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Affiliates Manager vs Affiliate Platform

The flexibility of e-commerce in WordPress is attracting more and more users into affiliate marketing. But choosing the right affiliate plugin for your website can sometimes be a difficult task. In this comparison, we’ll take a look at the top two affiliate management plugins for WordPress – Affiliates Manager and WP Affiliate Platform.

Both Affiliates Manager and Affiliate Platform have some powerful features that make them stand out from other affiliate plugins. They are easy to setup, user-friendly and the most important of all – they have integration with major e-commerce and membership plugins.

Before we get into the comparison chart lets take a look at some of the terms that are used in an affiliate management plugin.

Affiliate Dashboard

Affiliate dashboard is a special page that appears when an affiliate logs into your website. It allows an affiliate to check their earnings, outstanding commission, referral clicks etc.

screenshot showing the dashboard of affiliates manager plugin and wp affiliate platform plugin
Affiliates Manager vs Affiliate Platform Dashboard

Moderated Registration

When an affiliate application is submitted you will be able to manually approve/reject it. This way you can control who can sign up for your affiliate program.

Affiliate Link

An affiliate link is a special link that an affiliate embeds into their website to promote external products. When a user clicks on that link and purchases something from the merchant’s website, the referrer (the affiliate who sent that user via link) gets a percentage as commission.

Affiliates Manager vs Affiliates Platform

 Affiliates ManagerAffiliate Platform
PriceFree$49
Real Time ReportingYesYes
Affiliate DashboardYesYes
Unlimited AffiliatesYesYes
Moderated RegistrationYesYes
Fully InternationalizedYesYes
WooCommerce IntegrationIncludedIntegrated via free addon
Simple Shopping Cart Plugin IntegrationIncludedIncluded
Paid Memberships Pro IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIntegrated via free addon
Sell Digital Downloads Plugin IntegrationIntegrated via free addonNo
S2Member Plugin IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIncluded
iThemes Exchange IntegrationIncludedNo
Easy Digital Downloads IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIntegrated via free addon
Google reCAPTCHA IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIncluded
WooCommerce Subscription IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIntegrated via free addon
WP eStore IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIncluded
Gravity Forms PayPal IntegrationIntegrated via premium addonIntegrated via free addon
Gravity Forms Pay Per Lead IntegrationNoIncluded
Gravity Forms Lead Capture IntegrationNoIncluded
Gravity Forms Pricing Fields IntegrationNoIncluded
Simple Membership Plugin IntegrationIntegrated via free addonNo
MailChimp IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIncluded
MailPoet Newsletter IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIntegrated via free addon
Mad Mimi IntegrationIntegrated via free addonIntegrated via free addon
Infusionsoft IntegrationIntegrated via premium addonIntegrated via premium addon
GetResponse IntegrationIntegrated via premium addonIncluded
Aweber IntegrationIntegrated via premium addonIncluded
WooCommerce Coupon TrackingIntegrated via premium addonIntegrated via free addon
Bonus Commission For Affiliate ReferralIntegrated via premium addonYes
WooCommerce Product Specific CommissionIntegrated via premium addonIntegrated via free addon
Revenue SharingIntegrated via premium addonIncluded
Commission Notification For AffiliatesNoYes
Two Tier Affiliate StructureNoYes
Clickbank IntegrationNoYes
WP-Ecommerce Plugin IntegrationIncludedIncluded
Shopp Plugin IntegrationNoYes
eShop Plugin IntegrationNoYes
Cart66 Plugin IntegrationNoYes
Jigoshop Plugin IntegrationIncludedIntegrated via free addon
WishList Members Plugin IntegrationNoYes
Optimizepress Plugin IntegrationNoYes
Optimizemember Plugin IntegrationIntegrated via free addonYes
MemberMouse Plugin IntegrationNoYes
Group Buying Sites IntegrationNoYes
WPGroupBuy Plugin IntegrationNoYes
E-Junkie IntegrationNoYes
ECWID Plugin IntegrationNoYes
DPD IntegrationNoYes
FoxyCart IntegrationNoYes
Gumroad IntegrationNoYes
Pro Sites/Supporter Plugin IntegrationNoYes
cForms Plugin IntegrationNoYes
Contact Form 7 Pay Per Lead IntegrationNoYes
Contact Form 7 Lead Capture IntegrationNoYes
PayPal Mass PayYesYes

Affiliate Payout

PayPal Mass Pay is the primary payout method in both plugins. However, Affiliates Manager also supports manual payout.

Customer Support

Both plugins are supported by the development team. As Affiliate Platform requires a purchase for plugin usage, support (lifetime) is included in that purchase via a customer support forum. If you need more help setting up this plugin you can get step by step instructions on the documentation page.

Both Affiliates Manager and Affiliate Platform are growing on the WordPress niche. However, they have a completely different pricing structure. The core Affiliates Manager plugin is available for download on the WordPress.org plugin repository. It has some premium extensions but most of them are free.

Affiliate Platform has a one-time small purchase fee but almost all of its extensions are free. This plugin has already established great credibility since it’s one of the first Affiliate plugins for WordPress. It has more features than any other affiliate plugins (compared to the price) and they are all included with the plugin purchase. So Affiliate Platform might still be a good choice even though it’s a premium plugin.

Affiliates Manager plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/affiliates-manager/

WP Affiliate Platform plugin (affiliate link): https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/?p=1474&ap_id=naa986

If you want to add anything to this Affiliates Manager vs Affiliate Platform comparison, feel free to share it in the comments.

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Written by Noor Alam · Categorized: plugin, wordpress

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