Scaling WooCommerce Affiliates with Multi-Tier Commissions
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The Problem: Flat Commissions Limit Growth A standard affiliate program pays one layer: the person who referred the sale. For a store selling $100 products with a 10% commission, that's $10 per sale. If an affiliate refers 100 customers, they earn $1,000. But their reach is finite. Once they've exhausted their audience, growth stalls unless you recruit more affiliates. Multi-tier programs solve this by paying upline sponsors, a percentage of the sale to the affiliate who recruited th