=== Affilia - Affiliate Program & Referral Tracking for WordPress ===
Contributors: redefiningtheweb
Donate link: https://redefiningtheweb.com
Tags: wordpress affiliate plugin, affiliate program, referral tracking, woocommerce affiliate, edd affiliate, contact form 7 affiliate, mlm
Requires at least: 5.0
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.6.2
WC requires at least: 6.0
WC tested up to: 10.4.3
Stable tag: 3.3.3
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Launch a powerful, self-hosted affiliate program for WordPress. Track referrals, manage affiliates, and boost sales for WooCommerce, EDD, and Contact Form 7!

== Description ==

**Affilia – Affiliate Program for WordPress (Lite)** is a powerful, free **WordPress affiliate plugin** designed to help you create and run a complete performance marketing system. Easily recruit partners, track affiliate conversions, pay commissions, and scale your revenue natively within your WordPress dashboard.

Whether you need a **WooCommerce affiliate plugin** for your physical store, an **EDD affiliate tracking** system for digital products, or a **Pay Per Lead** program using Contact Form 7, Affilia is incredibly flexible. Build a self-hosted affiliate program with zero monthly fees and keep full control over your data.

Upgrade to the [**Premium version**](https://woocommerce.com/products/affiliate-and-referral-for-woocommerce/) for advanced features like level-wise commissions (MLM), lifetime tracking, subscription support, detailed reporting, affiliate rank bonuses, and more.

### 🚀 Top Free Features for Affiliate Management

- **Unlimited Affiliates**: Add and manage an unlimited number of partners for your WordPress site.
- **Accurate Referral Tracking**: Track affiliate conversions reliably via custom referral links or codes.
- **Flexible Commission Rules**: Assign fixed or percentage-based payouts for successful referrals.
- **Dedicated Affiliate Dashboard**: A clean, front-end affiliate dashboard for WordPress users to track their clicks, sales, and performance in real-time.
- **Manual Commission Entry**: Site admins can manually adjust or assign commissions.
- **Referral Coupon Support**: Assign unique discount coupons to specific affiliates.
- **Integrated Wallet System**: Affiliates can view and redeem their earned commissions easily.
- **Smart Commission Rules**: Set distinct payout structures per product or category.
- **Automated Email Notifications**: Keep your affiliates engaged with automated emails for commissions, signups, and approvals.
- **Shortcodes Integration**: Easily place registration forms, login portals, and dashboards anywhere using shortcodes.

### 🔌 Seamless Integrations (E-Commerce & Lead Gen)

Affilia is built to work seamlessly with the most popular WordPress plugins:
- **WooCommerce:** Perfect for physical stores. Reward affiliates for product sales.
- **Easy Digital Downloads (EDD):** Ideal for digital creators. Track sales for software, eBooks, and courses.
- **Contact Form 7 (CF7):** Launch a **Pay Per Lead** affiliate program. Reward affiliates when their referred traffic submits a lead generation or contact form!
- Works perfectly with popular WordPress themes and page builders.

### 💡 Why Choose Affilia? (Use Cases)

- **Store Owners:** Turn your customers into brand ambassadors with an integrated e-commerce affiliate program.
- **Service Businesses:** Use the CF7 integration to pay marketers for bringing you qualified leads and quote requests.
- **Digital Creators:** Allow bloggers and influencers to promote your EDD products with trackable links.

== 🔐 Privacy-Compliant Tracking (GDPR) ==
We prioritize your site's security and user privacy:
- 100% Privacy-compliant affiliate tracking (GDPR ready).
- No personal data is sent to external or third-party servers. All data stays on your WordPress site.

== 📈 Upgrade to PRO: The Ultimate Affiliate Software ==

Unlock enterprise-grade features with the [**Premium Version**](https://woocommerce.com/products/affiliate-and-referral-for-woocommerce/):

- 🧩 **Multi-Tier Commission**: Create tiered levels with conditions like sales volume or referral count.
- 🔄 **Two-Way Commission**: Reward both the affiliate (cash) and the referred customer (discount).
- 🏷️ **Affiliate Coupon Generator**: Empower affiliates to generate and share their own discount codes.
- 📊 **Advanced Analytics & Charts**: Deep-dive reporting to track affiliate traffic, conversions, and top performers.
- 🧾 **Signup & Rank Bonuses**: Gamify your program by offering rewards for sign-ups or rank upgrades.
- 🔁 **Lifetime Commission Tracking**: Reward affiliates for future purchases made by their referrals, even if browser cookies expire.
- 🔄 **Subscriptions Support**: Automatically pay recurring commissions on subscription renewals.
- 🎯 **Commission by Tags**: Precision control to assign payouts based on specific product tags.
- 👁️ **Real-Time Registration Builder**: Customize your affiliate registration forms with a live preview template.
- 📥 **Multiple Direct Payout Options**: Pay affiliates effortlessly via PayPal, Stripe, Paystack, or store credits/coupons.
- 🪪 **Parent-Child Affiliate Tracking**: Set hierarchical parent-child relationships between users.
- ⚙️ **Ajax-Powered Dashboards**: Lightning-fast, reload-free page templates for a premium user experience.
- ✅ **Customizable Email Templates**: Brand your automated communication.
- 📱 **Social Media Sharing & QR Codes**: Affiliates can share referral links directly to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, or via an Affiliate QR code generator.

👉 [Upgrade Now to Supercharge Your Sales →](https://woocommerce.com/products/affiliate-and-referral-for-woocommerce/)

### 🌟 Multi-Tier Affiliate Plugin (MLM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGp3miBE6wg

Looking for a network marketing system? You can choose any Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Matrix—including Binary, Forced Matrix, and Unilevel—to start multiplying your sales force. Set custom depths and levels for your MLM chain, and assign specific commission percentages for each tier. Incentivize your partners to recruit new leads and exponentially increase your revenue.

== ❌ Features not available in the Lite version ==

= 🚀 Advanced Commission & Bonus Features = 
- Level-wise commission (multi-level affiliate system)
- Two-way commission (user & affiliate both get a benefit)
- Coupon-based commission (no referral link needed)
- Signup bonus for new affiliates
- Rank bonus system for affiliates
- Lifetime commission (persistent user-affiliate linkage)
- Manual referral/commission assignments
- Subscription renewal commission
- Commission per affiliate, per product tag
- Set the parent of affiliates (affiliate hierarchy)

= 📈 Affiliate Tools & Reports = 
- Advanced affiliate tools
- Dynamic HTML banners
- QR codes for referral links
- Social media sharing
- Dynamic charts: sales overview, earnings, clicks, conversions, etc.
- Advanced reporting tab:
-  Sales/month
- Visits, orders, revenue
- Device-based purchase medium report
- Performance bonus based on affiliate success
- Monthly commission limits
- Separate commission/payout/profile tables per affiliate
- Admin panel with detailed affiliate profiles and traffic info

= 💳 Payout & Wallet Enhancements =
- Payout options via:
 - PayPal
 - Stripe
 - Paystack
 - Bank Transfer
- Ability to shop using wallet balance (via coupons)
- Wallet-based affiliate shopping support
- Allow affiliates to generate coupons from earnings

= 🛠 Admin & Customization Tools = 
   1. Commission rules based on:
	- All products
	- Specific products
	- Specific categories
	- Fixed/percentage/combined
	- Real-time preview of the affiliate registration template
	- Reload-free page templates (faster UI)
	- Ability to set commission by product category and date range
   2. Customized emails (activate/deactivate affiliate mails)

= 👥 User & Tracking Enhancements = 
   - Ability for affiliates to see the commission per product
   - Show member name in referral tab
   - Option for admins to enable/disable referral name display
   - Toggle between referral link or referral code tracking


🚀 Want to unlock MLM, direct payouts, coupons, bonus rewards, and more?
Upgrade to  [**Affilia Premium**](https://woocommerce.com/products/affiliate-and-referral-for-woocommerce/) and supercharge your affiliate program today!

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== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Is Affilia the best free affiliate manager for WordPress? =
Affilia is built from the ground up to be lightweight, incredibly feature-rich, and easy to use, making it one of the most powerful self-hosted affiliate management solutions available for WordPress.

= Does it work with non-WooCommerce sites? =
Yes! Affilia integrates perfectly with Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) for digital products and Contact Form 7 (CF7) so you can run a Pay Per Lead affiliate program. 

= Does Affilia support WooCommerce HPOS? = 
Yes, Affilia is fully compatible with the latest WooCommerce HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) architecture for maximum speed and database efficiency.

= Is MLM (Multi-Tier) support included in the free version? =
No, advanced multi-tier affiliate plugin features (Binary, Forced Matrix, Unilevel) are available exclusively in the premium version.

= Is Affilia GDPR compliant? =
Yes. Affilia offers privacy-compliant affiliate tracking. It does not store personal data outside of your WordPress environment.

= How do affiliates track their performance? =
Every user gets a dedicated frontend **affiliate dashboard for WordPress** to view real-time stats, copy referral links, download banners, and generate QR codes.

= Can I automate payouts? =
Yes! The premium version integrates directly with PayPal and Stripe so you can pay your affiliates straight from your WordPress dashboard.

= Can I manually add commissions? =
Yes, site administrators have full control to manually assign or adjust commissions within the backend.

== Screenshots ==

1. Admin Dashboard, you can see information about the income generated by your affiliates.
2. Manage your Affiliates.
3. Setting up Commission.
4. Set Level-wise Commission.
5. All Referral links generated by affiliates.
6. Various Payment Methods for Affiliates.
7. Extra Feature Setting.
8. Manage the MLM Setting to generate the chain according to you.
9. Affiliate Dashboard Section Here affiliate can view all their earnings and get updates about their referral request.
10. The Affiliate Commission Section describe all the commissions set by the admin.
11. Tool Tab allows affiliates to generate links to their choice of product and generate custom banners.
12. The Affiliate Download Section allow you to get CVV of different categories.
13. In the payout section, an affiliate can choose their payment option.
14. The Affiliate Profile Section shows details of the affiliate.
15. The Affiliate MLM Section shows that the Plan and the commission set on the different levels by Admin.


== Installation ==

= Automatic installation =

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself, and you don't need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WooCommerce Order Coupon, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.

In the search field, type "Affilia Lite - Affiliate Program With MLM " and click Search Plugins. Once you've found our Affilia Lite - Affiliate Program With MLM  Plugin, you can view details about it, such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly, of course, you can install it by simply clicking "Install Now".

= Manual installation =

The manual installation method involves downloading our Affilia Lite - Affiliate Program With MLM Plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here (http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation).

== Changelog ==

= 3.3.0 – 2025-06-05 =
*Added a feature to set commission per affiliate.
*Added a feature to set commission per affiliate per category.
*Added a feature to set referral automation.
*Fixed the issue in csv generation feature.
*Other minor bug fixes.

= 3.2.3 - 2024-12-12 =
* Fixed the issue of commission generation for the latest varsion of WooCommerce
* Minor bug fixes and routine checks

= 3.2.2 - 2024-11-27 =
* Bug fixed in the dashboard tab of the admin panel

= 3.2.1 - 2024-10-07 =
* Compatibility check with the latest version of PHP, WordPress and WooCommerce
* Minor bug fixes

= 3.2.0 - 2024-10-01 =
* Added a feature for the admin to enable/disable email verification during registration
* Added a feature for the admin to view the paid and unpaid amounts of an affiliate.
* Fixes the issue at the admin dashboard

= 3.1.0 - 2024-06-01 =
* Added a feature for affiliates to create their own referrals
* Fixed the bug occurring in the customise email tab
* Strengthened the security of the CSV feature
* Minor bug fixes

= 3.0.0 - 2024-04-26 =
* Feature added to generate a CSV of affiliates by administrator
* Feature added to share the affiliate link through social media
* Fix the issue that occurs in the affiliate tool tab
* Minor bug fixes

= 2.7.0 - 2024-02-19 =
* Feature added to set commission for affiliates between a date range
* Feature added to see the name of the member through which the affiliate receive commission
* Improve the Woocommerce HPOS feature
* Minor bug fixes

= 2.6.0 - 2024-01-04 =
* Improve Affiliate link generation workflow
* Improve the design of the custom banner tab
* Minor bug fixes

= 2.5.0 - 2023-11-04 =
* Compatibility with WooCommerce HPOS
* Enhanced User Security issues
* Compatible with WordPress 8.2.1
* Compatible with WordPress 6.3.2
* Minor bug fixes

= 2.4.0 - 2023-08-22 =
* Improve the commission generation workflow
* Fix the issue at the Dashboard Overview tab
* Fix the bug on the approve commission
* Compatible with WordPress 6.3.0
* Minor bug fixes

= 2.3.0 - 2023-04-29 =
* Introduced Customize email feature for affiliates
* Compatible with the latest version of PHP, wordpress and woocommerce
* Minor bug fixes

= 2.2.0 - 2022-11-24 =
* Introduced Rank feature option in the "Extra Feature" Tab
* Add Paystack Payment option for payout in the "Extra Feature => Payment" Tab
* Minor bug fixed

= 2.1.1 - 2022-07-30 =
* Introduced the wp-user option for the "Affiliate" Tab
* Compatible with WordPress 6.0.1
* Minor bug fixed

= 2.1.0 - 2022-02-02 =
* Introduced Notification option for "Extra Features" Tab
* Introduced Coupons for Affiliates
* Minor bug fixed

= 2.0.2 - 2021-08-25 =
* Introduced product-wise fixed and percentage commission
* Minor bug fixed
* Tested up to WP 5.7.1

= 2.0.1 - 2021-06-26 =
* Introduce "Title for Button" so that this user can change the title according to them
* Introduce "Benefits for being an Affiliate" for this user, and change the heading according to them
* Minor bug fixed

= 2.0.0 - 2021-05-06 =
* Introduce the MLM concept now the affiliate parent will get the MLM commission on every sale made by Affiliate
* Introduce percentage commission option for "Commission per Product"
* Introduce percentage commission option for "Commission for All Products"
* Minor bug fixed
* Tested up to WP 5.7.1

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial Release