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Squad Affiliate \u2014 the self-hosted affiliate program and referral plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce and Divi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Run your own affiliate program directly in WordPress: recruit affiliates, track referrals, calculate commissions and pay partners \u2014 with no SaaS platform fees, no per-sale cut, and no third-party cookies.<\/p>\n\n Affiliate tracking is self-hosted and first-party, so referrals keep being\ncredited when ad blockers strip third-party scripts, and your affiliate data stays\nin your own database rather than on someone else's analytics platform.<\/p>\n\n Squad Affiliate is an affiliate marketing plugin built for real stores. It tracks\nWooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads sales, memberships, courses and donations;\nit handles percentage, flat, tiered, recurring and lifetime commissions; and it\ngives every affiliate a dashboard where they can find their referral link, their\nclicks, their earnings and their payout history.<\/p>\n\n It is also built to feel at home in a Divi 5 site: the affiliate registration form\nand the affiliate dashboard are real builder modules you drop onto a page, and\nshortcodes cover every other theme.<\/p>\n\n Hosted affiliate platforms charge a monthly fee, take a percentage of the\ncommissions you pay, and keep your referral data. A self-hosted affiliate program\ncosts nothing per sale, keeps every affiliate record in your own WordPress\ninstall, and works with the checkout you already run.<\/p>\n\n A visitor who arrives through an affiliate's referral link is remembered with a\nfirst-party cookie. When that visitor buys, the order is credited to the\naffiliate. You can also tie a WooCommerce coupon or an Easy Digital Downloads\ndiscount code to an affiliate, so a purchase that applies the code is credited\neven without a referral link. When both apply, the referral link wins.<\/p>\n\n Squad Affiliate's goal is competitive parity in the free build: Pro is reserved\nfor the differentiators above, not for the features every other plugin charges\nfor.<\/p>\n\n Squad Affiliate is part of the Squad family by WP Squad, the team behind Squad\nModules for Divi.<\/p>\n\n Documentation, guides and the Pro comparison: https:\/\/squadaffiliate.com\/<\/p>\n\n Referral tracking, commission calculation and payouts are all handled locally by\nyour own WordPress installation. Out of the box the plugin contacts nothing. Each\nservice below waits on a decision of yours \u2014 a setting you fill in, a dialog you\napprove, or a permissions screen you accept \u2014 and each one names the address it\nwould reach; none of them is required to run an affiliate program.<\/p>\n\n If \u2014 and only if \u2014 you enter one or more webhook URLs under Settings, the plugin\nsends an HTTP POST to each of those addresses on two events: when a referral is\nrecorded, and when a payout completes. You choose the addresses, so you choose\nthe service: your own endpoint, an automation tool such as Zapier or Make, or\nnothing at all.<\/p>\n\n A referral event sends the referral and affiliate IDs, the commission amount and\ncurrency, the order ID and the status. A payout event sends the payout ID and the\npayout method. No visitor IP addresses, no customer names or addresses, and no\norder contents are included. Leaving the webhook URL setting empty means no\nrequest is ever made.<\/p>\n\n Because the destination is whatever you enter, its terms and privacy policy are\nthe terms and privacy policy of the service you point it at.<\/p>\n\n The sample-data importer works entirely offline: a dictionary of names, tiers,\namounts and campaigns is built into the plugin, so pressing Import never contacts\nanything.<\/p>\n\n Richer and translated dictionaries live in a companion public repository on\nGitHub. Downloading them is a separate button, and it is refused until you have\nexplicitly approved the download in a dialog that names the address \u2014 no request\nhappens before you say yes. The request is a plain GET for a zip of\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/thewpsquad\/squad-affiliate-sample-data ; nothing about your\nsite, your affiliates or your visitors is sent, and the archive is unpacked into\nyour own uploads directory. You can delete the downloaded copy at any time and\nthe importer falls back to the built-in dictionary.<\/p>\n\n GitHub's terms and privacy statement apply to that download:\nhttps:\/\/docs.github.com\/site-policy<\/p>\n\n Earlier builds could optionally call an external AI risk-scoring service. That\nservice has been retired and the setting that enabled it is gone. Fraud scoring\nis available in Squad Affiliate Pro, where it runs locally: a deterministic PHP\nscorer, with the optional plain-English explanation going through WordPress's own\nAI Client \u2014 so the provider is whichever one you have installed and keyed, and\nSquad Affiliate has no AI service of its own.<\/p>\n\n Squad Affiliate uses the Freemius service to deliver Squad Affiliate Pro and its\nupdates, and \u2014 only if you consent \u2014 anonymous usage diagnostics. Freemius runs on\nan explicit opt-in: on activation you are shown a permissions screen and can\nskip<\/strong> it. No data is sent to Freemius unless you opt in, or you activate a Pro\nlicence.<\/p>\n\n When enabled, the data sent may include: your site URL, WordPress and PHP\nversions, the administrator email address, active plugin and theme information,\nand the Squad Affiliate version. It is used for licence validation, update\ndelivery and product analytics. Nothing about your affiliates, your referrals,\nyour commissions or your visitors is ever sent.<\/p>\n\nWhy a self-hosted affiliate plugin<\/h4>\n\n
How attribution works<\/h4>\n\n
Lite (this plugin) includes<\/h4>\n\n
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?ref=jane<\/code>), an affiliate's coupon, or simply the site they\nreferred the visitor from.<\/li>\n\/go\/\u2026<\/code> links on your domain that credit\nthem and forward to any page \u2014 one of yours or one on another site.<\/li>\n[squad_affiliate_login]<\/code>,\n [squad_affiliate_register], [squad_affiliate_apply]<\/code>.<\/li>\n[squad_affiliate_coupon]<\/code> prints their\ncode, and [squad_affiliate_if_referred]<\/code> \/ [squad_affiliate_if_not_referred]<\/code>\nwrap the content that should only appear for one of the two.<\/li>\nSquad Affiliate Pro adds<\/h4>\n\n
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\/go\/jane<\/code>) instead of taking the generated one. Short links themselves\nare free.<\/li>\nExternal services<\/h3>\n\n
Outgoing webhooks (optional, off by default)<\/h4>\n\n
Sample-data download (optional, off by default, asks first)<\/h4>\n\n
AI fraud scoring<\/h4>\n\n
Freemius (licensing and product analytics, opt-in)<\/h4>\n\n