The Collaborator Dashboard

What collaborators see when they log in

When a collaborator logs into your WordPress site, they get a dedicated dashboard with everything they need to track their participation. It’s designed to be self-service so you don’t field questions about payment status or referral stats. On Siren Cloud, collaborators sign in to a portal that Siren Cloud hosts, as The Collaborator Portal describes. It also has an “Email preferences” page, where collaborators switch off the emails they don’t want, as Email preferences describes.

A collaborator with customers linked to them for life sees how many, such as “3 customers credit you on every purchase.”, with no names.

A collaborator who owns products also sees a “Your products” card listing the products they earn from when they sell.

Earnings and payment history

The top of the dashboard shows a rewards summary: “Payable” (approved and not paid yet), “Awaiting approval” (sales not approved yet), “Paid”, “This Month”, and “Lifetime Earnings”, which counts payable and paid rewards. The earnings page lists every reward with its amount and status, and can be filtered to “Awaiting approval”, “Payable”, “Paid”, or “Rejected”. A reward in a fulfillment stays “Payable” until its payout is paid, so collaborators can see what’s on the way without asking you.

On Siren Essentials and up, once you have a store credit currency, the dashboard also shows a “Credit Balances” section with one card per currency. The large number is the balance. While a checkout holds some of it, the line under it shows how much is available and how much is on hold.

On Siren Plus and Pro, the portal’s Profile page holds the cards where collaborators connect Stripe or add a PayPal email for automatic payouts. The Earnings “Payments” tab shows each payment as “Not paid yet”, “Paid”, or “Failed”. While a payout waits for the collaborator to set up Stripe or PayPal, the dashboard shows how much is waiting, with a “Set up payouts” button. See How Collaborators Get Paid Automatically. On a WordPress store connected to Siren Cloud, collaborators connect Stripe and set their PayPal email in the Siren Cloud portal.

Engagement stats by program

The engagements section breaks activity down by time period (today, this week, this month) and by program. If a collaborator is enrolled in multiple programs, each program’s engagements appear separately so they can see which ones are generating the most activity.

Coupons and referral links

Any coupon codes assigned to the collaborator appear on the “Coupons” page, each once, with a “Copy Code” button. On Siren Cloud, Stripe promotion code IDs are left out, since shoppers can’t type them. When a customer uses one at checkout, Siren tracks it as an engagement and ties the conversion back to the code’s owner.

The dashboard also has a URL generator. Collaborators paste in any page on your site and get back a referral link with their unique code already attached. On WordPress, there’s also a “Get Referral Link” button in the WordPress toolbar, so a logged-in collaborator browsing your store can grab a referral link for the page they’re already on with one click.

Customizing the portal’s appearance

On WordPress, the standalone Collaborator Portal (Essentials and above) automatically picks up your site’s colors via WordPress Global Styles. You can also set specific background, text, and accent colors plus a custom sidebar logo through the block editor or shortcode. See Customizing the Collaborator Portal for the full setup.

Collaborators are real WordPress users in the plugin

This is one of the things that sets Siren apart from most affiliate plugins. In the WordPress plugin, collaborators aren’t entries in a secondary database table. They’re real WordPress users, which means they can have any role and capability on top of being a collaborator. On Siren Cloud, collaborators have Siren accounts of their own and don’t need an account on your stores, as The Collaborator Portal describes.

A single WordPress user might be an author publishing blog posts, a course creator building content in LifterLMS or LearnDash, and an affiliate promoting your store, all at once. The WordPress profile, menus, and capabilities work as expected, and the collaborator dashboard slots into that existing experience instead of replacing it. That matters, because Siren’s most powerful use cases are usually people who contribute to your site in more than one way.