Exempt Existing Clients from other Affiliates Commission

[artaweb]

Hello,

We have around 9K customers. One of the greatest features of our system that attracts lots of developers is our high paid affiliate. High paid affiliate brings lots of people who want to manipulate our system for earning more.

By our terms of use, our existing customers cannot be counted as a sale for an affiliate. Let me put it in a scenario, We have an existing customer who is registered with us since 2012. Today I saw he purchased a new service but using someone else's affiliate link who registered an account only for affiliate. While he is our existing customer, this makes no sense for his future purchases, someone else get the commission. Affiliate means to bring new customers and not take credit for existing customers.

While I believe this is a bad function for WHMCs affiliate system, is there any way to exempt existing customers from being counted as an affiliate sale of someone else?  I hope I explained it well.

I would appreciate your valuable insights. 

Thank you

Edited September 25, 2020 by artaweb

[Kian]

Use AffiliateCommission hook point to detect "existing client" and turn off payout accordingly.

[artaweb]

Hello,

Thank you for your response

I am unsure how to achieve this, anyone can write me the relevant hook? I don't mind paying for the development fee.

Thank you

[Kian]

This one should work.

[artaweb]

Hello Kian,

Thank you for your response.

I will update this thread once I fully tested it.