AffiliateWP – Lifetime Commissions – Reward Affiliates for Every Future Purchase
AffiliateWP – Lifetime Commissions add-on creates a permanent connection between a customer and an affiliate, ensuring that the affiliate earns a commission on all future purchases made by that customer.
This feature acts as a strong motivator for affiliates, encouraging them to promote your products and services with greater enthusiasm. By creating long-term partnerships between affiliates and customers, your sales can increase significantly.
Even if a customer clears their browser cookies or changes devices, the affiliate will still receive a commission, ensuring they are continually rewarded for their referrals.
How AffiliateWP Works – Lifetime Commissions
Once a customer clicks on a partner’s referral link and makes a purchase, they are permanently connected to that partner. Any future transactions made by the customer—whether through direct visits or later returns—will generate commissions for the same partner. A customer can only be connected to one partner at a time.
If a customer checks out as a guest, their email address is used to identify the existing link. For logged in users, their WordPress user ID provides accurate tracking.
In addition, if a customer updates their email address in their profile or uses a different one during checkout, the system will save the new email address while maintaining the connection with the partner. This ensures that commissions will continue to be calculated accordingly.
Benefits
- Increases overall sales because affiliates are more motivated to generate traffic and conversions.
- Guarantees affiliate commissions even if customers switch devices, clear their cookies, or make a purchase as a guest.
- Partners can build a larger network of connected customers, increasing long-term sales potential.
Functions
- Enable global lifetime commissions or set them up for specific partners.
- Set lifetime referral rates for your entire site or for individual partners.
- Manually connect registered customers to partners in your WordPress admin panel.
- Add or remove lifetime customer connections as needed.
- Set time limits for how long a lifetime commission relationship remains active.
- Transfer clients from one partner to another in the WordPress admin interface.
