# 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.

Category: Marketing. Price: free, with Squad Affiliate Pro.

## What is it?

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

- **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.
- **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

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.

## Free and Squad Affiliate Pro

For programmes that run every day and pay many partners: fraud checks, automatic payouts, ranks and tax forms.

| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited affiliates and first-party tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Referral links, coupon codes and short links | Yes | Yes |
| Flat, percentage, tiered, recurring and lifetime commissions | Yes | Yes |
| Manual payouts, bank transfer, store credit and CSV export | Yes | Yes |
| Fraud scoring that flags suspicious referrals for review | No | Yes |
| Automatic payouts with PayPal, Stripe and Wise | No | Yes |
| Scheduled, hands-off payout runs | No | Yes |
| Affiliate ranks with rate bonuses | No | Yes |
| Tax forms (W-9 and W-8) and year-end 1099 reports | No | Yes |
| Smart links and branded short links | No | Yes |
| Team roles and a record of every admin action | No | Yes |
| Zapier, Make and FluentCRM connections | No | Yes |

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## You will need

- WordPress 6.4 or newer
- PHP 8.1 or newer
- A shop, membership or donation plugin to track, such as WooCommerce

## Questions

**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.

## Links

- Page: https://thewpsquad.com/plugins/squad-affiliate
- Website: https://squadaffiliate.com
- Get help: https://app.thewpsquad.com/tickets/create