Coupon Affiliates Blog
Affiliate marketing and WooCommerce tutorials, tips and resources designed to help you grow your ecommerce business.
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…
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,…
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…
8 Best Points and Rewards Plugins for WooCommerce (Tested & Compared)
A loyalty program is one of the cheaper ways to lift repeat purchases on a WooCommerce store, since rewarding existing customers usually costs far less than acquiring new ones. The hard part is picking a plugin, because the options range…
How to create a successful influencer affiliate marketing program
Want influencers promoting your products on a pay-for-results basis instead of a flat fee? This guide walks through how to build an influencer affiliate program from scratch, the kind that keeps earning long after the first campaign goes live. Influencers…
Coupon Affiliates vs AffiliateWP: Which Is Better for WooCommerce? (2026)
If you run a WooCommerce store and you’re deciding between Coupon Affiliates vs AffiliateWP, then most of the decision comes down to a single question: is WooCommerce the only platform you need to track referrals on? This guide works through…
The 3 Awkward Conversations Every Affiliate Manager Will Have (And How to Handle Them)
So, you have launched your own affiliate program. You’re now allowing creators and marketers to spread the word about your amazing products. For a while, it has been going great. You approve new partners, watch the referrals trickle in, and…
Affiliate Marketing on Twitch: A Guide for Partnering with Gaming Streamers
Twitch has transformed the gaming industry by connecting millions of viewers with gaming content creators. For gaming businesses, Twitch offers a unique platform to reach passionate audiences. However, while traditional advertising on Twitch exists, partnering directly with streamers through an…
How To Create Affiliate Groups For Your Affiliate Program: Complete Guide
Some of your affiliates are amazing. You’ve got top sellers, popular bloggers, and new affiliates who are just learning the ropes. So, treating them all exactly the same doesn’t make much sense. A “one-size-fits-all” plan can hold your program back…
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