Refer Friend

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Created: 02/07/2017 | By: Magenest | Support Portal: http://servicedesk.izysync.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/103

Referral marketing is important for online store. in order to encourage customers invite friends to buy items on your websites (via link or via email) and become members of your website,merchant can use our refer friend module . The refer friend plugin have many rich features.

• Customer (aka Affiliate) whom promote your website can share your links on his blog or via facebook, twitter, … Each time his friend follow the shared link and visit your website , the module will use cookie to track these customers and reward affiliate coupon if the customers place orders.
• Customer can send email to invite friend to buys items in your websites. The module will send invited friend a coupon to encourage he/she purchased product. After invited customers buy products, the module will reward the affiliate a coupon
• Affiliate can received coupon if their referred friends sign up.

Term used in this article

1. affilate : customer whom send email to invite friend to buy items or share the link of your website
2. referred customer : customer whom follow link in invited email or shared link and buy items in your website
3. referred coupon : coupon that is inserted automatically in invited email to ask affilate's friend to buy items
4. reward coupon : coupon that is automatically sent to affilate after his referred friend purchase items

1.Login backend

2. Add new page named “refer-a-friend” for example

In the page content add the following line

[rf_sponsor_form]

The configuration of refer a friend module can be found at Woocommerce /Setting /Refer a friend tab.

There are 3 tab inside this configuration panel

general / email template /social share The Refer a Friend section 

1.  Allow invite a friend : Check this box will enable customer send invitation email via form of website.

By default, it is turn on

1. Allow share link : enable customer broadcast share link
2. Cookie of referral will expire after x days : People follow the shared link (referral link ) to go to your website will have a cookie to track the affiliate program. You can set the expired time for this cookie in this field.
3. Reward affiliate and send notification email when status of order : We recommend to set this option to completed.
4. Give bonus to referfal for friend registration : If you check this checkbox, affilate will get rewared coupon if his referred friend (via email ) register in your website.
5. Coupon Amount for friend sign up : You set the coupon amount for reward affiliate of sign up customer here

The Invitation Coupon Settings section

The module will insert a coupon to referred email . This section is place you configuration coupon value, coupon amount.. 

Dear  {{friend}} <br>
Your friend  {{sponsor}} invite you to visit  our website <a href="{{siteurl}}"> {{sitename}}  </a>                                                                 
Please apply the coupon  {{coupon}}  to get $ {{coupon_value}} off

<br>

Your friend message
<strong> {{affiliate_message}}</strong> 

Hi {{sponsor_name}} 
<br>                                                                                                                                                                
Thank you for invite friend to our website.
 We reward you a coupon $ {{coupon_value}}
 with code <strong> {{coupon}}</strong> <br>

Note to use it before expiry date {{coupon_expiry_date}}
Detail of success referral
<br>
Type : {{refer_type}}
<br> associated email {{invited_email}}

<br>

Many thanks
<a href="{{siteurl}}"> {{sitename}}&gt; </a>