Does the ‘business’ or ‘e-commerce’ plan have a custom free payment gateway?

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    durgesh321 · Member ·

    Does the ‘business’ or ‘e-commerce’ plan have a custom free payment gateway?

    I want to open an online store to sell my digital marketing course. But I am looking for a plan in which I can get a free custom payment gateway to receive payments from customers.

    Also, there should be a facility to add affiliate program in it. In which I can give three types of commission to my affiliate.

    Eg: affiliate 1, affiliate 2, affiliate 3

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Most payment gateway plugins are free to download and install. Rather than paying for the plugin itself, you’ll pay a transaction fee for each purchase to the payment processor that handles the actual processing.

    The Business Plan doesn’t include any plugins, but you can install any plugin as long as it’s compatible with our hosting setup. We recommend WooCommerce and the payment gateways for that plugin found on WooCommerce.com – as WooCommerce belongs to the same company as WordPress.com, that means we can also provide you with support for those plugins.

    You’re welcome to use payment gateway (and ecommerce) plugins from other sources as well, though we can’t provide support for those, as we have no control over how they work.

    The eCommerce plan comes with WooCommerce and a number of add-ons, including some payment gateways, pre-installed. You can find a list of those plugins here:

    https://wordpress.com/support/ecommerce-plan/#payment-gateways

    Also, there should be a facility to add affiliate program in it. In which I can give three types of commission to my affiliate.

    WooCommerce.com has these options in their marketplace:

    https://woocommerce.com/search/?q=affiliate

    There’s also some free options listed in the WordPress.org plugin directory, if you want to look at those:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/woocommerce+affiliate/

    Let us know if you have any other questions about our plans :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    durgesh321 · Member ·

    Can you tell me about such a plugin? Which automatically make all the customers a part of the affiliate program.

    And also in which an affiliate gets commission on his customer’s customer as well.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    An affiliate is someone who refers a customer to your site, and receives a commission should that customer buy something. Typically it’s something people need to opt into – someone has to choose to join an affiliate program and promote your products, and I don’t know of any way to make someone an affiliate without them deliberately agreeing to it.

    And also in which an affiliate gets commission on his customer’s customer as well.

    If you mean a multi-tier model, where each customer refers others, and then those in turn refer people, with the commission shared with both the referrer, and the person the next tier up who originally referred them, then we don’t have any plugins that do that.

    We also don’t allow sites like that on our hosting on WordPress.com, so if that’s what you have in mind, you might want to consider a more traditional WordPress host with less restrictive policies. You can find links to our recommended hosts here:

    Hosting

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