Affiliates get 10% commission, and customers get 20% off, when buying products that are excluded.

Discover how to provide Affiliates with 10% commission and customers get 20% discounts when purchasing products that aren't included in the rule.

Example scenario:

• Affiliates earn a 10% commission per sale, while the customer gets a 20% discount when they purchase products from those categories that aren't included in the rule.

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Let’s take a look at the below example in detail.

Example 3: Affiliates earn a 10% commission per sale, while the customer gets a 20% discount when they purchase products from those categories that aren't included in the rule.

In this setup, if a purchase is made through an affiliate's link or with a coupon code for the products of a category that isn’t mentioned as an exception in the rule, Then the Affiliate is rewarded with a 10% commission for the sale, while the customer also receives a 20% discount for the same. This strategy benefits both the affiliate and their customers as well.

To set up this program and make it live or to test it, you need to follow three steps:

• Step 1: Create a Program

• Step 2: Create a Rule

• Step 3: Assigning an Affiliate to the program

Step 1: Creating a Program

• Go to WordPress backend -> WPRelay -> Manage -> Programs

• Click on the "Create Program" button.

Program Configuration

Program title: Give a title for the Program. ‘10% commission for Affiliates - Specific Categories’.

Validity: Set up the start date as well as the expiration dates.

Affiliate Commission: Choose “Rule-Based” as the type of commission.

Customer Discount: Enter the type of Discount that has to be offered to the customers. That is ‘Percentage’ and enter the Percentage value 20%.

Free shipping is an optional feature that can be enabled by clicking on the checkbox.

Additionally, the user limits can also be set up to limit the usage count of the Coupon for the affiliate as well as for the customer.

Step 2: Create a Rule The Rule tab will be enabled once the Affiliate commission in the program is checked as “Rule-Based”.

Rule Configuration

Rule title: Give a title for the Rule. ‘10% commission for Affiliates’.

Product/ Category: Enter the option ‘All Categories except these’ and enter the Categories that should be excluded in the Tab.

Commission Type: Select the Discount as Percentage and enter the value as 10%. Also, there is an option to set a fixed discount.

Conditions: Select which affiliate this rule should be applied to. This could apply to all affiliates or just a subset of them.

General: Upload the product description and set the validity.

Step 3: Assigning an Affiliate to the program

• Go to WordPress backend -> WPRelay -> Affiliates

• Click on the "Create Affiliate" button.

The cart page displays a 20% discount for the customer when a purchase is made using the affiliate’s link:

After the customer has successfully completed the order through the affiliate’s link, the affiliate will receive a 10% commission calculated from the amount of that specific product that the customer has ordered.

Screenshot of My account -> WPRelay page showing 10 % commission earned by an Affiliate after 2 referrals:

Admins or store owners, if you adjust customer discounts or modify affiliate programs from the "Affiliate" tab, be aware that updates to Affiliate Coupons (in Woocommerce -> Marketing -> Coupons) may take up to a minute due to changes being applied through a scheduled cron job.

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