WooCommerce Integration

With the AffiliCon WooCommerce plugin, you can extend WooCommerce with a convenient AffiliCon order form. As soon as your customers choose AffiliCon as a

payment method in the WooCommerce checkout page, they will be immediately forwarded to our order form.

The following checkout processes will be handled by AffiliCon and the order data will be automatically transmitted to WooCommerce.

You can preview the demo page for our WooCommerce plugin under the following link: http://wordpress-demo.affilicon.net/ (available only in German).

Requirements

AffiliCon vendor account
WordPress version 4.7 or higher
Activated Woo-Commerce plugin version 3.0.4 or higher

Installation

Step 1: Download the AffiliCon-WooCommerce plugin (click here)

Step 2: Install the WooCommerce plugin in WordPress.

Option A: Upload with the WordPress plugin installer

2.1 Click "Plugins" in the left side menu, then "Install".

2.2 Click "Upload plugin".

2.3 Select the previously downloaded plugin and click "Install Now".

Option B: Upload via FTP

Extract the plugin and store it in the root directory of your WordPress installation via FTP.

The plugin must be located under /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce-AffiliCon-payment-gateway.

Step 3: Activate the plugin.

Activate the plugin under WordPress → Plugins → WooCommerce AffiliCon Payment Gateway by clicking "Activate".

Customization / Configuration

To set the AffiliCon Payment Gateway as a payment method in the WooCommerce Checkout, your Vendor ID, the Secret Key and possibly a Checkout Form Config ID will be required.

Vendor ID

You can find your Vendor-ID in your AffiliCon account. It is located on the blue button in the upper-right corner in your administration area. In our case it is “demo-account-affilicon” (see below).

You can find more information about an AffiliCon-ID here.

Definition of a Secret Key in the account settings in the AffiliCon administration area

A Secret Key must be used to encrypt the form data. You can generate it in your AffiliCon administration area by clicking Vendor-ID → Account Settings → API → Secret Key → Generate.

1. Go to the account settings.

2. Click the button to copy the Secret Key to the clipboard.

Log in to your WordPress administration area. Go to WooCommerce → Settings in the left toolbar. Under the tab Checkout choose AffiliCon Payment.

Then paste the Vendor ID and Secret Key in the respective fields.

Options

Option

Description

Use AffiliCon Payment

With this option you can switch the payment method on or off.

Use Sandbox

Activate this option to test your checkout process in a sandbox.

Sandbox is a test environment isolated from the operating system

where test purchases can be simulated.

Show Test Purchase payment method in checkout form

This option activates the payment method "test purchase".

Checkout Form Config ID

Optional: The Checkout Form Config ID allows you to assign an order form configuration to an existing AffiliCon product.

The checkout form Config ID determines the design of the checkout page for the entire shopping cart (header, background color, etc.).

Enter here the product ID of the corresponding product from your AffiliCon administration area.

If the field remains blank or the specified product does not exist or the product is not yet released, the order form will be displayed in its standard version during the checkout process.

Once you have made all the settings click "Save changes".

Coupons

The entry of a coupon code is currently possible only on the AffiliCon order form. The synchronization of coupons between AffiliCon and WooCommerce will follow soon.

Until then please deactivate the coupons in your WooCommerce settings in order not to confuse your customers. To enable coupons on the AffiliCon order form, please consider activating

the use of coupons for the respective products in your AffiliCon administration area. Click Edit → Extended settings → Display coupon entry → Yes.

More information about creating coupons can be found here.

Subscriptions

You can use the plugin to sell subscriptions. Please note that the modern order form theme has to be activated. You will find it under Edit product → Checkout Configurator → Design/Layout → Select Theme → Modern (flat design / responsive).

Cross-Sellings and Upsells

Please note that the use of cross-sellings and upsells in your WooCommerce-shop is currently not possible. The synchronization of cross-sellings and upsells between AffiliCon and WooCommerce is planned.

Prepare WooCommerce Products for the AffiliCon Order Form

To enable the AffiliCon checkout process for the WooCommerce products, it is urgently necessary to specify the AffiliCon product-ID by respective WooCommerce products.

Click “Products” in the side menu and select a product that is also activated in the administration area in your AffiliCon account.

Further down in the product data, click “General”. At the bottom, enter the AffiliCon product-ID.

You have made all the necessary settings for selling your products through WooCommerce and AffiliCon.

By activating the sandbox or the test purchase payment method in the WooCommerce plugin settings, you can now test your settings.