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Affiliate marketing and WooCommerce tutorials, tips and resources designed to help you grow your ecommerce business.
How to Start an Affiliate Program for Your Clothing Brand (2026)
To start an affiliate program for your clothing brand, you need a commission rate that survives your returns (fashion brands typically pay 10% to 15%, only after the return window closes), a tracking method that works on Instagram and TikTok…
How To Build Your Affiliate Form & Signup Page (+ Examples)
The design and content of your affiliate form and signup page significantly impacts whether or not people decide to join your affiliate program. That’s why WooCommerce sites with high-performing programs intentionally tailor them to encourage conversions. In this detailed post,…
How to Create a Health and Wellness Affiliate Program (2026)
To create an affiliate program for your health and wellness store, you need four things: If your store runs on WooCommerce, you can have all of this live in an afternoon with an affiliate plugin. In this guide, we’ll walk…
How to Gamify Your Affiliate Program in WooCommerce (4 Steps)
Gamifying your affiliate program means borrowing mechanics from games (rankings, milestones, levels, and limited-time events) and applying them to how your affiliates earn. Instead of grabbing a coupon code and going quiet, affiliates get visible goals to chase and rewards…
The 10 Best WooCommerce Affiliate Plugins for 2026
If you sell products or services with WooCommerce, an affiliate program is one of the most cost-effective ways to reach a wider audience and grow revenue, because you only pay partners when they actually drive a sale. To run one,…
How to Prevent Coupon Abuse and Fraud in WooCommerce
Affiliates gaming your coupon codes? Here is how to spot and stop WooCommerce affiliate coupon abuse before it drains your commission budget. Affiliate coupon abuse happens when affiliates use coupon codes to claim commissions on sales they never actually sent…
Version 8.1.0 – Commission Tweaks, Store Credit Fixes, And More Improvements
Version 8.1.0 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! This release is mostly about accuracy. It fixes a number of long-standing quirks in how commission is calculated, offers improvements to applying store credit on the WooCommerce block checkout, sorts out payout…
How to Build Affiliate Landing Pages (Automatically)
An affiliate landing page is a dedicated page on your store that promotes your products alongside a specific affiliate’s details, such as their name, coupon code, and discount. Visitors arrive through the affiliate’s link, see a page built around that…
7 Best WooCommerce Refer a Friend & Referral Plugins (2026)
A WooCommerce refer a friend plugin (also called a referral plugin) lets your existing customers earn rewards like discounts, store credit, points, or cash for bringing you new customers. WooCommerce has no referral system built in, so a plugin is…
The best way to set affiliate commission rates in WooCommerce
Most affiliate programs pay somewhere between 5% and 30% per sale. For a typical WooCommerce store, 10% to 15% on new customer orders is a sensible starting point, as long as your profit margins can support it. The right number…
Version 8.0.0 – Bulk Payouts, Export Filters, And More Improvements!
Version 8.0.0 of Coupon Affiliates is now available! This is a big release, and most of the work has gone into the admin side of the plugin: paying affiliates faster, recalculating statistics without leaving wp-admin, and making everything behave properly…
Why your affiliate program is not making money (+ how to fix it)
Affiliate marketing works. The latest affiliate marketing statistics show that: Those are impressive numbers! But that’s not to say that every business’ affiliate program is profitable. If you run an online business (especially a small or mid-sized one) and have yet to…
Is There a Downside to Affiliate Marketing? An Honest Look
Yes, affiliate marketing has real downsides. It can eat into your margins, and it puts part of your brand in the hands of people you have never met. It can also under-count the sales your best partners bring in, which…
What Is the 80/20 Rule in Affiliate Marketing?
The 80/20 rule in affiliate marketing is the idea that a small share of the inputs produces most of the results. In practice that usually means about 20% of your affiliates bring in roughly 80% of your sales. It’s a…
Is affiliate marketing worth it in 2026? The verdict
There’s been a ton of hype around affiliate marketing over the years. If you’re thinking about starting or growing an affiliate program for your online business, you’re probably a little skeptical about whether affiliate marketing still works today and if…
25 Most Interesting Affiliate Marketing Statistics for 2026
Affiliate marketing keeps growing in 2026, but the numbers people quote for it are all over the place. One report values the global industry at about $18.5 billion (the commissions advertisers pay affiliates). Another, counting the wider tracking-and-software market, puts…
How to Create an Affiliate Terms and Conditions Page
An affiliate terms and conditions page is the rulebook for your program. It sets out how affiliates earn, how they get paid, what they can and can’t do, and how either side can walk away. Putting that in writing keeps…
Best AI Chatbots for WooCommerce (2026): 9 Tools Compared
A good AI chatbot on a WooCommerce store handles the questions your inbox gets all day (where’s my order, do you ship here, does this come in blue) and passes the tricky ones to a person. The problem with shopping…
WooCommerce Affiliate Program Checklist: 10 Essentials for Beginners
Setting up a WooCommerce affiliate program takes more than installing a plugin and picking a commission rate. A program that actually recruits affiliates and tracks sales correctly needs a handful of parts working together, and missing one of them is…
Cookieless Affiliate Marketing: How to Use Coupons for Effective Tracking
Cookieless affiliate marketing means tracking affiliate sales without relying on browser cookies. Instead of following a visitor from click to checkout with a tracking cookie, you give each affiliate a unique coupon code and credit the sale whenever that code…
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