Connect PayPal subscription to affiliate for recurring commission

[sawyerjw]

I have an affiliate who referred several sales to my site. Those products are actually subscription services. I want the affiliate to be paid a fixed amount every time the subscriber renews. This works great except when the subscriber somehow bypasses the affiliate’s referral link.

This happened in at least two cases with one affiliate. So far, I’ve credited the commission manually each month. At the moment, it’s not that big a deal, but when things grow as I expect them to, I would guess I will run into this issue more often.

Is there a way to connect an existing PayPal subscription to an affiliate when the plugin didn’t pick it up automatically?

Thanks in advance.

[admin]

If a visitor didn’t click on an affiliate link then the plugin has no way of knowing that the sale was referred by an affiliate. Why do you want to give commission to an affiliate when it didn’t really come via a referral link?

The following addon might work for you (I am not 100% sure though). Once you give ONE commission manually, then this addon should give the other commissions from that customer to the affiliate.

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/lock-customers-affiliates-addon

[sawyerjw]

Thanks for the response. In this case, I know the referral came from this particular affiliate because that’s the only way the client would have known about my service. The affiliate did use her link, but for whatever reason, it didn’t register when the client signed up. It could be for any of several reasons, but my guess would be that they signed up from a different computer than they received the link on and went directly to the site without using the affiliate link on the second machine. Not a far-fetched scenario at all. I’ve had the same thing happen when I’ve been an affiliate and referred someone to a product via my affiliate link.

In any case, I’ll try the add-on and thanks for the pointer to that.

[Author]

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