About this plugin
Build and manage your own affiliate program directly inside WooCommerce.
Polanger Affiliate System for WooCommerce gives you the essential tools to recruit affiliates, track referrals and sales, calculate commissions, manage withdrawals, and give affiliates their own performance dashboard — without relying on a separate affiliate platform.
The Core is a complete affiliate system, not a limited demo. Install it for free, launch your affiliate program, and extend it with optional modular addons only when you need additional capabilities.
Run Your Affiliate Program Inside WooCommerce
Customers can apply to become affiliates directly from their WooCommerce My Account area.
Once approved, each affiliate receives a unique referral link and access to an affiliate dashboard where they can monitor clicks, sales, earnings, pending commissions and withdrawal availability.
Store managers can manage the complete affiliate workflow from WordPress:
- Review and approve affiliate applications.
- Generate and track unique affiliate referral links.
- Track referral clicks and WooCommerce sales.
- Automatically record commissions for eligible orders.
- View affiliate sales, revenue, earnings and conversion performance.
- Review referral, commission and payout histories.
- Manage withdrawal requests and payment information.
- Export commission records to CSV.
- Configure commission rates, referral cookie duration and withdrawal rules.
From the first referral click to the final payout record, the affiliate workflow stays connected to your WooCommerce store.
Affiliate Dashboard
Approved affiliates get their own dashboard inside WooCommerce My Account.
Affiliates can:
- Access and copy their personal referral link.
- Monitor referral clicks.
- Track affiliate sales.
- View paid earnings and pending commissions.
- Review recent referral activity.
- See available and pending withdrawal balances.
- Submit withdrawal requests.
- Manage their payout information.
- Edit their affiliate profile.
Affiliates get the information they need to promote your store while you retain control over the program.
Commission and Referral Management
Polanger Affiliate automatically connects eligible completed WooCommerce orders with affiliate referrals and records the corresponding commissions.
The Core includes safeguards and commission-management features for real WooCommerce workflows, including:
- Configurable global commission rates.
- Configurable referral cookie duration.
- Self-referral prevention.
- Duplicate-commission protection.
- Partial refund commission adjustments.
- Cancelled and refunded order handling.
- Pending and paid commission records.
- WooCommerce order CRUD support.
- WooCommerce HPOS compatibility.
Commission and financial history remain available to store managers for review and reconciliation.
Withdrawal Management
Affiliates can request withdrawals when their eligible balance reaches the minimum amount configured by the store.
Store managers can configure:
- Minimum withdrawal amount.
- Withdrawal waiting period.
- A custom explanation for the waiting period.
- Affiliate payout information.
- Withdrawal approval and completion workflow.
The waiting period can be used to keep commissions unavailable for withdrawal until your refund period has passed.
Polanger Affiliate records payout information and withdrawal status, but does not transfer money automatically.
Payments are made separately by the store owner. After payment has been sent through the chosen payment provider, the withdrawal can be marked as completed inside Polanger Affiliate.
Free Modular Addons Included
Polanger Affiliate uses a modular architecture so you can enable additional capabilities without turning the Core into an oversized all-in-one plugin.
Two addons are included with the free distribution:
- Affiliate Link Tools — Give affiliates additional promotional tools including product-specific referral links, social sharing and locally generated QR codes.
- Affiliate Leaderboard — Create a public affiliate ranking page with configurable display and privacy options.
Enable or disable these features under PG Affiliate > Addons.
Neither included addon requires a license key.
Extend Polanger Affiliate with Optional Addons
When your affiliate program needs more advanced capabilities, Polanger Affiliate can be extended with independently installed addons.
Available premium extensions include:
- Advanced Analytics — Visualize affiliate revenue, commissions, clicks, conversions and performance trends.
- Tiered Commissions — Automatically increase commission rewards as affiliates reach configured sales milestones.
- Coupon System — Let affiliates create controlled WooCommerce discount coupons and promotional offers.
- Product & Category Commissions — Set custom affiliate commission rates for specific WooCommerce products and categories.
- Lifetime Referral — Keep eligible returning customers connected to the affiliate who referred them.
- Recurring Commissions — Generate commissions from eligible subscription renewal payments.
- Webhooks & REST API — Connect affiliate activity with external applications, automation platforms and custom systems.
Recurring Commissions requires Lifetime Referral and a compatible subscription integration.
Premium addons are separate WordPress plugins. org package and they are not required to operate Polanger Affiliate Core.
All functionality shipped inside the free package works without a license key or paid activation.
Start Simple. Expand When You Need More.
You should not have to load every possible affiliate feature just because you might need it someday.
Start with the Core.
Enable the included free tools you want.
Install advanced addons only when your affiliate program needs them.
One affiliate system. Add the capabilities that fit your business.
Privacy and Data
The Core does not send telemetry or affiliate records to Polanger or another external service.
Email notifications use the site’s configured WordPress mail system and are sent to the store administrator or the affected affiliate.
The pas_ref cookie stores a referral code for 30 days by default. The duration is configurable from 1 to 365 days, and only approved affiliate codes are accepted.
Referral tracking respects marketing consent from the WordPress Consent API when installed. Stores using another consent manager can connect it through the pas_pro_allow_referral_tracking filter.
Store owners are responsible for configuring consent and privacy disclosures appropriate to their site.
Stored data includes affiliate user IDs, names, email addresses, referral codes, payout details, associated order IDs, commissions and withdrawal history.
New click records contain a site-specific hash of the visitor IP for repeat-click control. Raw IP addresses and user-agent strings are not stored.
Click records are removed after 30 days by default. The retention period is configurable in the plugin settings. Previously collected click records age out under the same retention rule.
Suggested privacy-policy text is available in WordPress.
Tools > Export Personal Data includes affiliate and payout records.
Erase Personal Data removes clicks and accounts without financial history. Financial records and their associated account details are retained for store-administrator review, and the erasure response reports this retention.
Deactivation preserves plugin data.
Uninstall permanently deletes the plugin’s tables, options and metadata.
Requirements
Polanger Affiliate System for WooCommerce requires:
- WordPress 6.5 or newer.
- PHP 7.4 or newer.
- An active WooCommerce installation.
- InnoDB tables for financial operations.
- Database permission to acquire the named lock required by versioned schema migrations.
If a required database migration cannot be completed, Polanger Affiliate displays an actionable error instead of silently continuing with an incomplete database structure.
Documentation and Demo
Documentation:
html
Demo:
com/polanger-affiliate-pro
Pro Addons:
com/product/polanger-affiliate-system-for-woocommerce/
Bundled Libraries
js by David Shim under the MIT license.
Source:
com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs
The vendor license is included with the library.
QR generation happens locally. No external QR service receives the referral link.
Share destinations open only when the visitor chooses a share button.
Affiliate Leaderboard names and rankings are publicly visible when the store enables its public leaderboard page. Enable the available anonymization option when appropriate for your site’s privacy requirements.