{"id":1711,"date":"2022-03-31T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2023-10-27T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:17:50","slug":"general-options-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/free-version-settings\/general-options-2\/","title":{"rendered":"General options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the General Options tab we will find two different sections:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#general\">General<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#cookies\">Cookie options<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"general\">General <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1-1024x249.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1-768x186.jpg 768w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/33.ref-link-1-1536x373.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"query-var-name\"><br><strong>Query var name<\/strong>: enter the name of the query var used to store the referral tokens in the URL. Default to &#8220;ref&#8221;. <br>A typical referral URL is <code>http:\/\/sitename\/?<strong>ref<\/strong>=2<\/code>, where &#8220;ref&#8221; is the var name: you can change it to any text you like, and it will be changed in all your affiliates&#8217; referral URLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The affiliate can find this token in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/free-version-settings\/affiliate-dashboard-free-version\/#link-generator\">Affiliate Dashboard > Link generator<\/a><\/strong> tab:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2022\/03\/Affiliate-ID.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2022\/03\/Affiliate-ID.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2022\/03\/Affiliate-ID.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2022\/03\/Affiliate-ID-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2022\/03\/Affiliate-ID-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cookies\">Cookie options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/20.cookie-options.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1418\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/20.cookie-options.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/20.cookie-options.jpg 1418w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/20.cookie-options-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/20.cookie-options-1024x422.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/docs.yithemes.com\/yith-woocommerce-affiliates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/272\/2023\/10\/20.cookie-options-768x317.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Referral cookie name<\/strong>: enter a name to identify the cookie that will store the referral tokens. 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