Understanding User role "Affiliate"

[yipiash]

Hi,

I have successfully set the plugin up 😀

I am confused about one thing.

If a person (who doesn’t have an account on my website) registers as an affiliate via the plugin form, I as an admin have to approve his application and his new account is created and his website user role is assigned as “Affiliate”.

But if a person (who already has an account on my site and his user role is “Course Author”) registers as an affiliate via the plugin form, I as an admin have to approve his application. But this time, his user role is not changed to “Affiliate” from the previous “Course Author”. But yet he can access his affiliate dashboard and access all the features offered to an affiliate.

So someone whose user role is not even “Affiliate” can also act as an affiliate if his application is approved. Does it work this way or I am missing something?

[Shadow Labs]

Hi, An affiliate account has the same capability as a “subscriber”. Unfortunately, That role doesn’t have a big purpose yet. We are just creating it so it’s easier for you to identify which users are affiliates in the WordPress Users menu.

[yipiash]

So that means if someone (who doesn’t have any account yet) registers via the affiliate form, he will get the user role “Affiliate”. Then after approval, even though I change his user role from “Affiliate” to something else, he can still act as an affiliate just because he is on my approved affiliate list.

Am I right?

[Shadow Labs]

That is correct.

[Author]

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