Displaying the Affiliate company name to the Visitor

[jshockley2]

I know there is a short code to display the Affiliate ID to the visitor, but it there a way to display the company name of the affiliate to the visitor?

[admin]

We added a new shortcode in the affiliate plugin recently that should help you do that.

1) Download a new copy of the affiliate plugin so you get this new shortcode:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/re-install-or-load-a-fresh-build-of-the-plugins

2) See the documentation here on how to use this shortcode:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/manually-setting-the-affiliate-id-and-showing-the-affiliate-id-of-the-referrer

[jshockley2]

Great that worked perfect. Thanks for all the help and great plugins.

[jerryc]

This seems related enough to put it in this thread rather than starting a new one.

Like many sites, I offer only a free membership to visitors; paid memberships are only offered to free members. By the time somebody moves from a visitor to a free member to a paying member, they may have clicked on links to my site from more than one affiliate.

As I understand it, the way wpaffiliate works now, (not counting expiration options) I have only two choices for all paid membership purchases:

1. The first referring affiliate gets the commissions.

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2. The last referring affiliate gets the commissions.

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Neither solution seems ideal to me. (Although there’s so much right about your software that I could live with either.)

What I’d like, if possible, (and I expect other users would, too) would be to keep an array of all referring affiliates. Then, when a free member makes an upgrade to paid membership, if there is more than one referring affiliate, the member can choose which affiliate most inspired the involvement. For me, this would probably be best done with radio buttons, with the referrers listed in descending date order (although some users will probably want it ascending), and the default checked choice being the last referrer (although some users will probably want the first one to be the default).

I’d want to say something like:

[blockquote]

You were referred to our site by more than one of our affiliates. Please select which of the following affiliates most inspired your membership upgrade:

[radio checked] [last referring affiliate]

[radio] [2nd to last referring affiliate]

[radio] [3rd to last referring affiliate]

…

[/blockquote]

Is this possible?

Thanks for your great software and great support.

[Author]

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