Pay Affiliates in Their Own Currency With Stripe
When you pay your affiliates, where they live should not be the hard part. An affiliate in Berlin gets paid in euros, one in Toronto in Canadian dollars, and your US affiliates in dollars, all in the same payout, all from the Stripe account you already use.
Paying affiliates in other countries has usually meant extra software to bolt on, or currency conversion to sort out by hand. And more often than not, they get paid in your currency, not their own.
AffiliateWP now pays affiliates internationally, in their local currency, straight from your Stripe. It is built into the Stripe payouts you already run, so there is no new tool to learn and nothing extra to install. Here is how it works.
One payout for your whole roster, home and abroad
Pay affiliates across the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and Switzerland, each in their local currency, from the Stripe account you already use. You pay them in the same payout as your domestic affiliates, across multiple currencies in a single run, with one total and the same flow you run today. No extra software, and no manual currency conversion on your side.
It works through the Stripe payouts you already have set up. Turn on International Affiliate Payouts under Settings > Payouts, and affiliates outside your country can connect and get paid like everyone else. Available for stores with a US- or UK-based Stripe account, on every AffiliateWP plan. For the full setup, supported countries, and costs, see paying affiliates internationally with Stripe.
Affiliates choose where they get paid
When an affiliate connects Stripe, they pick the country they are paid in. AffiliateWP sets up their account in that country, so their earnings land in their own currency and their local bank, not a US account they cannot use.
If an affiliate set themselves up in the wrong country, they can choose a different one and reconnect, without you touching anything. And if someone connected before you turned international payouts on and could not finish, they can come back, pick their country, and complete it now.
Automatic 1099s for your US affiliates
Tax season usually means chasing down W-9s, working out which affiliates crossed the reporting threshold, and hoping you got it right. For your US affiliates, AffiliateWP now hands that to Stripe.
When a US affiliate connects Stripe, Stripe collects their tax information up front, and at year end it can issue the 1099 for you. You handle filing from your Stripe dashboard, with the data already gathered, instead of reconstructing it from a spreadsheet. For the reporting threshold, which form, and the filing deadline, see how 1099s work for your US affiliates. (This is not tax advice; your accountant has the final say on what you file.)
No affiliate gets left unpaid
Every affiliate picks the country they are paid in when they set up Stripe payouts. If Stripe cannot reach that country, AffiliateWP routes that affiliate to another payout method before you ever run a payout, so no one quietly gets skipped. The affiliate sees a note at setup when their country is not supported, so it is worth enabling PayPal alongside Stripe to cover everyone.
Already paying affiliates? Nothing changes for them
Your current affiliates keep getting paid exactly as they do now. Turning international payouts on changes nothing for the affiliates already set up, and turning it back off never strands anyone who is already getting paid, it only affects who can connect from now on.
This release also includes a range of behind-the-scenes fixes and compatibility improvements. See the full changelog for the complete list.
Getting Started
Already using AffiliateWP? Update to the latest version, then go to Settings > Payouts and turn on International Affiliate Payouts (you will need a US- or UK-based Stripe account). Your affiliates abroad can connect and get paid in their own currency from your next payout.
Pay every affiliate in their own currency, wherever they are.
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