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The Affiliates system provides powerful tools to maintain an Affiliate Marketing Program. Important features include automated affiliate registration, an unlimited affiliate management section and the ability to integrate Affiliates with virtually any E-Commerce platform. Commissions on referred users are built in, free and premium integrations with e-commerce systems are available. The Affiliates plugin provides an affiliate system for sellers, shops, and membership sites who want to get started with their affiliate program right “out of the box”. It also provides a solid framework for developers, who wish to build customized solutions based on a sound data model. With unlimited affiliate program management tools available on the back end and a set of shortcodes to provide Affiliates information on their performance on the front end, there is everything you need to start an affiliate program. To manage an Affiliate Marketing or Partner Referral Program and track visits to your site with affiliate links, the Affiliates plugin is a powerful solution. Simply put, the affiliates plugin is used to manage affiliates, create referrals and track visits to your site through affiliate links. Referrals are stored and attributed to an affiliate, for example if clients place orders on your site and you need to credit your affiliates. You can show your affiliates how well they perform, by embedding simple shortcodes on a page. Integrations To use Affiliates together with an e-commerce plugin, you also need to install the appropriate integration plugin. Available free e-commerce integrations include WooCommerce, Jigoshop, WP e-Commerce, Ecwid, eShop. To grant commissions based on forms and track leads you can use Contact Form 7. Premium Integrations Affiliates Pro adds Pay per Click commissions and provides access to advanced integrations with WooCommerce, Jigoshop, TheCartPress, WP e-Commerce, eShop, Ecwid, PayPal and Events Manager to grant commissions on bookings. The integrations with social sharing platforms AddToAny and AddThis make it easy for affiliates to share their links. Integrations with popular forms plugins include Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and Formidable Forms and Formidable Pro. Affiliates Enterprise provides all features and integrations available in Affiliates Pro and also supports mulitple tiers, campaigns and pixel tracking with image and iframe tracking pixels. Other extensions include Affiliates Is Referred which adds shortcodes to show content conditionally based on whether a visitor was referred (or not) by an affiliate, Affiliates Products which handles product commissions for product partners and affiliates on product sales, Affiliates Users to automatically create affiliate accounts for new users and Affiliates by Username which allows affiliate links to indicate usernames in addition to the affiliate IDs Additional resources can be found on GitHub. Features Real-time reporting Referrals and affiliate link statistics are recorded and available instantly, as transactions are processed. Integration with virtually any E-Commerce platform Information for affiliates on the front end: show affiliates information about their referrals including totals by currency and referral status. Traffic Statistics View traffic statistics per day, affiliate, source and landing page including clicks, visits and related referrals per affiliate. Affiliates provides an API which makes it compatible to use with virtually any E-Commerce and Membership system. Affiliates Pro Integration packs are available for several platforms. More integrations are added constantly on request. Unlimited Affiliates Simply have as many affiliates as you can get. Easy affiliate recruitment Affiliates can sign up automatically and can also be added manually with or without user accounts. Affiliate approval and notifications Affiliates can be approved manually or automatically and notifications are sent that inform them and the administrator of their status. Feedback is welcome Do you have feature requests or want to provide feedback? Please get in touch, the Affiliates plugins evolve with your needs. Free or contribution based The Affiliates plugin is free and Open Source. If you want to use it, simply install it from your WordPress Dashboard or download it from WordPress.org. Affiliates Pro and Enterprise are premium releases with additional features. Your support helps to make the plugins even more awesome. Thanks! Quick & Easy Installation Upload/install and activate the plugin from your WordPress Dashboard. Documentation Please review the Documentation pages. Other resources: Videos, YouTube, API. Support If you need help or want to ask a question, please leave a comment on the Affiliates plugin page. Feedback is welcome! If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Affiliates plugin page. Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks! What this plugin is not It is not intended to keep track of links to other sites that you as a member of an affiliate program may have. We suggest you have a look at the Affiliate plugin if you’re interested in that. Translations If you want to add a translation, please review Affiliates Translations. Many thanks to those who have contributed translations: French by Johan Walter from Massage Factory, Hebrew by Yair from temoni.org, Italian by Alessandro Bergamin from VoglioClienti.it and Roberto Castaldo from InArte, Indonesian by Ganis Irawan from Bisnis Internet 101, Lithuanian by Vincent G from Host1Free, Polish by BizExpert, Portuguese by Carlos Gouveia from iNovve, Slovak by Cr3o from životné poistenie, Spanish by David Perez from Closemarketing, Ukranian by Michael Yunat from GetVoIP Follow itthinx on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins.