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# Welcome

Cashback Tracker turns a WordPress site into a cashback site.

Members click through to a shop from your pages. The affiliate network reports the sale back to you, and the plugin records the member's share. Their balance grows until they ask to be paid.

Looking for the feature tour, screenshots or pricing? That is on the [**plugin page**](https://www.keywordrush.com/cashbacktracker).

### What it does

* Imports the shops you are approved for from your affiliate networks
* Builds a page for each one, with a cashback rate and a tracked link
* Imports coupons for those shops
* Records every sale against the member who made it
* Keeps each member's balance, and shows it to them
* Handles payout requests through to the point of payment

### What it never does

**It does not move money.** No payment gateway, no wallet, no transfers.

A payout request is a record. You send the money yourself — PayPal, bank transfer, gift card, whatever you use — and mark it paid. That is deliberate, and the reasoning is on [What the plugin never does](/how-cashback-works/what-the-plugin-never-does.md).

### Who this guide is for

The person running the site. Everything here is done from wp-admin, with no code — except the last section, which is for developers extending the plugin.

### What you need

* WordPress 7.0 or later, PHP 8.0 or later
* An account with at least one affiliate network, and approval from the shops you want to carry

No network account yet? [The sandbox](/running-your-site/sandbox.md) gives you fake shops and fake orders to build against while you wait.

### Where to start

**A new site** — [Requirements and installing](/start-here/requirements-and-installing.md), then [Quick start](/start-here/quick-start.md).

**Coming from version 2** — [Upgrading from version 2](/start-here/upgrading-from-v2.md), before you activate.

**Ready to launch** — [Going live](/start-here/going-live.md).

**Just want to understand how it works** — [The life of one cashback order](/how-cashback-works/the-life-of-an-order.md) is the page everything else assumes.

### Running it as a coupon site

Not every site pays cashback. If you want shop pages, coupons and affiliate links with no member balances at all, one setting turns the cashback half off — see [Running a coupon site](/running-your-site/coupon-site.md).