Referral code based referral tracking is now available with inviteReferrals. Referral code based tracking is essential where ever cookie based tracking does not work. Following are few such use cases
1. Offline businesses that take payments offline
2. Telesales over phone
3. Registrations for mobile applications etc
Referral code activation
Below we list the step by step process to activate “referral code” in the customer referral program
1. Referral options
Go to ‘My campaign’ -> ‘Edit campaign’ -> ‘Customize Widget’. Under ‘configure referral options’ select “referrer code” checkbox and click on update. This will activate “Share referral code” option in referral popup.
2. Landing Page Notification
Go to ‘My campaign’ -> ‘Edit campaign’ -> ‘Customize Widget’ -> ‘Landing Page Notification’ tab. Include the “{referrer code}” tag as shown below. This will show the referral code to the referee if he visits your through his friend’s referral link.
3. Facebook and Twitter invite
Go to ‘My campaign’ -> ‘Edit campaign’ -> ‘Customize Invite Text’ section and include the “{referrer code}” tag as shown below. Update changes.
4. Enrollment mail and Invite Friends mail
Go to ‘My campaign’ -> ‘Edit campaign’ -> ‘Customize Invite Text’ section and include the “{referrer code}” tag as shown below. Update changes. This will include the referral code in the email templates as well.
Track Conversions
1. Submit in admin console
Go to admin (sidebar panel) -> ‘Conversions’ -> ‘Add conversions’ section. Fill up the available referee and conversion details in the form and submit. The InviteReferrals system will automatically identify the referrer from the referral code and gratify him. This method is the simplest way to track conversions using referral code.
2. Conversion API
You can directly integrate the referral code based conversion tracking in your application using the “Conversion API“. It will return response whether the referral was valid. The documentation page explains the api and integration in detail. You just need to collect the referral code from user through some form and pass it into the api at backend.
3. Pass the referral code in Javascript widget
You can also pass the referrer code in InviteReferrals javascript widget under ‘referrerCode‘ parameter. Please ensure that the conversion page is configured correctly for this method to work. Read here for detail.
Please feel free to write to us if you face any issues while activating the Referral code based conversion tracking.