Promoting Your Program

Referral Factory provides nine built-in ways to get referrers into your program.

How referrers sign up, log in, and use the branded referrer portal to find their referral link and track their referrals.

There are two distinct types of links in Referral Factory, and it helps to understand the difference.

Referral Factory offers several ways to let people join and participate in your referral program.

Each promotion method on the Promote page has an eye icon in the top-right corner of its card.

Yes, and it is a good idea — but with an important distinction.

There's no single right answer, but a practical starting point is once a month through your regular communications, plus always-on passive placements (pop-up,.

This is the most common issue new referral programs face, and almost always the cause is the same: not enough promotion.

The sticky bar is a persistent banner that sits at the top or bottom of your product and constantly prompts customers to refer their friends.

The Lead Submission Form lets referrers submit a friend's details on their behalf.

Referral Factory includes a built-in Email Blast feature that lets you send a one-time email to your campaign contacts — no external email tool required.

The API Integration panel gives you everything you need to build a custom referrer dashboard inside your own application.

The Branded Referrer Portal is a standalone page hosted by Referral Factory where anyone can sign up as referrers, access their unique referral link, submit.

The website widget adds a floating button to your website (e.g. in the bottom-right corner).

The on-click pop-up is the recommended promotion tool for SaaS and online businesses.

If your referral program is live but not generating referrals, use this step-by-step checklist. Most issues fall into a few common patterns.

Before you promote your referral program to customers, test it end-to-end to make sure everything works correctly.

One of the most powerful promotion strategies is embedding each customer's unique referral link in every email or communication they receive from you.

How to log into your Referral Factory dashboard using a password, magic link, Google, or SSO — and how to reset your password if you've forgotten it.

What works and what doesn't when it comes to UTM parameters, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and other tracking tools on your referral pages.

How referrers sign up, log in, and use the branded referrer portal to find their referral link and track their referrals.

How Referral Factory handles duplicate leads within a campaign — including what happens when two referrers try to refer the same person.