Running AffiliateWP & FluentAffiliate in parallel?
Has anyone got experience of running AffiliateWP & FluentAffiliate in parallel? I'm keen to move away from AffliateWP, but right now it would involve taking away functionality from existing affiliates. I'm fine for new affiliates to use Fluent Affiliate as they won't know what they are missing! Anything I would need to watch out for if I ran them both together for a period of time?
For clarity, the missing features that I currently have on AffiliateWP:
- Domain Referral Tracking (affiliates don't need to use a ?ref=xyz - any link to us from them is tracked via the domain referral.
- Lifetime Customer (all signups / purchases are linked to an affiliate for life)
- Pretty URLs (our partners can add their tracking URL to any page on our site just by adding /partner/xyx to the end). I know Fluent Affiliate has landing pages, but this is only one page and needs creating for every partner.
You should not run these together. The reason we did not add /partner/xyx URL structure is that it's super inefficient, as it intercepts every request and rewrites your original URL.
By the way, this is what you can do: Detect the old URL pattern (partner/xyx) and the catch that early and reidrect to FluentAffiliate's URL structure. We can help you to add this as a code snippet easily.
Shahjahan Jewel That would be great!
Marcus Wareham the xyz is the affiliate id or the username part?
Shahjahan Jewel The xzy is the username
Marcus Wareham Here you go:
https://gist.github.com/techjewel/2010da7a6d8e8321881b40748a2f4c02
This code snippet will redirect your old URLs to new FluentAffiliate's URLs.
Migrate everything, add this snippet, disable AffiliateWP and you are good to go.
Shahjahan Jewel Amazing! Thanks!
Shahjahan Jewel I tried this with Solid Affiliate and whilst Fluent Affiliate did display the number of people using the affiliate link, it wasn’t the same number as Solid Affiliate and it did not record any sales. This was done with direct testing of a test affiliate. If your code snippet is fool proof I’d be interested in trying it as this is the only thing preventing me from using fluent Affiliate at the moment. That said an update to include custom slugs would be even more welcomed!