Description
Affilia is a powerful, free WordPress affiliate plugin that allows you to launch, manage, and scale a complete performance marketing program directly from your dashboard.
Stop paying expensive monthly fees to third-party SaaS platforms. With Affilia, you can easily recruit brand ambassadors, track affiliate conversions accurately, reward partners with commissions, and drastically increase your revenue—all while retaining 100% ownership of your data.
Whether you need a WooCommerce affiliate program for a physical store, an EDD referral tracking system for digital downloads, or a Pay-Per-Lead campaign using Contact Form 7, Affilia is built for ultimate flexibility.
Upgrade to Affilia Premium for advanced enterprise features like Multi-Level Marketing (MLM), automated payouts (Stripe/PayPal), lifetime commissions, and affiliate coupon generators.
🚀 Core Free Features
- Unlimited Affiliates: Recruit an unlimited number of partners to promote your site.
- Accurate Referral Tracking: Track visits, clicks, and sales flawlessly via custom affiliate links.
- Dedicated Affiliate Dashboard: Provide partners with a clean, frontend portal to monitor their real-time performance and earnings.
- Flexible Commission Structures: Set global flat-rate or percentage-based referral commissions.
- Smart Product Rules: Define unique payout structures per product or category.
- Affiliate Coupon Support: Link unique discount codes to specific affiliates for linkless tracking.
- Integrated Wallet System: Allow affiliates to view their approved, pending, and paid balances.
- Automated Email Notifications: Keep partners engaged with triggered emails for approvals and new commissions.
- Shortcode Ready: Drop registration forms and dashboards anywhere on your site instantly.
🔌 Seamless WordPress Integrations
- WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin: Perfect for e-commerce. Reward partners for driving physical or digital product sales.
- Easy Digital Downloads (EDD): The ideal solution for software creators, course sellers, and eBook authors.
- Contact Form 7 (CF7) – Pay Per Lead: Launch a powerful lead generation program. Pay affiliates when they drive qualified leads or quote requests to your forms.
💡 Why Choose Affilia?
- Store Owners: Turn your best customers into vocal brand advocates.
- Service Businesses: Build a scalable referral network of marketers sending you qualified leads.
- 100% Privacy & GDPR Compliant: No personal data is ever sent to external servers. Your data stays securely on your self-hosted WordPress site.
📈 Upgrade to Affilia PRO: Ultimate Affiliate Power
Ready to scale? Unlock advanced performance marketing tools with Affilia Premium:
- 🧩 Multi-Tier Commissions (MLM): Build a powerful network marketing matrix (Binary, Forced Matrix, Unilevel) with custom depths.
- 🔄 Two-Way Rewards: Reward both the affiliate (cash) and the referred customer (discount) to maximize conversion rates.
- 🏷️ Affiliate Coupon Generator: Empower affiliates to generate their own custom promotional codes.
- 📊 Advanced Analytics: Deep-dive reporting on traffic, device-based purchases, and top-performing partners.
- 🔁 Lifetime Commissions: Link a customer to an affiliate permanently, rewarding them for all future purchases.
- 💳 One-Click Direct Payouts: Pay affiliates instantly via PayPal, Stripe, Paystack, or store credit.
- 📱 QR Codes & Social Sharing: Let partners share links directly to WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook with one click.
- 🧾 Signup & Rank Bonuses: Gamify your program by offering cash bonuses for ranking up.
- 🔄 Subscription Support: Pay recurring commissions on WooCommerce subscription renewals.
Screenshots
Revenue & Analytics Dashboard: Instantly view total affiliate income, conversion rates, and recent referrals. 
Affiliate Management Hub: Easily approve, reject, or manage your unlimited network of partners. 
Flexible Commission Rules: Set global flat-rate or percentage-based commissions for your store. 
Multi-Tier MLM Setup (PRO): Configure level-wise commission percentages for network marketing. 
Real-Time Referral Tracking: See exactly who drove which sale, complete with timestamp and order ID. 
Integrated Payout Methods: Enable PayPal, Stripe, or Store Credit for seamless partner payouts. 
Advanced Feature Toggles: Customize your affiliate program logic without writing a single line of code. 
MLM Matrix Configuration: Build unilevel or binary chain systems with customizable depths. 
Frontend Affiliate Dashboard: A beautiful, responsive portal where partners track their clicks and earnings. 
Partner Commission Breakdown: Affiliates can easily view payout structures for different products. 
Marketing Creatives & Tools: Provide banners, shareable links, and assets directly to your partners. 
Export & Download Center: Allow affiliates to export their performance data and creatives. 
Partner Payout Preferences: Affiliates can submit their preferred bank or PayPal details securely. 
Affiliate Profile Management: Allow partners to update their own contact info and passwords. 
MLM Network Viewer: Partners can visualize their downline and track sub-affiliate performance.
Installation
Automatic Installation
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Add New.
- In the search field, type “Affilia Lite” and click Search.
- Locate the plugin and click “Install Now”.
- Click “Activate” to begin setting up your affiliate program.
Manual Installation
- Download the plugin ZIP file from the WordPress repository.
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin in your dashboard.
- Choose the downloaded ZIP file and click “Install Now”.
- Click “Activate” and navigate to the new Affilia menu to configure your settings.
FAQ
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Is Affilia a self-hosted affiliate plugin?
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Yes. Affilia is a 100% self-hosted WordPress affiliate plugin. This means there are no monthly SaaS fees, no limits on your revenue, and all your affiliate data remains securely on your own server.
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Does this work as a WooCommerce affiliate program?
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Absolutely. Affilia features deep integration with WooCommerce, allowing you to track product sales, assign category-specific commissions, and utilize WooCommerce HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) for lightning-fast database performance.
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Can I run a Pay-Per-Lead (PPL) program?
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Yes! Unlike many other affiliate plugins, Affilia integrates seamlessly with Contact Form 7. You can reward affiliates a fixed commission every time their referred traffic submits a valid lead generation form.
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Is Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) included?
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Multi-tier network marketing structures (such as Binary, Unilevel, or Forced Matrix) are premium features available in Affilia PRO. You can set custom depths and reward partners for recruiting sub-affiliates.
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How do I pay my affiliates?
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In the free version, you can manually mark commissions as paid after transferring funds via your preferred method. With Affilia PRO, you unlock integrated one-click payouts via PayPal, Stripe, Paystack, and Bank Transfer directly from your dashboard.
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Is the plugin GDPR compliant?
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Yes. Because tracking happens natively within your WordPress environment, no personal data or cookies are transmitted to third-party servers, ensuring compliance with global privacy laws.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Affiliate Program & Referral Tracking for WooCommerce & WordPress – Affilia” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
3.3.0 – 2024-06-05
- Feature: Set unique commission rates per individual affiliate.
- Feature: Set commission rates per affiliate based on specific categories.
- Feature: Added referral automation settings.
- Fix: Resolved formatting issues in the CSV generation tool.
- Tweak: Minor performance and UI improvements.
3.2.3 – 2024-12-12
- Fix: Addressed commission generation calculation for WooCommerce latest versions.
- Tweak: Routine code optimization and security checks.
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