Magento 2 Affiliate Program Extension
Run your own affiliate program in Magento 2, without paying an affiliate network a cut of every commission. Affiliates promote your store with referral links, product links, banners, widgets and coupons, and earn per sale, click, lead or banner impression.
You set the rates by program, affiliate group and first or repeat order, see how each commission was calculated, and pay affiliates through PayPal, Skrill, your own method or store credit.
- 4 commission models: sale, click, lead, impression
- Referral links, banners, widgets and coupons
- Coupons credit orders without cookies
- Automatic move to higher-commission groups
- Commission breakdown for every order
- Scheduled payout requests
Affiliate networks and SaaS affiliate platforms charge you a fee or a cut on top of every commission you pay. Your affiliates, rates and payouts live in their system, and you run the program outside the store where your customers buy.
Mirasvit Affiliate runs the program inside Magento 2. Customers become affiliates from their account, share links, banners, widgets and coupons, and earn per sale, click, lead or impression. You pay them through PayPal, Skrill, your own method or store credit.
What you get with Magento 2 Affiliate
- Pay per sale, click, lead or 1,000 banner impressions
- As many programs as you need, each with its own dates, store views and customer groups
- A different rate for a customer's first order and repeat orders
- Affiliates move to a higher-commission group automatically as their sales grow
- Affiliate coupons credit the order even when the shopper declined cookies
- Commission only for the products and categories you choose
- A breakdown of how every commission was calculated
- Holding period and automatic deduction on refunds
- Scheduled payout requests, paid through PayPal, Skrill, your own method or store credit
- Hyvä and Breeze themes, REST API, 15 languages
Affiliate Programs
A program defines what an affiliate earns and for what. Run one program for everyone or several at once: each program has a priority, can stop the programs below it from applying to the same order, and can be limited by dates, store views (the language or regional versions of your store), customer groups and the affiliate's own results.
Pay per Sale
An affiliate earns a commission on each referred order: a percentage of the order total (shipping included, tax optional), a percentage of the subtotal or a fixed amount. Set one rate for the customer's first order and another for repeat orders.
You can pay commission only for selected products or categories, for example only for high-margin products.
Pay per Click
An affiliate earns a commission for each unique visitor who clicks their link, banner or widget. Repeat clicks from the same visitor are not paid, so clicking your own link does not add up.
Pay per Lead
An affiliate earns a commission when a referred visitor creates an account or subscribes to your newsletter.
Pay per Impression
An affiliate earns a commission per 1,000 unique views of your image banners on their site.
Hidden Programs
Create hidden programs and assign them to particular affiliates, such as a special rate for a partner blog. Affiliates without assigned programs join all visible programs automatically.
Affiliate Groups
Put affiliates into groups and give each group its own rates in a program. A group can update itself: affiliates move into it once their referred customers reach the number of orders, sales amount or items you set for the current week, month, quarter or year. The groups are recalculated every night.
Promotional Materials
Referral Link
Each affiliate gets a link to your store with a unique code. Affiliates see what they have earned through it in every program they take part in. You can rename the link parameter.
Product Links and Sharing Buttons
Affiliates can share a referral link to any product. Turn on the AddToAny social sharing buttons, and affiliates see them on product pages with the hint "Promote this product with your affiliate link" and in their profile.
Referral Banner
Create image or text banners in the admin, each pointing to its own landing page. Affiliates place them on their sites, and you see the clicks and impressions of every banner.
Referral Widget
Unlike banners, widgets are set up by affiliates themselves: they choose the size, title and number of products, and show your bestsellers, new arrivals or products that match a search term.
Referral Coupon
Each affiliate can get a unique coupon. Coupons are built on Magento cart price rules, so each program can give its own discount. Codes follow a pattern you set, and you can change any affiliate's code in the admin, for example to a branded one. See how to customize coupon codes.
Sign-up Button and Program List
Add the affiliate sign-up button and the list of your programs to any CMS or category page with widgets. Program descriptions support rich text.
How Referrals Are Tracked
When a visitor comes through an affiliate's link, the extension stores the affiliate in a cookie and links the customer to that affiliate for the commission lifetime, 365 days by default. Guest orders from the same browser are credited while the cookie lasts. Once the customer registers, the link no longer depends on the device, and their earlier guest orders are attached to the new account.
Coupons Work Without Cookies
If the shopper declined cookies or never clicked a link, an order placed with the affiliate's coupon is still credited to that affiliate.
Two Affiliates, One Customer
Choose who gets the commission when a customer is referred by more than one affiliate: the first or the last one.
Commission Limit per Customer
Limit how many commissions an affiliate can earn from one referred customer, for example only the first order.
No Self-referrals
Affiliates do not earn commission on their own orders, even with their own link or coupon.
How Commissions Are Calculated
Earned on the Order Status You Choose
A commission is added when the order reaches the status you choose, Complete by default. It is deducted when the order reaches the cancelling status you set or when you create a credit memo (refund).
Holding Period
Set a holding period to check a commission before it reaches the affiliate's balance, for example until the return window is over.
Commission Breakdown
Open any transaction in the admin to see how the commission was calculated: which program applied, the items, discounts and tax it was based on. If a referred order earned nothing, the latest activity on the dashboard shows why, such as a reached commission limit.
Tax in the Commission Base
Decide whether the commission is calculated with or without tax.
Affiliate Payouts
Affiliates request a payout from their account once their balance reaches your minimum, and you approve it. A request can never exceed the available balance.
Payout Methods
Affiliates choose a method and enter their payment details. PayPal, Skrill and Other are available by default, and you can add your own methods. You send the money and mark the payout as completed.
With the Store Credit & Refund extension, you can pay a payout to the affiliate's store credit balance in one click.
Scheduled Payout Requests
Turn on automatic requests, and on the first day of each week or month the extension creates and approves a payout request for every affiliate above the minimum. The amount can be rounded down to tens or hundreds.
Clear Workflow
Each payout moves through these statuses:
- Pending
- Accepted or Denied
- Completed
Payout History
See every payout in the admin and add one manually, for example for a bonus paid outside the program.
Transactions and Reports
For Affiliates
The affiliate account shows the balance, every transaction and a statistics page with a chart for the period the affiliate selects.
Transactions and Referred Customers
In the admin, see every transaction and every referred customer, and export both to CSV or Excel XML. You can link customers to an affiliate manually or unlink them.
Dashboard
The admin dashboard shows:
- Active affiliates, visits, revenue and commissions in the past seven days
- Total affiliates and total payouts
- Top 10 affiliates by commission earned
- Latest activity
Affiliate results can be exported to CSV from the dashboard.
Banner Reports
Next to each banner, see how many clicks and impressions it brought, so you know which creatives to keep.
Detailed Feature List
General Settings
- Automatic affiliate sign-up for new customers
- Optional admin approval of new affiliates
- Custom referral link parameter
- Discounts and commissions through cart price rule coupons
- Custom coupon code patterns
- Custom fields in the affiliate sign-up form: text, text area, dropdown, multiselect, file and image
Email Notifications
- New account
- Account approved
- New transaction
- Balance update
- New account and new payout request for admins, with CC
Compatibility
- Hyvä and Breeze themes
- REST API for accounts, programs, groups, coupons, banners, transactions and payouts
- Multi-store: notifications in the language of the store view
- Translations into 15 languages
See the user guide for every setting.
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Does a referred purchase count if the customer checks out as a guest?
Yes. When a visitor comes through an affiliate's link, the extension stores the affiliate in a cookie, and guest orders from the same browser are credited to that affiliate for the commission lifetime, 365 days by default. You can change it with the Commission lifetime (days) setting.
A guest who orders from another device or browser is not recognized, unless they use the affiliate's coupon. Once the customer registers, they stay linked to the affiliate on any device, and their earlier guest orders are attached to the new account.
Does a coupon order count if the shopper declined cookies?
Yes. If the customer is not linked to an affiliate yet, an order placed with an affiliate's coupon is credited to that affiliate, even without a cookie or a click on the referral link. The customer is then linked to the affiliate for future orders.
Can I remove a customer from an affiliate?
Yes. In the Referred Customers grid you can unlink a customer from their affiliate, and after that no other affiliate can claim them. You can also link customers to an affiliate manually from the affiliate account.
The link lasts for the commission lifetime, 365 days by default, and you can limit how many commissions an affiliate earns from one referred customer.
Can affiliates earn a commission on their own purchases?
No. Affiliates do not earn commission on their own orders, even with their own link or coupon, so the program pays only for customers they actually bring.
Where do customers sign up as affiliates?
In their customer account: the affiliate link is in the account menu. You can also add a sign-up button to any CMS or category page with a widget. Sign-up can be automatic for every new customer or require your approval.
Each affiliate gets a unique referral link and, if coupons are enabled, a unique coupon code. When a visitor uses either, the extension links them to that affiliate.
Can affiliates share links to specific products?
Yes. Affiliates can share a referral link to any product page. With the AddToAny social sharing buttons turned on, they see sharing buttons on product pages with the hint "Promote this product with your affiliate link". The extension does not add external products from other sites to your catalog.
Is the commission deducted if an order is refunded or canceled?
Yes. The commission is deducted when you create a credit memo (refund) for the order or when the order reaches the cancelling status you set, Closed by default. A holding period gives you time to catch returns before the commission reaches the affiliate's balance.
When does a commission reach the affiliate's balance?
When the order reaches the status you choose (Complete by default) and the holding period, if you set one, is over.
Is the commission calculated on shipping and tax?
It depends on the program. A percentage of the order total includes shipping, and you decide whether tax is included. A percentage of the subtotal covers the products only. You can also pay a fixed amount per order.
Can I run several affiliate programs at once?
Yes, as many as you need. Each program has a priority, active dates, store views and customer groups, and can stop lower programs from applying to the same order. Hidden programs are assigned to particular affiliates only.
Does it support multi-level commissions?
No. The commission goes to the affiliate who referred the customer. To reward your best affiliates, give their group a higher rate and let affiliates move into it automatically as their sales grow, or set a different rate for a customer's first order and repeat orders.
How are affiliates paid?
Affiliates request a payout from their account once their balance reaches your minimum (50 by default). They choose PayPal, Skrill or another method you add and enter their payment details. You approve the request, send the money and mark the payout as completed.
Requests can also be created and approved automatically every week or month. With Store Credit & Refund, you can pay to the affiliate's store credit balance in one click.
Does it have an API? Does it support GraphQL?
The extension has a REST API for affiliate accounts, programs, groups, coupons, banners, transactions, payouts and referred customers. There is no GraphQL support.
Does it work with Hyvä?
Yes. The Hyvä package is included and covers the affiliate account pages and the product widget. The extension also supports the Breeze theme.
Is there a free version?
No, but you can try the frontend, backend and Hyvä demos before you buy, and the purchase is covered by a money-back guarantee.
affiliate_handle_events), which turns sales, clicks and leads into commissions every minute, now runs in its own cron group mst_affiliate as a separate process. On stores with many old unfinished sales a single run can take minutes, and in the "default" group it used to hold up the other default cron jobs until they were missed. If your server starts cron per group (bin/magento cron:run --group=...), add the mst_affiliate group, otherwise commissions will stop being calculatedBlog
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