Affiliate Plugin being used on Wishlist Membership Site with PayPal Integration

[braintrainer]

Hi. I am using wishlist member on a wordpress site with paypal integration for my payment gateway using subscriptions. I have your affiliate platform set up. I would like to offer my affiliates commission payments for every monthly subscription payment for every new member they send to the site. Is it possible to code this into my site somehow.

I know i can do this with estore but i don’t know if i can get estore to integrate with my wishlist site?? i’m not that fluent in this membership setup just yet. i am under the impression that wishlist would need to integrate with my shopping cart which would be estore and estore would then integrate with paypal.

question: can i offer affiliate commission on monthly subscriptions for each monthly subscription payment without using estore??

Thanks for any guidance. My affiliates are waiting to sign up and I hope I did not promise something I can’t deliver. :-0

Colleen Bain MA ED

[http://www.braintrainerconnect.com] – membership site (this is site I need help with)

[http://www.els4kids.com] – i have estore and affiliate on this site already.

[braintrainer]

My friend just emailed me the page that shows promise for me integrating wishlist with estore. http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-estore-and-wishlist-plugin-integration-448

However I need to ask if estore can be integrated with this version of wishlist: v2.61. My developers told me not to upgrade wishlist or wordpress because all of their programming may not work? So .. I am under the impression I am never upgrading at this point. Any thoughts?

Thanks Colleen

[admin]

Hi, Yes, eStore will work with the latest version of WishList members plugin.

I am a little concerned for you for the following statement:

"I am under the impression I am never upgrading at this point"

Is that a situation you really want to be?

[braintrainer]

No .. i don’t want to be in that situation. I was given that statement from contracted developers and now left with the fear if i update the membership site my fall apart. I will figure it out somehow.

Good news! i got everything working between Wishlist/paypal/estore and now i just have to test out affiliate.

Thanks

Colleen

[Roger MacRae]

braintrainer, not upgrading is just not realistic. I have wishlist and estore and wpaffiliate all set up and all the most current versions as well as having the most recent version of wordpress.

It all works great. In fact it all works better than earlier version so go ahead and upgrade away.

If your developers are telling you to never upgrade then you need new developers

[royhenig]

hi,

as i understand, the affiliate plugin will grant my affiliates their fees every month as long as the member referred by them keeps his subscription. and it will be transferred from my paypal account to their paypal account. is that right?

also, is that dependent on the shopping gateway to be paypal, or any gatway connected to the estore plugin will do?

thanks alot.

these are my sites where this would work:

[http://bemybest.co.il/]

[http://royhenig.co.il/]

[admin]

Your affiliates will earn commission. You then later pay them out. It doesn’t automatically transfer any fund from your account.

Please read the following documentation:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/managing-affiliate-commission-payouts

Also, fully read the following page to understand how an affiliate software works:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/how-the-wordpress-affiliate-platform-works-14

[royhenig]

thanks.

my question is specific to membership customers.

so if the shopping cart is the estore plugin, the affiliate plugin recognizes that the subscriber monthly fee was paid, and the affiliates commission is registered each month?

and this happens regardless of the gateway type?

i want to integrate a gateway that is not any of those included in your addons.

thanks alot

[wzp]

1. When a user “buys” a subscription; eStore contacts the Payment Gateway (E.g. PayPal) which creates a recurring payment “contract” between the buyer and the payment processor (E.g. PayPal).

    

2. If at any time, the buyer tells the payment processor to “cancel” the contract, an IPN is sent to eStore, and the appropriate actions are taken.

    

3. Each time a recurring payment is due, the payment processor bills the user, and then sends an IPN to eStore; indicating the success or failure of the payment.

   • Failed payments result in the appropriate actions being taken.
   • Successful payments result in Affiliate Platform “crediting” the locally maintained (within the plugin) commission balance of the affiliate.

      

4. At manually determined (by you) intervals (usually once a month), the site owner manually reviews the commission balances of all affiliates and manually issues payments.

    

Was this explanation clearer, concerning affiliate payments and subscriptions?

[admin]

Yes, if you are using eStore and the affiliate plugin together then ALL recurring payment commissions work fine for the payment gateways that we currently offer.

We have action hook in the affiliate plugin that you can use to track/record commissions from your custom code (if you want to). The following documentation explains how you can record a commission from your custom code using a hook:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/api-awarding-commission-via-wordpress-hook-501

[royhenig]

thank you both

[royhenig]

thanks again.

now, i have estore and wp affiliiate.

as i live in israel, i want to connect a different gateway then those in the bundle.

how do i do it?

do i connect estore or the affiliate plugin to the gateway?

is there an API in order to connect to estore?

i do have a wordpress developer.

[admin]

It will probably be easier for you to connect it directly with the affiliate plugin. The affiliate plugin has the following API that can be used to award commission from your custom gateway code.

Your developer should be able to read the following and understand it:

API – Awarding Commission Via WordPress Hook

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/awarding-commission-via-http-get-or-post-189

[royhenig]

so i dont use estore?

how is buying the subscription is done in the first place?

[royhenig]

again i ask for clarification:

as i understood, buying the subscription is done through estore, which is integrated with the affiliate plugin, which grands commission to the affiliate referring the customer. as my product is a membership site, the gateway connect to estore about the recurring payments been made by subscribers, and estore notifies the affiliate plugin to grant new commission.

if i connect the affiliate plugin by API directly to the gateway (my gateway in Israel), how is the subscription being bought in the first place?

please clear this issue for me.

Thanks a lot,

Roy

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