{"id":23683,"date":"2019-01-10T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowband.com\/blog\/?p=23683\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:08:01","slug":"magento-affiliate-referral-program-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowband.com\/blog\/user-manual\/magento-affiliate-referral-program-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Magento Affiliate and Referral program extension – User Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.0 Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

Knowband offers Magento Affiliate and Referral program extension<\/a> which allows the online store admin to get more customers and traffic also. The online store admin can allow the customers to register as an affiliate and create referrals for the store. The online affiliate users can earn money for every referral. The admin can apply the settings in order to provide a referral commission. The admin can provide commission on new customer registrations or on order placed by the referred customers. The referred customers can place their order using referral code, coupon code or referral link provided by the affiliate customer.<\/p>\n

This way the online store admin can improve website sales and traffic easily just by offering a commission to the affiliate customers. The eCommerce store admin can easily promote the store without any extra efforts. The affiliate customers can also get benefits by referring new customers. They can get commission by new customer registrations and order placed by the customers. The Magento Referral Program plugin provides an easy way to promote the website.<\/p>\n

1.1 Basic Features of this Magento extension<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. The online store admin can allow the customers to register their account as an affiliate and create referrals for the store for getting an exciting commission.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Magento Affiliate and Referral program extension allows the admin to activate or deactivate new affiliate registrations anytime.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Magento Affiliate and Referral program plugin provides various methods to share for the referral.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The affiliate customers can send referral code, share a link, share discount voucher, share a link on social media platforms and share a link by email.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The online store admin can show an option to share the link on Facebook, Google plus, Twitter and Pinterest.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Admin can set a global referral rate for the order placed. This value will be in percentage. Admin can also set referral rate for particular affiliate customer.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The admin can also set the global referral rate for user registration. This will be a fixed value. Admin can also set specific referral rate for affiliate customers.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. The Magento Referral Program plugin provides an option to select the global voucher type and set it\u2019s value accordingly.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The online store admin can also select the action on which the referral will be counted.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. The online user can get the referral commission on new user registration or when the order is placed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. The online users can register as an affiliate and create referrals for the store in order to get a commission.<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. The Magento Referrals module provides a dashboard for showing referral and commission-related details easily.<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. The Magento Affiliate Program extension provides functionality for the affiliate customers to redeem their commission by sending a request for payout.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2.0 Installation<\/span><\/h2>\n

    The online store merchant can install the Magento Affiliate and Referral program extension by following these steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Admin can download the extension package from the Knowband store.<\/li>\n
    2. After downloading the extension package, you will get a zipped file. Unzip the package on the root folder of Magento setup via FTP manager (like Filezilla or WinSCP \u2013 download here: https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/<\/a>). The admin will find the files and folders as shown in the image below:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"Installation\"<\/a><\/p>\n

      3. The extension is now installed and ready for use. In the Admin Panel, go to \u201cSystem > Knowband Extensions >Magento Referral Program plugin<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

      Now, the store admin can use and configure the Magento Affiliates extension.<\/p>\n

      3.0 User Manual<\/span><\/h2>\n

      Admin will get various customization options after installing the Magento Affiliate and Referral program extension successfully. Admin can configure the Magento extension in order to implement the affiliate functionality on the eCommerce website.<\/p>\n

      Below-mentioned are the configuration options:<\/strong><\/p>\n