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Adding new permission to the opt-in Customizing the support forum URL for the premium code version Show the contact submenu item only when the user have a valid non-expired license Add permission for adding Help Scout Beacon Controlling the in-dashboard trial promotion in the Freemius WordPress SDK EDD to Freemius Pricing Page Override based on … Continued

Paying Affiliates Commission

While we have the ability and the backend logic, at the moment, affiliates are not paid automatically by Freemius. Instead, this is something that you’ll need to handle yourself. We do plan to eventually handle it, but it will take us some time to get there. Handling Monthly Affiliate Commission Payouts Once a month, after … Continued

Offering Free Trials

Freemius enables you to easily offer Free Trials for your users, with or without requiring a payment method. Offering a Free Trial may help you increase your product’s distribution and sales. Check out The Ultimate Guide To Free Trials For Premium WordPress Plugins And Themes. Supported Trials Types “Free Trial” – A Free Trial Without … Continued

Email Deliverability

Freemius uses SendGrid for sending all the transactional emails to users and customers. While their deliverability performance is outstanding, from time to time, emails may fail to get delivered to your users’ mailbox for various reasons like: The user’s email server flags a message as spam The user’s WP Admin email is an invalid email … Continued

Selling Bundles & Memberships

To showcase how you can start selling bundles, let’s assume that you have: A freemium Core Plugin calledCatwalk Reviews with 2 paid plans (Starter: $100 per year; Professional: $150 per year), and two add-ons: 1. Catwalk Addon 1 – a freemium add-on with one Pro plan for $50 per year. 2. Catwalk Addon 2 – … Continued

Affiliate Terms Customization

You can easily customize the affiliation terms for each affiliate. First, scroll to the bottom of the affiliate’s details and click the Customize affiliation terms switch: If you click it, all the terms of the program will show up and you will be able to customize each detail, including the affiliate’s commission, cookie expiration period, … Continued

Known Affiliate Link Issues

If a substantial amount of the affiliate traffic (affiliated link clicks) is invalid due to an EMPTY_REFERER error, most likely, it’s related to one of the following issues: rel=”noreferrer” Some content management systems or web editors, like WordPress, include a security feature that automatically adds a rel=”noreferrer” attribute to all links. This directive instructs the … Continued

Onboarding Affiliate Marketers

Adding Affiliates Manually Open the Freemius Dashboard Choose the Product from the Products tab under the Freemius logo. Click the Affiliation menu item. Click the Affiliates tab item. To add a new affiliate, click the Add Affiliate button Enter the affiliate’s email, name, and the domains via which the affiliate will be marketing your product. … Continued

Activating The Affiliate Program

To activate your affiliate program, you need to activate for each of the products in your store individually. This means, you can have some products supporting the affiliate program while ommitting others. To get started, log in to your Freemius Dashboard via: https://dashboard.freemius.com/login/ Select one of the products on offer by clicking the Products tab … Continued