Yours to run, with no fees on sales
No platform in the middle, no per-sale charge and no fee that grows as you succeed.
MarketingFree and Pro
Squad Affiliate
Run your own affiliate programme inside WordPress
Recruit affiliates, track referrals, calculate commissions and pay partners from your own WordPress site, with no monthly platform fee and no cut of your sales.
What is Squad Affiliate?
Squad Affiliate is a complete affiliate programme that lives inside your WordPress site. Affiliates sign up, share their links, and see their own clicks, earnings and payouts in a dashboard, while you approve, adjust and pay from your admin.
Because it is self-hosted, every record stays in your own database. There is no monthly platform fee, no cut of each sale, and referrals keep being credited even when ad blockers strip third-party scripts.
Who it is for
- Store owners who want affiliates without paying a platform
- Course, membership and software sellers
- Charities and organisations that take donations through partners
What you get
The main things Squad Affiliate does for you.
Referrals that are credited
Tracking is first-party, so a referral still counts when a visitor uses an ad blocker. Links, coupon codes and direct-link sites all work.
Commissions you can shape
Flat or percentage, per product, category or role, tiered on volume, recurring for subscriptions, or for every later order of a referred customer.
A dashboard for every affiliate
Affiliates find their link, clicks, earnings, team and payout history in one place, in their own language.
Short links that are theirs
Every affiliate can create short links on your own domain that credit them and send visitors to any page.
Works with what you sell
WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, SureCart, MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro, LifterLMS, LearnDash, GiveWP and form leads.
Built into Divi 5
The sign-up form and the affiliate dashboard are modules you drop onto a page. Shortcodes cover every other theme.
Careful with large payouts
Big commissions can be held for your review instead of being approved automatically.
How it works
Up and running in three steps.
- 1
Install Squad Affiliate
Download the free plugin from squadaffiliate.com and activate it on your site.
- 2
Set your commissions
Choose how much affiliates earn, and whether they need your approval to join.
- 3
Invite your affiliates
Add the sign-up form to a page. Affiliates get their own links and dashboard, and you approve and pay from your admin.
Compare Free and Pro
For programmes that run every day and pay many partners: fraud checks, automatic payouts, ranks and tax forms.
| What you get | Free | Pro | Other plugins |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited affiliates and first-party tracking | Varies | ||
| Referral links, coupon codes and short links | Some | ||
| Flat, percentage, tiered, recurring and lifetime commissions | Most | ||
| Manual payouts, bank transfer, store credit and CSV export | Some | ||
| Fraud scoring that flags suspicious referrals for review | — | Some, with basic rules | |
| Automatic payouts with PayPal, Stripe and Wise | — | Some | |
| Scheduled, hands-off payout runs | — | Some | |
| Affiliate ranks with rate bonuses | — | Varies | |
| Tax forms (W-9 and W-8) and year-end 1099 reports | — | Rare | |
| Smart links and branded short links | — | Rare | |
| Team roles and a record of every admin action | — | Rare | |
| Zapier, Make and FluentCRM connections | — | Some |
Other plugins means the affiliate plugins and services we compared in July 2026. Some means a few of them offer it, and Rare means only one or two do.
Choose your Squad Affiliate Pro plan
Pick the number of sites you need.
Pro
1 site
$99a year
- Everything in Free
- Fraud checks on every referral
- Automatic and scheduled payouts with PayPal, Wise and Stripe
- Affiliate ranks, several programmes and team roles
- Tax forms and year-end reports
Agency
Unlimited sites
$249a year$599once
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited sites on one licence
- One renewal to track instead of many
Start with the free plugin. Add Pro when your programme needs automatic payouts and fraud checks. Payment is handled by Freemius, so we never see your card. Prices are in US dollars.
Common questions
Quick answers before you install.
Is there a free version?
Yes. Squad Affiliate is free and runs a complete programme, with unlimited affiliates. Squad Affiliate Pro adds the extras on top.
Do I pay a fee on each sale?
No. It runs on your own site, so there is no per-sale cut and no platform fee.
What if a visitor uses an ad blocker?
Referrals are still credited. Tracking is first-party, so it does not depend on third-party scripts.
Which shops and platforms does it work with?
WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, SureCart, MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro, LifterLMS, LearnDash and GiveWP, plus form leads.
Do I need Divi?
No. It works with any theme. If you use Divi 5, the sign-up form and dashboard are available as modules.
Before you start
What you need, and the details of the current version.
You will need
- WordPress 6.4 or newer
- PHP 8.1 or newer
- A shop, membership or donation plugin to track, such as WooCommerce
