Coupon Affiliates – Affiliate Plugin for WooCommerce

Description

Coupon Affiliates allows you to easily create an advanced coupon-based affiliate program for WooCommerce, to grow traffic and increase sales.

With this plugin you can give your affiliates access to a user-friendly affiliate dashboard for their coupons, to view coupon usage statistics, recent orders, commission earned, referral URLs and more.

Why is Coupon Affiliates the best WooCommerce affiliate plugin?

  • Unique – The only plugin that is built specifically for creating a “coupon based” affiliate program for WooCommerce.
  • Quick & Easy to Use – Get your affiliate program setup quickly and easily! The plugin is easy to use for you and your affiliates.
  • User Friendly – The affiliate dashboard is user friendly, visually pleasing, and includes lots of features your affiliates will love.
  • Transparency – Build trust with your affiliates, by giving them transparent access to the important statistics they want to see, in real-time, directly on their WooCommerce affiliate dashboard.
  • Lots of Customisations – The plugin comes with plenty of useful settings to make the affiliate program work exactly how you want.
  • Friendly Support – UK-based support is available to both our free and paid users, regarding setup, customisations and more.
  • Built for WooCommerce – This affiliate plugin is developed exclusively for WooCommerce, the best eCommerce platform.
  • Easy Migration – Migration from other affiliates plugins is super simple, since the plugin will display the full order history for each affiliate coupon (even orders created before installing the plugin).
  • Frequent Updates – We are always working on adding new awesome features to Coupon Affiliates. Got a suggestion? Let us know!

🎉 Plugin Features

— Affiliate Dashboard —

  • On the affiliate dashboard, you and your affiliates can view detailed statistics for their referral coupon, including total usage, recent order details, referral URL generator, conversions statistics, and lots more.

— Accurate Commission Tracking —

  • Affiliates can see the total commission earned via their coupon, and for each individual order in the recent orders list.

  • There are 3 types of commission amounts, including fixed commission “per product”, “per order”, and a “percentage” of the total order. You can even set all 3 for more flexible commission calculations!

— Recent Orders List —

  • Affiliates can view a recent order list for their coupon, with general info such as date, order subtotal, discount, total, products purchased, commission earned etc. A monthly orders/commission summary is also included in the PRO version.

  • This can be filtered by date or order status, and also shows combined totals for all orders within the date range selected.

— Affiliate Referral URLs —

  • Affiliates can generate a referral URL via the affiliate tool which automatically applies the coupon at checkout for visitors using their link.

  • They can also view total clicks, usage, and conversion rate for their referral URL on the affiliate dashboard, along with a detailed log of all of their individual clicks.

  • If required, you can enable an option to track conversions via the referral URL even if coupon was not used. If enabled, if someone visits the site via the referral URL and places an order without using the coupon code, it will still be tracked and award the affiliate.

— Assign Users to Coupons —

  • Assign/link user accounts to coupon codes, to give them direct private access to their affiliate dashboard for each coupon.

  • A login form will be displayed on the affiliate dashboard page for logged out users, along with the affiliate registration form.

— Affiliate Registration System —

  • Display a customisable affiliate registration form on your website to allow users to apply as an affiliate. Learn More.

  • You can easily manage and approve all your affiliate applications in the WordPress admin area.

  • The system will automatically generate the affiliate coupons, assign the users to it, and send them a customisable welcome email.

— Email Notifications —

  • Automatically send email notifications to affiliates when their coupon code is used, to let them know they have earned new commission. You can also customise the emails with your own message.

— Fraud Prevention —

  • Fraud prevention is an important part of any affiliate program. We have implemented several powerful features and options to help stop fraudulent sales! Learn more.

— WooCommerce Subscriptions —

  • Coupon Affiliates includes free integration with the official “WooCommerce Subscriptions” plugin. This means you can offer affiliates referring commission for subscription renewals, or optionally toggle this off to only reward commission for the first order.

— Multi-Currency Support —

  • With Coupon Affiliates, you can enable multi-currency support and easily set conversion rates for all your store currencies.

  • This will then automatically convert the order totals, total stats, and commission earned, in the affiliate dashboard to your base store currency, no matter which currency each of the orders were made in.

🎨 Admin Management & Customisation

Coupon Affiliates makes it easy to manage and customise your affiliate program, with a large variety of useful features and tools.

— Admin Dashboard —

  • The admin dashboard shows a summary of statistics for your affiliate program, including a 7 day report of the total referrals, and commission earned by affiliates. It will also show the 5 latest referrals, activity logs, url clicks, newest coupons, and more.

— Admin Tools —

  • A variety of admin tools are available to make manging your affiliate program even easier. This includes tools to bulk generate new coupons, assign users to coupons, bulk edit coupons, bulk assign affiliates to orders, and more.

— Admin Reports & Analytics —

  • Get access to admin reports for the past 2 weeks. Reports allow you to see the overall WooCommerce coupon usage stats, and sales for all coupons, and each individual coupon, on a single page.

  • With the Pro version get access to unlimited date range on the admin reports, export to CSV, and access to date comparison features, to compare analytics between 2 sets of dates.

— Coupons List & Dashboard Links —

  • In the WooCommerce coupons list, a new column will show a unique link to view the affiliate dashboard for that coupon yourself, or you can share this link with a user. Here you can also see a brief affiliate overview for each coupon, including the assigned affiliate.

— Plugin Customisation & Settings —

  • A large variety of settings are available to modify all the plugins features, and affiliate dashboard, to meet your specific requirements.

— Orders Affiliate Info —

  • A new column will be added to the orders list, as well as a meta box widget in single orders. This will show coupon code used, affiliate user, commission for that order, and a link to the affiliate dashboard.

— Coupon Marketing Campaigns & More —

  • The plugin can also be used for your coupon marketing campaigns, so you can view sales, usage statistics, etc for each of your coupons. Will also work great for influencer marketing, a refer a friend program, or managing an ambassador program.

🔥 Getting Started

— Ready to increase sales with your new affiliate program? —

Setup your own affiliate WooCommerce system in minutes. Then launch your coupon affiliate marketing program to help increase your sales!

To get started, simply add the shortcode [couponaffiliates] to a new page. This will assign it as the dashboard parent for generating the unique dashboard page links, which you can share with affiliates.

Upon installation, a small setup wizard will help you get started and automatically generate the affiliate dashboard page for you.

— Migrating from another Affiliates Plugin? —

Migration of affiliate data to Coupon Affiliates is super simple, since for the most part it uses the existing data that’s stored by WooCommerce.

Once you install the plugin, it will look back at the full order history for each coupon, even those created before the installation, and display the stats & commission for these on the coupon affiliate dashboard. All you’ll need to do is assign your affiliate users to coupon codes, configure the settings, then you’re good to go!

⚡ Want more advanced features?

Coupon Affiliates PRO is a paid upgrade which provides a whole bunch of exciting addons and extra features to take your coupon affiliate system to the next level. This includes:

  • Multi-Level Affiliates (MLM) – Your users can become super-affiliates and invite other affiliates to be a part of their multi-level affiliate network. They will then earn extra commission from all their referrals.
  • Admin Reports & Analytics (Advanced Filters) – Access to the advanced filter options (unlimited date range & comparisons) for the Admin Reports & Analytics.
  • Affiliate Email Reports – Automatically send an email report (and PDF) to affiliates every week/month with a summary of their recent commission and referral stats.
  • Advanced Registration Features – Enable some more advanced affiliate registration features such as custom form fields, dynamic code generator, auto accept, auto registration, and more.
  • Creatives – Display a creatives section with downloadable banners. Includes preview, download, and copy code buttons.
  • Performance Bonuses – Give your affiliates bonuses when they reach certain goals, such as some bonus commission once they reach a certain amount of sales.
  • Commission Payout Tracking – Affiliates can keep track of total UNPAID commission. Admins can view requested commission payouts from affiliates, and track/manage pending, complete and cancelled payouts.
  • Commission Payout Requests – Affiliates can request payouts for their pending commission. You can set a payment threshold for commission, and set a delay before commission can be claimed.
  • Stripe Payouts – Automatically pay your affiliates in one-click with Stripe!
  • PayPal Payouts – Automatically pay your affiliates in one-click with PayPal Payouts!
  • Store Credit Payouts – Automatically pay your affiliates into a wallet, in one-click, with Store Credit Payouts! Addons are available to integrate with wallet plugins such as TeraWallet or YITH Account Funds.
  • Monthly Summary Table – Show a table with a summary of monthly orders, and total statistics for that coupon for each month in the past 12 months (can be filtered to other months / previous years).
  • Line Graphs – Line graphs on the “Statistics” tab to show commission earned, on a day by day bases, for past 90 days, 30 days, or 7 days.
  • Export to Excel – Enable a button on coupon pages to export an Excel (CSV) file with a 12 months summary of the individual coupons usage statistics for each month, or the recent orders table.
  • Custom Coupon Commission – Set custom flexible commission amounts for individual coupons.
  • Custom Product Commission – Set custom flexible commission amounts for individual products.
  • Custom User Role Commission – Set custom flexible commission amounts for individual user roles.
  • Campaigns (Referral URL) – Allow your affiliates to create referral “campaigns” and then create custom URLs to track clicks/conversions per campaign.
  • Direct Link Tracking (Referral URL) – Affiliates can link directly to your website via their website without needing an affiliate link.
  • Social Sharing (Referral URL) – Add social sharing buttons to the referral URL tab, so affiliates can instantly share their generated referral link.
  • Short URL Generator (Referral URL) – Add a button to the referral URL tab, to allow affiliate users to generate a short URL for their referral link automatically.
  • QR Code Generator (Referral URL) – Add a button to the referral URL tab, to allow affiliate users to automatically generate a QR code for their referral link.
  • Monthly Summary Table – Show a table with a summary of monthly orders, and total statistics for that coupon for each month in the past 12 months (can be filtered to other months / previous years).
  • Lifetime Commission – Option to enable “Lifetime Commission” functionality for affiliate referrals, so your affiliates get commission for every future sale by the customers they refer, even if they don’t use the coupon again.
  • Affiliate Landing Pages – Ability to link a landing page to an affiliate coupon, which will then work the same as a referral URL.
  • Subscriptions: Renewal Limit – With the WooCommerce subscriptions plugin installed, optionally set a “limit” on how many renewals are rewarded. For example, you can set this to reward commission on the first 3 months.
  • Automated Conversion Rates – Automatically update the multi-currency conversion rates every 12 hours via the Exchangerates API.
  • Custom Dashboard Tabs – Create your own tabs, to display custom sections and content on the affiliate dashboard.
  • and more great features coming soon…

Learn more about Pro and upgrade at www.couponaffiliates.com

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⚙️ Integrations

Coupon Affiliates was built exclusively as a WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin, however it can also be integrated with other popular eCommerce plugins such as LifterLMS, LearnDash, TutorLMS, MemberPress, and Paid Memberships Pro. Click here to learn more. It also integrates well with other coupon plugins such as Smart Coupons, and Advanced Coupons.

📅 Roadmap

Want to know what new features we’re working on releasing in the future? Check out our roadmap.

👍 Suggestions and Support

If you have any suggestions for additional functionality, need any help, or have found a bug, please get in touch!

Screenshots

  • Example of “Statistics” tab on affiliate dashboard.
  • Example of “Recent Orders” (Referrals) tab on affiliate dashboard.
  • Example “Referral URL” tab on affiliate coupon dashboard page.
  • Example admin list of WooCommerce coupons and their unique links.
  • Example of admin reports & analytics.
  • Example of plugin settings page in WordPress admin.
  • Pro Feature: Example of ‘Monthly Summary’ section.
  • Pro Feature: Example of the extra PRO features in the ‘Referral URL’ tab (campaigns, social sharing, short URLs, QR codes).
  • Pro Feature: Example of Affiliate commission payouts requests and logs.
  • Pro Feature: Example of ‘Creatives’ tab on affiliate dashboard.
  • Pro Feature: Example of Admin commission payouts management area.

Installation

  1. Upload the ‘woo-coupon-usage’ plugin to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
  2. Activate the affiliate plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Insert shortcode [couponaffiliates] into a page, to create the affiliate dashboard.
  4. Modify additional plugin settings found in WordPress admin under menu item “Coupon Affiliates”. View the “How To Use” tab for more instructions.
  5. Optional: Upgrade to the Pro version via “Coupon Affiliates” > “Upgrade” on the admin menu for more advanced features.

FAQ

What is a “coupon-based” affiliate program?

Coupon Affiliates enhances affiliate marketing by integrating coupons as a core feature. Unlike traditional affiliate systems that rely primarily on referral links, this plugin allows affiliates to share their unique coupon codes. These codes not only track sales for commission purposes but also offer customers immediate discounts or special offers, enriching the purchasing experience. However, the Coupon Affiliates system still maintains the flexibility of referral links; affiliates can share URLs that automatically apply their coupon at checkout, and even if a coupon isnt used, you can still make the link alone track referrals, ensuring affiliates receive credit for every sale referred​​.

Will there be more features added in the future?

Yes! New features are added frequently, most of which are based on feedback. So if you have any suggestions to help improve the coupon affiliates plugin, please get in touch!

Will this work with my existing coupons and orders?

Yes, once you install the plugin it will look back at the full order history for each coupon, even those created before the installation, and display the stats for these on the coupon affiliate dashboard too.

How do the affiliate referral URLs work?

A referral URL is automatically generated for the affiliate, and can be found on their dashboard. This link can then be shared by the affiliate. Anyone that visits the website using that link, will have the coupon code automatically applied to their account on checkout. Clicks are also tracked, and any sales made via the coupon are tracked as conversions.

Can I assign affiliate users to coupons?

Yes, you can assign affiliate users to coupons, which will give them direct access to their affiliates dashboard page, without needing to use a unique link. Click here to learn more.

What kind of coupon usage statistics are shown?

On the coupon affiliate dashboard, you (and your affiliates) will be able to see a variety of statistics including total uses, discount type, orders total, amount saved, commission earned, and more. You will also be able to see a recent order table (with general info such as date, order total, discount, products, commission etc), and with the pro version you can see a monthly orders/commission summary table for the past 12 months.

GDPR & Privacy

All data used and created by the Coupon Affiliates plugin is stored on your own website. We don’t track or collect ANY of your affiliate program data ourselves. You can optionally opt-in to share some basic usage data which helps us with providing support, fixing bugs, and improving the plugin, and can also opt-out at any time.

Do you provide support?

Yes. If you need any help setting up the affiliate plugin, please free to get in touch and we’ll be happy to help!

How can I report issues/bugs with the plugin?

You can report feature bugs by creating a support ticket. Please provide as much information as possible to make it easier for us to find a solution for you.

How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

Reviews

December 13, 2024 2 replies
The Pro version is exactly what we’re looking for in a coupon affiliate app. There were some issues at first getting it to work on our website but the Support Team was quick to respond and resolve them with the latest update 5.17.0. Thank you!
October 13, 2024 1 reply
I’m using this plugin in PRO version and I really enjoy it a lot! I experienced some issues and bugs on the way, but all after submitting the ticked for support was treated with great car and engagment of the author! Hope to meet on my way more people like Elliot (author of the plugin) – the world would so much easier then…
October 3, 2024 2 replies
Un plug-in ben fatto, pratico e razionale, c’è tutto quello che serve per partire se vuoi creare una rete di affiliati che possano lavorare con te.Il supporto per alcune domande fatte è stato davvero veloce e di prim’ordine! Assolutamente consigliato.Alessandro**********A well-made, practical and rational plug-in, it has everything you need to get started if you want to create an affiliate network that can work with you. The support for a few questions asked was really fast and top notch! Absolutely recommended. Alexander
August 21, 2024
I tried out several affiliate programs on WordPress and other platforms. This one is by far the best bang for your buck. They are always adding new features too.
July 12, 2024 2 replies
This plugin does not support manual commission payment. There is no remaining commission display, no backend to edit, and no payment form to apply for. So for the free version, a feasible solution is to add an application form on the my-account page. Then after paying the commission once, clear the corresponding affiliate code data. You can add residual commission on the affiliate page and add a manual modification of residual commission option corresponding to the affiliate code in the background. it would be helpful for free plugin users
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Changelog

Version 5.17.2 – 12th December 2024

  • Security Fix: Fixed a small XSS vulnerability bug (reported by WordFence via Arkadiusz Hydzik).
  • Tweak: Added a link to the individual admin order edit page to refresh the affiliate stats for that specific order.
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.10.1

Version 5.17.1 – 11th December 2024

  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the {discount} merge tag on dynamic creatives.

Version 5.17.0 – 11th December 2024

  • New: (PRO) Added an option to allow affiliate to enter custom payout amounts, instead of being always set to the full amount available to them as “unpaid commission”.
  • New: (PRO) Added an option to choose multiple different “completed” order statuses allowed for “unpaid commission” to be earned, instead of only being able to select one completed status.
  • New: (PRO) Added an option to choose if the “Request Payout” button should be shown on the affiliate dashboard.
  • New: (PRO) Added an option to only enable the “Scheduled Payout Requests” feature for specific payout methods.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Tweak to the styling of the “Payouts” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Now shows the total for “Completed Payments” on the “Payouts” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: Added an option in the “Design” settings tab to customise the “Tabs Font Size” on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: Added an option in the “Debug” tab, to hide 0.00 values on checkout summary, for referral coupons if there is no discount.
  • Tweak: Added an option in the “Debug” tab, to customise the “Coupon” text label shown on the checkout for referral coupons.
  • Tweak: Added options in the “General” tab, to show/hide the order date and time on the “Recent Orders” tab of the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: Improved the order date filtering on the affiliate dashboard “recent orders” when the site is set to a timezone other than GMT.
  • Tweak: Added some extra error handling to the affiliate coupons list in the admin area to prevent potential PHP errors.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue on some sites with the “Leaderboards” admin page not loading correctly.
  • Fix: Fixed “Payouts” tab link showing the new dropdown mobile menu on the affiliate dashboard for the free version.
  • Fix: Fixed a potential issue with the “new customers only” option for coupons being bypassed in some cases by existing customers when checking out as a guest with an existing email address.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed a potential issue with partial refunds giving a PHP error.
  • Dev: (PRO) Added a filter to allow the referral URL for dynamic creative QR codes to be modified.
  • Other: Updated translations.
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.4.3

Version 5.16.7 – 23rd November 2024

  • Fix: Fixed a critical erroring in the free version in some cases with WordPress 6.7.1.

Version 5.16.6 – 22nd November 2024

  • Tweak: (PRO) The “welcome bonus” performance bonus can now be displayed on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Mobile Menu Style” option when “Tabs” is selected.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with displaying the affiliate dashboard for coupons with a “-” in the coupon name.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Lifetime Commission Expiry” option.
  • Fix: Fixed an “Passing null to parameter” PHP warning showing in the admin area.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.7.1

Version 5.16.5 – 15th November 2024

  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Limit to certain user roles & groups?” option for Payout methods not working in some cases.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the Klaviyo integration.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with permissions for the “Affiliate Groups” page in the admin area.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the currency values in the “Bonuses” affiliate dashboard tab not showing in the base currency if multi-currency is enabled.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.7.0
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.4.1

Version 5.16.4 – 29th October 2024

  • Tweak: Some small tweaks to the admin settings page.
  • Tweak: Some small tweaks to the setup wizard.
  • Tweak: (PRO) The “Custom Creatives Text” now supports paragraphs when displayed on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP error with the performance bonuses reward check, when using user role restrictions.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with using SVG images for the PDF statements logo.
  • Fix: Potential fix for issue with the “New Customers Only” option showing the message on cart even after reloading the page.
  • Fix: Fixed an occasional issue where the affiliate dashboard would show “No affiliate dashboard found” when viewing the dashboard for a coupon via the unique dashboard link.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Limit to certain user roles & groups?” option for Payout methods not working in some cases.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the Klaviyo integration.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with affiliate orders reports when filtered by date and not using GMT timezone in WordPress settings.
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.9.0

Version 5.16.3 – 12th October 2024

  • New: Added a new “HoneyPot Spam Prevention” option to the affiliate registration form settings. This adds a basic honeypot spam prevention method by default for all sites, but the advanced CAPTCHA options are recommended.
  • Tweak: The “new customer only” option for coupons will now work with guest checkouts if the customer has entered their email address and that email address has already placed an order.
  • Tweak: Added a check to prevent the template coupon code from being applied to the cart.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with deleting affiliate groups in the admin area.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with removing affiliates from a group when editing the user in the admin area.
  • Fix: Fixed fully refunded items showing in the commission summary meta data for orders.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases with the calculations for the “discount” shown on the affiliate dashboard when an order is partially refunded.

Version 5.16.2 – 3rd October 2024

  • Fix (PRO): Fixed a potential issue with some user role/group permissions since the last update.

Version 5.16.1 – 2nd October 2024

  • Improvement: Added an option to edit the affiliate groups a user is assigned to by editing the user in the admin area.
  • Tweak: Edited the default title for the “Recent Orders” tab to “Recent Orders” instead of “Latest orders for coupon”.
  • Tweak: On the “Affiliate Users” admin page, changed the “Role” column title to “Group / Role”.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with unassigning users from coupons in the admin area.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the affiliate dashboard in some cases not showing when the coupon code contained certain special characters or spaces.

Version 5.16.0 – 30th September 2024

  • New: (PRO) Added a new “Affiliate Groups” page to the admin area, to easily manage and add new affiliate groups.
  • Improvement: (PRO) When adding new affiliate users in the admin area, added a field to select an “Affiliate Group” to assign them to, if more than 1 affiliate group exists.
  • Improvement: (PRO) Changed the option to limit payout methods to certain user roles/groups to a multi-select option, so you can select more than one.
  • Improvement: (PRO) Changed the option to limit creatives to certain user roles/groups to a multi-select option, so you can select more than one.
  • Improvement: (PRO) Changed the option to limit bonuses to certain user roles/groups to a multi-select option, so you can select more than one.
  • Improvement: (PRO) Added an option to limit the custom affiliate dashboard tabs to certain user roles/groups.
  • Improvement: On the “Affiliate Users” admin page, added the option to filter by affiliate group and user role.
  • Improvement: (PRO) Added an option to duplicate creatives.
  • Improvement: Added options to choose if cookies should be stored for the referral link and MLA referral links.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Changed the per-coupon commission fields to number fields to ensure only numbers can be entered.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Increased the maximum file size for the payouts PDF upload field to 500KB.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Updated FPDF class to version 1.86.
  • Tweak: Removed the unnecessary space after the coupon in the affiliate dashboard title.
  • Tweak: Added a warning message when editing a coupon that is linked to an affiliate user.
  • Tweak: Updated the Twitter social share buttons to the new X logo.
  • Tweak: Added an option to make the order ID clickable on the recent orders tab of the affiliate dashboard for admin users.
  • Tweak: On the admin settings page, added some “FAQ” tooltips/toggles to some sections to provide more information.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases with the calculations for the “discount” shown on the affiliate dashboard when an order is partially refunded.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the payouts PDF statements not being viewable in some PDF viewers.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fix to prevent duplicate empty payout requests from being made.
  • Fix: Fixed a potential issue with the registration form showing a captcha error even if the captcha is not enabled.
  • Other: Updated to Font Awesome 6.6.0
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.8.1
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.6.2
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.3.3

Version 5.15.3 – 9th September 2024

  • Tweak: Added a “Delete” option to “Pending” affiliate registrations in the admin area.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue in some cases where the apply coupon would not work the first time on the cart/checkout page, and would require a page refresh, or clicking the button twice.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with removing the coupon from checkout not working in some cases.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with affiliate orders reports when filtered by date, using HPOS, and not using GMT timezone in WordPress settings.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the monthly summary and recent orders filters not working in some cases.

Version 5.15.2 – 4th September 2024

  • Fix: Fixed a possible issue in some cases where the affiliate registration or referral link click database tables were not being created.
  • Fix: Fixed some PHP warnings appearing in certain cases.
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.2.3

Version 5.15.1 – 29th August 2024

  • Tweak: Improved the performance of the admin WooCommerce orders page which was being affected in some cases by the plugin.
  • Tweak: Changed the names and titles for the “Coupons” and “Orders” pages under the “Coupon Affiliates” admin menu.
  • Tweak: Only show “If you are having issues” message on admin reports if a potential issue is detected.
  • Fix: A speculative fix to the affiliate registration form not working in some cases where security plugins were stopping user registrations and forcing strong passwords.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue on the free version, in some cases displaying the following error message on the affiliate dashboard: “wcusage_run_tab_page_stats_graph_update is not defined”
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed a possible PHP error with the performance bonuses when the “User Restrictions” user role option was enabled.
  • Other: Updated translations.

Version 5.15.0 – 20th August 2024

  • New: (PRO) Added a leaderboards feature that lets you display a leaderboard of your top affiliates using a shortcode: [couponaffiliates-leaderboard]. You can set the number of affiliates to display, and the time period to show the stats for (all, month, or year).
  • Tweak: Removed the “Orders” section from the setup wizard.

Version 5.14.6.1 – 14th August 2024

  • Tweak: (PRO) Clear the “wcu_store_credit_in_cart” user meta when an order is placed by the user.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with applying store credit on cart (with the built-in credit system) not showing the correct amount in some cases.

Version 5.14.6 – 12th August 2024

  • Tweak: (PRO) Increased the maximum number of “Template Coupons” that can be set with the “Multiple Templates” feature to 10.
  • Fix: Fixed some HTML formatting issues on the affiliate dashboard in some cases.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the dynamic code generator not working properly with custom text in the template in some cases.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the responsive navigation when both the normal and MLA dashboard shortcodes are used on the same page.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with applying store credit on cart (with the built-in credit system) not showing the correct amount when the store has inclusive tax enabled.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the payout request button if the available credit was exactly the same as the minimum payout amount.
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.7.4

Version 5.14.5 – 5th August 2024

  • Fix: Fixed an issue where in some cases applying a coupon manually on checkout would not automatically refresh the cart totals until the page is manually refreshed.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with applying store credit on cart (with the built-in credit system) not showing the correct amount when the store has inclusive tax enabled.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.6.1

Version 5.14.4 – 31st July 2024

  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with performance bonuses on the affiliate dashboard, not showing the correct price format for EUR and some other currency formats.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed the responsive navigation on the multi-level affiliate dashboard for mobile.

Version 5.14.3 – 18th July 2024

  • Tweak: As an admin, when viewing the affiliate dashboard for another users coupon, it now shows their username in the header, and their account details in the settings tab, with a link to edit that user.
  • Tweak: (PRO) As an admin, when viewing the affiliate dashboard for another users coupon, you can now view and edit that affiliate users payouts settings.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Made some small changes to the commission line charts.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed a small issue with the performance bonus options since the last update.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with unlinking affiliates from coupons on the “Affiliate Users” admin page.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the new mobile navigation dropdown not working for custom tabs (since 5.14.0).
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the commission line graph not loading when the “Show Commission Earnings summary with toggles” option is disabled.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the option to allow users to join the affiliate program on checkout not working in some cases.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the “{listproducts}” merge tag not working for the “New Order Referral” email notifications.
  • Dev: Added some extra classess to certain elements on the affiliate dashboard to allow for easier custom styling.
  • Other: Added “WooCommerce” as a “Required Plugin” in the plugin header comment.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.6.0
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.1.2

Version 5.14.2 – 15th July 2024

  • New: Added a “Newly Created” trigger to the performance bonuses which now allows you to give a welcome bonus to new affiliates.
  • Tweak: Added an option to set a prefix for the coupon code shown in the header of the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: Added a login link to the message shown when the affiliate registration form is submitted but the username or email already exists.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Edited the number fields for the MLA tier commission rates to be incrementing by decimals to allow for decimal values.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the referral URL links not working properly when the sites permalink structure is set to “Plain”.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the MLA invite links not working properly when the sites permalink structure is set to “Plain”.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Coupon Referral Orders” admin page sometimes being a little slow since 5.14.0.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the affiliate registration checkbox custom field, when set to required.
  • Fix: Fixed some admin pages that were giving the following PHP warning: Function wpdb::prepare was called incorrectly.
  • Fix: Fixed a PHP warning sometimes showing when submitting the affiliate registration form.
  • Fix: Fixed some PHP warnings in the admin area (“preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter”).
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.7.2

Version 5.14.1 – 29th June 2024

  • Fix: Fixed a few small styling issues on the affiliate dashboard since the last update.

Version 5.14.0 – 28th June 2024

  • Improvement: Updated the affiliate dashboard navigation on mobile to be more user-friendly. It now uses a dropdown menu for the tabs.
  • Improvement: Made several small styling and layout tweaks to the affiliate dashboard on mobile.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the affiliate registration system when multiple templates are enabled.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the total items and pagination on the “Coupon Referral Orders” admin page.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Commission Priority” option not defaulting automatically to the “Product” option, even though it was showing as selected.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.5.5
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 9.0.2

Version 5.13.1 – 12th June 2024

  • Improvement: Added an option to choose which order status the “New Order Referral” email is sent for, rather than being limited to “Completed” orders.
  • Improvement: Added new “Affiliate Information” to the admin new order emails.
  • Tweak: Added shortcode to display payouts section: [couponaffiliates-payouts]
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Disable registration form for existing affiliate users” setting.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the auto accept affiliate registrations option when multiple templates is disabled.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with commission still showing in the monthly summary products list with “Enable Commission Calculations & Statistics” disabled.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.5.4
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 8.9.3

Version 5.13.0 – 25th April 2024

  • New: (PRO) Added new mailing list integrations to automatically add affiliate users to your mailing list.
  • Tweak: Added [couponaffiliates_store_credit_apply] shortcode to display field to apply store credit to cart. Can be used on the checkout if WooCommerce block checkout is enabled.
  • Tweak: Updated the “Coupon Referral Orders” page to properly show 20 orders per page. Previously it would hide non-coupon orders but still count them in the pagination.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the template coupon “multiple templates” when manually adding a new affiliate user.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Copy Code” button on the “Creatives” tab sometimes including a diplicate “https” in the referral URL.

Version 5.12.17 – 16th April 2024

  • Tweak: Made some small tweaks to the mobile responsive design of the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: When “Hide the “all-time” stats on statistics tab and line graph” is enabled, it will no longer waste time calculating the all-time stats on first load of the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Updated the QR Code generator used for the dynamic creatives to use a local library (chillerlan/php-qrcode) instead of the Google Charts API.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Updated the email PDF reports to display in the correct WooCommerce currency format.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Made a few changes to the “Delay Commission (Number of Days)” code to make it more reliable and faster in certain cases.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the all-time stats not updating in some cases for new coupons.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “Make the invoice upload option required” setting when disabled still requiring the invoice upload.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.5.2
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.7.0

Version 5.12.16 – 4th April 2024

  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed an issue with the “template” attribute on the [couponaffiliates-register] shortcode not working in some cases.
  • Fix: Fixed a text/HTML formatting issue on the single order page for some websites.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.5.0

Version 5.12.15 – 22nd March 2024

  • Tweak: (PRO) Small tweak to the MLA referral email to not send in certain cases.
  • Fix: Fixed a text/HTML formatting issue on the Statistics tab of the affiliate dashboard in some cases, since the 5.12.9 update.

Version 5.12.14 – 20th March 2024

  • Fix: Fixed an “Array to string conversion” PHP error on the settings page for some of the dropdown options, since the 5.12.9 update.

Version 5.12.13 – 20th March 2024

  • Fix: Fixed an issue on the edit coupon page, with no longer being able to select an affiliate user from the dropdown.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning on the “Product Rates” tab on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 8.7.0

Version 5.12.12 – 14th March 2024

  • Tweak: Made a few small security enhancements to some SQL calls in the plugin for future proofing.

Version 5.12.11 – 12th March 2024

  • Fix: Fixed a few more text/HTML formatting issues since the 5.12.9 update.
  • Fix (PRO): Fixed a PHP warning when editing users with MLA enabled.

Version 5.12.10 – 8th March 2024

  • Fix: Fixed a few text/HTML formatting issues since the last update.

Version 5.12.9 – 7th March 2024

  • Tweak: Made a variety of small code tweaks and improvements to the plugin, including some additional “escaping” of data.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.4.3

Version 5.12.8 – 7th March 2024

  • Improvement: Added new “template” attribute to the [couponaffiliates-register] shortcode to allow you to set the default template coupon (if you have multiple templates). This will hide the field and auto-select that coupon when users register with that form. Example usage: [couponaffiliates-register template=”my-template-coupon”]
  • Fix: Fixed the password reset link included in the new affiliate user account email in some cases not working.
  • Fix: Fixed a PHP error on the settings page for some sites on older versions of WooCommerce.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with copying the referral URLs on the admin “Coupons” and “Affiliate Users” pages.
  • Fix: Fixed a security bug reported by Patchstack.

Version 5.12.7 – 24th January 2024

  • Fix: Fixed an issue with the “Coupon Affiliate” meta box not showing any more on the single orders pages for some websites.
  • Fix: Fixed an error on the “Coupon Affiliate Users” admin page in some cases.

Version 5.12.6 – 19th January 2024

  • Tweak: Small change to the “Coupon Orders” page query to improve performance and HPOS compatibilty.
  • Fix: Fixed an error on the “Coupons” admin page in some cases.

Version 5.12.5 – 19th January 2024

  • Tweak: Small tweaks to the new QR code generator.
  • Fix: Fixed the “Name” column on the “Recent Orders” tab of the affiliate dashboard, sometimes being blank in certain cases.
  • Fix: Fixed some PHP errors that some users were experiencing on the coupons and coupon orders pages.
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 8.5.1

Version 5.12.4 – 15th January 2024

  • New: (PRO) Added a color picker under the QR code generator, to allow affiliates to change the color of the QR code.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Update the QR code generator to no longer use the Google Charts API, and instead use a local QR code generator library with no dependencies.
  • Tweak: Made a few small optimisations to the code run when referral links are clicked. When the “Enable Click History Logs” option is disabled, it will no longer log the clicks in the database.
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with admin reports “only show coupons assigned to an affiliate user” option not working when disabled, to show coupons without an affiliate user assigned in the reports.
  • Fix: Fixed the “Name” column on the “Recent Orders” tab of the affiliate dashboard, sometimes being blank in certain cases. It will now show the username or “Guest” if name is empty.
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.6.2

Version 5.12.3 – 22nd December 2023

  • Improvement: Admin reports will now load faster, especially when the “only show coupons assigned to an affiliate user” option is selected.
  • Improvement: On the Coupon Affiliate Users page, hovering over the username will now show a tooltip with all the affiliate user details that were submitted on the registration form.
  • Tweak: When the “Hide commission statistics for non-affiliate coupons” option is enabled, it will not give “unpaid commission” to coupons that do not have an affiliate user assigned to it.
  • Tweak: Made a few small tweaks/improvements to the code for setting the cookies when a referral link is clicked.
  • Fix: Fixed a few small bugs with admin reports.
  • Fix: Removed HTML tags from the notification emails if the {commission} merge tag is used.
  • Dev: Added some extra hooks for when affiliate registrations are created, accepted, and declined.

Version 5.12.2 – 14th December 2023

  • New: (PRO) Added a “Quarterly” option to the “Scheduled Payout Requests” and “Affiliate Email Reports” features.
  • Tweak: On the affiliate dashboard, if the discount is 0% and free shipping is enabled, it will now say “Free Shipping” in the “Discount” box on the “Statistics” tab.
  • Tweak: Prevent duplicate affiliate registration submissions from the same user within a short time period.
  • Tweak: No longer send the admin “New Affiliate Application” email when the affiliate user was added by an admin.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Updated styling on the download qr code button to match the other buttons.
  • Tweak: Improved inconsistent spacing of certain content/sections on affiliate dashboard on certain themes.
  • Fix: Fixed the “Generate Dashboard Page” button on the setup wizard not working in certain cases.
  • Other: Added Freemius multi-site support.
  • Other: Tested with WooCommerce 8.4.0

Version 5.12.1 – 12th December 2023

  • Tweak: Improved the speed/performance of loading the affiliate data on the WooCommerce orders page in some cases.
  • Tweak: On the “Product Commission Rates” table, the “Commission Rate” column will no longer show 0% if there is no percentage commission whilst there is a fixed commission.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed issue with the store credit option sometimes not showing on the cart for certain themes.

Version 5.12.0 – 7th December 2023

  • New: Added a new “Referred Order Cancelled” email notification, which is sent to the affiliate when an order is cancelled, refunded, or failed. This can be enabled in the “Emails” settings tab.
  • New: On the “Coupon Affiliate Users” admin page, the tooltip shown when hovering over the coupon code, will now show the default referral link for the affilaite coupon, along with a copy button.
  • New: On the “Coupons” admin page for the plugin, there is now a new “Default Referral Link” column, which shows the default referral link for the coupon, along with a copy button.
  • New: Added some new options to customise the affiliate dashboard tabs styling in the “Design” settings tab. There is now a new “full width” style available, along with the option to select a custom border radius and padding.
  • New: Added an option to set a custom “Preferred Coupon Code” field label on the affiliate registration form.
  • Improvement: You can now easily include the default referral link in the “Affiliate Application Accepted” email by using the {referralurl}
  • Tweak: (PRO) Hidden the “MLA” dashboard link on the WordPress users page if MLA is set to invite only, and the user does not have access.
  • Tweak: (PRO) If MLA Dashboard is set to “Invite Only”, admins can now still view view the MLA Dashboard for any user if they themselves are not approved.
  • Tweak: (PRO) Added the “pointer” cursor style to the export buttons on the affiliate dashboard.
  • Tweak: Moved the “Affiliate” link on the “My Account” page to before the logout link.
  • Tweak: A few small improvements to the plugins “Coupons” admin page.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed a PHP warning when MLA is enabled but the MLA dashboard page has not been selected in the settings.
  • Fix: (PRO) Fixed the “Unpaid Commission” and “Pending Payouts” fields when editing a coupon, to allow you to enter decimal values.
  • Fix: (PRO) The store credit balance amount shown on the affiliate dashboard “payouts settings” is now formatted to show as a currency value.
  • Dev: Added a filter to programmatically change the page ID for the affiliate dashboard option, and MLA dashboard option.
  • Other: Added translations for “Italian”.
  • Other: Tested with WordPress 6.4.2
  • Other: Updated to Freemius SDK 2.6.1