AffiliateWP Signup Referrals Add-on

AffiliateWP Signup Referrals - Rewarding User Signups

AffiliateWP Signup Referrals is an extension for WordPress sites and the AffiliateWP affiliate system that allows you to earn commissions simply for new user signups. This solution tracks conversions from affiliate links during the signup process, making it easier to manage your affiliate program by acquiring new accounts instead of, or in addition to, product sales.

Key functionalities

• Registration Tracking: Assigning a referral to an affiliate when a referred user creates an account.
• Configurable calculation rules: specify whether the commission is fixed, percentage-based, based on user role or registration source.
• Filters and restrictions: ability to exclude specific user roles (e.g. administrators), email addresses, domains or IP addresses.
• Referral status control: default status settings (e.g. pending, unpaid, paid) and manual commission verification and approval.
• Registration Form Integration: Works with native WordPress registration and popular membership and registration extensions and plugins.
• Source Tracking: Identify and report on the campaigns, links, and affiliates that generated signups.
• Cookie duration settings: configure the validity period of referral tracking cookies.

Benefits for the website owner and the affiliate program

Implementing AffiliateWP Signup Referrals enhances the incentives of affiliate programs, allowing you to reward affiliates not only for sales but also for effectively acquiring new users. This makes the affiliate program more flexible and adaptable to various business models, such as social media platforms, educational platforms, subscription services, and sites with both paid and free accounts.

• Increased sign-ups: Affiliates are given an incentive to promote sign-ups, which accelerates the growth of their user base.
• Better ROI reporting: Tracking sign-ups as conversions allows you to more accurately assess the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.
• Billing flexibility: the ability to set different rates for registrations vs. sales increases control over user acquisition costs.
• Protection against fraud: filtering and manual referral approval reduces the risk of fraudulent registrations.

Applications and use cases

• Membership Services – Rewarding affiliates for bringing in new paid or free members.
• Online course platforms – encouraging course promoters to get sign-ups for lists or free webinars.
• Startups and SaaS apps – attract early-stage users through a sign-up-based referral program.
• Communities and premium content sites – build an active user base with rewards for creating an account.

Integration with existing AffiliateWP reports allows you to monitor campaign and affiliate signup performance, and a wide range of settings allows you to tailor the extension's functionality to your specific website. This makes AffiliateWP Signup Referrals a practical tool for any affiliate program looking to expand the definition of conversion to include user acquisition rather than just sales.