[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) ## [ Affiliate program ](/affiliate-program) Details Category: [Uncategorised](/money-back-policy?view=category&id=2) Published: 23 October 2026 Hits: 470 Affiliate program # Recommend HikaShop, *earn 15%*. We build the extensions, ship the updates and look after the customers. You bring them to us, and you get 15% of every HikaShop licence your link sells, renewals included. Setting up your first affiliate link takes less than five minutes. [Create your account →](/login?view=registration) [Open your affiliate area](/dashboard/affiliate) **15%** of each licence **30-day** tracking cookie **PayPal** payouts ## How it works. The program runs on HikaShop Business' own affiliate feature, the same one you can offer in your shop. 01 ### Create an account [Sign up](/login?view=registration) on hikashop.com, or [log in](/login) if you already have an account. 02 ### Open your affiliate area Go to [Dashboard > Affiliate](/dashboard/affiliate). You'll find your affiliate ID, enter your PayPal e-mail address and follow your clicks and orders. 03 ### Add your link Link to hikashop.com from your site, adding `?partner_id=` and your ID to the address. Your affiliate area gives ready-made links and banners. 04 ### Earn Each click stores your ID in the visitor's browser for 30 days. If they buy HikaShop within that time, 15% of the sale is yours. Customers who create their account through your link stay yours, renewals included. ## Getting paid. Your affiliate area lists the recent clicks, so you can check that your link works, and the orders it brought in. ### How much 15% of the sales revenue on HikaShop Essential and HikaShop Business licences, and on their renewals by the customers you brought. Orders placed with a coupon code don't earn a commission. ### How By PayPal, to the address you entered in your affiliate area, in the currency of your choice. Sales in other currencies are converted. No PayPal account? [Contact us](/contact) and we'll find another way. ### When A sale is confirmed 30 days after the order, once our money-back guarantee has passed. Payouts start at €50 or $80. Reached the minimum? Ask for your payment through the [contact form](/contact). ## An example. John's affiliate ID is 62. - John adds **https://www.hikashop.com/?partner\_id=62** to his website. - Mike clicks it. His browser now keeps John's ID for 30 days. - Mike creates an account, downloads the free HikaShop Starter and leaves. - **10 days later**, Mike comes straight back to hikashop.com and buys a $100 HikaShop licence. **$15** goes to John's affiliate account, confirmed 30 days later if Mike doesn't ask for a refund. - **Two months later**, other visitors did the same and John's account reaches $85: John asks for his payout. - **A year later**, Mike renews his licence. John gets 15% of the renewal too. ## Terms & conditions By joining our Affiliate Program, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree with the terms and conditions. hikashop.com reserves the right to add, delete and/or modify any of the terms and conditions in this Agreement, at any time and at its discretion alone, by posting a notice announcing a change or a new agreement on the hikashop.com website. If you do not wish to accept a particular amendment, you only reserve the right to terminate the agreement and your participation in the Affiliate Program. Your continued participation in the Affiliate Program following notice of a change or a new agreement on the hikashop.com website will automatically constitute acceptance of the changes. ### Your obligations You must use the Affiliate Program in a manner that demonstrates common sense and respect for the rights of hikashop.com and third parties. - You may not use our Affiliate Program on a website promoting sexually explicit material, violence, any kind of discrimination or illegal activities. - Any kind of advertisement causing damage to our name or products is prohibited. - Spam, unwanted commercial e-mails, and posting in inappropriate newsgroups or forums (non-commercial ones, for example) are also prohibited. - You may not advertise in any way that effectively conceals or misrepresents your identity, your domain name or your return e-mail address. - You may not use our affiliate program on any website URL that contains all or part of our products' names, company name or website name. - You may not advertise our products with fake deals or other promotions that lure our customers with a discount which doesn't exist. ### Termination At its discretion alone, with or without notifying you, hikashop.com reserves the right to terminate this agreement and your participation in our affiliate program immediately, should you commit fraud in your use of our affiliate program or should you abuse this program in any way. If such fraud or abuse is detected, hikashop.com shall not be liable to you for any commission for such fraudulent sales. Join the program ## Your audience, *our extensions.* Create your account, grab your link, and earn on every HikaShop licence you bring, renewals included. [Create your account →](/login?view=registration) [Open your affiliate area](/dashboard/affiliate) ## [ What is HikaShop ](/what-is-hikashop) Details Category: [Uncategorised](/money-back-policy?view=category&id=2) Published: 25 September 2026 Hits: 1751 What is HikaShop # An online store that lives inside *your own* website. HikaShop is a native e-commerce extension for Joomla and WordPress. You install it into the site you already run, and it adds a full shop: catalog, cart, checkout, payments, shipping, taxes, customers and reporting, all on your own server and all under your control. [Open the live demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Read the documentation](/documentation) **Joomla 3–6** & WordPress **GPL** open source **0%** revenue share In one sentence: HikaShop turns the website you **already own** into a complete online store, without renting space on someone else's platform. It is not a hosted service or a separate app to log into. It is software that runs as part of your Joomla or WordPress site, so the shop shares your template, your users, your languages and your SEO instead of starting over somewhere else. Native extension Self-hosted Open source (GPL) Built since 2010 40+ languages ## Sell anything you can put a price on. Physical goods, digital downloads, subscriptions, bookings, even a full multi-vendor marketplace. One catalog model carries a three-item boutique and a thirty-thousand-SKU operation, so you never rebuild as you grow. ### A catalog without limits Categories, characteristics, variants, options, related products and custom fields, organised the way your range is actually shaped. ### Digital downloads & files Sell software, media or documents with secure, limited-access downloads attached to any product or order. ### Subscriptions & rentals Recurring billing, memberships and time-boxed rentals are built into the Business edition, no bolt-on required. ### A whole marketplace HikaMarket adds independent vendors, their own dashboards and commission splits, turning your shop into a marketplace. ### Checkout that converts One-page or stepped, guest or registered, with the fields, terms and payment branching your funnel needs. ### Invoices & order docs Branded PDF invoices, delivery notes and order emails, generated automatically and customisable to the line. ## From extension to open shop, in six moves. There is no platform to sign up for and no data to migrate later. A HikaShop store grows inside your existing site. 01 ### Install into your CMS Add HikaShop to the Joomla or WordPress site you already run. No separate hosting, no second login. 02 ### Build the catalog Create products, variants and categories by hand or import a spreadsheet. Add custom fields wherever you need them. 03 ### Set payment, tax & shipping Connect a gateway, define tax zones and currencies, add carrier or flat-rate shipping. Configure the rules once. 04 ### Shape the storefront Use your own template and override any view, email or checkout step so the shop matches your brand exactly. 05 ### Go live Open the shop on your own domain, with guest or registered checkout that works on every device. 06 ### Grow Layer on coupons, an affiliate program, subscriptions, a marketplace or auctions as the business scales. ## Software you own, not a storefront you rent. The biggest difference between HikaShop and a hosted store builder is where everything lives, and who is in charge of it. HikaShop compared with hosted store builders | | HikaShop | Hosted store builders | |---|---|---| | Where it runs | On your own Joomla or WordPress server | On the vendor's platform | | Your data | Yours, on your server, exportable anytime | Held inside their platform | | Transaction fees | None taken by HikaShop | Often a percentage of every sale | | What you pay | Free, or one licence per year | Monthly, rising with your sales | | Customisation | Every view, email and checkout step is overridable | Limited to the theme's options | | Source code | Open (GPL), yours to read and extend | Closed | | Lock-in | Move or self-host whenever you like | Leaving means a migration | ## From cart to doorstep to repeat customer. Three areas where HikaShop does the heavy lifting. Each has a page of its own; here is the short version. ### Payment 60+ gateways out of the box, from Stripe and PayPal to local methods, with multi-currency and PCI-friendly hosted flows. [Explore payments →](/payment) ### Shipping Live carrier rates from UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and more, plus weight, price and zone rules you set yourself. [Explore shipping →](/shipping) ### Marketing Coupons, discount tiers, an affiliate program, waitlists and email-marketing integrations to bring shoppers back. [Explore marketing →](/marketing) ## Who builds with HikaShop. One extension, many kinds of store. The same foundation suits a first boutique and a developer's hundredth client build. ### Small businesses & boutiques Launch a polished shop on a budget, starting free with the Starter edition and upgrading only when you outgrow it. ### Agencies & freelancers Deliver client stores that stay update-safe and fully brandable, with no core fork to maintain later. ### Developers A documented plugin framework, overridable views and an API to build whatever the brief needs. [For developers →](/for-developers) ### Marketplaces Run many independent vendors under one roof, with seller dashboards and commissions, using HikaMarket. ### Digital & subscription sellers Sell downloads, licence keys, memberships and recurring plans, with delivery and billing handled for you. ### International stores Sell in many languages and currencies with tax zones configured once, then shipped everywhere you support. ## One family, when the basics aren't enough. The add-ons extend the same store rather than replacing it, so nothing is thrown away as your needs grow. ### HikaMarket Turn your shop into a multi-vendor marketplace, with seller dashboards and commissions. [Discover HikaMarket →](/hikamarket) ### HikaSerial Generate and sell serial numbers, licence keys, vouchers and coupon codes automatically. [Discover HikaSerial →](/hikaserial) ### HikaAuction Add live bidding to any product, with proxy bids, reserves and timed closes. [Discover HikaAuction →](/hikauction) ## Where to go next. See it running, read how it works, or start building today. [Download free → Get the Starter edition and build your shop today.](/download) [Live demo → Click around a real HikaShop store, front and back office.](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Documentation → Step-by-step guides for every feature.](/documentation) [Compare editions → Starter, Essential and Business, feature by feature.](/hikashop) [For developers → Plugin framework, API and view overrides.](/for-developers) [Read the reviews → Rated 4.9 by more than 300 shop owners on the Joomla Extensions Directory.](https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/e-commerce/shopping-cart/hikashop) ## [ Payment ](/payment) Details Category: [Uncategorised](/money-back-policy?view=category&id=2) Published: 25 September 2026 Hits: 1727 Payment # Get paid the way your customers *want to pay*. HikaShop connects to more than 60 payment gateways, from global processors like Stripe and PayPal to the local methods your market expects. Switch one on, accept any currency, and keep every cent: HikaShop never takes a share of your sales. [Open the live demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Browse payment plugins](/marketplace/payment) **60+** gateways **Multi-currency** checkout **0%** revenue share ## Connect the gateway you already use. One-click and hosted integrations for the processors you and your customers already trust, ready to switch on in the dashboard. ![Stripe](/media/brand/logos/stripe.svg "Stripe") ![PayPal](/media/brand/logos/paypal.svg "PayPal") ![Adyen](/media/brand/logos/adyen.svg "Adyen") ![Klarna](/media/brand/logos/klarna.svg "Klarna") ![Square](/media/brand/logos/square.svg "Square") ![Revolut](/media/brand/logos/revolut.svg "Revolut") ![Apple Pay](/media/brand/logos/applepay.svg "Apple Pay") ![Google Pay](/media/brand/logos/googlepay.svg "Google Pay") ![Alipay](/media/brand/logos/alipay.svg "Alipay") ![Afterpay](/media/brand/logos/afterpay.svg "Afterpay") ![Visa](/media/brand/logos/visa.svg "Visa") ![Mastercard](/media/brand/logos/mastercard.svg "Mastercard") ## Everything you need to take a payment. The payment layer is built into HikaShop, not rented from a checkout vendor. You decide which methods to show, to whom, and in which currency. ### 60+ gateways Each is a standalone plugin you enable only if you need it, so the checkout stays lean. ### Hosted & PCI-friendly Card details go straight to the processor's hosted fields, keeping sensitive data off your server. ### Any currency Price and charge in your customer's currency, with automatic conversion and per-zone rules. ### Capture & refund Take, capture, refund and partially refund orders from the order screen, no processor login needed. ### Manual & offline methods Bank transfer, cheque and cash on delivery ship in the box for the orders that never touch a card. ### Rules & restrictions Show or hide a method by user group, geographic zone or order total, and add fees or surcharges per method. ## From global processors to local favourites. A sample of what is available today. Each gateway is its own plugin in the marketplace, maintained and ready to install. Stripe PayPal Mollie Adyen Square Authorize.net Klarna Worldline WorldPay Opayo / SagePay Alma Vipps Revolut Sofort MultiSafepay CorvusPay Paysera iPay88 Eway Barclays Axepta BNP Paribas Zip Apple Pay Google Pay Alipay and many more [See all payment plugins →](/marketplace/payment) ## Built to keep card data safe. Modern payment integrations keep sensitive data away from your site, so you carry less risk and less compliance burden. ### Hosted card fields Customers enter card details in the processor's own secure fields, so numbers never reach your server and your PCI scope stays small. ### 3-D Secure & SCA Strong Customer Authentication and 3-D Secure flows are supported where the gateway provides them, ready for European rules. ### No card numbers stored HikaShop records the order and the gateway's reference, not the card itself, so there is nothing sensitive to leak. Start taking payments ## Turn on a gateway *today.* See the checkout in the live demo, browse the payment plugins, or read how to configure them. [Open the demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Browse payment plugins](/marketplace/payment) ## [ Shipping ](/shipping) Details Category: [Uncategorised](/money-back-policy?view=category&id=2) Published: 25 September 2026 Hits: 1359 Shipping # Deliver anywhere, at the *right price*. HikaShop quotes live rates from the carriers you use, or applies the shipping rules you define yourself, by weight, price, country or product. Offer pickup points, print labels, and give every customer an accurate total before they pay. [Open the live demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Browse shipping plugins](/marketplace/shipping) **Live** carrier rates **Weight, price & zone** rules **Pickup points** & labels ## The carriers your customers expect. Real-time quotes from the major carriers, plus regional and parcel-network plugins for the markets you actually ship to. ![UPS](/media/brand/logos/ups.svg "UPS") ![FedEx](/media/brand/logos/fedex.svg "FedEx") ![DHL](/media/brand/logos/dhl.svg "DHL") ![USPS](/media/brand/logos/usps.svg "USPS") ## Quote it right, every order. Shipping is part of HikaShop, so the rate a customer sees matches the rule you set, down to the zone, the weight and the product. ### Live carrier rates UPS, FedEx, DHL and USPS return real-time quotes at checkout so the customer pays the true cost. ### Your own rate rules Flat, free, by weight, by price or per product. Build the rate table that matches how you actually ship. ### Zones & restrictions Offer or hide a method by country, geographic zone or user group, and set per-zone pricing. ### Pickup points Let customers choose a relay or locker with selectors for Mondial Relay, MyParcel and more. ### Labels & tracking Generate labels through SendCloud, Shipstation or MyParcel and push tracking numbers back to customers. ### Free shipping & promos Trigger free shipping over a threshold or through a coupon, and surface it as a checkout incentive. ## Global couriers and regional networks. A sample of the shipping plugins available. Each is a standalone plugin in the marketplace, ready to install. UPS FedEx DHL USPS Canada Post Colissimo Correios GLS Mondial Relay MyParcel SendCloud Ship&co Shipstation Shippingbo EasyParcel and more [See all shipping plugins →](/marketplace/shipping) ## Three ways to price a delivery. Mix and match per method. Most shops run a flat rate at home, a rate table abroad, and live quotes for express. ### Flat & free One price per order or per item, or free above a threshold. The simplest option, set up in seconds. ### Weight, price & zone tables Tier the cost by basket weight, total or destination, with a different table for every geographic zone. ### Live carrier quotes Ask the carrier's API for an exact price at checkout, based on the parcel, the service and the address. Set up delivery ## Get the shipping total *right.* See checkout shipping in the live demo, browse the carrier plugins, or read how to build a rate table. [Open the demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Browse shipping plugins](/marketplace/shipping) ## [ Marketing ](/marketing) Details Category: [Uncategorised](/money-back-policy?view=category&id=2) Published: 25 September 2026 Hits: 1102 Marketing # Win the sale, then *win them back*. HikaShop keeps the growth tools next to your orders: coupons and discounts, an affiliate program, abandoned-cart and reminder emails, waitlists and reviews, plus integrations with the email and analytics tools you already run. No second platform, no data export. [Open the live demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Browse marketing plugins](/marketplace/marketing) **Coupons** & discounts **Affiliate** program **Email** & reviews ## The growth tools, in the box. Acquisition, conversion and retention all live in the same dashboard as your catalog and orders, so a campaign is a setting, not an integration project. ### Coupons & vouchers Fixed or percentage codes, single or bulk-generated, scoped by product, category, customer group or date. ### Discounts & bulk pricing Quantity tiers, per-group prices and automatic cart discounts reward bigger and repeat baskets. ### Affiliate program Recruit partners, track referrals and pay commissions from inside the shop, included in the Business edition. ### Abandoned-cart emails Reminder messages nudge shoppers who left items behind, recovering sales that would otherwise vanish. ### Waitlist & back-in-stock Let customers ask to be told when a sold-out product returns, then email them automatically. ### Reviews & ratings Collect product reviews to build trust and feed rich snippets, with a review-request plugin to chase them. ## Plug into the channels you already run. Connect your email platform, community and analytics. Each is a standalone plugin in the marketplace. Coupons Discounts Affiliate program Abandoned-cart emails Waitlist Reviews Reminder emails MailChimp Newsletter Community Builder JomSocial Matomo analytics and more [See all marketing plugins →](/marketplace/marketing) ## Know what is working. Growth needs measurement. HikaShop reports on the numbers that matter and stays friendly to search engines and analytics. ### Built-in statistics Revenue, orders, average order value and best sellers surface in the dashboard, no extra tool required. ### SEO-friendly storefront Clean URLs, editable metadata and structured data help your products rank and earn rich results. ### Email & analytics Push subscribers to MailChimp and measure behaviour with Matomo, wired in through the plugin framework. Grow the shop ## Turn visitors into *regulars.* See the tools in the live demo, browse the marketing plugins, or read how to launch your first campaign. [Open the demo →](https://demo.hikashop.com) [Browse marketing plugins](/marketplace/marketing) 1. [ HikaMarket](/hikamarket) 2. [ HikaSerial](/hikaserial) 3. [ HikaShop communication rules](/money-back-policy?view=article&id=364:hikashop-communication-rules&catid=2) 4. [ Security Issue for HikaShop 2.3.2 and below and for HikaMarket 1.4.2 and 1.4.3](/money-back-policy?view=article&id=269:security-issue-for-hikashop-and-hikamarket&catid=2) Page 1 of 3