LEARNWORLDS AFFILIATE PROGRAM FOR ONLINE COURSES
Build a branded affiliate program for online courses and get your own passive income stream
Create an affiliate program for online courses powered by real-time data reporting. Increase incoming traffic, boost brand awareness, enhance social proof, and yield a higher ROI.
Affiliate dashboard & tracking
Custom links per campaign
Flexible commission rules
Payout-ready reporting
Affiliate-ready promo assets
Referral performance insights
TL;DR
LearnWorlds makes it easy to launch a branded affiliate program for your online courses directly from your LMS:
Set custom commission rates, cookie durations, and payout rules.
Track clicks, referrals, sales, and commissions in a built-in affiliate dashboard.
Make use of real-time data, smart reporting, and affiliate-specific landing pages.
Best for:
Course creators, edupreneurs, training teams, and academies ready to scale their revenue with affiliate marketing.
An affiliate management program is one of the most cost-effective and diverse ways to find new customers
Increase awareness
As affiliates drive more traffic to your website, they increase awareness of your brand and its reach.
Have others invest in your success
An affiliate management program creates loyal brand advocates, helping build trust with potential customers.
You build social proof
Affiliates’ reviews provide credible social proof to prospective buyers. Affiliates come up with excellent marketing content for your school.
Simple. Launch your courses’ affiliate program in 6 steps
- Activate the Affiliate Program from your academy’s dashboard
- Set the commission you want to offer
- Set the referral cookie expiration period and maturity period for the commissions earned
- Enable Affiliates to self-register and set what they can see
- Select how affiliates will be paid
- Pick the digital products your online education affiliate program will promote
Easy-to-use affiliate management tools right inside your online academy
Integrated dashboard
Keep track and manage everything that’s happening in your online education affiliate program from an all-in-one dashboard. View revenue earned, sales, referred customers, and everything you need to manage your affiliate program.
Track commissions carefully
Get a detailed view of your commissions and their status, from commissions pending approval to approved, payable, or rejected commissions.
Connect with your affiliates with ease
Get a detailed, unified view of your affiliates, including how many customers they have referred, their sales, and how much you have paid them.
Affiliate reporting simplified
Detailed data reports help you determine whether to rework with an affiliate group, reward those who are performing well, and ensure that you’re making the most of your efforts.
Proven results from LearnWorlds’ affiliate program features
With LearnWorlds’ built-in affiliate tools, you can empower others to promote your courses, offer custom commission rates, and track every referral with ease. Use lifetime cookies, high-converting funnels, and real-time analytics to scale your course sales.
Real revenue gains
LearnWorlds customers leveraging affiliates for paid course promotion report meaningful revenue lifts:
- 35–45% increase in course sales during affiliate-led launches
- 3× higher average monthly revenue when top-performing affiliates are active
- 28% boost in recurring plan upgrades from affiliate-referred students
Affiliate-driven conversion lifts
Affiliate traffic consistently outperforms paid ads in key conversion metrics:
- 2.1× higher conversion rates from affiliate referrals than paid traffic
- 19% boost in checkout completions when affiliate coupons or landing pages are used
Higher course enrollments via affiliates
Affiliate marketing is a key growth lever for course creators using LearnWorlds:
- Up to 52% more enrollments during coordinated affiliate pushes
- 320+ new students in a single campaign via micro-influencers
- 23% increase in organic enrollments supported by content from affiliate partners
Grow your academy with affiliate programs for online courses and get a world full of market-leading features
Experience the power of LearnWorlds’ full suite of features. The most advanced on the market to build, market, and analyze your school, while keeping your students on point with live, flexible, and interactive courses.
Flexible courses
Design impactful learning journeys that motivate and inspire.
Interactive Video
Use video-based learning to boost engagement and retention.
Pop-up Builder
Use popups strategically to guide users and highlight key actions.
Affiliate Programs
Grow through referrals—set up and manage your affiliate network.
AI Assistant
Bring your knowledge to life: AI supports you with tailored insights and content suggestions.
Mobile App Builder
Create a branded mobile experience that fits your learners’ lifestyles.
Bundles & Subscriptions
Increase revenue with flexible bundling and recurring payment models.
Survey Builder
Collect feedback that helps you refine your courses and strategy.
Website builder
Launch a polished elearning site effortlessly—no technical skills needed.
Checkout & Payment
Offer smooth, secure transactions with full control over pricing.
Assessment Builder
Create reliable, user-friendly quizzes and self-assessments with ease.
Analytics & Reports
Monitor performance across your school with built-in LMS reporting and analytics.
Marketing Tools
Promote your academy with powerful tools built for conversions.
Live Sessions
Connect in real time to strengthen learner engagement and community.
Custom User Roles
Assign permissions confidently with tailored access controls.
Integrations
Extend your school’s reach with seamless connections to your favorite tools.
SCORM
Upload and manage SCORM/HTML5 content for interactive course delivery.
White-label Website
Deliver a completely branded experience—your school, your way.
Support articles
You can enable the affiliate program inside LearnWorlds by going to Marketing → Affiliate Management → Setup, where you toggle “Enable Affiliate Program”, define commission rules, cookie expiration, and affiliate agreement.
Support article: Set up the LearnWorlds Affiliate Management Program
Yes. LearnWorlds lets you set commission rates, and you have flexibility in defining rules when configuring your affiliate program settings.
Support article: Affiliate commission settings & FAQs
While LearnWorlds supports white‑labeling for your school brand overall, the affiliate setup lets you enable self‑registration and optionally customize the registration page so the program feels integrated.
Support article: LearnWorlds Affiliate Management FAQs | Affiliate dashboard
Commissions are tracked automatically when referrals convert. Payouts are managed externally (eg via PayPal or bank transfer), and you define a “commission payable after” period to account for refunds before payout eligibility.
Support article: Set up your commission rules
You can allow self‑registration by enabling it in the Affiliate Management settings. This generates a public registration page where new affiliates can sign up and receive their unique referral link.
Support article: A guide for your school affiliates
Yes, LearnWorlds supports integrations with third‑party affiliate/referral platforms such as ReferralCandy or Refersion, giving you more flexibility depending on your needs.
Support article: Affiliate management options in LearnWorlds
Glossary of terms
Affiliate: An individual or business that promotes your online courses in exchange for a commission on each sale they refer.
Affiliate dashboard: A built-in panel within LearnWorlds where affiliates can view their clicks, conversions, commissions, and referral performance.
Referral link: A unique URL assigned to each affiliate to track traffic and sales attributed to their promotions.
Commission rate: The percentage or flat amount paid to an affiliate for every successful sale or subscription they generate.
Recurring commission: Ongoing payments made to affiliates as long as the referred customer maintains a subscription (eg 30% monthly recurring).
Cookie duration: The time window (eg 30 days) during which a referral link remains valid and eligible for commission.
Affiliate program: A system that allows you to recruit, manage, and reward partners who promote your courses.
Affiliate management tools: The features inside LearnWorlds that help course creators set up commission rules, monitor performance, and manage affiliate access.
Pending commission: Commissions that have been earned but are still within the refund or validation window before payout.
Approved commission: Commissions that have been confirmed and are ready to be paid out to affiliates.
Affiliate payout: The actual transfer of earnings to an affiliate, typically handled via PayPal or other payment methods supported by LearnWorlds.
Affiliate tiering: The option (for advanced users) to assign different commission levels to affiliates based on performance or role.
Affiliate onboarding: The process of inviting, approving, and training new affiliates to begin promoting your course platform.
White-label affiliate program: An affiliate program embedded in a white-label LMS where everything (including affiliate portals) can be customized under your brand.
FAQs
A branded affiliate program for online courses allows you to promote and sell courses under your own brand while rewarding others for bringing in new learners. When used with a white-label LMS, it ensures that the entire learning experience reflects your brand, while affiliates drive traffic and revenue through tracked referrals.
Discover white-label courses to resell.
LearnWorlds’ affiliate program includes built-in tools for tracking referrals, managing payouts, and monitoring performance. You can generate unique links for each affiliate, view reports on clicks and sales, and automate commissions—all inside one single dashboard.
To launch your affiliate management program, activate the affiliate feature in your LearnWorlds account, set commission terms, and invite affiliates. Your platform will track referrals and automate rewards.
Learn more about LearnWorlds’ features.
In an online education affiliate program, competitive commissions are key. Typical rates range from 20–40%, or include recurring percentages for subscription plans. Align rates with your margins and offer higher incentives to boost performance from your top affiliates.
Yes, with affiliate management tools like LearnWorlds, you can set custom commission tiers per affiliate or group. This helps reward high performers or offer special terms to influencers, partners, or internal team promoters.
Most online course affiliate programs support payouts via PayPal or bank transfer. With LearnWorlds, you manage this via the same checkout and payments system, with automatic tracking and reporting for easy payouts.
See the 25 top high-paying affiliate programs and networks for 2026.
To grow your affiliate program for online courses, start by inviting students, other creators, or niche influencers. Promote the program on your site and social channels. For additional help, you can always check our guide on affiliate marketing and LMS marketing tips.
In your affiliate management program, subscription commissions can be set to recur monthly or annually based on the customer’s plan. This rewards affiliates over time and encourages them to bring high-retention learners.
Learn how to make money as an affiliate for elearning products.
No, canceling your LearnWorlds plan disables LearnWorlds’ affiliate program, including access to affiliate data, links, and tracking. You’d need to export any data before deactivating your account.
LearnWorlds’ affiliate program is available on the Pro Trainer plan and above. If you want to manage and reward affiliates directly within your course platform, you’ll need to upgrade to a plan that includes affiliate management tools.
LearnWorlds offers the following three flexible pricing plans:
- Starter – $29/month
- Pro Trainer – $99/month
- Learning Center – $299/month
View all LearnWorlds pricing plans to compare features.
Create the best affiliate programs for online courses. Sign up today
Turn your course platform into a revenue engine by empowering others to promote it. With LearnWorlds’ affiliate tools, you can track referrals, set commissions, and reward your promoters—all in one place.
Whether you work with influencers, students, or partners, it’s everything you need to launch and scale a high-performing program.
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