How to apply a WooCommerce coupon from a link: the built-in checkout link in WooCommerce 10+, a code snippet, free and paid coupon link plugins, and affiliate links that also track sales.
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WooCommerce Coupon Not Working? How to Find the Cause and Fix It
Why a WooCommerce coupon won’t apply: every default error message matched to the setting that causes it, plus fixes for missing coupon fields, free shipping and affiliate codes.
WooCommerce Coupon Tracking: How to See Which Codes Make You Money
How to track coupon code usage in WooCommerce: what the built-in reports show, how to see revenue and customers for one code, and the tools that track codes by person or campaign.
Coupon Affiliate Marketing: How Coupon Code Affiliate Programs Work for Brands
Coupon affiliate marketing gives each affiliate their own discount code. How it works for brands: the three kinds of coupon affiliates, what a coupon sale really costs, whether to allow coupon sites, and how to stop codes leaking.
How to Create an Affiliate Program for Your Online Course
How to set up an affiliate program for an online course sold on WordPress, from getting your LMS onto a trackable checkout to commission rates, refunds, payment plans and recruiting affiliates.
Affiliate Commission Refunds and Clawbacks: How to Handle Them
When a customer refunds an order an affiliate referred, the affiliate’s commission on that order should be canceled too. If you haven’t paid it out yet, you just take it off their balance. That’s a commission reversal. If you have already paid it, you recover it by deducting the amount from their next payout. That’s […]
How to Use AI to Review Affiliate Applications in WooCommerce
How to let an AI app like Claude review new affiliate applications in WooCommerce, approve the clear passes, decline spam and hold the rest for you, including how to run it on a schedule.
Recurring Affiliate Commissions for WooCommerce Subscriptions (2026 Guide)
To pay affiliates on subscription renewals in WooCommerce, you need the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension and an affiliate plugin that ties each renewal order back to the affiliate who referred the first one. Once that’s in place, every renewal the customer pays creates a new commission for the affiliate, for as long as the subscription lasts […]
In-House Affiliate Program vs Affiliate Network: Which Should You Use? (2026)
Should you run an in-house affiliate program or join an affiliate network? Use a network if you need partners you can’t find on your own and nobody on your team has time to go looking. Networks like Awin and impact.com put your program in front of publishers who have already signed up with them, and […]
How to Pay Affiliates in Store Credit (WooCommerce Guide)
To pay affiliates in store credit, you add their commission to a wallet on their customer account instead of sending them money. They spend it at your checkout like a gift card. In WooCommerce, that takes an affiliate plugin that supports store credit payouts (Coupon Affiliates PRO does) and somewhere to hold and manage the […]