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The Affiliates plugin provides the right tools to maintain an Affiliate Marketing Program.

Important features include automated affiliate registration, an unlimited affiliate management section and the ability to integrate Affiliates with virtually any E-Commerce platform. Free integrations with eShop, Jigoshop and WooCommerce are available.

The Affiliates plugin provides an affiliate system for sellers, shops and developers who want to get started with their affiliate program right "out of the box".

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 and a set of shortcodes to provide Affiliates information on their performance on the front end, there is everything you need to start an affiliate program.

Affiliates Pro and Enterprise provide additional features for sellers, shops and developers.

If you need to manage an Affiliate Marketing Progam, track visits to your site with affiliate links, the affiliates plugin is right for you. It provides the tools to maintain a partner referral program.

Simply put, the affiliates plugin 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. You can show your affiliates how well they perform, by embedding simple shortcodes on a page.

Free Integrations

These integrations are based on the Affiliates plugin and can be downloaded directly. To use Affiliates together with an e-commerce plugin, you need to install the Affiliates plugin, the e-commerce plugin of your choice and the integration plugin:

• Integration with eShop : Download | Plugin page
• Integration with Jigoshop : Download | Plugin page
• Integration with WooCommerce : Download | Plugin page

Extensions / Integrations with Affiliates Pro

Extended integrations are available: for Contact Form 7, for eShop, for Jigoshop, for PayPal, for s2Member, for WooCommerce, for WP e-Commerce

Features

• Real-time reporting

  Referrals and affiliate link statistics are recorded and available instantly, as transactions are processed. Integration with virtually any E-Commerce platform

  Information for affiliates on the front end: show affiliates information about their referrals including totals by currency and referral status.

• Affiliates provides an API which makes it compatible to use with virtually any E-Commerce and Membership system.

  Affiliates Pro Integration packs are available for several platforms. More integrations are added constantly on request.

• 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.

• Awesome support

  Just get in touch if you need help or have questions.

• 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 contribution based

  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 Enterprise are contributor releases with additional features. Contributions help to make the plugins even more awesome. Thanks!

• Quick & Easy Installation

  Upload/install and activate the plugin from your WordPress Dashboard.

Feedback is welcome! If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Affiliates plugin page.

Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn't work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!

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Readily deployable Integration Packs are available for contributors: Jigoshop, WP e-Commerce, Ecwid, eShop, s2Member, Wishlist Member, Contact Form 7, GetResponse, AWeber, ...

Other integrations are developed and made available on request.

Integration Packs include:

• Affiliate Statistics shortcodes and widgets for affiliates
• Configurable Referral Views for affiliates
• Embeddable Links and Banners for affiliates
• Premium support and special attention to feature requests for contributors

If you require consulting services, support or customization including referrals integration with your site, you may contact me here. Please consider making a donation or sponsoring the plugin as a contributor.

After installing the plugin you can allow visitors to join your Affiliate Marketing Program. Enable registration, place the Affiliates Registration widget or shortcode on your site to let your new affiliates join. You can also start adding affiliates manually or let existing users join the Affiliate Program. The default options should be suitable for many, but there are some options you might want to consider before you really start.

Full documentation is accessible on the Affiliates plugin page and Affiliates Documentation.

Videos : A collection of videos showing features available in the free Affiliates plugin and additional features available in Affiliates Pro and Enterprise.

Although the options are documented on each page and are generally intuitive or self-explaining, a quick introduction is useful ...

The 'Affiliates' menu provides these sections:

Affiliates

Here an overview is provided with charts showing referrals, visits and hits as well as summarized statistical data, including your currently operative affiliates, total hits, visits and referrals.

Manage Affiliates

This is where you add, remove and manage your affiliates. For each affiliate, the appropriate affiliate links are shown so that these can be conveniently employed on your affiliates' sites.

Visits & Referrals

Provides per-day information:

This page shows a summary of unique Visits, Hits and Referrals as well as a Ratio that shows the conversion rate (Referrals/Visits) on a daily basis. Extended information can be shown, including information about pages or posts that produced referrals as well as their date and time and IP addresses that produced hits. Data can be conveniently sorted and also filtered by affiliate and time period.

Affiliates & Referrals

Provides per-affiliate information:

For each affiliate, the number of unique Visitors, Hits, Referrals and Ratio (Referrals/Visitor) are shown. Detailed information about each referral can be expanded as well as for hits. Data can be conveniently sorted and also filtered by affiliate and time period.

Referrals

Provides per-referral information:

For each referral, the date and time, corresponding post and affiliate is shown. Additional data and referral descriptions that have been recorded using the plugin's API are shown for each referral. Data can be conveniently sorted and also filtered by affiliate and time period.

Options

Page generation

You can let Affiliates generate an Affiliate Area page for you: Press the Generate button. You will find a new page titled Affiliate Area on your site which includes a login form, affiliate registration form, information about an affiliate's performance and the affiliate's link as well as a link to log out at the end of the page. You can edit this page and adjust it according to your preferences.

Referral timeout

The referral timeout determines for how long a visit via an affiliate link will produce a referral. This setting can be adjusted to range from the individual session to a number of days.

Direct referrals

The affiliates plugin can be used to store transaction data even if no affiliate was involved. This settings determines if 'direct' referrals are stored. This are accessible through a 'Direct' affiliate who represents the site's owner or organization.

Robots

Hits from affiliate links that have originated from robots listed here will not be taken into account.

By default there are no entries but you can start with this example:

Yahoo! Slurp
YandexBot
Googlebot
DotBot
discobot
MJ12bot
proximic
Baiduspider
bingbot
Exabot
AMZNKAssocBot

Affiliate ID encoding

Either plain or MD5-encoded affiliate IDs can be used. These are appended to your affiliate's link.

Permissions

For each role these permissions can be set:

• Access affiliates: to be able to see information accessible through the Affiliates menu in WordPress.
• Administer affiliates: to add, remove and manage affiliates.
• Administer options: grants access to make changes on this Options page.

Deactivation and data persistence

A convenient option is provided to delete all data that has been stored by the affiliates plugin. This option is useful if you just need to start clean while you run tests.

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.