WordPress affiliate plugin

ViralPayouts vs Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers)

ViralPayouts has no monthly fee, pays your affiliates for you and pays recruiters on every program. You pay 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3%, and nothing in a month when nobody sells. With Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers), you pay your affiliates yourself and has no two-tier recruiting. It costs $0 to $49.92 a month.

Every figure for Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers) comes from its own pages or named review sites, checked 12 October 2026. Sources are listed at the bottom.

Why brands pick ViralPayouts over Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers)

Best fit: A brand that wants partners to recruit other partners with ongoing overrides, wants payouts handled, and wants to be found by partners in a directory - especially if not on WooCommerce.

$0 a month
No plan and no setup fee. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month.
Payouts done for you
One invoice per program. ViralPayouts sends every partner and recruiter their money and collects tax forms.
Recruiters built in
Customer links and recruit links on every program, with the override set your way and reversed on refunds.

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Side by side

	Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers)	ViralPayouts
Price	$0 to $49.92 a monthTerm: Annual licence, renews yearly until cancelled; 14-day refund policy	$0 a month. 10% of what you pay partners, falling to 3% at $10,000 a month.
Setup fee	Not stated	None
Fee for paying affiliates	Not stated	Included in the fee above: no charge to the brand for sending payoutsPartners pay Whop's own fee when they withdraw to their bank
Pays your affiliates for you	Novia Brand's own PayPal / Stripe accounts; plugin automates sending in Pro	Yes You fund by bank transfer; we pay every partner
Two-tier recruiting	NoPro (for the earnings-bracket 'multi-tier' rates)	Yes Two levels on every program: share of commission, share of sale or fixed. Paid on approved sales, never sign-ups
Public program directory	No	Yes Partners browse and join with one account
Tracking	referral link + browser cookie; WooCommerce coupon codes (Pro); lifetime customer binding (Pro); subscription renewal commissions (Pro)	First-party links with click IDs, signed server-to-server events, Stripe Checkout webhook
Coupon tracking	Partly	Yes A code per partner, per program
Mobile app tracking	Not stated	App installs, sign-ups and purchases reported from your server through the signed event API, with bounties on them. No SDK to ship in your app.
API, webhooks, MCP	Not stated	REST API for brands and partners with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server for AI agents, a signed event API and partner postbacks
Integrations	WooCommerce (HPOS compatible), WooCommerce Subscriptions, PayPal Payouts, Stripe Connect, WPML	Stripe Checkout, Shopify orders, any backend via the event API

Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers) plans in full

Free (WordPress.org): $0 a month. Unlimited affiliates, one global commission rate (per-affiliate override on profile), manual payouts only
Pro 1 Site: $8.25 a month billed yearly. $99/year (listed 'Normally $139'), 1 website, all Pro features
Pro 5 Sites: $33.25 a month billed yearly. $399/year (listed 'Normally $599'), 5 websites
Pro 10 Sites: $49.92 a month billed yearly. $599/year (listed 'Normally $799'), 10 websites

Pricing source

Where ViralPayouts comes out ahead of Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers)

What Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers) offers

WooCommerce store owners (physical, digital, subscriptions, courses, agencies running multiple stores) who want a self-hosted affiliate program with no per-sale platform cut.

WordPress affiliate plugin · Trustpilot 4.5 (168 reviews)

Why ViralPayouts is the better choice

Genuine two-level recruiting: recruiters earn an override on their recruits' sales; DevDiggers' 'multi-tier' only raises an affiliate's own rate
ViralPayouts pays affiliates for the brand via Whop; here the brand funds and sends payouts from its own PayPal/Stripe
Public directory of programs and one partner account across programs
Works off-WordPress via signed S2S event API and Stripe Checkout webhook

What Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers) users say

Paraphrased from public reviews. Follow each link to read the original.

Praise

Clean, simple interface with everything needed to start an affiliate program (July 2026). wordpress.org
Setup takes minutes; affiliates see clicks, referrals and commissions in their own dashboard (April 2026). wordpress.org
Fast, helpful support; one buyer switched from another affiliate program and was helped through setup (Sept 2025). devdiggers.com

Complaints

Buyer found the plugin was not the right fit and was refused a refund despite the advertised 14-day money-back guarantee (3 stars, Sept 2026). trustpilot.com
Several WordPress.org 5-star reviews were posted within days of each other in Dec 2023, so the small review base may not be representative (observation, not a user complaint). wordpress.org

About Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers)

In their words:: "Affiliates for WooCommerce – Affiliate Program, Referral Tracking & Commission Payouts" (WordPress.org title)
Company:: DevDiggers (WooCommerce extension developer; describes itself as an Envato Elite Author with 'More than $125,000 in sales')
Website:: devdiggers.com

Try ViralPayouts on test money

Set your commission and recruiter override, see what each sale costs you, and run it on the test network before a real partner joins. No monthly fee.

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Sources for Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers) (4), checked 12 October 2026

Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers) is a trademark of its owner. ViralPayouts is not affiliated with Affiliates for WooCommerce (DevDiggers). Prices and features change: check devdiggers.com before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.