FluentAffiliate 1.5.0 is out, and this one is for your best affiliates

We just shipped FluentAffiliate 1.5.0, and the headline feature is something a lot of you have been asking for: Lifetime Commissions.

Here is the idea. Your affiliate refers a customer. That customer comes back six months later and buys again, this time directly, no referral link. With Lifetime Commissions (pro), the affiliate still earns on that purchase. You are finally rewarding the affiliates who bring you real long-term customers, not just the one-off click.

You stay in full control. Set a dedicated lifetime rate, percentage or fixed amount. Apply it to everyone, or per affiliate group. Want it to expire after a set number of days? Add an expiration. Leave it empty and it never lapses. The first sale still uses your normal rate. Only the later no-link purchases earn the lifetime rate.

There is also a new Customers tab on every affiliate profile, so you can see exactly which customers are tied to which affiliate. Filter by active or expired, search the full list, and as an admin you can link or transfer a customer when you need to. Past commissions stay with the original affiliate. Only future purchases follow the move.

Coming over from Ultimate Affiliate?

You can now import your affiliates, referrals, visits, and payouts straight into FluentAffiliate. Your history stays intact and your affiliates keep their stats. That joins the importers we already had for AffiliateWP, Solid Affiliate, SliceWP, and Affiliate Manager. Run it from the Migrator screen, or use WP-CLI if you want the smooth path for a big program.

The boring but important stuff

We hardened input sanitization, removed some risky HTML-rendering paths in both admin and the portal, and closed a CSRF gap on the manual update-check trigger. Behind the scenes, but it keeps your data safer.

A handful of fixes too: FluentCart no longer doubles commission on a setup fee, self-referrals are properly blocked when you have that turned off, and some other improvements.

Please read the full release note article here: https://fluentaffiliate.com/blog/fluentaffiliate-v1-5-0/