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.

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 Manager	Affiliate Platform
Price	Free	$49
Real Time Reporting	Yes	Yes
Affiliate Dashboard	Yes	Yes
Unlimited Affiliates	Yes	Yes
Moderated Registration	Yes	Yes
Fully Internationalized	Yes	Yes
WooCommerce Integration	Included	Integrated via free addon
Simple Shopping Cart Plugin Integration	Included	Included
Paid Memberships Pro Integration	Integrated via free addon	Integrated via free addon
Sell Digital Downloads Plugin Integration	Integrated via free addon	No
S2Member Plugin Integration	Integrated via free addon	Included
iThemes Exchange Integration	Included	No
Easy Digital Downloads Integration	Integrated via free addon	Integrated via free addon
Google reCAPTCHA Integration	Integrated via free addon	Included
WooCommerce Subscription Integration	Integrated via free addon	Integrated via free addon
WP eStore Integration	Integrated via free addon	Included
Gravity Forms PayPal Integration	Integrated via premium addon	Integrated via free addon
Gravity Forms Pay Per Lead Integration	No	Included
Gravity Forms Lead Capture Integration	No	Included
Gravity Forms Pricing Fields Integration	No	Included
Simple Membership Plugin Integration	Integrated via free addon	No
MailChimp Integration	Integrated via free addon	Included
MailPoet Newsletter Integration	Integrated via free addon	Integrated via free addon
Mad Mimi Integration	Integrated via free addon	Integrated via free addon
Infusionsoft Integration	Integrated via premium addon	Integrated via premium addon
GetResponse Integration	Integrated via premium addon	Included
Aweber Integration	Integrated via premium addon	Included
WooCommerce Coupon Tracking	Integrated via premium addon	Integrated via free addon
Bonus Commission For Affiliate Referral	Integrated via premium addon	Yes
WooCommerce Product Specific Commission	Integrated via premium addon	Integrated via free addon
Revenue Sharing	Integrated via premium addon	Included
Commission Notification For Affiliates	No	Yes
Two Tier Affiliate Structure	No	Yes
Clickbank Integration	No	Yes
WP-Ecommerce Plugin Integration	Included	Included
Shopp Plugin Integration	No	Yes
eShop Plugin Integration	No	Yes
Cart66 Plugin Integration	No	Yes
Jigoshop Plugin Integration	Included	Integrated via free addon
WishList Members Plugin Integration	No	Yes
Optimizepress Plugin Integration	No	Yes
Optimizemember Plugin Integration	Integrated via free addon	Yes
MemberMouse Plugin Integration	No	Yes
Group Buying Sites Integration	No	Yes
WPGroupBuy Plugin Integration	No	Yes
E-Junkie Integration	No	Yes
ECWID Plugin Integration	No	Yes
DPD Integration	No	Yes
FoxyCart Integration	No	Yes
Gumroad Integration	No	Yes
Pro Sites/Supporter Plugin Integration	No	Yes
cForms Plugin Integration	No	Yes
Contact Form 7 Pay Per Lead Integration	No	Yes
Contact Form 7 Lead Capture Integration	No	Yes
PayPal Mass Pay	Yes	Yes

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.

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