Siren for Course Creators
One system for every way people help your course business grow—affiliates, students, instructors, guest experts, collaborators, referral partners, and top performers.
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Siren is extremely flexible, and it opens up a whole world of possibilities in WordPress based collaboration. I recommend you try it out for yourself, and if you have any questions, the support is excellent.
Armando J.
Principal Software Engineer, PerezCarreno & Coindreau
Siren is so much more than an affiliate plugin with its multiple rewards structures. There's nothing like it on the market. Period.
Justin Ferriman
Founder, BrightGrowth
Finally, a WordPress solution that allows you to turn your learning site into a Netflix, or Udemy clone. Siren is the future of affiliate marketing and partnerships for the eLearning and WordPress industries.
Chris Badgett
CEO, LifterLMS
Siren Affiliates plugin has all the features I need, and the ones that I didn't know I needed!
It lets me track traditional affiliate referrals, but also, allows me to track revenue shares with my course co-creators.
And, one of the most important things I like most about Siren isn't a feature, but it's the top notch support provided by the development team!
I highly recommend Siren from the support to the plugin features.
Thank you for creating this, and at an affordable price.
Darren Mullen
Smart Workflow Guru
I feel support actually reads and understands what is being asked, which is one of my biggest frustrations with most support teams in the plugin's business. Most support replies are scripted and not relevant to what's being asked. This is not what happens with Siren.
Marco Almeida
Founder, PT Woo Plugins
These guys are the best. The program is simple and easy to use and their support is very quick to answer questions.
Adam McGee
Founder, Lemon Head Design
Siren is fantastic. Intuitive, powerful, well-supported. I'm thrilled I switched from AffiliateWP.
Corey Maass
Creator, Developer
I am thrilled to be a new Siren customer. Today, I created the first Affiliate Program for my LifterLMS site. This is an excellent solution for compensating content creators, and I can think of a couple of other use cases that I can't wait to try out! I highly recommend this product.
Robert Mascatello
Founder
I purchased Siren Affiliates and had a one-on-one with Alex. I was really impressed with the product and all the features it has. He was really thorough. I'd definitely recommend this plugin to anyone who needs to launch an affiliate program.
Anita
Web Designer
Siren Affiliate Manager is an exceptionally well-designed and thoughtfully built WordPress plugin. If you're running an affiliate program with multiple affiliates, different transaction types, or custom engagement triggers that need to generate commissions, this tool gives you serious power and flexibility. What really sets it apart, though, is the developer. Alex has been incredibly helpful and willing to customize the plugin for my specific use case. More importantly, he was focused on creating real value for my business - not just billing hours. That kind of mindset is rare. The plugin is robust, flexible, and clearly built by someone who understands real-world affiliate program complexity. I can't recommend Siren highly enough.
Julian Foster
Digital Strategist
How do you give the right person credit and reward them according to the rules of that relationship?
Reward affiliates, creators, publishers, or education partners when they refer students who enroll or purchase a course.
Use the attribution method and commission structure that matches how the course is promoted.
View program detailsTurn successful students and community members into a repeatable acquisition channel by rewarding qualified referrals or enrollments.
View program detailsAssign course ownership to instructors and pay a royalty when the courses they created generate revenue.
Ownership-based rewards can operate independently from affiliate attribution.
View program detailsSplit course revenue across instructors, co-creators, guest experts, or other contributors according to the economic structure of the program.
View program detailsReward collaborators, communities, podcasts, agencies, or strategic partners that help promote a launch, cohort, workshop, or education offer.
View program detailsReward affiliates or partners again when a student renews a course membership or recurring education subscription, when the relevant renewal event is available.
View program detailsAdd incentives for launch volume, enrollment milestones, top affiliates, instructor performance, or other growth outcomes.
View program detailsDifferent programs can use the same underlying operating model.
A student enrolls, a referral converts, an instructor-owned course sells, a membership renews, a partner drives a launch sale, or another education event occurs.
Siren determines which affiliate, student, instructor, creator, partner, or other relationship should receive credit based on the program rules.
The program decides what that credit is worth: affiliate commission, referral reward, instructor royalty, revenue share, flat reward, or performance bonus.
Review what qualifies before it becomes payable, or automate the parts of the approval process that do not need human review.
Track what is pending, owed, and paid, with the underlying activity connected to the reward.
Run Siren directly on your own WordPress site and keep your program data in your own database.
Best for:
Course businesses using WordPress LMS platforms such as LifterLMS, LearnDash, WooCommerce, or supported WordPress education/commerce workflows.
Use Siren as a hosted incentive layer when course payments, CRM, billing, learning systems, or partner workflows need to operate across a broader stack.
Best for:
Larger education businesses, custom course platforms, multi-system academies, and teams that need API/webhook-based events or implementation support.
Affiliates earn 30% on every course enrollment they refer.
Includes 1 program
Instructors earn a royalty when their courses sell.
Includes 1 program
Monthly subscription revenue split among instructors by student engagement.
Includes 1 distributor
Affiliate referrals, instructor royalties, and revenue sharing in one setup.
Includes 2 programs, 1 distributor
Affiliates earn for selling. Creators earn royalties on every sale of products they own.
Includes 2 programs
Customers earn a flat reward for every friend they refer who buys.
Includes 1 program
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Yes, when the business intentionally runs separate royalty and affiliate programs. The instructor can earn based on course ownership while the affiliate earns based on referral attribution.
Yes. Siren can assign product or course ownership to a creator and calculate a royalty when the owned course generates a qualifying sale.
Yes. Students can participate as referrers and earn when the person they introduce completes the qualifying action defined by the program.
Siren can model contributor and revenue-share structures so multiple participants can earn according to the defined program rules.
Yes, when the relevant renewal event is available through the connected LMS, commerce, or billing workflow and the program is configured to reward renewals.
No. Siren has a WordPress edition for supported LMS and commerce setups and a hosted option for broader course and business stacks.
Run affiliates, student referrals, instructor royalties, contributor revenue share, recurring commissions, and performance bonuses without rebuilding your incentive system as your course business grows.
