All you need to know about Affiliate

Affiliate Info allows you to display affiliate information based on the affiliate you are currently tracking. When a user clicks on an affiliate’s referral URL and arrives at their website, AffiliateWP stores the affiliate ID. Affiliate Info simply displays information based on the affiliate that is being tracked.

Suppose you have an affiliate named John who shares your referral URL. Any user who clicks on John’s referral link can now see a wealth of information about John, anywhere on his website.

You can show:

1. John WordPress Displayed Name
2. John’s website URL
3. John’s email address (be careful with this!)
4. John’s Gravatar image
5. John WordPress username
6. John’s biographical information (from his WordPress profile)
7. John’s Twitter username*
8. John’s Facebook URL*
9. John’s Google+ URL*
   There are currently 9 shortcodes to display the above information:

• [affiliate_info_name]
• [affiliate_info_website]
• [affiliate_info_email]
• [affiliate_info_gravatar]
• [affiliate_info_username]
• [affiliate_info_bio]
• [affiliate_info_twitter]* [affiliate_info_twitter]*
• [affiliate_info_facebook]*
• [affiliate_info_googleplus]*

There are also 2 shortcodes to wrap the above in:

[affiliate_info_referred]
It only displays content when an affiliate is in the process of being followed (example below).

[affiliate_info_not_referred]
Display content only when an affiliate is not being tracked. Useful if you need to provide a reserve.

If you are a developer, you can access this information directly with some useful PHP functions.

Affiliate Info also works with AffiliateWP’s Credit Last Referrer option, which means that the information changes every time you use a new referrer URL.

Some possible uses of this plugin are:

It shows the customer who referred them

Show a custom message based on the tracked partner. For example, “You were referred by John” or “Your site representative is John”. This builds trust between the partner and the user.

Here’s how you can do this:

Your site representative [affiliate_info_name]

To make this message only appear when an affiliate is being followed, you can use the [affiliate_info_referred] shortcode:

[affiliate_info_referred]Your site representative [affiliate_info_name][/affiliate_info_referred][/affiliate_info_referred]

Allows the site visitor to contact the affiliate.

There may be instances where affiliates are in direct contact with customers, so you can display the affiliate’s email address or social media accounts to reach them directly.

Create a landing page

Create a landing page for your products that show the current tracked affiliate’s information. This is especially useful if an affiliate does not have a website, or you want more control over how your products are advertised. Affiliates can link directly to your landing page with their referral URL, and their information will be displayed.