Brainstorm Force

Pratik Chaskar

The official <a href="https://affiliatewp.com/add-ons/official-free/external-referral-links/?ref=952" rel="nofollow ugc">AffiliateWP – External Referral Links</a> add-on is excellent for tracking referrals from different domains. But it has some limitations.
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<li>It does not send visits data to AffiliateWP — which means, your affiliates do not get to see any information of the visits data and other important statistics accurately.</li>
<li>It does not have Credit Last Referrer option — which means, you can only have “First Referrer” cookie policy.</li>
<li>It does not have campaign visits tracking capability — which means, your affiliates do not get to see visits data with respect to campaigns.</li>
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So we developed this plugin which mainly fixes these three problems. Here is how it works:
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<li>Install this plugin on main website where you have AffiliateWP plugin installed and where conversions take place (SiteA.com)</li>
<li>Install this plugin on marketing website as well, where your affiliates send traffic (SiteB.com)</li>
<li>Link and authenticate these two instances (SiteA.com and SiteB.com) using Public Key & Token.</li>
<li>Install & activate the <a href="https://affiliatewp.com/add-ons/pro/rest-api-extended" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API Extended</a> plugin on parent website (SiteA.com). And enable <a href="https://cl.ly/fbdd25/Image%202019-04-23%20at%204.38.16%20PM.png" rel="nofollow ugc">Create Visit Endpoints</a> option from AffiliateWP -> Settings -> REST API.</li>
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And you are all set.
Your affiliates can now start sending traffic to your marketing website (SiteB.com) and still see all the statistics and reports in their AffiliateWP dashboard.

Cross Domain Tracker for AffiliateWP

Pippin Williamson

Andrew Munro

Aubrey Portwood

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This plugin was built to be used in conjunction with <a href="https://affiliatewp.com/" title="AffiliateWP" rel="nofollow ugc">AffiliateWP</a>.
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Like other affiliate plugins, AffiliateWP must be installed on the same domain as your e-commerce system (Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce etc) to properly track visits and referrals.
This plugin allows your affiliates to promote any landing page (or site) that exists on a completely separate domain. Simply install this plugin on the external WordPress site and your affiliates can now promote it using the site’s URL and their affiliate ID or username appended (eg /?ref=123 or /?ref=john). If a customer uses the affiliate’s referral URL, any outbound links to your e-commerce store will automatically include the affiliate’s ID or username. If the customer then makes a purchase on your e-commerce store, the proper affiliate will be awarded commission. The affiliate’s ID/username is stored in a cookie so even if the customer moves between pages on your site, the outbound links will still have the affiliate’s ID/username appended.
<a href="https://affiliatewp.com/addons/external-referral-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">More information</a>
What is AffiliateWP?
<a href="https://affiliatewp.com/" title="AffiliateWP" rel="nofollow ugc">AffiliateWP</a> provides a complete affiliate management system for your WordPress website that seamlessly integrates with all major WordPress e-commerce and membership platforms. It aims to provide everything you need in a simple, clean, easy to use system that you will love to use.

AffiliateWP – External Referral Links

Allows affiliates to promote external landing pages by including the affiliate's ID or username in any outbound links to your e-commerce store.

Cross Domain Tracker for AffiliateWP vs AffiliateWP – External Referral Links