7 Best WordPress Affiliate Manager Plugins For 2024

Do you want to launch and manage your own affiliate program from the comfort of your WordPress site?

In this list, we’ve rounded up the best WordPress affiliate manager plugins from around the WordPress industry.

They allow you to set commission rates with different parameters, automatically approve affiliates, issue mass payouts in one click and more.

The best WordPress affiliate manager plugins

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1. AffiliateWP

With a customer base of over 30,000 business owners, AffiliateWP is one of the most popular WordPress affiliate plugins on this list.

It allows you to create and manage an affiliate program from your WordPress site through integrations with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, LearnDash, MemberPress and more.

Integrations can be enabled with a single click, so setup is incredibly easy.

Key features

• Manual and automatic affiliate approvals.
• Track clicks, commissions and sales on a per-affiliate basis.
• Offer marketing materials, including banners, to affiliates, and create categories to organize them.
• 1-click payouts to pay all affiliates through Stripe or PayPal.
• Customizable affiliate dashboard where affiliate marketers can track their earnings, download marketing materials and create pretty affiliate links.
• Allow affiliates to create special coupons.
• Personalized landing pages for individual affiliates.
• Showcase an affiliate leaderboard to incentivize competitive affiliate marketers.
• Fraud protection.

Pros

• Unlimited affiliates, commissions and payouts available on all plans.
• Lets you offer lifetime commissions and tiered affiliate rates.
• Multiple payout options, including store credit, direct bank transfers and debit card payouts.
• Support for over 30 languages.
• As WordPress’ #1 affiliate plugin, you can expect to find numerous third-party integrations for this plugin throughout the WordPress ecosystem.

Cons

• Some features, such as lifetime commissions and custom landing pages for individual affiliates, are locked behind the plugin’s most expensive subscription tier ($599/year).

Pricing

Starts at $149.50 (Personal Plan; 1 Site) for your first year. Renew at $299/year for continued access to plugin updates and standard support.

A 14-day, money-back guarantee refund is available in lieu of a free trial.

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2. Solid Affiliate

Solid Affiliate is one of the best WordPress affiliate plugins for WooCommerce.

In fact, it integrates with WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions automatically as soon as you install the plugin on your site.

This makes it a fantastic affiliate plugin to use if you operate an ecommerce store from your WordPress website.

Key features

• Manual affiliate approvals.
• Track affiliate performance.
• Offer marketing materials to affiliates.
• Notifications available for your team (new applications) and affiliates (new commissions).
• Proprietary, drag-and-drop form builder.
• Affiliate Portal, where affiliates can create new links, review referrals and download marketing materials.
• Assign WooCommerce coupons to individual affiliates.
• Use different commission rates for individual products and affiliates.
• Lifetime commissions.
• Recurring referrals for subscriptions.
• Disable commissions for specific products.
• Personalized affiliate landing pages.
• Fraud protection.

Pros

• Unlimited affiliates and commissions available for all plans.
• All features available on all plans. Plans are only distinguishable by the number of stores you want to install the plugin on.
• Integrates with WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions automatically.
• Custom payout terms, including automatic payouts.
• Store credit available as a payout option.
• Supports 12 languages.

Cons

• Expensive if you have two or three stores as only two subscription tiers are available, one for one store and one for 10 stores.
• Only integrates with WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions.
• Affiliate applications require manual approval.
• Other than store credit, only PayPal is available as a payout option.

Pricing

Starts at $99 (Store Owner; 1 WooCommerce Store) for your first year after a 7-day free trial. Renew at $199/year for continued access to support and updates.

A 30-day, money-back guarantee is also available.

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3. SliceWP

SliceWP is a simple WordPress affiliate plugin designed as a way to give WordPress users an easy way to create and manage their own affiliate programs.

It was created as an alternative to affiliate manager plugins that have too many options and are unintuitive for affiliates to use.

As such, SliceWP is easy to set up and integrate with a number of different plugins, including WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress and more.

Key features

• Manual or automatic approvals of new affiliates.
• Track affiliate performance.
• Proprietary application form.
• Social sharing buttons enabled on affiliate dashboard.
• Custom commission rates for individual affiliates and products.
• Create custom referral links for affiliates.
• Assign custom coupons to affiliates.
• Dedicated frontend affiliate pages where affiliates can track their earnings.
• Recurring commissions for subscriptions.
• Lifetime commissions.
• Customizable email notifications.
• Create affiliate landing pages for individual affiliates.
• Link SliceWP with a contact form to enable affiliates to earn commissions from form submissions.
• Affiliate leaderboard.

Pros

• Unlimited affiliates.
• All features available on all plans. Plans only differ by the number of sites (one or 10) you need and level of support available (priority or VIP).
• Multiple payouts available, including store credit.
• Mass payouts available.

Cons

• Affiliates can’t create their own affiliate links.
• Can’t offer marketing materials to affiliates.
• Payouts only available via PayPal.

Pricing

A limited free version is available to install from the WordPress dashboard.

Pricing for the premium version starts at $169 (Pro; 1 Site) for your first year. Renew at $229/year for continued access to plugin updates and priority support.

A 30-day refund is available.

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4. Easy Affiliate

Easy Affiliate is an affiliate manager plugin that’s part of a family of popular WordPress plugins, including MemberPress, ThirstyAffiliates and Pretty Links.

Easy Affiliate is the missing link between these plugins.

While affiliate marketing plugin ThirstyAffiliates gives affiliate marketers an easy way to cloak affiliate links and insert them in WordPress posts, Easy Affiliate allows you to create your own affiliate program.

If you operate a membership site with MemberPress, you can allow affiliates to promote your service in exchange for commissions on every subscription they bring to your site.

The plugin also integrates with WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads.

Key features

• Manual affiliate approvals.
• Track affiliate performance.
• Offer different commission rates for different affiliates.
• Issue commissions for recurring referrals.
• Tiered commissions.
• Separate dashboard for affiliates to manage their accounts and create custom affiliate links.
• Allow affiliates to download premade marketing materials from the affiliate dashboard.
• Built-in support for Pretty Links.
• Fraud protection.

Pros

• Unlimited affiliates and tracking requests.
• Includes customizer options so you can change styles to suit your brand.
• One-click mass payouts available.
• Integrates with popular email marketing services.
• Ad-block proof.

Cons

• Because the developer owns one of the most popular membership plugins available for WordPress, they don’t offer integrations for other membership plugins.
• Only payout source is PayPal.
• Some features and integrations only available with the plugin’s most expensive plans.

Pricing

Starts at $99.50 (Basic; 1 Site) for your first year. Renew at $199/year for future plugin updates and standard support.

A 14-day, money-back guarantee is available for refunds.

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5. Ultimate Affiliate Pro

Ultimate Affiliate Pro is one of the best-selling affiliate marketing plugins of all time.

It’s affordable, easy to use and has every option your affiliate program needs.

It integrates with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and Ultimate Membership Pro.

Key features

• Track affiliate performance.
• Different commission rates for affiliates and products.
• Commissions for affiliates who generate leads, clicks or other actions for your site.
• Offer bonus commissions when affiliates hit specific milestones.
• Offer tiered commision rates.
• Recurring referrals.
• Lifetime commissions.
• Achievements for affiliates.
• Distribute branded marketing materials to affiliates.
• Payouts through PayPal and Stripe.
• Store credit available as a flat-rate discount.
• Easy social sharing of affiliate links available for affiliates.
• Customizable account page.
• Notifications available for affiliates and site administrators.
• Create affiliate coupons.
• Display a leaderboard.
• Comes with themes for affiliate dashboard and login page.

Pros

• Unlimited affiliates.
• Multiple payout options.
• You can enable a feature that lets affiliates earn commissions from their own purchases.
• Integrates with many email marketing platforms.
• Create custom affiliate links and pretty affiliate links.
• While other plugins on this list are designed to complement your theme, this plugin has 26 templates that enable you to switch between different looks.

Cons

• Not as many membership integrations as some of the other plugins on this list since the developer only has an integration for its own membership plugin.

Pricing

One-time fee of $69. Extend support for $24-$56.

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6. Tapfiliate

Tapfiliate is part of the Admitad ecosystem.

Admitad is an advertising solution used by such advertisers as Adobe, Booking.com, Amazon, Samsung and more as well as such publishers as Opera, Oberlo and Tabby.

Tapfiliate is a similar type of product, only this one enables brands to take advertising into their own hands by creating an affiliate marketing program.

Tapfiliate is an affiliate management software that integrates with a number of different content management systems, including WordPress and popular ecommerce plugin WooCommerce.

Key features

• Manual and automatic affiliate recruitment.
• Track performance of individual affiliates.
• Product-specific commission rates.
• Recurring commissions.
• Tiered commissions.
• Lifetime commissions.
• Unique affiliate links and coupons for each affiliate.
• Custom commission rates for different affiliate groups.
• Give new customers affiliate links.
• Social sharing.
• Payouts available through Stripe and PayPal.
• White label and custom domains available for branded affiliate dashboard.

Pros

• Automation included.
• Automatic affiliate recruitment thanks to customer affiliate links.
• Customizable cookie time.
• Integrates with numerous apps and email marketing services.
• Integrates with Admitad’s publishing network, allowing over 100,000 publishers to join your affiliate program easily.

Cons

• Very expensive. The cheapest annual plan costs three times as much as most of the other items on this list.
• Limits on the number of clicks, conversions and affiliates you can have per plan.
• No direct integrations with WordPress membership or LMS plugins.

Pricing

After a 14-day free trial, pricing for Tapfiliate starts at $89/month or $890/year (two months come free).

A 30-day, money-back guarantee is also available.

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7. WP Affiliate Manager

WP Affiliate Manager is another simple WordPress affiliate manager plugin.

It uses WordPress’ default UI as opposed to its own styles, but it still packs a punch as far as features go.

Key features

• Manual and automatic affiliate approvals.
• Track affiliate performance.
• Multiple commission rate options.
• PayPal and Stripe available as payout options.
• Mass payouts.
• Offer marketing materials to affiliates.
• Affiliate area where affiliates can access their own personal affiliate link, create additional links and download marketing materials.
• Customize affiliate form.
• Social sharing.
• Custom cookie duration.
• Notifications for affiliates when they earn commissions.

Pros

• Unlimited affiliates.
• Integrates with a number of different ecommerce, LMS and membership plugins.
• Allows you to make manual adjustments to affiliate earnings, so you can reward affiliates for click-through campaigns and more.
• Numerous integrations with email marketing services.

Cons

• Gets expensive since some features are only available as premium addons. For example, adding commission tracking for WooCommerce coupons, different commission rates for different products, bonus commissions and a MemberPress integration will cost an additional $119/year on top of the original subscription price of the plugin.
• No Easy Digital Downloads support.
• No LearnDash support.
• No Restrict Content Pro support.

Pricing

A free version of the plugin is available to install from the WordPress dashboard.

Pricing for the premium version starts at $39/year.

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Final thoughts

Choosing the best option out of a handful of WordPress plugins isn’t easy, but there are a few criteria you can consider to narrow your options down.

If you want a simple choice, AffiliateWP is a great option.

It’s affordable, has numerous integration options and has some of the most unique features out of all plugins on this list.

Plus, it has a dedicated affiliate area for members of your program to use, and you can even create custom landing pages for affiliates.

If you want to weigh your other choices, choose an affiliate plugin that makes sense for your budget and integrates with whatever ecommerce, membership or LMS solution you use.

For additional reading:

• The Latest Affiliate Marketing Statistics
• The Best Affiliate Marketing Plugins

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