How to Install and Use the Lifetime Commissions Add-on for AffiliateWP

With the Lifetime Commissions add-on a customer is linked to an affiliate, for life! This allows the linked affiliate to receive a commission on all future purchases completed by the customer. Lifetime commissions are a huge incentive for any affiliate looking to promote your products and services. Your affiliates will work much harder to get linked to a customer, and as a result your sales will increase dramatically.

In this article, we’ll show you how to install and set up the Lifetime Commissions add-on for AffiliateWP.

1. Supported Integrations
2. Installing the Lifetime Commissions Add-on
3. Setting up Lifetime Commissions
4. Linking, Unlinking and Removing Customers from Affiliates
5. Visual Indicator for Referrals Generated by a Linked Lifetime Customer
6. Setting Lifetime Referral Rates
7. FAQs

1. Lifetime Commissions currently supports the following integrations:

• Easy Digital Downloads
• WooCommerce
• Gravity Forms
• Ninja Forms
• Paid Memberships Pro
• PayPal Buttons
• Restrict Content Pro
• MemberPress

2. Installing the Lifetime Commissions Add-on

Before we get started, be sure to install and activate AffiliateWP on your WordPress site.

Once you’ve got AffiliateWP installed and your license is verified you’ll be able to quickly install and activate the Lifetime Commissions add-on.

After installing the Lifetime Commissions add-on, the next step is to configure your settings.

3. Setting up Lifetime Commissions

Once installed and activated, you’ll need to think about whether you’d like to enable lifetime commissions for all affiliates, or only for some.

Enabling Lifetime Commissions for all affiliates

• Go to AffiliateWP » Settings » Lifetime Commissions tab
• Under the Lifetime Commissions header, click on the Enable For All Affiliates? checkbox
• Click Save Changes

Enabling Lifetime Commissions on a per-affiliate basis

• Go to AffiliateWP » Affiliates and click the name of the affiliate from the Name column on the affiliate you’d like to enable lifetime commissions for.
• On the Edit Affiliate screen, click the Enable Lifetime Commissions checkbox.
• Click Update Affiliate.

Enabling Lifetime Customers Access in the Affiliate Area

If you’d like your affiliates to see the customers that are linked to them in the affiliate area, click the Lifetime Customers Access checkbox.

When this access is enabled, a new Lifetime Customers tab link will be added in the affiliate area.