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Wordpress Affiliate System

by Go4DBest
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Hello Fellow Warriors,

I hope I can pick the brain of the members who have tried setting up an affiliate system in wordpress.

So this is what we want to achieve. Let's say we have a product and it's price is 1000 USD. With this affiliate system, for example if we set that the affiliate person will receive 10%. Once there's a successful sale, the 10% amount will be sent directly to the affiliate person's bank directly and the 90% of course will be sent to us, the product owner/vendor.

We have tried woocommerce and a certain affiliate addon plugin but the problem is we can't automate the payment to the affiliate guys.

Your input will be highly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
    I would pay out a little more than 10%. If you want affiliates to actually do free advertising for your products, at least pay out 40 -50%.

    I never promote anything unless it pays at least 40% commissions.

    This will create incentive.

    Now in regards to your payment issue, most vendors collect payment using their own merchant accounts and then manually payout commissions once a month or once a week.

    Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      40% of $1,000 is $400. Far more than is needed. 10-15% is more than enough.


      There are affiliates all over this form who work for $20 a sale... If marketing this product costs them $380, they're still getting their $20. However, if marketing this product is costing them, say $50/sale, at $100 a sale, they're making 2.5 times more than they do marketing their $20 sale.



      The high commission percentages are for digital products or for when the $1000 product is the seller's entry level product and other products sell for thousands.

      Originally Posted by Rory Singh View Post

      I would pay out a little more than 10%. If you want affiliates to actually do free advertising for your products, at least pay out 40 -50%.

      I never promote anything unless it pays at least 40% commissions.

      This will create incentive.

      Now in regards to your payment issue, most vendors collect payment using their own merchant accounts and then manually payout commissions once a month or once a week.

      Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
      Originally Posted by Rory Singh View Post

      I would pay out a little more than 10%. If you want affiliates to actually do free advertising for your products, at least pay out 40 -50%.
      I never promote anything unless it pays at least 40% commissions.
      This will create incentive.
      In my experience, the main factors affiliates take into account are the actual dollar amount per sale and the conversion rate. Percentages mean nothing if any sale results in a few bucks or if the conversions suck.

      If the OP's product sells at $1,000 and an affiliate earns 10%, that compares nicely to all the 100% commission products that give an affiliate $10 just to help build the seller's list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    The question by the OP appears to be asking HOW to manage the affiliate sale - HOW to split the payment automatically.... I think the numbers listed were meant as examples only.
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    • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      The question by the OP appears to be asking HOW to manage the affiliate sale - HOW to split the payment automatically.... I think the numbers listed were meant as examples only.
      That's true, but we can still respond to points raised in other posts.

      To the OP, there are fewer instant commission affiliate programs today than there used to be. That's partially because of the risk of fraud and changes made to the APIs of some of the payment platforms. I'd ask if paying commissions instantly and automatically is a deal breaker, or whether you'd be willing to delay payment. There'd probably be more options available if you went the latter route.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesMill
    I personally don't recommend Wordpress at all for that direct payment because you won't have the ability (or at least I've yet to see a tool available) to do all your upsells and integrate it properly into the system as well as a custom PHP site can. My site is built on PHP and because of that, it's been able to be a custom system with a direct payment processor via Paypal for all payments to affiliates, upsells inside, etc. It's basically full proof and I simply bought a duplicate of someone else's website that was built like this purely for this ability.

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