Migrate from anywhere. 10-30 minutes.
Asteris Affiliates ships with importers for the 4 major rivals. Your affiliates, their commission history, and pending payouts all come across. One CLI command, or run via Tools → Migration in admin.
Pick your source
AffiliateWP
Industry standard. Most users migrating to Asteris come from here.
Key difference: AffiliateWP charges $199/yr extra for MLM via add-on; Asteris includes it in core.
⏱ ~15 min
Read the migration guide →SliceWP
Most affordable major rival. Free core + Pro upgrade pattern.
Key difference: SliceWP has no MLM, no AI swipe-copy, no cloud fraud detection. Asteris adds all three.
⏱ ~10 min
Read the migration guide →Tapfiliate
SaaS — your affiliate data lives on their servers, billed forever.
Key difference: Tapfiliate is $890/yr SaaS. Asteris is $149/yr self-hosted. ~6× cheaper, data stays yours.
⏱ ~30 min (CSV export + import)
Read the migration guide →YITH Affiliates
Bundled with YITH. Limited features.
Key difference: YITH has no MLM, no fraud detection, no PayPal API. Asteris adds all three for $69 more/yr.
⏱ ~10 min
Read the migration guide →Solid Affiliate
WooCommerce-only. Per-product rates in core; no MLM, no EDD, no Surecart.
Key difference: Solid Affiliate is WC-only with no MLM or non-WC adapter. Asteris adds MLM + EDD + Surecart + Stripe Connect + AI swipe.
⏱ ~10 min
Read the migration guide →Why people move to an AffiliateWP alternative (or any rival)
Across hundreds of migration emails the three patterns that come up over and over: add-on fatigue (paying for a base licence plus 4–5 add-ons just to get the feature set most stores actually need), SaaS lock-in fatigue (paying monthly forever for a tracker that holds your affiliate data hostage), and missing differentiators (no MLM in SliceWP, no Surecart adapter in any rival, no Stripe Connect direct payouts anywhere else).
The plumbing is the same across migrations — read the source plugin's standard export (CSV or DB query), normalise into Asteris's commission schema, recreate affiliates with their balances, recreate referrals with their attribution context, write a redirect handler that catches legacy ?ref= tracking URLs and re-attributes to the matching Asteris affiliate ID. The variation is in step 1: each source has different fields, different export menus, different quirks. That's why each migration has its own walkthrough.
What you don't lose: historical commissions stay attached to the same affiliate (their lifetime stats look the same the day after migration). Pending payouts come across as "pending" so your first Asteris payout run correctly settles what was already owed. Legacy referral URLs already in the wild keep working via the compatibility redirect — your affiliates' published links don't 404.
What does change: the admin UX is Asteris's, the affiliate portal is Asteris's, and the payout flow is Asteris's (which is a strict upgrade — Stripe Connect at 0.25% is faster + cheaper than every rival's default).
General migration steps
- Install Asteris Affiliates alongside your existing plugin — they won't conflict.
- Run the importer:
wp asteris-aff import --source=affiliatewp(or any source slug above). - Verify the import in admin → Affiliates list. Spot-check 5-10 affiliates have correct balances + commission history.
- Switch your store to track new commissions via Asteris (deactivate old plugin's tracking but leave the plugin installed for 30 days as a safety net).
- After 30 days of clean operation, uninstall the old plugin + drop its tables.
Stuck? Email support@asterisaffiliates.com — migration assistance is included for Pro + Agency tiers.
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