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AutomateWoo - Refer A Friend add-on

Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.

Note: AutomateWoo Refer A Friend requires AutomateWoo to be installed and active on your store.

Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.

Adding a referral program to your WooCommerce store is a great way to increase your word-of-mouth sales and numerous studies show that people trust recommendations from people they know.

With AutomateWoo Refer A Friend you can quickly set up a referral program that is customized for your store.

Run a ‘coupon based’ campaign where advocates can share a unique coupon, giving the friend a discount and the advocate store credit for each successful referral. If you don’t wish to offer coupon discounts you can run purely ‘link based’ campaigns where advocates can refer their friends by sharing a unique link to your store.

Why Use Refer A Friend?

Effortless Referral Management

Easily create and manage a WooCommerce customer referral program all from your WordPress admin area. You can choose between either an automatic or manual referral approval process. Selecting automatic approval means that any referral that does not appear to be fraudulent will be automatically approved once its corresponding order is marked as complete.

Intuitive Referral Process

The customer referral process is easy and flexible for advocates, allowing sharing via Email, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.

For the advocate’s friend the process is just as simple, all they need to do it use a coupon to gain their referral discount.

WooCommerce customer referral page
Full Share Page – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme
Share Email Default Template

Post-Purchase Widgets

Encourage referral sharing by including the post-purchase share widget on the order confirmation page and by creating order follow-up emails using the email version of the widget.

Order Confirmation Widget – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme

 

Email Share Widget

Fraud Prevention

It’s important for your customer referral program to include fraud prevention methods. Our WooCommerce Refer A Friend add-on has a few fraud rules out of the box:

  • Advocate IP address matches that of the customer – The referral will be marked as potentially fraudulent and will be blocked from auto-approval. Matching IP addresses don’t always mean that the referral is fraudulent as your store could be shared among co-workers who use the same IP address.
  • Matching cookies – A cookie is placed in the advocates browser and if present they will not be able to use a referral coupon. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.
  • Matching emails – When attempting to use a referral coupon the billing email is checked against any previous orders. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.

Reporting

Evaluate the success of your customer referral program by using reports that show the number of referral orders placed.

Advocates Accounts Tab

Advocates can view their successful referrals from their account area.

Workflows Integration

The Refer A Friend add-on integrates with AutomateWoo workflows adding new triggers and variables. This lets you set up automation for your customer referral program and also gives you complete control over any email notifications that you want to be sent to admins or advocates.


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  • schwarzburgmd
    Rated 1 out of 5
    Functionality
    Nov 5, 2024
    Functionality
    For all the generated coupons it says "Your coupon is not valid. It may have expired." But the coupon expiration is set to unlimited. On the referrals section I do see that the expiration is not unlimited but 2 years after today date. BUT it still refuse to work.
  • sheli2121
    Rated 3 out of 5
    Apr 2, 2024
    Feature needed
    It is good but there is one major flaw. And that is when someone refers a friend it only asks for the referal's email address and not their name. Why this is important, is that there is no follow up with that person, so I like to add them to a mailing list to keep them updated of new services that I offer every week. If I do not know their name, I cannot email them. I need to say "Dear So and so" I need their name to do so. I need their first name and last name. If you add this I will give you 5 stars
  • cbdqueenofficial
    Rated 2 out of 5
    Oct 19, 2021
    Bad Instructions, Hard to Use, and Slow, Confusing Support
    Bad Instructions, Hard to Use, and Slow, Confusing Support. I have wasted so much time trying to get this setup and waiting more than 24 hours for support replies is painfully bad.
  • info5079702bd1a
    Rated 1 out of 5
    Jun 30, 2021
    Doesn't Work Right
    After using this plugin for years, I noticed the last couple months (may have been happening longer, but I just noticed) it's been giving people free subscription renewals. If they have a balance of credit, say $5, it's 1) not deducting the credit once applied 2) crediting the full amount of the order and not just the $5 - no telling how much money I've lost due to this.
  • mikaaaltogutlyfoodscom
    Rated 1 out of 5
    Dec 11, 2020
    Absolute pain from the beginning.

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