Si nécessaire, il est possible d'autoriser le suivi des conversions via l'URL de référence, même si le coupon d'affiliation n'est pas utilisé pour la commande.

Cela signifie que si quelqu'un visite votre site via une URL de référence et passe une commande sans utiliser le coupon, ou utilise un autre coupon pour une meilleure réduction, vous pouvez toujours suivre les références pour cet affilié et lui fournir la commission appropriée.

Pour activer cette fonctionnalité, il suffit de se rendre dans l'onglet des paramètres "Referral URLs" et d'activer l'option sous "URL Conversion Tracking".

Comment cela fonctionne-t-il ?

When URL conversion tracking is enabled and a customer places an order while their referral cookie is still active, the plugin saves that affiliate’s coupon as the order’s referrer, even though the coupon is not on the order. The commission is then worked out from that coupon’s own commission settings, including any custom rate set on the coupon itself, so the affiliate earns what they would have earned if the coupon had been used.

The order then appears on the affiliate’s dashboard like any other referral. The customer receives no discount, since the coupon was never applied to the order.

This relies on the referral cookie, so Stocker des cookies pour les liens de référence must stay enabled under Privacy & Cookies. With cookies disabled, the coupon has to be used on the order for the referral to be tracked. See Privacy & Cookie Settings.

Stop one coupon from auto-applying

Application automatique d'un coupon is a single site-wide setting, so when it is on, every affiliate coupon is applied automatically. If you need one affiliate’s link to track sales without ever giving a discount, there is a workaround, though it is not a supported feature.

Give that coupon a WooCommerce usage restriction it can never meet in practice — for example a Minimum spend far above any realistic order value, set on the coupon’s Usage restriction tab. Auto-apply skips any coupon WooCommerce considers invalid for the current cart, so the coupon is never added, while the referral cookie is still stored. With URL conversion tracking enabled, as described above, the sale is still attributed to that affiliate and they still earn their commission.

Two things to be aware of: the coupon cannot be entered manually at checkout either, as the customer sees the standard WooCommerce minimum-spend error; and if a cart ever does meet the restriction, the coupon applies as normal. Test this on a staging site before using it on a live store.