How to Set Up an Affiliate Program for WordPress

<p>In this guide, we are using Omnistar Affiliate Software as an affiliate plugin to set up an affiliate program for WordPress. Omnistar is an affiliate plugin that could definitely make a difference in your business growth. <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Having a </span><a href=”https://wordpress.osiaffiliate.com/”><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>wordpress affiliate software</span></a><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> will definitely benefit your business and help you have real time reporting. </span>Omnistar Affiliate Software makes it easy to create and manage an affiliate program. Watch the video below to see how Omnistar Affiliate Software is the best wordpress affiliate platform that can help you grow your business.</p><p><iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/179565953?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”></iframe></p><p>Ready to get started? Install our WordPress affiliate platform for your WordPress by clicking the link below. <a draggable=”false” href=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/pricing.php” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/wordpress.png” alt=”” width=”615″ height=”80″ /></a> Once you have installed this affiliate plugin, you can follow this guide to set up an affiliate program for your WordPress. Want to grow your WordPress website using affiliate marketing? Need an affiliate program to get your WordPress store more traffic, leads, and customers? Want to have an easy affiliate management even if you have unlimited affiliates? Well, this post is for you! In this detailed and actionable guide, it doesn’t matter if you have unlimited affiliates, you will learn how you can create an affiliate program for your WordPress and realize how easy affiliate marketing is with the right WordPress Plugin. Creating an affiliate program for WordPress is very easy. In this guide, you will learn how you can integrate Omnistar Affiliate Software with WordPress. Don’t worry because integrating this affiliate plugin is very easy. Omnistar Affiliate Software is one of the wordpress plugins that make it easy to create and manage an affiliate program. Omnistar has a WordPress plugin and in this post you will see how you can use the Omnistar WordPress plugin to create an affiliate program for your WordPress. Before we jump into the guide, we have to discuss and see why an affiliate program is important for online marketing. Affiliate marketing allows your business to get access to a customer network you never had before. Through using an affiliate plugin, you can get your customers to promote your WordPress business to their family and friends. This can be easily accomplished using social media platforms and email. In this post, we will show you:</p><ul><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to install Omnistar Affiliate Software for WordPress</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to create an affiliate program for your WordPress</li><li> How to setup an affiliate program for your <a href=”https://wpbuffs.com/amazon-affiliate-wordpress” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>WordPress Amazon affiliate theme</a></li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to recruit affiliates to your WordPress affiliate program</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to add affiliates to your affiliate program</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to create an affiliate registration page for your WordPress</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to embed your affiliate registration page to WordPress</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to promote your WordPress using affiliates</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to promote your WordPress in social networking platforms</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to promote your WordPress using email</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to add marketing assets for your affiliates</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to manually add affiliates</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to pay affiliates</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to customize the affiliate dashboard</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to customize the affiliate registration page</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to pay affiliates using PayPal</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to manage affiliate invoices</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How to enable affiliate recruiting link</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>How affiliates can get their marketing materials</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>Where affiliates can get their affiliate links and banners</li><li style=”padding-left: 30px;”>And so much more!</li></ul><p>Ok, ready to get started? Great! Let’s go ahead and create an affiliate program for your WordPress website through Omnistar’s affiliate plugin.</p><h3>Step 1 – Install Omnistar WordPress Plugin</h3><p>The first thing you need to do is install the WordPress affiliate platform plugin to your WordPress. To do this, visit the <a draggable=”false” href=”https://wordpress.org/plugins/osi-affiliate/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow noopener”>Omnistar WordPress Affiliate plugin page</a> and then install it. Next, you have two options for installing the affiliate plugin. For the first one, you can upload it via FTP. If you use FTP, just upload the files in this directory `/wp-content/plugins/` If you are not using FTP, you can upload the files from within WordPress by clicking on Plugins. <img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-1.png” alt=”” width=”382″ height=”466″ /></p><p>Next, you can click on Add New to upload the plugin.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-2.png” alt=”” width=”530″ height=”381″ /></p><p>After uploading it, you can activate the Affiliate plugin. In the settings of the plugin, it is going to ask you to enter the application url. The application url is the url of where your Omnistar Affiliate Software is hosted. Here’s an example: <a draggable=”false” href=”http://youraccount.ositracker.com” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow noopener”>http://youraccount.ositracker.com</a> Once you do this, Omnistar Affiliate Software, your affiliate plugin has been installed and you can now create your affiliate program.</p><h3>Step 2 – Create Affiliate Program for WordPress</h3><p>Omnistar Affiliate Software one of the best wordpress plugins is now integrated with your WordPress. You can now create an affiliate program and start using it to promote your WordPress. To do this, log in to your Omnistar Affiliate dashboard. From the admin dashboard, you want to click on Campaigns.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-3-1024×534.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”339″ /></p><p>Then, click Add campaign.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-4-1024×539.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>Enter your affiliate program details from this page.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-5-1024×536.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>You will need to give your affiliate program a name, give it a description, and specify what type of program it is. Are you going to be paying affiliates a commission? Or a flat fee? All of this can be handled from this section. Next, you need to enter the page you want customers redirected to after they click on the affiliate’s link or banner. For example, most program usually send the customer to the home page of the store. You can do this by specifying from this page. Enter your WordPress website home page on the landing page field below.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-6-1024×538.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>You affiliate program is now created. The next step is adding widgets to your WordPress that you can use to recruit affiliates.</p><h3>Step 3 – Recruit Affiliates to your WordPress Affiliate Program</h3><p>Omnistar Affiliate Software provides you with 4 methods you can use to add affiliates to your WordPress affiliate program. Below we will step you through the 4 methods.</p><h4>Method 1. Social Share Sign up Widget:</h4><p>The social share sign up widget is a great and easy tool for recruiting affiliates. The social share widget only asks potential affiliates to enter their email address. Once they have provided their email address, the affiliate can immediately promote your WordPress through the affiliate plugin. The affiliate will be able to promote via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and email. Here’s how the social share widget works.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-7.png.gif” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”407″ /></p><p>To create the social share widget, click on Campaigns &gt; Manage Marketing Tools &gt; Add Social Share Widget. From this area, you can create your social share widget and then use the Omnistar Affiliate Software WordPress plugin to add it to your WordPress.</p><h4>Method 2. Link to your affiliate website</h4><p>Omnistar Affiliate Software provides you with an affiliate website you can use to recruit affiliates. This website is customizable. You can customize the look and feel of the website. Here’s how the referral website looks.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-8-1024×538.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>You can modify this website with your logo and branding. Once you have customized it to have the look and feel of your website, you can then link to this website from your WordPress navigation. You can add a link for Affiliates and then link to this affiliate website. Users who visit this page will just need to fill out your affiliate registration form and then they will be added to your wordpress affiliate program.<em> </em></p><h4>Method 3. Embed affiliate registration form on your WordPress</h4><p>The third method of adding affiliates is by embedding the affiliate registration form on your website. The difference between this option and the previous one is that in this option, the affiliate will be signing up from your WordPress. They will not be redirected to a website outside of your WordPress. You can set up this option by going to Campaigns &gt; Manage Marketing Tools &gt; Add Social Share Widget Scroll down and then click on Learn More for the option that says <strong>Integrate a registration form into your existing website</strong> Once you have created your registration form, you can use the Omnistar Affiliate WordPress plugin to add the form to your WordPress. Here’s an example. <img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-9-1-1024×734.jpg” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”467″ /></p><h4>Method 4. Add affiliates manually</h4><p>The next method for adding affiliates to your affiliate program is by adding them manually. You can do this from the affiliate admin dashboard by clicking on Users and then clicking on Manage Users. Next, click on Add User.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-10-1024×538.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”538″ /></p><p>This is the page where you can add users manually to your affiliate program.</p><h3>Step 4 – Add Promotional Creatives for Affiliates</h3><p>The next thing you need to do when setting up an affiliate program for WordPress is add promotion creatives for affiliates. These are the materials affiliates can use to promote your WordPress. To do this, click on campaigns from admin dashboard.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-11-1024×537.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>Then click on Manage Marketing Tools.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-12-1024×534.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”339″ /></p><p>In this section, you will see the different options you can enable for your affiliates to use to promote your WordPress website. The different options that affiliates can use to promote you are:</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>1. Affiliate banners</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>2. Emails</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>3. Uploaded affiliate documents</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>4. Affiliate promos</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>5. Affiliate thank you pages</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>6. Affiliate popups</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>7. Social media promotion</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>8. Affiliate links</p><p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>9. And so much more</p><h3>Step 5 – Customize Affiliate Dashboard</h3><p>It is now time to customize the affiliate user area. This is where affiliates login to get affiliate links, banners, etc. It is also the same area where affiliates can keep track of their promotion and success. When affiliates log in, this is what they will see. <img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-13-1024×539.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>From this area, you can see that affiliates can grab their affiliates links quick from this field <img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-14-1024×539.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>Next, affiliates have the option to promote you in social media platforms from these buttons</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-15-1024×535.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>To track their success and commissions, affiliates can click on My Rewards as shown here</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-16-1024×536.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>To dive into stats and analytics, affiliates can click on Stats</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-17-1024×537.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>If you want your affiliates to have the ability to promote your WordPress affiliate program, you can enable it for them in this section</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-18-1024×534.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”339″ /></p><p>This is where affiliates can grab their recruiting link and use it to add affiliates to your program. This way affiliates can earn commissions when their recruits send sales. That is a quick summary of the affiliate dashboard area. Make sure you fully customize this section with your branding so that it will have your look and feel.</p><h3>Step 6 – How to Pay Affiliates</h3><p>When time comes to pay affiliates for promoting your WordPress website, you can do so easily from the rewards section. Click on Rewards from the affiliate manager admin dashboard.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-19-1024×537.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>This is the section where you can manage your affiliate payments.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-20-1024×538.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>Click Manage Invoices to start the payment process.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-21-1024×538.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”342″ /></p><p>Select the invoices you want to pay.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-22-1024×537.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>When you have selected all the invoices you want to pay, scroll down and click create PayPal Mass Payment File.</p><p><img draggable=”false” src=”http://www.osiaffiliate.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image-23-1-1024×538.png” alt=”” width=”650″ height=”340″ /></p><p>Once your payment file is created, just upload it into PayPal and all your affiliates will get paid immediately. 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