AffiliateWP External Referral Links

Most affiliate setups track referrals only on the main site. That becomes a problem when your offer lives on another domain, or when you use third-party landing pages. Affiliates who send visitors there can lose credit for the traffic they bring, which makes the program harder to run fairly.

This add-on works with the AffiliateWP tracking engine so referrals from external URLs are still attributed to the right affiliate. You register and manage the external URLs from your affiliate program dashboard. Affiliates can then promote those pages on social media, forums or partner sites. It suits stores and programs that spread their marketing across more than one domain.

Features

• Cross-domain referral tracking: Visits and referrals are tracked when affiliates send people to a completely different domain, so affiliates are credited for sales and leads generated on external sites.
• Works with AffiliateWP: The add-on extends the tracking already built into AffiliateWP, so external URLs are handled by the same system you use for your existing affiliate program.
• Multiple external landing pages: Affiliates can promote a variety of external pages rather than a single destination, which gives them more room to match a page to their audience.
• Real-time referral attribution: Referrals that come from external links are recorded as they happen, which supports timely and accurate commission reporting for your affiliates.
• External URL management: Register and manage external URLs from within your affiliate program dashboard, so you can see which outside pages are set up for promotion.
• Flexible promotion channels: Affiliates can drive traffic from social media, forums or partner sites straight to relevant landing pages while their referrals continue to be tracked.
• Multi-domain referral insights: Because external referrals are tracked, you get a clearer view of how affiliate campaigns perform across the different domains you run.

Best for

• Businesses running offers across several domains
• Programs that use third-party landing pages
• Affiliate managers rewarding off-site promotion fairly