The Complete Affiliate Program for WordPress

Royal Affiliate Pro uses a 7-level priority commission system: affiliate-specific rate, campaign rate, product-specific rate, category rate, tiered rate (based on performance), lifetime commission rate, and global default rate. Each can be percentage or flat amount. Multi-tier (MLM) commissions support up to 5 depth levels.

Yes! Royal Affiliate Pro includes a one-click migration wizard that imports affiliates, referrals, visits, payouts, and creatives from AffiliateWP, SliceWP, and YITH WooCommerce Affiliates. The tool auto-detects your existing data, lets you preview what will transfer, imports everything with batch processing, and includes rollback if needed.

Royal Affiliate Pro supports Stripe Connect for instant bank payouts, PayPal batch payouts, manual payouts via any method, and store credit. Auto-pay with minimum thresholds is also available so you can fully automate your payout workflow.

No. Royal Affiliate Pro charges 0% additional platform fees on top of your annual license — you only pay standard Stripe or PayPal payment processor fees. Stripe Connect and PayPal Payouts are built into the plugin — no separate add-ons to install.

The cookie window is configurable from 1 to 365 days, default 30. You can also choose first-click or last-click attribution per program. The cookie is set first-party with HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax flags, so it survives Safari ITP and Brave's third-party cookie blocking that breaks most affiliate plugins. For browsers that wipe cookies aggressively, the four other tracking modes (URL parameter, direct link, coupon, form lead) keep attribution intact.

Yes. With WooCommerce Subscriptions, MemberPress, or Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments, affiliates earn on every renewal — configurable as lifetime (forever), limited (e.g. first 12 renewals only), or declining (50% / 25% / 10% over time). Initial-sale and renewal commission rates can differ. Pause and cancellation events are handled automatically so churned subscriptions stop generating commissions.

Yes. New registrations can be set to pending approval with email notifications to admins. The custom registration form builder lets you collect website URL, social profiles, audience size, promotion plan — whatever you need to vet applicants. Bulk-approve from the affiliates list, or set auto-approval if you'd rather scale fast. You can also auto-approve based on criteria (e.g., approve only if email domain matches or audience-size answer is > 1,000).

Yes. The plugin integrates with WP consent banners (CookieYes, Complianz, Iubenda) so the referral cookie only fires after consent. The signup form supports custom consent fields with timestamps. All affiliate data is exportable for SAR (Subject Access Requests) in JSON, and there's a one-click delete tool for the right to be forgotten. For non-US affiliates, W-8BEN tax form collection is built in to handle cross-border payout compliance.

No. The plugin is ~400KB total — up to 20× smaller than the largest competitors (AffiliateWP at 8.3MB, Solid Affiliate at 3.5MB). Tracking runs through a single lightweight AJAX endpoint that's compatible with full-page caching (ForgeCache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, Cloudflare APO). The frontend affiliate dashboard lazy-loads assets only on the dashboard page itself, not site-wide. We benchmark every release against a clean WordPress install — admin pages stay under 200ms.

Your license includes continuous updates (new features and security patches), priority email support, and access to all integrations for one year from purchase. After the year ends, the plugin keeps working forever — you only renew if you want continued updates and support. We also include a 30-day money-back guarantee on first-time purchases — no questions asked.