[25] Magento Affiliate extension - Referral, refer a friend program

Magento 2 Affiliate Program Extensions is a great tool for you to create affiliate programs for your website. It is compatible and responsive to a variety of different devices to increase revenue as well as increase revenue for the store. Magento refers a friend program is one of the great marketing solutions for your online store to sell online. Through affiliate programs, it helps your store have more website visits and the opportunity to make more money to sell. In addition, it also helps increase sales and raise awareness for your brand.

What is Affiliate Marketing - Refer a friend extension?

By way of easy to understand, Affiliate Marketing offers great opportunities to make money online when the publishers called affiliate companies easily support businesses advertising products, services or websites. yours. Just visit the online store, find favorites and share and recommend to others. And the prize is awarded by the commission that is part of the store owner's profits as you give them when the sale is made. Obviously, it's simple to know that Affiliate Marketing establishes a subtle, beneficial relationship between shop owners and consumers.

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Why you need Affiliate Extention for Magento 2 store?

Discover the tremendous benefits of Affiliate Marketing, Mageplaza confidently releases Affiliate Magento 2-based affiliate extension software for all E-commerce stores. The Mageplaza Refer Friends module becomes an important marketing tool when it allows you to build multiple affiliate programs with multiple activities to earn commissions as you need for your own affiliate system. Along with the standard version of Magento 2, you will have the most essential features of a successful marketing strategy.

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 Features of Affiliate extension

• Unlimited Affiliate accounts

1.  Easy to add/ edit/ delete Affiliate accounts
2.  Classify Affiliates into different Affiliate groups
3.  Auto-send email notification.
4.  Set the maximum of commissions in Affiliate account balance
5.  Option to configure: Require admin's approval
6.  Option Allow negative balance or not

• Pay Per Sale
• Unlimited Affiliate Campaigns
• Banners & Links
• Multi-level Marketing
• Banner and Links

1. Upload banner (image/flash) and a text link for sharing.
2.  Enable traffic statistic of banners & links

• Affiliate Groups
• Smart Referral Links
• Lifetime Commissions

1. Allow refunding commissions when applying as a payment method
2.  Lifetime commission supported

• Refer friends

1. Easy to hide affiliate link and parameters
2.  Switch between parameter or hash in configuration
3.  Configure refer code or affiliate ID

• Email Notifications
• Reports
• Multiple Affiliate Programs
• Customizable Affiliate links
• Withdraw Commissions

1. Set the maximum and minimum of commissions per withdrawal request
2.  Admin can set withdraw fee

See full features of affiliate extension.

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Demo Affiliate extension

Frontend Demo

Backend Demo

Download Affiliate extension

How to use Affiliate Plugin

After installing Affiliate module free, the Affiliate link is available in the footer of your site. Click on the link and go to Affiliate Home Page.

Configure Affiliate extension

General Configurations

Log in to Magento Admin, Affiliate > Settings.

• To apply Affiliate module for your store, set Enable to “Yes”.
• In the Cookie Expiration field, enter the number of days to store cookies of this program. I skip it, the default (365) is used, that means Lifetime Commissions can be active.
• When the customer is referred by many Affiliates, Enables overriding cookies to override Affiliate code.

If allowing, enter number “1” into the field. In contrast, insert “0”

• Select  CMS Static Block for the content of the following options * Affiliate Welcome homepage * Affiliate FAQ page * Affiliate Getting Started
• To visible policy on the store, set Display Policy to “Y”.
• Choose “Top Link” or “Footer Link” where Affiliate link appears in the Show Affiliate link on the box.
• Set Affiliate Discount Label to the desired label on your site.

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Custom Affiliate URL

• Apply “Hash” or “Parameter” for URL Style * Parameter: http://example.com/?c=123 * Hash: http://example.com#c123
• Enter the letter for the customization of Affiliate URL.
• Set The Length of Affiliate code that is between 3 and 32 characters. The default value including 6 characters is always available.

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Affiliate Account Configuration

Related to Affiliate Accounts, you can configure Affiliate Registration, Terms, and Conditions Display and Affiliate Account Balance.

Under Affiliate Sign up part, you can:

To create a new Affiliate account on your site when he registers as an Affiliate, set customer signup fields in Affiliate signup to Yes.

Choose Default Affiliate Group from the current Affiliate groups.

Ask for admin’s approval to complete the Affiliate sign up process by choosing “Yes” in the Require admin’s approval field.

In the Checked “Email notification” by default” field, if Yes, “Email notification” auto checked by default scroll down

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• to Affiliate Sign up-Term and Condition part.
  • Enable Terms and Conditions on the storefront.
  • Enter the checkbox text that is in the right of Terms and Conditions check box.
  • Enter Terms and Conditions Title.
  • Select CMS Block for Terms and Conditions Content.
  • The Terms and Conditions checkbox is marked already if set Checkbox is checked by default to “Yes”.

• Continuing with Account Balance part, and do the following:
  • Enter the Maximum of Affiliate Balance, and if Affiliate reaches the milestone, none of the commission is added. Leave empty or zero is no limitation.
  • If Affiliate’s account balance is not enough to take back commission, allow the balance be a negative number by choosing “Yes” in the respective field.

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Affiliate Email Configuration

• Choose Email Sender whose name will appear on the email notification.

You can send the email notification when there is an update on Affiliate Account, Transaction, and Withdrawal.

• Go to the Account Email section:
  • Enable Send Welcome Email
  • Set Welcome Email to the needed template.
  • Set Welcome Email After Account Approved to the available template that is sent instead of welcome email, after approving the account.
• Go to the Transaction Email section
  • Enable Send Transaction Email
  • Choose the template for Update Balance Email
• Go to Withdrawal Email section
• Enable Send Withdrawal Email

• Choose the template for Withdrawal Complete Email

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Refer Friends Configuration

• Set Enable Refer Friends Feature to “Yes”
• Insert the referral link in the Default Refer Url.

This link will be displayed in My Account/My Affiliate/Refer tab. If empty, the default homepage URL will be used.

• Select CMS Block to show Affiliate Welcome homepage content
• Make Affiliate Welcome homepage content appear on “Category Page” or “Product Page” depending on your purpose.
• To remind Affiliates to fill captcha before sending the referral email, set “Yes” for Enable Captcha for Sending Email.
• Set Refer Sharing Email to the email template as you need.
• Use AddThis button for more referrals by entering the AddThis.com ID. If empty, default Public AddThis ID “ra-56e141d56e895f5c” will be used.
• To allow importing email address from their accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo, Live, AOL, Outlook and more…, set Use Cloudsponge to retrieve email contacts to “Yes”.

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• In the Sending Email Content, you can create the invitation content that is ready to send to recipients, including:
  • Default Email Subject
  • Default Email Body
  • Default Message Shared via Social

Affiliate Withdrawal Configuration

• Set Allow withdrawal request to “Yes”.
• Active the Payment Method that allows paying commissions via Paypal or Banks.
• Set The minimum balance in affiliate account for requesting a withdrawal to a specific number. If the account balance is less than the required value, the withdrawal is not allowed.
• Enter Minimum withdrawal amount and Maximum withdrawal amount per withdrawal.
• Not calculate tax for the withdrawal request when selecting “No” in the Apply tax for withdrawal field.
• Set the interval for Allow affiliates to cancel withdrawal request within.

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