Switch to Coupon Affiliates
Switch to Coupon Affiliates
Move your affiliate program from another plugin, without starting again.
The free Migration Tool brings your affiliates, their coupons and their referral history over from nine affiliate plugins, and keeps the links your affiliates have already shared working. You see what will move before anything changes, and every migration can be undone.
How it works
Four steps, from your WordPress admin
The Migration Tool reads your old plugin’s data straight from the database, so it still works after that plugin is deactivated. The old plugin’s data is never changed.
- Install Coupon Affiliates. A Migration item appears in its menu once another affiliate plugin’s data is found.
- Pick your old plugin. The tool counts what it found and lists anything it can’t bring across. Nothing has changed yet.
- Choose what to migrate and how coupons are handled, then start the migration.
- Check the results, place a test order, then deactivate the old plugin.
The full walkthrough, using AffiliateWP as the example. Shorter versions: AffiliateWP, SliceWP and YITH WooCommerce Affiliates.
Supported plugins
Nine plugins you can move from
For most plugins, links your affiliates have already shared keep crediting the right affiliate through their new coupon, so they don’t need to replace every link they’ve posted.
| Moving from | Old links that keep working | Compare |
|---|---|---|
| AffiliateWP | ?ref= and /ref/ | AffiliateWP alternative |
| SliceWP | ?aff= and /aff/ | SliceWP alternative |
| YITH WooCommerce Affiliates | ?ref= | YITH alternative |
| Affiliate for WooCommerce | ?ref= | Affiliate for WooCommerce alternative |
| Affiliates Manager | ?wpam_id= and ?wpam_refkey= | Affiliates Manager alternative |
| AffiliatePress | ?afref= and /afref/ | AffiliatePress alternative |
| Affiliates (itthinx) | ?affiliates= and /affiliates/ | itthinx alternative |
| Ultimate Affiliate Pro | ?ref= | Ultimate Affiliate Pro alternative |
| Solid Affiliate | Not carried over | Solid Affiliate alternative |
The table shows each plugin’s default link format. If you changed it in your old plugin, the tool reads your setting. Solid Affiliate and Ultimate Affiliate Pro are premium plugins whose code is not public, so their importers were built from documentation and other tools that read their data. Check the results carefully after migrating from them.
What moves
Start free, and bring balances across with Pro
Not every plugin stores all of these, so what you can migrate depends on the plugin you are moving from. Anything that can’t be brought across is listed on the review step, so you know what to set up again.
In the free version
- Affiliates and their WordPress user accounts
- Their coupons, with a new one created for anyone who doesn’t have one
- Pending and rejected applications
- Referral history, with the commission the old plugin recorded
- Referral visits
- Your default commission rate, cookie length and attribution setting
- Old referral links
With Pro, also
- Unpaid and pending commission balances
- Payout history and each affiliate’s payout details
- Custom commission rates per affiliate
- Affiliate groups and their rates
- Creatives (banners)
- Products with commission switched off
- Store credit balances and campaigns
Before you start
Three things to do first
Back up your database. Every migration can be undone, but a backup is the safest way back.
Test on a staging site. Run the migration on a copy of your site and check the results there first. We recommend this especially while the tool is in beta.
Keep the old plugin installed. Deactivate it once you’re happy, but leave it installed until you’ve checked everything, as some plugins delete their data when they’re deleted.
Questions
Switching FAQs
Is the Migration Tool free?
Yes. It’s included in the free version of Coupon Affiliates on WordPress.org, and brings across your affiliates, coupons, applications, referral history and visits. With Pro, it also brings across commission balances, payouts and more.
Will my affiliates’ links keep working?
For eight of the nine plugins, yes. Links your affiliates have shared keep crediting them through their new coupon, and for most plugins, visitors who arrived with the old plugin’s referral cookie before the switch are still credited for 60 days by default. Solid Affiliate links are not carried over, so those affiliates will need their new links.
Can I undo a migration?
Yes. Every migration is listed under Previous migrations, with a report you can download and an Undo button. Undo removes everything the migration created and puts back what it changed. It works best straight after migrating, before new orders come in.
What isn’t migrated?
It depends on the plugin. Common examples are lifetime customer links, multi-level parents and product or category rates. The review step lists everything that won’t move from your plugin before you start, and each comparison page above lists it too.
My plugin isn’t listed. Can I still switch?
If your old plugin tracked affiliates through WooCommerce coupons, you can assign your affiliate users to their coupons yourself. Coupon Affiliates looks back at the full order history for each coupon, so their past stats show on their dashboard. Contact us if you’d like to talk it through.
Ready to switch?
Install the free version and run the Migration Tool, or try every Pro feature free for 7 days. If you’d like a hand, we’re happy to help.