Affiliates for WooCommerce – Affiliate Program, Referral Tracking & Commissions
Affiliates for WooCommerce is a lightweight WooCommerce affiliate plugin that lets you create, manage, and grow your own affiliate program directly from your store.
When a customer buys through an affiliate’s referral link, your store tracks the click, applies the commission, and records it automatically. Your affiliates log into their own dashboard to see their earnings, generate new links, and save their payout details. You see everything from the admin and pay out when you’re ready. No SaaS subscription. No percentage cut taken from every sale. It all runs on your own site.
Most stores have their first affiliate program live within minutes of activation.
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Why run your affiliate program on your own store?
Third-party affiliate networks charge a monthly fee on top of a percentage cut from every sale they track. That means you pay twice — once to your affiliate, once to the platform.
This plugin keeps the whole program inside your WordPress site. Your data, your rules, your payouts. The only person getting a cut is the affiliate who earned it.
And unlike generic affiliate plugins, this one is built around WooCommerce from the ground up. Commission calculation pulls directly from WooCommerce orders. Payouts connect to Bank Transfer, PayPal, and WooCommerce Wallet (Pro). The affiliate tab appears automatically inside your WooCommerce My Account page. It fits your store because it was designed for your store.
WooCommerce Affiliate Program – Free Version Features
Affiliate Registration
Affiliates apply through a signup form you embed anywhere on your site with a shortcode.
- Affiliate Dashboard page created automatically which has the affiliate login and registration forms.
- Use
[ddwcaf_affiliate_registration_form_shortcode]to create your custom affiliate registration page - Show a login form alongside the signup form, or just the signup form on its own
- Optionally show affiliate registration fields on the WooCommerce My Account registration page
- Approve or reject applications from the affiliates list in your admin panel
- Convert existing WordPress users into affiliates directly from the admin — no re-registration needed
Referral Tracking
Every affiliate link click gets tracked with a browser cookie. You control how that cookie behaves.
- Set how long the referral cookie lasts (in days) — if someone buys within that window, the affiliate earns their commission
- Choose whether a second affiliate link click should overwrite the first affiliate’s cookie
- Enable visit logging so every click gets saved with a timestamp and destination URL
- Block affiliates from earning commission on their own purchases
Commissions
Commissions are calculated and recorded automatically when an order reaches the status you choose.
- Set a global commission percentage for all affiliates
- Choose whether taxes and discounts are included or excluded from the commission base
- View all commissions in the admin panel with status, order reference, amount, and affiliate name
- Pay commissions manually when you’re ready
Payout Management
- Affiliates save their preferred payout method (Direct Bank Transfer or PayPal) from their own dashboard
- Review and process payouts from the payouts list in your admin panel
- Filter payouts by status to process them in batches
- Every payout record stores the affiliate, amount, method, and date
Affiliate Dashboard
Your affiliates can see their own data without ever contacting you.
- Dedicated affiliate dashboard accessible from the WooCommerce My Account page
- Shows total earnings, paid earnings, unpaid earnings, and total conversions at a glance
- Full commissions list filtered by status so they know what’s pending and what’s paid
- Payout history with current status for each request
- Click log showing every recorded visit with destination URL and timestamp
- Top Products list showing which of your products earned them the most commission
- Link generator to create referral links for any page or product on your site
- Affiliates save their bank or PayPal payout details themselves — you don’t need to collect it manually
- Dashboard accent color is configurable from your admin panel to match your store branding
Admin Reporting
- Affiliates list with status toggle and earnings summary per affiliate
- Full commissions log across all affiliates, filterable by status, date, and affiliate
- Click log across all affiliates showing referral source URLs and activity
- Top Products report showing which products generate the most affiliate revenue
- Payout log with status management per record
For Developers
- HPOS compatible — fully tested with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage
- Translation-ready with
.potfile included — works with WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate - Works with all standard WooCommerce-compatible themes
- Clean object-oriented codebase with hooks and filters for custom development
- Mobile-friendly admin with dual-drawer navigation for smaller screens
Try the Free Version Live Demo
WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin Pro Version — What You Get On Top
The Pro version adds automation, advanced commission rules, anti-fraud tools, and marketing features that help your affiliates promote more effectively.
Commission Rules
- Set commission rates per product, per category, or per user role
- Automatically increase an affiliate’s commission rate when they hit lifetime earning milestones
- Assign a personal commission rate to any individual affiliate, overriding the global rate
- Require commissions to age past the refund window before they become payable — reduces chargeback risk
Coupon Assignment
- Ability to assign coupons to affiliates for discount based promotion.
- Coupon Assignment mails to affiliates
- Affiliates earn commissions when customers uses their assigned coupons to place orders.
Automated Payouts
- Schedule payout batches on specific days of the month — no manual triggering needed
- Set a minimum balance before an affiliate can request or receive a payout
- Step-by-step payout wizard for reviewing and batch-processing large volumes of commissions
- Supports Direct Bank Transfer, PayPal, and WooCommerce Wallet
Affiliate Marketing Tools
- Upload banners and text links as creatives that affiliates can grab directly from their dashboard
- One-click social sharing to 10+ platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and Email
- Pinterest-optimized image uploads for visual sharing
- Set default share titles and messages to keep your branding consistent across all affiliate promotions
Custom Registration
- Add unlimited custom fields to the affiliate signup form — text, select, radio, checkbox, textarea
- Control which profile fields affiliates can edit themselves
- Require affiliates to accept your program terms during signup
Anti-Fraud Controls
- Time-gated visit registration prevents the same visitor from being counted multiple times in quick succession
- IP and referrer logging for every affiliate click
- Full control over whether a second affiliate link replaces the first affiliate’s cookie
- Supports CAPTCHA using DevDiggers’ Advanced CAPTCHA plugin.
Advanced Reports
- Visual charts for earnings, visits, and conversions with month-over-month comparisons
- Conversion rate, total earnings, paid and unpaid earnings visible at a glance
- Top products report filterable by affiliate