Your recommendations of a simple referral plugin would be highly appreciated. This is how I am thinking it should work:

1. User1 submits a form (simple form with name, email fields, possibly Contact Form 7)
2. Admins receive an email, user1 receives a referral URL (preferably shown right on the page, or sent via email)
3. User1 shares the link
4. User2 comes via user1’s link and submits the form
5. Admins see that user1 referred user2. At the same time, user2 is given their own referral URL.

That’s it. No MLM necessary. When User2 brings more users, they are not in any way attributed to user1 even though user2 registered using user1’s referral code.

Any recommendations?

AffiliateWP is too cumbersome and expensive for this simple task.

Thanks a lot!