WCFM Affiliate has just released!

[WCFM Forum]

Hi Everyone,

WCFM – Affiliate addon has just released.

You just have to install this addon -> WCFM Affiliate

👉 Read Detailed Documentation

Thank You

[mc chausse]

Great!!! Will it work with wcfm membership?

[WCFM Forum]

You are welcome 🙂

Well, it has no membership dependency right now. Only general commission supported.

Thank You

[alia]

Thanks for the great news!

[WCFM Forum]

You are welcome 🙂

[Fredrick]

Is there a video for this anywhere?

[WCFM Forum]

You may follow this documentation – https://docs.wclovers.com/wcfm-affiliate/

[pdishman]

OK, maybe I’m missing something. Can you only add an affiliate manually? There should be a way for the affiliates to sign up. Is there a way for potential affiliates to do that?

[WCFM Forum]

HI,

Can you only add an affiliate manually? There should be a way for the affiliates to sign up. Is there a way for potential affiliates to do that?

– Right now Affiliate can be added only manually as Admin.

We will add two options in next update –

1. Vendor wise Affiliate
2. Affiliate registration option

Thank You

[maximyz3d]

Is there any way I could pay the affiliate commission through woo wallet and before I purchase the plugin what payment gateways are available? Thank you very much.

[Vjean]

1. How can I connect affiliated to already registered vendors?

2. Can I attached multiple affiliates to one vendor?

[Isaac Mintah]

Hello

I will like to know, if there is tool which can be used to generate affiliate link for banners. So that affiliates can used for their websites.

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

Affiliate may generate affiliate url for any valid URL.

Thank You

[Miki]

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[WCFM Forum]

Sorry, WCFM has no such module.

[citzen09]

Hello. If a supplier purchased a membership in which he earns 100% of his product.
and An affiliate purchased a membership to earn a 15% commission for product sales. What happens ?

[tech2]

@citzen09 I assume the affiliate commission comes via the Admins commission for site-wide and the Seller for direct affiliates (which i believe is coming soon).

Example 1:

Site-wide Affiliate program.
Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15%

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Admin pays affiliate 15% = $1.50

Example 2:

Vendor direct Affiliate program.
Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15%

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Seller pays affiliate 15% = $13.50

That’s how I expect it to work anyway. I hope this helps

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

If a supplier purchased a membership in which he earns 100% of his product.
and An affiliate purchased a membership to earn a 15% commission for product sales. What happens ?

– Well, Affiliate commission calculated on actual product cost.

So, if a product cost is $100 then it’s Affiliate commission will be $15

Thank You

[tech2]

That only makes sense for the commission on membership / signup fee.

It makes no sense and can’t work for product sales. What about admin commission on sales?

Let’s say admin takes 10% and affiliate takes 15% then the seller only gets 75%.

It should work how I posted above for the different affiliate options. After all, the sellers haven’t asked us to provide affiliates or give them a percentage of their sale. That will cause huge problems.

When the vendor actioned affiliate programs are launched then the vendor sets the rate and pays the commission but while its site-wide affiliate program released by the store owner all affiliate commission has to come from the admin sales fee.

[WCFM Forum]

HI,

Let’s say admin takes 10% and affiliate takes 15% then the seller only gets 75%.

– Commission never split in 3 parts. It always divided in two parts – Admin and Vendor.

Affiliate commission separately calculated on total item cost.

Site-wide Affiliate program.

Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15%

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Admin pays affiliate 15% = $15

Thank You

[tech2]

Site-wide Affiliate program.

Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15%

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Admin pays affiliate 15% = $15

Hold on. Admin makes $10 but pays the affiliate $15. So affiliate sales cost Admin. That makes no sense and is a MASSIVE RED FLAG and ISSUE for the affiliate program.

This is the only way it can work

Site-wide Affiliate program.
Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15%

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Admin pays affiliate 15% of admin sales fee = $1.50

unless the admin accepts that affiliate commission can never be higher than site fee per sale and accepts to potentially make nothing. The affiliate commission should be taken from the site admin fee when the site-wide affiliate program which is setup by admin is used.

If you release the store by store vendor direct affiliate program option which is setup by the Vendor themselves then yes, the affiliate percentage should be take from the whole sale price meaning:

Vendor direct Affiliate program.
Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15%

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Seller pays affiliate 15% of total sale price = $15

There has to be two totally different structures to affiliate commission or this will NEVER WORK!

[edo hopar]

Same issue here. Try this:

Vendor 90%
Affiliate 2%

I have not tried this method, just an idea. So the way I’m thinking is a basic math, but not sure if will work with wcfm affiliate.

Sale – $100
Vendor receives – $90
Affiliate receives – $2
The remaining $8 is kind of stuck in admins account I guess…

I know when affiliates see 2%, they will freak out and never sign up, but this is just an idea for a store owner like us to go around this.

[vanilladev89]

@tech2 $1.50 of $100 is 1.5% not 15% and that’s more than likely how affiliates are going to see it. Another downside I thought of about basing the site-wide affiliate program on how much the admin receives per sale is that you would be opening the affiliate to argue if they are receiving the proper amount. I know 15% sounds better than 1.5% but it’s not worth the headache in my opinion.

[tech2]

@streambeginnings

It’s a percentage of the site fee. Which would be explained in the T’s&C’s.

You can’t expect to give the affiliate lets say 10% and the site admin makes 0. The business will never grow. It has to be structured correctly to guarantee longevity.

Affiliate sales continue for any sales taken via their link and continue with the customers who joined via their link. It’s not a one off commission for the first sale. It’s ever sale moving on from there either from that link or customers gained from that link. So giving the affiliate/s the commission and the site taking nothing is a sure fire way for failure.

This is the only way it can work

Site-wide Affiliate program.
Admin Commission 10%
Affiliate Commission 15% of admin / site fee.

Sale = $100
Seller receives $90
Admin receives $10
Admin pays affiliate 15% of admin sales fee = $1.50

It just doesn’t work any other way. If the site fee is 10% you couldn’t give an affiliate more than 10% anyway because there would be uproar from the vendors. The affiliate program released as a paid addon is not finished and they have not thought about the details of this.

For it to work both both admin and vendors it has to be how i described above.

[Martin Hall]

Hi, I am having a problem in that my Vendors cannot sign up as an Affiliate, it says “Restricted: You are not allowed to access this page. May be you already registered as Affiliate or your User Role does not allow for this action.”

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

Yeah right, now vendors or not allowed to register as Affiliate.

We will add that prohibition soon.

Thank You

[vanilladev89]

Hello

I may no be understanding something properly but the commission overrides did not work on the membership level. I changed the affiliate fixed amount for a particular membership level and when I tested it through a different account the global amount still applied instead of the membership override.

I am not sure if this is somewhere else as an addon but I think a commission transaction detail for the affiliates would be very good piece to add to the affiliate plugin. Right now you give transaction number amount and type, but it is not linked to the actual details about why they got that commission and which transaction allowed that commission.

Thank You

[vanilladev89]

I apologize for my error. I set a personal commission percentage and not a global.

[Alexis DUFAYS]

Hi,

Yeah right, now vendors or not allowed to register as Affiliate.

We will add that prohibition soon.

I’m really in need to have this feature. I thought it was already integrated…
When do you plan to release it ?

[WCFM Forum]

We will release this end of this week.

[Jose Solsona]

Hi
I bought today the Affiliates addon.
I have a lot of questions.

1. How Affiliates withdraw the money? They only have one Secction in the panel and no ption to add withdraw methods or bank info.
2. Is posible to automatic link the vendor account to an afiliate account? Or the same vendor was already an affiliate and have the affiliate Tab in the control Panel?

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

1. How Affiliates withdraw the money? They only have one Secction in the panel and no ption to add withdraw methods or bank info.
– Well, Affiliate payout now is a manual process.

2. Is posible to automatic link the vendor account to an afiliate account? Or the same vendor was already an affiliate and have the affiliate Tab in the control Panel?
– We will add this option in next update, then same user can be use as Affiliate and Vendor.

Thank You

[Alexis DUFAYS]

On 24th july :

We will release this end of this week.

But we are on tuesday of the next week…

[isaacudobia]

Hi,

Under Affiliate Commission Setting, we want New Vendor commission to be on percentage, not a fixed. please modify so that New vendor commission can be either be fixed or percentage. we are not charging commission on sales.

Thank you

[WCFM Forum]

HI,

Well, you may off course set this, but then you have to define Affiliate commission at Membership level – https://ibb.co/BPNfMqY

If vendor register without membership plan then there is no payment from vendor. Then how we will apply “percent” commission? So, this is possible only membership subscription, hence we can apply “percent” commission on membership fee.

Thank You

[tech2]

Have you fixed where the commission is coming from yet?

Example. Admin created affiliate program

Affiliate commission is calculated from site sales commission and not over all sale price.

My site takes 10% sales commission so let’s say

Sale price = $100
Sales commission (10%) = $10
Vendor payout = $90
Admin takes = $10
Affiliate commission (50%) = $5
(Affiliate commission calculated from sales commission)

If there ever is a vendor created affiliate program the. The affiliate commission would be take from the vendor payout and admin commission would not be effected

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

WE not yet release any update Affiliate addon with such changes!

Thank You

[tech2]

Do you have an expected release date / update?

It’s almost pointless how it is because it’s not a finished product and currently can’t really be used unless it’s setup with a work around

[WCFM Forum]

Will update this end of next week.

Thank You

[tech2]

Sounds good!

When will you be adding the vendor created affiliate programs? That would be valuable for users

[Jose Solsona]

Hi
When you will go live the update with the function to have the same user for affiliate and vendor?

[rjbigue]

Currently is there a way for a registered affiliate to see how many people have followed their link? They (and Admin) can see how many transactions resulting in a commission have been made. But not how many people have followed their link that I can find.

A means to see the affiliates referral tree would be nice. And handy for record keeping and bug tracking.

[WCFM Forum]

Well, right now only conversions are tracked.

We will add that stat soon as well.

Thank You

[S Charlton]

Hi, Can Admin control cookie time length for affiliate referrals and choose single/repeat commission for recurring payments/subscription products? Thanks.

[WCFM Forum]

HI,

Well, right now this option not yet there.

If a customer follow Affiliate link and it converted then affiliate reference auto-reset!

Thank You

[tech2]

Do you mean once the affiliate link has been used once it resets? Meaning a new one has to be created??

[WCFM Forum]

No no, link not reset.

For membership affiliate receive commission only onetime, at the time of subscription.

Thank You

[sdel_nevo]

Hi Guys

For membership affiliate receive commission only onetime, at the time of subscription

is that right? as here https://wclovers.com/forums/topic/affiliate-commision/ you state that the affiliate commission is calculated on each membership payment?

so I’m confused now, to be honest

do the membership affiliate receive commission once at the point of signup? or on every membership payment,

for example

vendor a signs up to a monthly plan @ £9.99

affiliate commission is 10%

does the affiliate get .99p each month? or only once? when the vendor signs up

Steve

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

does the affiliate get .99p each month? or only once? when the vendor signs up

– Affiliate will receive commission only first time as vendor will signup. No, commission will be generated for recurring payments.

Thank You

[sdel_nevo]

Hi guys

Thanks for the reply, but I’m confused to be honest

I asked the same question here https://wclovers.com/forums/topic/affiliate-commision/ and your reply implied that the commission was paid on every recurring payment

If that’s not the case, can this be added in an update as this is a big part of my business model

Steve

[pdishman]

Mine as well, I pay my affiliates recurring commissions on vendor memberships – need this to be part of the affiliate add on!

Thanks so much!

[edo hopar]

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[edo hopar]

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[edo hopar]

Couldn’t figure out how to fix the Login and Password to show in affiliates welcome email message. The shortcodes are there, but when affiliates receive the email, the login and password is empty, nothing shows:

Dear {first_name},

Your account has been created as {user_role}. Login to your account at 

Site: {site_url}
Login: {username} <—- in affiliate email this field is empty
Password: {password} <—- in affiliate email this field is empty

Thank You

[WCFM Forum]

We are checking this.

[pdishman]

Not clear on whether vendors have the capability of having their own affiliates with the affiliate addon… Yes? No?

[sdel_nevo]

Hi Guys

I’m not sure if you have seen this but

I asked the same question here https://wclovers.com/forums/topic/affiliate-commision/ and your reply implied that the commission was paid on every recurring payment

If that’s not the case, can this be added in an update as this is a big part of my business model

Steve

[edo hopar]

Hi

How does WCFM Affiliate pay its affiliates? What Payment Getaway it uses? Does WCFM Affiliate uses the same email with which affiliates signed up? What if the affiliate signed up with email#1 but his paypal account is registered with email#2?

In AFFILIATE DASHBOARD, Can you please add ADD/EDIT PayPal email where affiliates want to get paid?

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

Not clear on whether vendors have the capability of having their own affiliates with the affiliate addon… Yes? No?

– NO, right now vendor are not allow to become Affiliate for the site.

But we are working in this, it will be there in WCFM Affiliate next update.

In AFFILIATE DASHBOARD, Can you please add ADD/EDIT PayPal email where affiliates want to get paid?

– We will add PayPal and Stripe as automatic Affiliate payout option as well.

Thank You

[sdel_nevo]

Hi Guys

We will add PayPal and Stripe as automatic Affiliate payout option as well.

That great, will the stripe payment work with split pay? so that we can pas the commissions automatically

if thats possible it would be fantastic

Steve

[WCFM Forum]

Yeah right, it will be like as you now payout vendor’s commission.

Thank You

[sdel_nevo]

Fantastic 🙂

[Jose Solsona]

Hi!
When is expected the next WCFM Affiliate update that will include the Affiliate secction on Vendor panel and payouts options for affiliate panel?

Thanks!

[Pedro Antonio Luque Espinoza]

Buenos días cuando estará disponible el plugin? https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-frontend-manager/

[WCFM Forum]

It’s already available!

[tech2]

Where does the affiliate add their payment details in the affiliate dashboard? Currently no payment options available so hoe do affiliates get paid?

[CommunityCorals]

Hello,
I am interested to use the affiliate modul to encourage my vendors to promote their stores and products. In case sales was generated by the vendor himself I would like to reduce the fee I charge on the sell.

Is it possible to include the affiliate earning into the vendor commission in marketplace orders?

Thanks & BR
Dominique

[Jose Solsona]

Hi!
You’ve updated the Affiliate plugin but not added the payment option..
You said that the payment method will be available on this update.
How is possible that we pay for a module and this is not complete?

You said already that in this update will add that the Vendor has the Affiliate seccion on their panel and I updated but don’t appears.

¿Are you serious or what?

[WCFM Forum]

HI,

You said that the payment method will be available on this update.

– Affiliate online payout options not yet added. But we will add that soon.

WordPress most popular Affiliate addon not even come with any online withdrawal option – https://affiliatewp.com/

We have added two new options in latest update, where vendors are also allowed to become “Affiliate” for the site –

1. Vendors may apply to become affiliate option added
1. Affiliate commission calculate on vendor’s commission compatibility added

You said already that in this update will add that the Vendor has the Affiliate seccion on their panel and I updated but don’t appears.

– Do you have enable this from WCFM Admin Setting -> Affiliate ? https://docs.wclovers.com/wcfm-affiliate/#vendor-as-affiliate

If we are not serious then we didn’t publish this addon and extending it’s functionalities!

Thank You

[rjbigue]

Good morning.
Thanks for the first update to the affiliate add-on. I am liking the direction it is going.

A few suggestions for the future.
1) Allow for affiliate commission to be % based of vendor registration. I played with it with my own accounts and registered one using the affiliate link as a free vendor. I now owe myself $2.00. I would like to see, if a vendor signs up for free then there is no commission. If they sign up for $10 account, commission is 20% thus they get $2.00
2) Allow the affiliate link to stay with the vendor. (I mentioned logging purposes before) This way if a vendor changes from paid to free then paid again there will be another commission. Perhaps this is already in place?
3) As has been suggested, a means to pay the commission either automatically or manually.

Thanks again.

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

1) Allow for affiliate commission to be % based of vendor registration. I played with it with my own accounts and registered one using the affiliate link as a free vendor. I now owe myself $2.00. I would like to see, if a vendor signs up for free then there is no commission. If they sign up for $10 account, commission is 20% thus they get $2.00

– You may set “percent” based affiliate commission at individual “membership” level – https://ibb.co/gZBT3nX
So, please set “No Commission” at global affiliate vendor registration commission setting.

We are checking other points.

Thank You

[rjbigue]

Very nice! Thanks for clearing that up.

[tech2]

Thanks for this, as long as that personalised commission option is then global across all new affiliates then that’s great!

Still no options for affiliates to add their chosen payment details which should have been there on the first release! When will this come?

Also. You only have two options for commission:

1. Vendor
2. Affiliate

Where is the admin option? Admin cannot make nothing when an affiliate is involved so how do we set it up so all three get paid.

Example below.

Product value = $100
Vendor commission = $90
Admin commission = $7
Affiliate commission = $3

Thank you in advance

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

Still no options for affiliates to add their chosen payment details which should have been there on the first release! When will this come?
– We will add this in next update.

Where is the admin option? Admin cannot make nothing when an affiliate is involved so how do we set it up so all three get paid.
– You have already set this when you had defined Vendor commission and set Affiliate commission on vendor commission.

Thank You

[tech2]

Where is the admin option? Admin cannot make nothing when an affiliate is involved so how do we set it up so all three get paid.
– You have already set this when you had defined Vendor commission and set Affiliate commission on vendor commission.

– How do you suggest we define settings for the admin to also make commission?

Example

Vendor makes 90%
Admin makes 6%
Affiliate makes 4%

Please let me know

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

Such three level commission not supported.

Suppose a product cost – $100

You set vendor commission – 6% to Admin then Admin will get – $6

Affiliate commission 4% on Vendor commission then Affiliate will get – 94×4% = $3.76

And Vendor will get – 94-3.76 =$90.24

Thank You

[gh0stmichael]

Is it possible for the vendor to turn off affiliates/marketing on all their products? They might want to just want to promote their product themselves.. and keep the money…

I wanted to give the choice to the vendors.

If they want to have their product promoted by affiliates.. (or the website owner)… then they get can turn on: “allow affiliates” or they can turn off: “allow affiliates”.

The way I see this plugin works.. is either the website owner or the affiliates can promote the vendors product…

If the website owner makes the sale for the vendor then the website owner gets the percentage…

[tech2]

I’m sure your website always makes a fee per sale anyway?

The affiliate commission can be calculated from the site fee (that’s how I have it)

So let’s say your site fee is 10% and the vendor makes 90% per sale. You can pay affiliates from the 10% so there is no additional fee to the vendor. They may never know affiliates are driving traffic

[rjbigue]

While testing my vendor account and using the Become Affiliate link the registration for is requiring a username and email. If I use the ones for the vendor I get “This username already exists.” Do they need to have another username and email or can the registration form pull their information?

[WCFM Forum]

HI,

Already registered vendors allow to become Affiliate from their dashboard – https://docs.wclovers.com/wcfm-affiliate/#vendor-as-affiliate

It’s not possible to register twice using same email and username.

Thank You

[rjbigue]

I uninstalled the affiliate plugin, redownloaded and installed and now it is working.

[Jean Paul Delaye]

BIG ISSUE, Please note that any affiliate account can acces main settings. just try yourdomain/store-manager/settings/ when logged as an affiliate account. hope you fix it.

thanks!!!

[CommunityCorals]

Have been kind of ignored so I try again:

“I am interested to use the affiliate modul to encourage my vendors to promote their stores and products. In case sales was generated by the vendor himself I would like to reduce the fee I charge on this specific order.

Is it possible to include the affiliate earning into the vendor total commission in marketplace orders?”

Thanks & BR
Dominique

[WCFM Forum]

Hi,

Is it possible to include the affiliate earning into the vendor total commission in marketplace orders?
– Sorry, this is not very clear to me.

Do you want to deduct affiliate commission from vendor’s commission?

Thank You

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