Affiliate management?

I am curious if S2member has any tools for affiliate management? I am wondering if my content membership site could have an affiliate program though I can’t really remember seeing this elsewhere, maybe you have some examples of sites that do? If s2 does not have this function are there plugins/tools you suggest I look at that might integrate well with s2? I saw nancast has some affiliate programs but maybe that’s apples and oranges, so to speak….

s2Member does not have an affiliate management system. On my site, i use WP Affiliate. It is pretty simple to use and versatile. It is not free but not that expensive. s2M however, integrates with Clickbank and iDevaffiliate if you want to go that route (that is the Pro version of s2M though).

Hope it helps.

Thanks Cassel, just to be clear I am talking about if my site is the parent site and I want to manage my affiliates that are sending me incoming traffic? Is your site a content-providing site? If so would be interested to learn the URL.

My site is http://scrapbookcampus.com

The WP affiliate plugin allows anyone to become YOUR affiliate and send YOU traffic. They are assigned a specific ID and they will use their special URL (which includes their ID) to send you some traffic. You can create a different URL for each “product” you sell, whether it is a downloadable product or a membership. If a visitor uses their link, and makes a purchase, it will be recorded under your affiliate ID. At the end of the month, you simply compile the data for your affiliates and pay them. You can also choose a different commission rate per affiliate too, meaning you can have John get 20%, but Frank can get 30% and Steve gets 50%. That is all up to you.

That plugin works fine alongside s2M except if you are using Custom variables since WP Affiliate uses the cv1 as the ID so if you need Custo variables for s2M, you should work around that (it is not hard at all but probably does not need the explanation here).