Referly Documentation

Overview

A refer-a-friend program: each customer gets a personal link, friends get a discount on their first order, and the customer earns a reward code for every friend who buys.

• A personal link for every customer
• Friend discount on a first order
• Reward codes for every friend who buys

Best for: Stores with happy customers and products people talk about

Installation

1. Download referly-referral-program.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+, WooCommerce 7.0+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Personal referral code and link for every customer account
• Friend discount applied automatically on the first order
• Protected: not usable by the customer or on a second order
• Unique reward code by email when the friend’s order is paid
• Refer a friend tab in My account: link, copy button, WhatsApp, email and Facebook sharing, stats and codes
• Rewards as a fixed amount or a percentage, with a validity
• Shortcode [referly] for any page

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [referly]
• [referly_preview]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• referly_active
• referly_sanitize

add_filter( 'referly_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• referly_admin_after_form
• referly_admin_before_form
• referly_admin_form_end
• referly_rewarded

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions