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1,490 responses to “Affiliates Pro”
Hello there,
I have read through all the information that has been provided and I am very impressed with your Affiliate Pro. The only thing that I have a problem with is that PayPal Multiple processing is the only option for paying Affiliates.
We are going to be using Payza for the Membership and Monthly Rebilling and it would make better business sense to use Payza for the Affiliate payments each month too.
Please could you advise whether your team could include Payza as a second option for your clients?
I look forward to an early reply from you and thank you in advance for your time.
Kind regards,
Peter
Hi Peter,
You can use Payza’s Mass Pay instead of PayPal using the file that is generated under Affiliates > Totals > Generate PayPal Mass Payment File – the first three columns are the same as those used with Payza.
Thanks for asking, Payza seems like a great alternative!
Cheers
Hello… I have the Pro version and was wondering how to get the affiliate link to have the affiliate ID instead of the number or MD5 encoded solution. So if I had a site with the affiliate ID of fpros, the url parameter would show up as “?partner=fpros” instead of “?partner=2” ….
Everything else looks great. Thanks!
I want to buy Affiliate pro integrated with Paypal and i am using Figero wordpress theme now. Will Affiliate pro work properly on this theme?
Do i need to buy any more plugin or extension with Affiliate pro or it is a complete affiliate program system?
Thanks
Hi,
does not have to be problems with the theme.
What e-commerce are you going to use, or directly paypal?
cheersHi,
I am using directly paypal and already bought payal integrated affiliate pro. I am confused in one thing. Where to update my paypal email address? under paypal link i can’t see any column to update.Thanks
Hi, you can setup email and other options in Affiliates->Paypal. cheers
Hi, in Affiliates > Paypal, i can’t see any box where i can fill my email address. Is it like my wordpress email address is by default selected as paypal email address.
Is there any video where paypal settings is explained?
Thanks
Hey, i have seen screen print of paypal page on your website where you can see a box for ‘payment recipient email address’. This box is missing in my plugin. If you want i can send you the screen print. Please suggest since i understood almost everything but just waiting to update my paypal email address.
ThanksHi,
I can’t see the box which you have shown in the screen print pointing arrow on it. I believe there is some issue in my paypal plugin.
ThanksHi, can you tell me which Affiliates Paypal version you have installed , and the web browser you are using, please?
cheers
I am using Evaluation version of paypal affiliate pro and web browser is Chrome.
Hi,
Please try it in another browser.
Evaluation version? Can you tell me exactly what version of the plugin is? (1.2.1 or other)
thanks
I tried using Firefox but the problems stands. I am using 1.2.1 version of plugin.
Hi,
can you send us dashboard admin access to support at itthinx dot com? we’ll have a look.
cheers
Hi,
I have sent you my admin access details on support at itthinx dot com. Please have a look.
ThanksThere was a conflict with the theme css. cheers
Thats fantastic. I am very happy with your support.
Thanks
I’ve purchased the affiliates pro plugin and it was working okay, but has recently caused my /wp-admin/ to have the white screen of death on login. I’ve isolated this problem to the Affiliates Pro plugin, so was hoping you could debug it for me.
I run WordPress v 3.4.2
Woocommerce v1.6.5.2
Affiliates WooCommerce Integration v1.3.3
Affiliates Pro v1.3.3this is pretty urgent as I have live affiliates running on my site. I”m happy to provide /wp-admin/ access if required.
Hi, please make a backup of the website (files and database), and send us access to support at itthinx dot com, and we’ll have a look.
cheers
Thanks again for the response Antonio. That’s not what I’m asking though. I don’t want to redirect them anyhwere. All I want to do is edit the output text once they register. They should still stay on the same page, I just want to:
1. edit the text that’s displayed.
2. Remove the “Log in here” link that is displayed.Hi,
if you want do it manually, you can edit affiliates-pro/lib/core/class-affiliates-registration.php on the lines 242-245
But I recommend using the redirection. We’ll consider include a filter there, thanks for the suggestion.
cheersThanks Antonio. I’ll have to do it manually for now. The reason for the edits are two: One is to let them know that their password is in the email (The current message doesn’t say this). Second, I don’t want them to click the log in link, and leave the page. The current page has a log in box, and their email has the password, so leaving the page makes no sense. They should just check their email and come back to the current page and login. That way the login page doesn’t redirect them to the dashboard by default.
Hi,
ok. Beware with updates, they overwrite your changes in the code.
I think is better use, for example:
– In your affiliate-area page, use: [affiliates_registration redirect="true" redirect_to="http://www.yourdomain.com/affiliates-login"]
– Create an “affiliate-login” page, for example:
[affiliates_is_not_affiliate]
An email with the password has been sended.
[affiliates_login_redirect]
[/affiliates_is_not_affiliate]
both would be good solutions, regardsThanks, I’ll give yours a shot as I don’t want to edit the file manually for the reason you specified, upgrades.
Thanks Antonio. I wasn’t asking to edit the email though, I was asking to edit the text on the page. Once they register, and fill out the fields to be an affiliate, the registration form dissapears and the message:
Thanks for signing up!
Please check your email for the confirmation link.
Log in here. <—- LINK TO wp-login.phpShows up. I want to edit the on screen message to remove the login link and add a few words to the text. Is there a hook in your wordpress version of the plugin to modify the text that's output on the page after a user registers?
Hi,
sorry, you can use “redirect_to” and “redirect” attributes of [affiliates_registration] shortcode, and create a custom destination page.
cheers
Thanks for signing up!
Please check your email for the confirmation link.
Log in here. <—- LINK TO wp-login.phpCurrently the above text is what’s seen after a user fills out the registration form. I would like to remove the login link and possibly change the text ‘Please check your email for the confirmation link.’ to ‘Please check your email for the confirmation link and password.’.
They shouldn't have to hit wp-login.php since they can login straight from the affiliate signup page. They don't need to see the wordpress dashboard area, so if they login using wp-login.php it is confusing.
Secondly, the logout link, can I append a redirect to that, so that after they logout, they are sent back to the affiliate area rather than a blank logout page?
Hi,
SB Welcome Email Editor can help you to edit email.
And Peter’s login redirect to logout redirection.
cheers
Hi,
Is it allowed to customize the form registration for us to add some fields like Cebuana, LBC, Bank Transfers, etc. These are payment options. This question comes from our ecommerce client.
Thanks!
Jayson
Hi, if I purchase the pro version does it cost 59 dollars and that includes the full integration with woocommerce?
Also, I noticed someone selling the pro version for 10 dollars. is this legit?
Hi there, Affiliates Pro is included with the WooCommerce integration pack, the right product would be Affiliates Pro for WooCommerce.
I am aware of the site you refer to. They are not authorized to distribute our products, but infringing intellectual property and copyrights in several ways. Nor do they have the expertise to provide any decent support on any of the products. And to be honest, who would trust the code coming from a site like that? Pretty pitiful actually 🙂
Cheers 🙂
Cheers. Picked up the pro version and have a question.
It says:
“Default referral amount calculationThese settings will be used to calculate referral amounts, if no specific settings are given for an affiliate.”
Where the heck do I specify specific referral settings for specific affiliates?
Thanks
Hi,
you can add this attribute to an affiliate in Affiliates->Manager Affiliates, more info in Documentation:Adding affiliate atributes.
cheers
Hello, just noticed weird thing – after user registration there are two same affiliates appears (instead of one).. screenshot – http://imm.io/1aNaw
Please help me – what it can be?
Hi,
What version you have installed?
Just happened to you once or with all registered affiliates?
Please, give us the website to take a look.
cheersHere affiliate plugins and their versions – http://imm.io/1aOII
It happens every new affiliate registration through the form at the site here – http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/affiliatesHi, I’ve created a test account, the form submission looks ok. Did this create two entries as well? The username is test. Also is there any plugin you have activated that might be interfering with user accounts?
unfortunately yes – http://imm.io/1b3AC
activated plugins list:
– Akismet
– CDN Linker
– Cron GUI
– Custom Post Templates
– DB Cache Reloaded Fix
– Embed Chessboard
– Hana Code Insert
– Hyper Cache
– IgniteWoo Updater
– Imposter
– Role Scoper
– SEO Smart Links
– Simple Facebook Connect
– TablePress
– TimThumb Vulnerability Scanner
– Video Thumbnails
– WooCommerce
– WooCommerce Advanced Notifications
– WooCommerce Amazon S3 Storage
– WooCommerce Authorize.net DPM Gateway
– WooCommerce Chained Products
– WooCommerce Currency Converter
– WooCommerce Follow-Up Emails
– WooCommerce KISS Metrics
– WooCommerce MercadoPago Gateway
– WooCommerce Multilingual
– WooCommerce Smart Coupons
– WooCommerce USPS
– WooCommerce Wholesale Pricing
– WooCommerce Wholesale Pricing Plus
– WooThemes Updater
– WordPress Hashcash
– WordPress SEO
– WP-DBManager
– WP-PageNavi
– WPML Multilingual CMS
– WPML String Translation
– WPML Translation Management
– WP Widget Cache
– XCloner
– Yet Another Related Posts PluginThanks, ok that must be a conflict then. The ideal way to identify the conflict is to use a test site which is based on a copy of your current site, disable all plugins on the test site except the essential ones (WooCommerce, Affiliates Pro and integration). If that doesn’t create duplicate entries, start enabling plugins individually and test again. If it even happens with the essential ones activated, the conflict is most likely with the theme. As you have quite a few plugins, I would recommend to start with the more ‘unusual’ ones.
surprisingly, the conflicting plugin is “Simple Facebook Connect”.
Thanks for the update on that, I’m going to try that out to see why it happens.
Hi,
I can’t read all of the comments to find answers to my inquiry. I just wanna know what are the payout options available in Affiliates pro? For ex. When I add two (2) affiliates partner, how can I pay them? Is it available on affiliates pro to pay via bankwire & check? also, was the system is capable is setting different schedules for payout?
Sorry if my questions are redundant. Comment threads are too long and can’t spent time to read them all.
My client’s need this plugin to start his affiliates program.
I’m looking forward on your reply.
Thanks!
Ismael
Hi Ismael,
In Pro you can generate a mass payment file which allows you to have the accumulated totals by affiliate. You can use that for example with PayPal or to simply have a list of payments which need to be processed. Note that it does not do payments to affiliates automatically.
By the way, there’s no need to read all the comments, Google’s search works wonders 😉 and we have the Documentation. In any case, questions are welcome 🙂 Feel free to ask if you need any additional info.
Cheers
I am considering the purchase of Affiliate Pro. I have one pre-purchase question. Is there a way to manually assign an existing order to an affiliate?
An example of the need would be if it was used as an offline commission tracker. For instance, an order for a custom logo design comes in. I then assign the project to a designer. I would like to then go into the order and assign it to the independent designer/affiliate. Then the system would be used like normal…payouts, notifications, affiliate log in, etc.
If it’s not capable, can you contact me privately and let me know what it would cost to have it customized for this?
Hi Kristian,
It allows you to add referrals manually, in fact you don’t need the Pro version for that because the normal version also allows you to do that. To add one manually, go to Affiliates > Referrals and click the Add button on top of the page. This will bring you to a form where you can input details about the referral. There is a reference field which you can use to record the related order’s number.
If you need any customization beyond that, let me know. But I think that you basically have what you need in there already 😉
Hello, in the Affiliates/Notifications area, I realize that for notifications to Administrator has “Notifications will be sent to the email address specified in Settings > General.”
Do you think you could add an option to allow the plugin owner to provide their own email address, instead of using the default WordPress address?
My second question, with respect to “Notifications will be sent to affiliates when credited with a referral.” I assume (since I have not tested it) that affiliates will get an email from whatever email is in the General / Settings of WordPress.
Similar issue here, could you provide an option to allow the plugin owner to set the specific address?
The reason I bring it up is that for my WordPress General/Settings, I send all the new user info and various alerts to one address but for my WooCommerce store, I use a different email address to contact customers and affiliates.
So I was looking for some more control over the email options.
Regards,
SeanHi Sean,
Thanks for the suggestions, I think these would be good additions. The notifications section is being improved to allow for more flexible notifications, adding the options you mention can go along with that as well. I’ve taken note of them and I think these can be made available with the next release (can’t promise an ETA on that yet though).
Cheers
Thanks for adding the ability to choose the email for the notifications. Haven’t tested it as yet but glad to see it is there.
Sean B
Yes, also thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Ok, solved!
Great 🙂
Hello, I have a question. I looked over the features but didn’t find what I’m looking for.
Do you have anything that supports auto payments for affiliate earnings? Not mass payout files, but auto payments rendered when an affiliate refers a paying person. I looked online and found WP InstantPay which looks wonderful but is totally outdated. If you need a better description fo what I am asking you can see the WP InstantPay @ http://www.wp-instantpay.com/
It basically checks the referral amount before payment is made and splits the payment correctly between the seller and referral.
I also have no clue as to how “PayPal Mass Payments” works. Would you clue me in? Is it something that I would upload to paypal and it would generate the payments to each referral?
I’m lookin for anything you have that will simply my client having to generate a payout report then manually pay every affiliate they have.
Thanks!
Hi there,
Regarding mass payments with PayPal, you simply generate the file with the option provided (assuming appropriate filter settings, i.e. for the right period and referral status selected is ‘Accepted’), then upload it on your PayPal account through the mass payments option.
As to automated payments, work is being done on that but I can’t give an ETA yet. Note that the plugin you mention is a separate solution which is not related to the plugins here and they won’t work together.
Cheers
I am setting up my site and trying to get it looking right I accidentally permanently deleted a bit of code needed for affiliate reporting.
Can someone give me the code that is under these two headings:
Performance
Earnings
Greatly appreciate it.I can’t seem to add an affiliate manually through the backend of WordPress. Every time I create a new affiliate, I can give it a Name and Email just fine, but for some reason the Username won’t get saved. Any ideas why this would be happening?
Hi,
username field is used when the user already exists.
if you want create an affiliate associated with an existing user, you only need the username field.
cheers
Hello Kento! Thanks for your great plugin!
I’m wondering does the plugin supports automatic assign to a special role after registration? I create a new role “affiliate” and now looking for better way to automatic assign those who registered from affiliate-area page (only from this page) to a role “affiliate”. And I need to do this without changing the default role(for a new users). So how I can do it better?
Actually if plugin does not support such feature I could create it but in this case let me know where you think the most convenient place for that (in the plugin code) – maybe in the short codes class. I just don’t want to break anything.
P.S: Sorry if I’m asking the thing that was asked before – it just takes a lot of time to read 599 comments)
Hi,
you can use “affiliates_added_affiliate” hook for this purpose, for example:
add_action('affiliates_added_affiliate', 'myRoleFunction' );function myRoleFunction ( $affiliate_id ) {
$user_id = affiliates_get_affiliate_user($affiliate_id);
if ($user_id != null) {
...
// do something
...
}
}
cheersThanks for the hook!
One more thing – right after affiliate registration it gives a link for the first login (to activate user) “http://my-server.com/wp-login.php?checkemail=confirm” or in email – the link “http://my-server.com/wp-login.php” . As I understood this links must be used to “activate” user and only after it is possible to use login form at the affiliate page.
But the problem is that after using this confirmation links there is no redirection – after successful login (through one off this links) it takes you nowhere.. In my case to “http://my-server.com/my-acount/ – page that doesn’t exists..
When I’m trying to add GET variable redirect_to (“http://my-server.com/wp-login.php?checkemail=confirm&redirect_to=http://my-server.com/affiliate-area/) it doesn’t login.. How I can make redirect to the affiliate-area page right after first time login?Hi,
It’s not necessary to use these links to activate the affiliates.
you can use “redirect” and “redirect_to” attributes of [affiliates_registration] shortcode.
More info in shortcodes documentation.
cheers
Hi,
I just wanna ask if the $59 for Affiliates Pro for Woocommerce is one time payment and no renewal fee? Also, what are the available payouts aside from paypal? Please reply asap.
Thanks!
Ismael
Hi,
is one time payment and no renewal fee. You can pay with Paypal account or credit card if you don’t have paypal account.
cheersJust to make it clear, the purchase includes one year of support and updates, see http://www.itthinx.com/terms-conditions/ – after that you will need to purchase an extension if required. That makes it a renewal fee in a sense.
@antonio Saying ‘no renewal fee’ isn’t quite correct in this case.
Hi Kento,
How do we purchase an extension? Mine just expired last month. Btw, found these some php errors when I enabled wp_debug as on
Hi,
You can purchase it from the shop directly, we still have it on discount for existing customers you need to extend it. If you log in with your user account, you will have the discount applied automatically.
Regarding any PHP notices, please use pastebin and post a link along with the version number of the plugins involved and WordPress.
Hey Kento,
I didn’t realise ours expired less than a month ago. Any ideas? Please help 🙂
Sure, simply add this to the cart and log in with your user account from the previous purchase at checkout. You will have the renewal discount applied automatically.
Hi,
I just installed the pro version and have a few affiliates set up. I tested their affiliates link by visiting our site with their link and purchasing our program (we use 1shoppingcart, which also allows for paypal). I see affiliates is recording the visits and hits but not the referral once a purchase goes through – which is what we want to pay out to our affiliates (how many visitors from their sites complete a purchase of our program). Not sure what I’m doing wrong, if you could please help! -Alex
Hi,
there isn’t an integration with 1shoppingcart, so the plugin does not know when customer makes a purchase.
cheersThanks for the response Antonio. Would it be possible to get a refund then as this plugin will not work for me. Please email me at XXX. -Alex
Hi, you have been refunded, thanks
Regarding Affiliates Pro:
Question 1: Is the following process feasible?
1. Customers from different affiliates go to Alan’scompany.com
2. Customers from Afilliate 1 place orders using a code specific to Affiliate 1
3. Customers from Afilliate 2 place orders using a code specific to Affiliate 2
4. Customers from Afilliate 3 place orders using a code specific to Affiliate 3
5. Affiliate 1 can track all orders placed by customers for Affiliate 1, but not orders placed by customers to other affiliates
6. Affiliate 2 can track all orders placed by customers for Affiliate 2, but not orders placed by customers to other affiliates
7. Affiliate 3 can track all orders placed by customers for Affiliate 3, but not orders placed by customers to other affiliates
8. Alan’scompany.com pays affiliates electronicallyI understand that Affiliates Pro allows placement of a link at an Affiliates website that will link to Affiliate-specific ordering, order tracking and payment to my site (for the sake of this question, let’s call it Alan’scompany.com. I want to know if Affiliate-specific customers can go to Alan’scompany.com WITHOUT A LINK and instead use an affiliate-specific code one they are at Alan’scompany.com to place an affiliate-specific order.
Question 2: if the process described in Question 1 isn’t feasible, what is the process for adding an Affiliate-specific link to an Affiliate’s website? Some of my affiliates will lack programming expertise.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
Affiliates has “Direct” affiliate, to which is assigned the commissions when the customer does not use an affiliate link. You can enable this in Affiliates->Options->Store direct referrals
Affiliates creates a page with affiliates info, where the affiliates can see the links (“affiliates-page”), but you can use [affiliates_url] shortcode. More info about shortcodes in documentation page.
cheers
Hi, in the WordPress back end, inside one of my log files, the following comes up for your plugin:
REQUEST_URI: /wp-content/plugins/affiliates-pro//js/datepickers.js?ver=2.2.0
I was wondering if you could remove the “double slash” after the pro. I assume some where in your code is causing the issue.
Regards,
SeanThanks for pointing that out Sean, yes that double slash shouldn’t be there. Will be fixed with the next release.
Cheers
Thanks for fixing this, the error has gone now on v2.4
Sean
Hi, the error is actually still there.
REQUEST_URI: /wp-content/plugins/affiliates-pro//js/datepickers.js?ver=2.2.0
Sean B
Looks like you need to clear the cache, the suffix indicates it is looking for the 2.2.0’s version although you already have installed the 2.4.0 version.
Hi, my first question is, does your team support any other payment providers, specifically Payoneer for example. If not, do you think your plugin will offer support for more providers in the future or is there another way to get Payoneer setup? If you only plan on sticking with PayPal and let’s say I manually pay the affiliates, is there a way to reduce the balance owed to the affiliates in the back end so that I can keep track of the payouts?
My second question is with respect to Wishlists. I currently cannot locate a good wish list plugin for Woocommerce, so I was wondering if your plugin offers any such feature. So for example if Person A has a wish list and Person B buys off that list, I want to reward Person A. I realize that if Person A just gave a link to a specific product or store and had Person B buy the item, that A would get the commission but I was trying to avoid having Person A go into that much detail. Since Person A might already be comfortable with the concept of wish lists, I wanted to know if I could reward person A simply for sharing their lists with others and having them buy off that list. The ability to have multiple wish lists would be a necessity also since Person A might want to keep some items private but allow sharing of others.
Went ahead and bought the product, was able to answer some of my questions. I see that I can set a referral as “Closed” which would then show the amount as Paid to the affiliate. This would take care of manually paying affiliates if I had to.
Still curious to know though if you would ever contemplate providing other payment providers other than PayPal.
The wishlist option might not be possible since the plugin that tracks the wishlist would be completely separate from your affiliate plugin but I would still like to know if instead of the default link that the “Affiliate Area” creates for a user, could the user give someone their Wishlist link and somehow embed the affiliate code too? So that when the user shares the wishlist, they can decide if they wanted to make money off those referrals or simply share a link without making the referral.
For example if the referral link is “sitename.com?aff=12345678” and the wishlist was “sitename.com/wishlist/tony’list” could Tony provide a referral link such as “sitename.com/wishlist/tony’list?aff=12345678”
Regards,
SeanThanks for following up on that, yes the “closed” status marks referrals so they aren’t taken into account when requesting totals for “accepted” referrals.
Regarding other payment providers, there are interesting options that I’m considering to add for payment directly through the UI – certainly PayPal Pro and Stripe, others depend on how big the interest in general for them would be. Another option is a customized solution, the cost involved to provide that is rather huge compared to an OOTB solution, but in many cases we’ve helped clients to save based on this system compared to other solutions that are on the market.
Regarding the wishlist page, yes that’s exactly what you could do. It can be done by providing a link to their wishlist page with the affiliate id appended using the shrotcodes, or by using the Affiliates Share plugin which allows them to share the link where the affiliate id is appended right on the page they share.
Hi Sean,
Thanks for posting this here, regarding the first question: you can actually use the mass payments file that is generated to just get the totals and then do your affiliate payments through any service preferred. The referrals that have been paid can then be marked as such (referrals closed) in bulk, corresponding to the totals. This will effectively reduce the balance owed for each affiliate involved. The system also allows you to do that for a specific time period, using minimum accumulated amounts.
Regarding wishlists for WooCommerce, there is an extension WooCommerce Wishlists and this could work with Affiliates Share, the closest OOTB solution to what you are seeking would probably be to use the shortcode from WooCommerce Wishlists, that displays the lists on a page, and let affiliates share the page through the facilities provided by Affiliates Share. I think that would be a solution to “reward person A simply for sharing their lists with others and having them buy off that list”.
Cheers
Hi, I would like to follow up on this if you have time since I am still a little lost as to how to implement.
When the user creates a wishlist it shows up as ” https://[sitenamehere].com/my-lists/view-a-list/?wlid=11080 ”
So I’m still not following how I would append their affiliate ID to the end of this by using short codes or some other automated method?
I see the WooCommerce Wishlist short codes here also http://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-wishlists/ but none give the ability to list the created wishlists individually.
My thinking was to use the “[wc_wishlists_my_archive /]” Archive short code and then perhaps use the Affiliate Share features instead of the built in sharing buttons but I’m at a lost as to how I would add those.
Hi Sean,
In the example URL, the affiliate ID would be appended as an additional parameter. With Affiliates Share, the links are produced automatically based on the page where the sharing buttons appear.
Regarding the wishlist shortcodes, I would suggest this to the developer of the extension. If it’s something of general interest, then I’m sure they will welcome the suggestion. Otherwise you might also be able to find a developer who can implement it for you, see for example http://www.woothemes.com/affiliated-woo-workers/
Cheers
Hi,
Great plugin. A few questions:
1. How do we change the standard user / pass / WP dashboard email when an affiliate signs up?
2. How do we add a paypal address for each user and capture it for signup?
3. How do we make it mandatory to add a website when signing up?
4. What is the page we edit to modify the affiliate page (after they’ve logged in) so we can give them banners to choose from etc.Thank you!
Hi, thanks:
1.- You can use [affiliates_affiliate_profile]
2.- By default user’s email is used for paypal, but affiliates can change it using [affiliates_affiliate_profile].
3.- Directly you can not do it, the registration form is kept as simple as possible, to facilitate registration affiliates.
4.- Default page created is “affiliates-area” page.cheers
Hello I have question about conversions.
I want to run affil program in two statges.
1st state – people will register their email email address into the program. After entering their email they will be forwarded to thank you page. And I need to measure how many people have entered their email address. Do you have a code, that I put into the thank you page?
Hi,
you can create your own shortcode in thank you page, and use Affiliates API to register referrals.
cheers
Hi,
Thanks for the quick response. I just added the direct affiliate link to the robots file to not record these sales. This should work right? I can see now my one active affiliate is not getting credited for my sales. I will keep a close eye on transactions to make sure he is still getting credited from sales coming from his site
Hi Kal,
if you don’t want register Direct referrals, you can disable this in Affiliates->Option->Direct referrals.
cheers
how do i change or deactivate direct affiliate URL? Who’s to say i don’t have one smart affiliate using that URL so whenever i get a sale he gets credited? I think this may be the situation here as I am getting sales and when i track where that vistor came from there is no record coming from affiliate links. I need a way to do this without resetting all my affiliate URL’s
You’re missing the intent of the Direct account. Also the assumption that a smart affiliate might misuse this is unfounded, if an affiliate wore to use Direct‘s link (or any other affiliate’s link), the affiliate would effectively skip on her own commissions …
Anyhow, just deactivate the option if you’re not going to use it. See What if no affiliate is creditable? in the Setup section of the documentation.
Hi, I am trying to find English language files in Affillies program affiliates-en_EN.mo and *.po file that I could translate the plugin into Czech. However, I cannot find them. Where are they located? Thanx, Jan
Hi,
language files are in: wp-content/plugins/affiliates-pro/lib/core/languages
cheersThank. I have found the files. I have created two new files affliates-cs_CZ.mo and *-cs_CZ.po files. In the WP-config.php I have set Czech Language. Unfortunately the affiliate plugin is not translated into Czech. Do I have to set something else?
Hi,
sorry, you have another language file in: affiliates-pro/lib/ext/languages/…
I would appreciate if you can send us the translation to support at itthinx dot com.
cheersThank you. Now it works. I trnaslate it and send it you.
Antonio, do have the translation files online in English. In the folder there are only translation files – Slovak, Italian, Spanis etd. If I had them in English only, I would make my job easier.
Hi,
The plugin is developed in English, so you do not need the file en_EN. If website is configured in English, will be shown in English.
I send you an empty file.
cheers
Send them please to my email.
I have two more questions. What is the differents between “hits” and “visit”.
My sedont question is about conversion.
I want to run affil program in two statges.
1st state – people will register their email email address into the program. Do I have to put some come on the thank you page, that affilates will know they people have registers.
2nd stage – will buy the produst via Jigoshop – it this case it is easy to see conversion.
Do I have to create two affiliate program for these two stateges?
Hi,
2nd stage is normal behavior. For 1st stage, you can create a shortcode in thank you page, use Affiliates API – Referrals and create referrals indicating that it is the first stage in the referral’s desciption.
cheers.Hey Antonio,
thank you.
I am looking at refereal. Could you help me with the short code.
I need record on thank you page, how many people have entered their email address. the Value of referal is zero. I just need to count how number of entered email addresses.
When I look at the API referal I am really confused.
Hi Jan,
maybe , this shortcode can help you [affiliates_referrals].
With this, you can show how many people have sent the email (are affiliates)
cheers
Hey,
this is not the code. I have unfortunatelly used the word shortcode.
I guess it should be a code from API – some kind of Java Scrip, some stuff from API – Referrals.
Than I will a code that will count the value that is in the Java Script.
Hi,
if you need count referrals, you can use:
$num_referrals = affiliates_get_affiliate_referrals( $affiliate_id);
cheers
I had a questions about the [affiliates_affiliate_profile /] shortcode. In the documentation it says the show_attributes accepts a comma separated list of ids being paypal_email, referral_amount, referral.rate, coupons. I can’t seem to get this to work though. Here’s the short code I’m using:
[affiliates_affiliate_profile edit_email="true" show_attributes="coupons,referral_amount,referral.rate"/]
Any thoughts on why this wouldn’t work?Hmmm… not sure what I changed but it works now. Nevermind!
Hi,
I have tried your code, and it works fine. You should use referral.amount instead of referral_amount, there is an error in documentation.
If you see this fields empty, is because you need add this attributes to affiliate, editing it.
cheers
Hello,
where ca i change the Registration-Notification?
Best regards
MaikHi,
you can configure notifications in Affiliates->Notifications menu.
cheers
Hello,
how can I edit the link in front of question mark?
e.g.: http://www.affilguru.cz
I would like to change it to http://www.patrman.cz
I would like run affiliate program on different ecommerce websites.
Thank you, jan
Hi,
if you use [affiliates_url] shortcode, this generates the appropriate link on each domain.
cheers
Hi,
I would like to ask. Is there a possiblity to put a referal link to each email if I use mailchimp or any other software or service to send out emails?
Thank you, Jan
Hi,
you can use links similar to: http://www.example.com?affiliates=XX this should work regardless of is in an email.
cheersThank you. What about the XX, because each person has a different ID.
e.g.
1. person has ID 01
2. person has ID 02Can i generate it automatically?
Do you have any expereient to conneting with some email systems?
Hi,
you can use [affiliates_id] shortcode, to get the ID. More info in Affiliates Shortcodes Documentation.
Right now, there isn’t an integration with some email systems.
cheers
Can the affiliates see their referrals name & order #? Is there a shortcode to show this to the affiliates?
Hi, I have a couple of presale questions…
Using this with EDD:
1. You mention affiliates can be added without needing to be registered as users in WordPress. How are sales tracked in this case?
2. For buyers who check out as guest, is the sale still tracked to the affiliate?
3. Someone above mentioned Mailchimp integration. Is that possible/included?
Thanks.
Hi Steve,
1.- The affiliate registration form will recognize when a user is a member of the site, it will allow a registered user to join just the affiliate program without having to create a new account. But affiliate needs exist.
2.- Yes, the sale is tracked.
3.- We are working in an integration that will be available in a few days.cheers
Hi,
I get an error 500 Code when I try to save the options.
I can change the settings and everything else but not the options..
500 error after clicking “save”.What could be the reason?
I wrote an email to support@… but got no answer..
Thanks
Hi,
I sent you an email, cheers
Hi there, i’ve checked your documentation but can’t find any info on hits, visitors and referrals. It might be a daft question but whats the difference between hits and visitors?
ThanksHi Andrew, a hit is when someone clicks an affiliate link, if you click it 5 times, it will record 5 hits, but it will only count as 1 visit.
Hey Kento.
I am having issues with these shortcodes [referrer_user display="display_name"]
It is working as intended, however, they drop out the next day or so. What should I be doing.
For example, when I tested an affiliate signup it showed the sponsors name, user and email one minute, then today it is empty spaces.
Would love you help with this as I am getting closer to launching the site and am eager to run with it 🙂
Also, still trying to find a solution to displaying custom fields. Have you had any breakthroughs or requests and solutions for this yet? just wondering as I have not been on your pages for over a month or so now.
Cheers buddy, looking forward to any help.
Have a great day!
James 🙂
Hi,
Have you cleared the cookies? try access to website using an affiliate’s link, then this shortcode should work.
cheersThis short code does work to start with. Using an affiliate link to create an account will display these details for a while and then they appear blank.
Thank you Antonia, but that does not fix it buddy, appreciate your help though.
Any other suggestions, anybody else had this? Kento?
James 🙂
Hi,
this shortcode works just as well: “display these details for a while and then they appear blank”.
Until cookie with affiliate’s id exists, this shortcode shows affiliate’s data. When cookie is deleted, then this shortcode display blank.
This is because referrals and affiliates have a “permanent relationship”, but user and affiliates not.Sorry Antonio, Im a little confused with your solution. Could you explain it again please, much appreciated 🙂
Have you checked the Referral timeout setting under Affiliates > Options? It sounds to me as if it’s set to 1 – in that case, visiting the affiliate link will be valid for one day only.
Hi, great plugin! I have a question, I’m using this sign in code [affiliates_login_redirect redirect_url="http://www.magneaseium.com/affiliate-area"] but it won’t redirect to that page and just goes to the wordpress dashboard instead.
And can you give a code example on how to use this?
redirect : Whether to redirect after registration. default: falseThanks!
Hi,
your shortcode is correct, this must works.
Beware attribute’s domain must be the same.
cheers
I had a question about a feature that might be of use to others as well. I’m running your plugin with woocommerce and subscriptions and I know there’s the functionality to turn on recurring commissions for all affiliates as a subscription is renewed. What I’m wondering is if this can be added as a per affiliate option. For instance you can override the amount an affiliate is paid by adding the affiliate attribute. Would it be possible to have it so the default is that we don’t pay affiliates on renewals but we can change individual affiliates so that they are paid that way. Not sure if anyone else has a use for this.
Thanks for the suggestion Will, right now there is no option to have it applied to individual affiliates only. If the general option is enabled, it would apply to any affiliate. You would need some customization so that you can enable this for specific affiliates only.
Hi,
I wonder if it’s possible when new affiliate registers on the website to be automatically subscribed to our Mailchimp list?Thanks!
Hi,
There isn’t a mailchip integration, you can use Mailchimp API and Affiliates API for that purpose.
cheers
hi there i had purchased your Affiliate Pro and i also just purchased Restrict Content Pro from http://pippinsplugins.com/restrict-content-pro-premium-content-plugin/ It says that it will work with affiliate pro. However, i had tested it out many time but there isn’t any referral show up.
Yes i had just installed this http://pippinsplugins.com/restrict-content-pro-affiliates. However, now when i try to test out with with some affiliates url but the referrals only appear to Direct and did not credit the referrals to the affiliate url i used.
Hi,
I can take a look to your website, if you want send me access data to support at itthinx dot com.
cheershi my website is instantbam.com and i’ve created a subscription access for login. The username is itthinx and the password is emailed to you
Hi, please give me administrator role. cheers
Ok already set.
Hi,
I have test it, and affiliates are setup correctly.
I don’t know how integration Restrict Content works internally, you should ask the author.
Sorry I can not help you.
cheers
Yes, I read and looks like that is what I need. Do I need the Affiliates Pro also or will just the integration plugin work?
Does this work with QuForm? or must it be contact form 7?
I added a new affiliate using the generated standard page, but no password field? now when I try and login it requires one and no email sent (setting done)?? In fact when I goto manage affiliates and edit the entry, there is no password shown? All anyone to register is ticked, notifications is set?
Hi,
you need Affiliates Pro and Contact Form 7 Integration.WordPress send you a password when you register, You can use “Lost Password” link to recover it (…/my-account/lost-password/).
cheers
Ok, sure this has been asked before, however … I don’t have the time or inclination to read through all the different optional extras you can buy with Pro. I am happy to buy Pro, just need to know what to purchase. The site will allow affiliates to register, they provide leads to us and get paid if we convert the lead. No cart integrations, just need to track leads passed to us by affiliate and show results to them. Suggestions?
I bought the affiliates pro but have found the ‘create affiliate page’ to be very basic and poorly formatted. Is anyone willing to share the html for their own affiliate page?
It would be nice to have an html of a page that uses the advanced features for affiliates (graphs, etc.).
Hi,
Affiliates use a basic html based in class that themes and users can customize.
Use css for that purpose.
You can create your advanced pages with more shortcodes, more info here: http://www.itthinx.com/documentation/affiliates/shortcodes/cheers
Can you define “Duplicate Referrals”? I couldn’t find any information in the documentation referring to this setting.
From Affiliates –> Settings:
Allow duplicate referrals
Allow to record duplicate referrals for the same affiliate (based on amount, currency, internal type and reference).Hi,
this option is to prevent duplicate referrals if duplicate requests are generated.
Some e-commerce platforms generate duplicate requests occasionally, this option prevents duplicate referrals.
The most common is to have it checked.cheers
Hi Antonio,
We are seeing multiple referrals for orders where the customer tried their credit card multiple times before it finally going through. So for example if a customer tried their card 15 times and then it goes though, it is crediting the affiliate with 15 commissions.
Questions:
1. If we un-check this box, should it fix this issue?
2. Will it retroactively fix the previous extra commissions? If not, is there an easy way to correct them via search, script or MySQL query or would need to do it manually?Thanks so much for your help.
Our System – Woocommerce with Authorize.net and PayPal payments with Affiliate Pro and Affiliate Woocommerce plugin.
Kento, we’d like to be able to give a referral bonus to an affiliate for signing-up another affiliate to the program.
So Affiliate1 invites Affiliate2 to the program.
Affiliate2 makes a sale and gets $50 commission.
Affiliate1 automatically gets a $25 commission for that sale.It wouldn’t need to go deeper than 2 levels, but is this something we can configure the system to do? Or can we request this functionality?
Thanks!
– RoryHi,
Affiliates Enterprise has this multi tier functionality.cheers
Re affilates by username:
How do you get the link to render like this
http://www.example.com/affiliates/billy
instead of
http://www.example.com/?affiliates=billy
I am wanting the cleaner link – no question mark in the link.
Hi,
you can use:
[affiliates_by_username][affiliates_affiliate_link type="pretty"][/affiliates_by_username]
cheersbeautiful! thank you!
hmmm, doesn’t work – renders the pretty link on the front side but when you click it sends me to a 404 page. Any ideas why? Thanks!
Hi,
Are pretty links activated? Go to Settings > Permalinks and choose any of the options under Common Settings except Default.
Please, show us the link to help you better.cheers
Hi Antonio. Pretty links are activated – Permalink structure is custom…postname. Site isn’t up and running, so I am the only affiliate at this point – username “admin”. This is what’s showing for my links in “Manage Affiliates” Dashboard
Link: http://gulfcoasttravelandleisure.com/explorer?invite=2 URL Parameter: ?invite=2
Pretty: http://gulfcoasttravelandleisure.com/explorer/invite/2The standard link w ? redirects to the front page of the site – so all is well there. the pretty link in any iteration doesn’t work – either as the pretty link with the affiliate id or as the pretty link with the username. I do have the username plugin activated as well.
This is what the pretty link looks like using the username instead of affiliate id:
http://gulfcoasttravelandleisure.com/explorer/invite/admin/
Thanks for the support.
Hi,
do you have a page at …/invite? It might be a problem if there is a page sitting at the same URL (/invite-friends).
You can solve it changing Affiliate URL parameter name.cheers
Antonio, deleted the page invite-friends and emptied the trash. Also checked slugs in every page – there is no slug that has the word “invite” in it. Yet, the pretty links still redirect to a 404 page. Any other ideas? Thanks!
It’s fixed! I deactivated the main plugin (Affiliates Pro) with the “delete all data upon deactivation” option enabled. Re-entered invite as the new parameter – and it redirects properly now. Thanks for hanging in there with me.
Hi,
I’m glad that it works.cheers
I’m probably missing something, which teaches me to not work past midnight these days, but is it possible to set it up so that those who have signed up will automatically become an affiliate?
Thanks.
Hi,
for this purpose you can use Affiliates Users http://www.itthinx.com/shop/affiliates-users/cheers
Is this an add-on for pro, so everthing will work as before, this just does that function?
Hi,
yes everything will work as before.
Affiliates Users works with Affiliates, Affiliates Pro and Affiliates Enterprise.cheers
Ok thanks, i’ll get that sorted.
how can I set my system to a monthly payout of $5 to my affiliates for every member they bring to my website – the payout must be re-accuring every month as long as that member stays a member
Hi,
if you use Affiliates Pro with Woocommerce + woocommerce subscriptions, you can setup commissions every time the user pay. You only need set commission to $5, and every time subscription is renewed, affiliate get $5.cheers
i am not using wocommerce but s2member? so what would i have to do there?
Hi,
sorry, you can see it in the comment above.
I have the affiliate enterprise solution installed and use it on wordpress together with s2members.
I want all my affiliates to be paid $5 for any subscriber they bring. There are 3 levels of subscriptions
monthly, quarterly and yearly. I want the affiliate to receive his $5 every month for as long as the subscriber maintains his membership. How and where do I set this up?
thanks
Marcus
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