Hey everyone! First off, loving the Fluent ecosystem. We're currently using it to build out a high-ticket WooCommerce store, and while it's been great, we’ve had to build a bunch of custom workarounds to get things working exactly how we need.

I put together a wishlist of features that would take Fluent Affiliate (and the whole ecosystem) to the absolute next level for larger e-commerce setups:

1. A master roadmap for everything Fluent It would be super helpful to have a unified roadmap right here on the community hub for all the Fluent plugins (Forms, CRM, Support, Affiliate, and even Fluent Snippets!). Since we use them all together to build out these complex sites, seeing how they're evolving side-by-side makes planning our tech stack way easier.

2. Better organization for Promo Materials As our affiliate program grows, the Creatives dashboard gets a bit chaotic. It would be awesome to have folders or categories on the backend so we can group assets by campaign or product. On the frontend, giving affiliates the ability to search, sort, and filter (like "Show me all banners" or "Logos") would be a huge time-saver for them.

3. True Lifetime Commissions (Customer Hard-Linking) Since we sell high-ticket items (like $10k+ vehicles), our sales cycle is long. Relying on 30 or 60-day browser cookies is really risky, especially with Safari/Firefox aggressively blocking them. We really need a way to permanently link a customer to an affiliate the moment they register an account. That way, if they buy 8 months later on a different device, the affiliate still gets the credit without needing an active cookie.

4. Variable/Tiered Commissions for WooCommerce Right now, a global flat percentage or flat fee is tough for high-ticket stores. Paying a flat 10% on a $50 accessory is fine, but 10% on a $15,000 cart wrecks our margins. We'd love the ability to set commission rules based on Woo product categories, specific products, or cart totals (e.g., 5% on accessories, but a flat $500 cap on vehicles).

5. Native Link Shortening (Vanity URLs) Right now we're using a third-party plugin just to make affiliate links look clean. Having a native URL shortener built into Fluent Affiliate so folks can generate clean vanity links (like yoursite.com/go/john-smith) straight from their dashboard would be killer.

6. Fix the missing Email Toggle in the Affiliate Feed In Fluent Forms, the standard User Registration feed has a great little checkbox to "Disable Default WordPress Welcome Email". But the Fluent Affiliate Integration feed is missing it! We had to write a custom PHP script to kill the ugly default WP emails so we could route affiliates to our branded WooCommerce welcome emails. Adding that toggle to the affiliate feed would be amazing.

7. See the Affiliate directly on the Woo Order Screen It would be super handy to have a meta box right on the WooCommerce admin order screen showing the "Referred By" affiliate. Even if the commission is pending, just being able to see who drove the sale without having to cross-check the Fluent Affiliate dashboard would save us a lot of clicks.

8. A simple "Refer-a-Friend" system for customers Traditional affiliates are great, but our actual customers are our best marketers. We're currently looking at third-party workarounds like WP Rewards to handle this, but having a native, lightweight "Refer-a-Friend" module built directly into the Fluent ecosystem would be incredible. Just something frictionless where a customer gets a link at checkout, shares it with a buddy for a discount, and gets a fixed payout or store credit—no complex affiliate dashboard required for them.

Cheers

Hi Fluent team,

I'd like to ask about the default affiliate link shown in the affiliate dashboard.

Currently, the affiliate link is generated using the site's root URL, but I'd like it to point directly to a specific landing page so affiliates can copy and share the correct link straight away.

My questions:

1. Is there a plan to make the default affiliate URL configurable from the settings?
2. If yes, when could we expect this feature?
3. If we'd like to build this ourselves using a custom code snippet, could you point us to the correct filter hook or function that generates this URL?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Is there any way to set a fixed commission lower than 1 (for example 0.10) in FluentAffiliate?

I'm trying to reward affiliates with $0.10 per signup, but the minimum fixed rate seems to be 1.

Is there any workaround, hook, or setting that allows decimal values for fixed commissions?

Thanks!

Hey! So I'm just now setting up Fluent Affiliate on my film school that uses a main writedirect.co for marketing and then school.writedirect.co for actual enrollment. This is where Fluent CRM and Fluent Community live (the sub domain).

I've added the Fluent Affiliate connector (thank you Shahjahan Jewel) to connect the sites.

Beautiful.

But would love a feature: Currently the URL builder page for affiliates defaults to the school.writedirect.co. It would be WAY easier or me and students to have that default to the marketing site URL which is writedirect.co.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Is this possible? Thank you!

1. Add customer name and contact information in affiliate portal within the referral tab (or similar). This is a important use case for my users so they know who bought from them because our affiliate do welcome calls and send direct mail.
2. If I manually split the commissions on a subscription can it work reoccurring? 

These are the two most critical features I need before I can switch from SolidAffiliate (which is on the decline) and feel pressure to create a good experience for my customers, any tips would be appreciated. 😆

Also want to say thanks to the WP Ninjas for making Fluent Affiliate, its great to have this within the ecosystem. 😎

Shahjahan Jewel

I would like to know if there is a way to integrate FluentAffiliate with FluentCommunity. I would like users who register on FluentCommunity to be automatically registered on FluentAffiliate as well.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thank you very much.

What does it actually mean https://fluentaffiliate.com/fluentaffiliate-vs-other-plugins/

Is this like FluentCart nicely code available?

I'm super excited about the possibility of jettisoning Affiliate WP. Can you tell me if these features are available?

• Lifetime capture: Permanently assign the referree to an affiliate, regardless of whatever other affiliate links they might click on later
• Subscription referral payments: (i.e. someone subscribes to a Woo product with monthly recurring payments) for the lifetime of the subscription (or X months as suggested below)
• Per product rates: I need to set a different rate for profitable courses than for physical products that have very low profit margins
• Per product category rates: I have a category for courses containing both in-person and online, and I want affiliates to earn commissions on any course, but not on other training aids category products
• Coupon discounts for product categories: My affiliates want to earn a % commission AND offer a discount coupon to their referrees. I need to be able to create a coupon template and ensure that it ONLY applies to courses.
• Coupon discount exclusions by product categories: Similar to above. This is a problem with Affiliate WP in that dynamic coupon templates do not inherit product categories. I can exclude categories from the template, but I cannot specify product categories to which the coupon can be applied.
• QR codes to which the affiliate ID is appended: Affiliate WP offers a library of QR codes that affiliates can use for specific links to which the affiliate ID is automatically appended. This makes it easy for them to grab a QR code without me having to make one specifically for every affiliate.
• Flexible referral payment types based on user role, FluentCRM tags, or some other designation: I need to offer course students a free month for every referral and a 10% referral rate for non-students. Students in the course understand and value a free month for the course in which they're enrolled. Non-student affiliates won't value a "free month" as they're not enrolled; they need a % rate payment type.
• ETA: How about payment in store credit? Students in the course need to receive a free month (i.e., $49.99). Can I give them store credit so their renewal will be charged to the store credit? I'm using Woo.

If these are available I'm signing up immediately.

The screenshot is from the FAQ, for the life of me i can't find where to set anything other than the default and group based rates? Using with Woocommerce....

Hello everyone. I am considering purchasing Fluent Affiliate but would like to know if it already has the following features:

• Affiliate slug customization
• Ability to create "multi-level" affiliates (an affiliate that generates commissions from the sales of another affiliate)
• Creation of performance bonuses
• Recurring commissions
• Lifetime commissions
• Commissions for leads
• Product Revenue Share
• Webhooks
• Affiliate Landing Pages
• Ability to migrate from SliceWP

Also, do you plan to create an integration between Fluent Affiliate and WP Travel Engine?