affiliates to invest in and which campaigns to scale. ✅ Cookie Duration Control Set exactly how long your affiliate tracking cookies stay active – from a single day to a full year. Longer cookie windows mean more time for referred visitors to return and convert, which means higher commissions earned and more motivated affiliates willing to promote your WooCommerce store over a competitor’s. You also control attribution logic: decide whether a new referral link click should overwrite an existing cookie, or whether the first-click affiliate retains credit throughout the window. This gives you precise control over how commissions are awarded across long or complex buying journeys – especially useful for higher-priced products where customers take days or weeks to decide. ✅ Unlimited Affiliates No caps. No tiers. No “upgrade your plan to add more affiliates.” Run your WooCommerce affiliate program with 10 affiliates or 10,000 – your plan price stays exactly the same. As your network grows, your costs don’t. This matters more than it sounds. Many WooCommerce affiliate plugins quietly limit affiliate counts on lower-tier plans, turning early growth into a billing trigger. With WC Affiliate, onboarding a new affiliate is always just an approval click – never a pricing conversation. ✅ Customizable Email Notifications Every touchpoint in the affiliate lifecycle has a fully customizable email template: new signup received, affiliate approved or rejected, referral confirmed, commission earned, payout processed. Each message can be personalized with the affiliate’s name, the relevant amounts, and your own brand voice – so your affiliate program feels like a professional partnership, not an automated system. Good communication is one of the most underestimated drivers of affiliate retention. Affiliates who feel informed and valued stay active longer and promote more consistently. A few well-written, on-brand emails cost nothing and compound over time into a more engaged, higher-performing WooCommerce affiliate network. ✅ Performance Bonuses Set bonus commissions that trigger automatically when an affiliate hits a defined sales milestone – a monthly revenue threshold, a referral count, or a conversion target. Once configured, the bonuses fire without any manual involvement on your end. Top performers get rewarded on time, every time. Bonuses create competition and momentum in your affiliate network. Affiliates who are close to a threshold work harder to hit it. Those who’ve hit it once are more likely to keep pushing. It’s a simple mechanism with an outsized effect on affiliate engagement and retention inside your WooCommerce affiliate program. ✅ Fraud Prevention (coming soon) Built-in safeguards monitor referral activity and flag patterns that suggest abuse – self-referrals where someone signs up as an affiliate just to buy their own products, duplicate click inflation, and suspicious referral sequences that don’t match real buyer behavior. Flagged activity is surfaced for your review before any commission is paid out. Running a WooCommerce affiliate program without fraud protection means paying commissions you shouldn’t. Even a small percentage of fraudulent referrals adds up quickly at scale. WC Affiliate’s fraud prevention layer gives you confidence that your commission budget is going to affiliates who are genuinely driving new sales, not gaming the system. ✅ Translation Ready WC Affiliate is fully translation-ready and compatible with WPML, Loco Translate, Polylang, and all major WordPress translation plugins. Both the admin-facing and affiliate-facing interfaces can be translated, meaning you can run a truly localized affiliate program for any language or market. For store owners selling internationally, this removes one of the biggest barriers to recruiting non-English-speaking affiliates. An affiliate who sees a dashboard and registration form in their own language is far more likely to sign up, stay active, and promote your store consistently. 👉 Learn more.. Other Plugins by Codexpert 🔥 EasyCommerce – AI-powered ecommerce plugin. Set up a full online store in minutes. Faster and easier than WooCommerce. (WC Affiliate integration coming soon) 🔥 CoDesigner – The most complete Elementor + WooCommerce builder. Design beautiful product pages and store layouts without code. 🔥 ThumbPress – All-in-one image and thumbnail management for WordPress. Keep your store fast as it scales. Upgrade to Pro The free version of WC Affiliate is a complete WooCommerce affiliate plugin for most stores. When you’re ready to scale – with multi-level commissions, influencer-friendly coupon tracking, branded shortlinks, automated PayPal/Stripe payouts, and a custom registration form – WC Affiliate Pro has everything you need. No subscriptions. No per-site fees. Just a one-time upgrade that grows with your store. 👉 See All Pro Features