General options free

In the General Options tab we will find two different sections:

• General
• Cookie options

General

Query var name: enter the name of the query var used to store the referral tokens in the URL. Default to “ref”.
A typical referral URL is http://sitename/?ref=2, where “ref” is the var name: you can change it to any text you like, and it will be changed in all your affiliates’ referral URLs.

The affiliate can find this token in the Affiliate Dashboard > Link generator tab:

Cookie options

Referral cookie name: enter a name to identify the cookie that will store the referral tokens. This name should be as unique as possible to avoid collision with other plugins. If you change this setting, all cookies created previously will no longer be valid. Default value is yith_wcaf_referral_token.

Set an expiration for referral cookies: enable if you want referral cookies to expire after a specific time frame (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months). If the customer completes the purchase after the expiration date, no commissions will be assigned to the affiliate.

Set cookies via AJAX: enable to execute an AJAX call to set up affiliates’ cookies whenever the system finds a referral query string in the URL.

From the General options > Affilites Registration tab, you will be able to enable/disable the affiliate registration form and its options.

Registration form

The affiliate registration form includes the standard WooCommerce registration fields (username, email and password) that cannot be changed, and the additional affiliate fields:

• First name
• Last name
• Privacy text
• Terms

Below the fields, you will find an important option:

Add the registration form fields to the default WooCommerce registration form: enable this option to add the affiliates registration form fields in the WooCommerce default registration form. In this way, all users who register to your site will also automatically submit an application as affiliates at the same time.

Note: if this option is enabled, you will never be able to see the Become an affiliate form, because all new users are automatically applying as affiliates during the registration. The only exception would be in case the user registered before the option was enabled.

Registration options

Just below, you will find the following option:

Associate old commissions to new users with the same token: if enabled, when a new affiliate is registered, the system will check if there’s any preexisting commission for that default token. If there is any, it will be assigned to the user automatically.