Affiliates for WooCommerce

Affiliates for WooCommerce is a WooCommerce affiliate plugin that turns your store into a self hosted affiliate program. People sign up as affiliates, share a referral link, and earn a commission when someone buys through it. You approve the affiliates, set the rate, and pay them when you are ready.

Everything runs inside WordPress. There is no external affiliate network taking a cut of each sale, and no monthly platform fee on top of what you already pay your affiliates.

Affiliates get their own dashboard inside the WooCommerce My Account page, so they can check earnings, build referral links, and enter payout details without emailing you.

Quick links

• Free demo
• Pro demo
• Documentation
• Free vs Pro comparison

How the referral tracking works

1. An affiliate registers through your signup form and you approve them.
2. They generate a referral link for any page or product on your store.
3. A visitor clicks the link and a referral cookie is stored in their browser.
4. If that visitor orders before the cookie expires, the commission is recorded against the affiliate.
5. You review the commission list and record the payout.

Why run the affiliate program on your own store

Hosted affiliate platforms charge a subscription and usually a percentage of every tracked sale, so you pay twice for the same order. This plugin keeps the affiliate data, the commission rules, and the payout records in your own database.

Commission amounts are calculated from real WooCommerce order totals, so what an affiliate earns matches what the customer actually paid. You decide whether tax and discounts count toward the commission base.

What the free version includes

Affiliate registration and signup form

Affiliates apply through a form you can place on any page.

• An affiliate dashboard page with the login and registration forms is created for you on activation
• [ddwcaf_affiliate_registration_form_shortcode] renders the affiliate registration form anywhere on your site
• [ddwcaf_affiliate_dashboard_shortcode] renders the affiliate dashboard on a page of your choice
• Rename either shortcode from Configuration > Shortcodes if you prefer your own tag
• Show the login form next to the signup form, or show the signup form on its own
• Add the affiliate signup fields to the standard WooCommerce registration page
• Choose which WordPress user roles are allowed to become affiliates
• Approve, reject, or ban applications from the affiliates list in your admin
• Add a new affiliate yourself from the admin using the Add New button on the affiliates screen

Referral link tracking

Every click on a referral link is matched to an affiliate through a browser cookie.

Read the full description on the official page →