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Plugin Documentation

Setup

4
  • Setup Guide – How to get started!
  • How to install the Coupon Affiliates Plugin
  • How to assign users to coupons.
  • Shortcodes

Commission + Payouts

31
  • (PRO) Commission Tracking and Payouts
  • Flexible Commission Settings
  • Set custom commission per affiliate / coupon.
  • Set custom commission per product
  • Set custom commission per user role.
  • Set per-affiliate product-level commission rates.
  • Set a custom referrer for orders.
  • (PRO) Invoices
  • (PRO) Statements
  • (PRO) Scheduled Payout Requests
  • (PRO) Automatic Payouts
  • (PRO) Payouts – How to Pay Affiliates
  • (PRO) Lifetime Commission
  • (PRO) User Registrations as Lifetime Referral
  • (PRO) User-Role Specific Payout Methods
  • Maximum Commission Per Order
  • Hide Commission for Non-Affiliate Coupons.
  • How to edit an affiliates “unpaid commission”?
  • Manual Admin Payouts Requests
  • (FREE) How to pay affiliates with the FREE version.
  • Never update the saved “commission” value for past orders.
  • Unpaid Commission is “0” even though there are referred orders.
  • Method: PayPal Payouts
    • (PRO) PayPal Payouts
    • (PRO) PayPal Payouts – Setup
    • (PRO) PayPal Payouts – Error Messages
  • Method: Stripe Payouts
    • (PRO) Stripe Payouts
    • (PRO) Stripe Payouts – Setup Guide
    • (PRO) Stripe Payouts – Standard vs Express
  • Method: Store Credit
    • (PRO) Store Credit Payouts
    • (PRO) Store Credit Payouts – Integrations
  • Method: Bank Transfer
    • (PRO) Bank Transfer Payouts

Affiliate Dashboard

8
  • Affiliate Portal
  • Affiliate Dashboard Statistics
  • Recent Orders Table
  • (PRO) Monthly Summary Table
  • (PRO) Export to Excel
  • (PRO) Line Graphs
  • (PRO) Product Rates Table
  • (PRO) Custom Tabs

Referral URLs

12
  • Referral URLs
  • Referral URL Click History (Visits)
  • (PRO) Referral URL Campaigns
  • (PRO) Creatives
  • (PRO) Dynamic Creatives
  • (PRO) Affiliate Landing Pages
  • (PRO) Dynamic Landing Pages
  • (PRO) Social Sharing for Referral URLs
  • (PRO) Short URL Generator for Referral URLs
  • (PRO) QR Code Generator for Referral URLs
  • (PRO) Direct Link Tracking
  • Tracking URL Conversions Without Coupon

Affiliate Registration

12
  • Affiliate Registration
  • Create Affiliate Registrations Manually
  • Template Coupon Code
  • Registration Form CAPTCHA (Spam Prevention)
  • (PRO) Dynamic Coupon Generation
  • (PRO) Multiple Template Coupons
  • (PRO) Custom Fields for Affiliate Registration
  • (PRO) Automatically Accept Affiliate Registrations
  • (PRO) Auto Affiliate Registration for New Users
  • How to Prevent Spam Submissions on Your Affiliate Registration Form
  • (PRO) Affiliate Registration on Checkout
  • Mailing List Integrations

Reporting

2
  • Admin Reports & Analytics
  • (PRO) Affiliate Email Reports

Multi-Level Affiliates

6
  • Multi-Level Affiliates – Overview
  • (PRO) MLA – How to edit a user’s parents
  • (PRO) MLA – How to edit the MLA “unpaid commission” for a parent
  • (PRO) MLA – Make MLA invite links a normal referral link.
  • (PRO) MLA – Make MLA Dashboard “Invite Only”
  • (PRO) MLA – Auto-assign referred customers as an MLA sub-affiliate.

Integrations

7
  • WooCommerce – Integration Guide
  • LifterLMS – Integration Guide
  • LearnDash – Integration Guide
  • TutorLMS – Integration Guide
  • MemberPress – Integration Guide
  • Paid Memberships Pro – Integration Guide
  • (PRO) Store Credit Payouts – Integrations

Admin Tools

7
  • Import/Export Custom Tables
  • Bulk Create: Affiliate Coupons
  • Bulk Assign: Coupons to Orders
  • Bulk Edit: Product Settings
  • Bulk Edit: Coupon Settings
  • Signup Promo Page Generator
  • Affiliate Terms of Use Generator

Other Features

15
  • Affiliate Groups
  • (PRO) Performance Bonuses
  • (PRO) Affiliate Leaderboards
  • Affiliate Fraud Prevention Features
  • Email Notifications
  • Multi-Currency Support & Setup
  • (PRO) Automated Conversion Rates
  • Admin – List of all ‘Affiliate Dashboard’ Links
  • Admin – Assign affiliate users to coupons
  • Limit coupons to new customers only (first order)
  • Subscriptions (Recurring Referrals)
  • Tax/VAT Calculations
  • Vanity Coupon Codes
  • Show “Affiliate” link on “My Account” Page
  • Automatically send emails when affiliates reach certain goals

General Questions + Help

39
  • How do I get support?
  • Translations & Localization
  • How to refresh statistics for past orders
  • Select which order statuses to show on the affiliate dashboard
  • How to “Quick Edit” your WooCommerce Coupon Codes
  • How to manually assign referral coupons to “completed” orders
  • Set additional email addresses for affiliate notifications.
  • Set the coupon history start date
  • How to customise the email templates
  • My PRO features and settings are not showing. How do I fix this?
  • How do I only show “completed” orders on affiliate dashboard?
  • How do I change commission rates for new orders only?
  • How do I apply custom tax adjustments to stats and commission?
  • How do I include or exclude tax/VAT from stats and commission?
  • What happens when an order is refunded or partially refunded?
  • Are shipping costs excluded from stats and calcuations?
  • How can I prevent the calculated commission for past orders from changing if I update commission rates?
  • Can I assign affiliate users to multiple coupons?
  • How do I manually connect an affiliate to an existing customer as a lifetime affiliate?
  • Change the “Affiliate” text to say something else such as “Refer a Friend”.
  • Can I use this plugin for coupon marketing campaigns?
  • How to migrate from other affiliate plugins?
  • How to Delete A WordPress User
  • How to Remove an Affiliate User
  • How to migrate my data to a new website?
  • Will more features be added in the future?
  • What’s the difference between Yearly and Lifetime plan?
  • Using One License for Live / Production, Staging, Dev and Localhost Sites
  • Users can not login after their affiliate registration is accepted.
  • Does the plugin work with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage?
  • How to Check if Cron Jobs are Working in WordPress
  • Replace WP-Cron with a Real Cron Job
  • Limit WooCommerce coupons to only be used on certain products
  • Apply coupon field is not showing on cart / checkout
  • How to join the beta program.
  • Do you have a demo site where I can try the PRO version?
  • My PRO version will not activate, it stays on the free version.
  • Using One License for Live & Staging Sites
  • Switch PRO license to another website or domain

Errors and Issues

15
  • Why referral links / URLs may not work, and how to fix them.
  • My email notifications are not working. How do I fix this?
  • Short URLs are not working, how do I fix them?
  • Affiliate dashboard is not showing, or it doesn’t stop saying “loading”. How do I fix this?
  • The stats/content isn’t loading on my dashboard. How can I fix this?
  • How to fix empty admin reports (showing as “0”).
  • Hosted with Cloudways? How to fix ajax loading error on affiliate dashboard.
  • How to fix “ERROR: Failed to load ajax request.”
  • How to Fix “404 Error on Posts or Pages” in WordPress
  • Dashboard link is showing a 404 error?
  • WooCommerce password reset link shows “page not found”.
  • How to fix “Invalid Post Type” error.
  • How to Increase “PHP Time Limit” on a WordPress Site
  • How to increase PHP “Max Input Vars” Limit
  • How to Check WP_DEBUG Logs in WordPress

Developers

2
  • Developers: Code Snippets & Resources
  • How to auto-apply coupon when a certain product is in WooCommerce cart
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Multi-Level Affiliates – Overview

3 min read

Explainer video and tutorial:


With the Multi-Level Affiliates module, your existing affiliates can invite new users to register as an affiliate on your website. As the parent affiliate, they will then earn a percentage of extra commission for all sales that their sub-affiliates refer to you.

Quicklinks: Getting Started / MLA Dashboard / MLA Settings & Tiers


Getting Started

To get started with multi-level affiliates, you will first need to enable the “Multi-Level Affiliates” module in the plugin settings. A new tab will appear to customise the MLA module settings.

Next, you will need to create the MLA dashboard, add this shortcode to a new page: [couponaffiliates-mla]

Once that’s done, your existing affiliates can view this page to access the MLA dashboard.


MLA Dashboard

On the Multi-Level Affiliate Dashboard (MLA Dashboard) your parent affiliates will be able to:

  • View all their sub-affiliate’s coupons, with a link to visit the affiliate dashboard for them.
  • View a tree diagram of their full network.
  • View all the orders referred by their sub-affiliates, and see how much commission they earned.
  • Enter an email address to easily invite someone to their network, or they can share their unique referral link with someone directly.
  • Manage and request payouts for the commission that they have earned from their sub-affiliate referrals.

Here is an example of the MLA dashboard:

The MLA dashboard also supports the affiliate portal option if enabled, which looks something like this:


MLA Settings & Tiers

There are several settings available to customise the MLA functionality to your requirements.

However, the main options you will want to customise are the “Multi-Level Affiliate Tiers”. You can have an unlimited number of tiers, and set the commission percentages for each.

You can set commission rates for each tier via any of the following methods:

  • Percentage of affiliates earnings: This calculates the commission based on a percentage of what the main affiliate earned. For example if this is set to 10% for “tier 1” and 5% for “tier 2” and the affiliate earns $200, then “tier 1” would earn $20, and tier 2 would earn $10.
  • Percentage of order total: This simply calculates the commission earned for the tier based on a percentage of the total for the order that was referred by the main affiliate.
  • Fixed amount: This grants a fixed amount of commission to each tier whenever the main sub-affiliate refers a customer.

This is NOT deducted from the main affiliates’ earnings by default, however there is an option you can enable to do this.

Here’s an example of how the network tiers would work:

We’ll assume a base commission rate of 25% for the main affiliate, with the multi-level tier rates set to set to 20% for tier 1, and 10% for tier 2.

  • Firstly, John invites Fred to become an affiliate.
  • Fred is now a tier 1 affiliate in John‘s network.
  • Fred then invites Sally and Tom to become an affiliate.
  • Sally and Tom are now a tier 1 affiliate in Fred‘s network, and a tier 2 affiliate in John’s network.
  • Sally refers a new sale at $200 and gets 25% commission, which is: $50.00
  • Fred‘s earnings are based on 20% of Sally‘s commission, which is: $10.00
  • John‘s earnings are based on 10% of Sally‘s commission, which is: $5.00
  • Therefore, the total commission paid out for this sale is $65.00

Note: The term “Multi-Level Affiliates Marketing” is sometimes referred to as MLA, MLM or MLAM.


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