Referral Statuses
When a new referral is created for an order it will either have the status Pending or Potential Fraud. If you have enabled auto-approval then the referral status will be automatically changed to Approved once the corresponding order gets marked as completed. If the referral is marked as Potential Fraud then the referral will not be auto-approved and you can choose to manually approve or reject it.
- Pending – A successful referral has been recorded but any store credit has not made available to the advocate.
- Approved – The referral is now visible to the advocate and any store credit will be applied to their next purchase.
- Potential Fraud – A successful referral has been recorded but the system thinks it may be fraudulent. You must manually choose whether to approve or reject the referral.
- Rejected – When this occurs, the advocate cannot see rejected referrals or use the store credit.
Store Credit
If you are rewarding your advocates with store credit, any approved referrals with credit remaining will be automatically used on the advocate’s next order. The credit amount is labelled Referral Credit and is shown in the cart and checkout totals. The advocate is not able to choose to use the credit, it must be used on their next order.
Why advocates must create an account
Before advocates can refer any friends they must create or sign in to an account on your store. This is for a few reasons – firstly it helps to reduce fraudulent referrals such as customers referring their own email addresses, it allows the plugin to reward advocates with store credit rather than using coupons which is generally consider easier to use and it means advocates can log into their account area and see their successful referrals.
Google Analytics Tracking
A great way to measure the performance of your Refer A Friend campaign is by using Google Analytics UTM tracking. You can set this up by adding a few parameters to the URLs in the Refer A Friend settings.
For example you could add the following parameters to the social Share URL: ?utm_source=social&utm_campaign=refer-a-friend&utm_medium=referral
