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Pricing starts at $47/mo + commission (monthly). All pricing options include a 14-day free trial.

We're focused on helping you get more sales. That's why our pricing is based on a commission for each successful referral sale you make.

What users say

Great product, does the job well! and amazing support. We are excited to launch our site and to see if our referral program would bring in revenue.
Product is easy to use and helps increase revenue and traffic.

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Amin A.

Media Production, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Excellent Automated Marketing Tool

Reviewed 6 years ago

It’s a staple of our Shopify-based ecommerce store.

Pros

Referral Candy works. We use it as a part of our Shopify store, and we’ve had success with it. About 3% of our monthly sales are generated via Referral Candy. The interface is easy to use, and the constantly make improvements, month to month. We essentially set it up, and review it once every four months — we love how little administration we need to do.

Cons

We’ve seen other referral programs offer a “stage-based” referral incentive (eg if you refer 5 or 10 people you get a special Gift). I wish Referral Candy offered this. Additionally, there are automatic “share” buttons that are easy to include for customers associated with Facebook and Twitter. I wish they had the ability for us to program sharing via WhatsApp. Finally, it appears the price has increased for ge software, which is not ideal

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Francesca A.

Internet, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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A software to grow your business thanks to your own customers

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

What I like the most about ReferralCandy is that it makes the business grow while making the customers happy, and their friends too! It let this happen through a handful of contents that are partially customizable, and all the rewards to the advocates and their friends are sent out automatically, asking no more effort than to choose which are the discounts that you want to give to the customers, and what are the rules that make the discounts applicable (for example the minimum order value). Plus, the support team is very quick and helpful in answering doubts and questions and giving useful tips to make the most of this software! :)

Cons

I would say that the things I liked least about ReferralCandy are: - that I am not able to deeply customize the contents through the HTML exposed - that I am not able to understand how the contents performs singularly (for example how many links are shared from the post-purchase pop-up, or through the first email, the reminder email and so on)

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Simon C.

Consumer Goods, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great Review App!

Reviewed a year ago

So far so good

Pros

ReferralCandy is a simple to use and cost effective app to grow your ecommerce referrals.

Cons

The UI could be a bit cleaner and there could be more functionality for managers

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Madison B.

Retail, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great Customer Support

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

They have wonderful customer support available to answer any questions I may have, which can be hard to find these days. In particular, [SENSITIVE CONTENT] has provided top-notch customer support! She is kind, helpful, and always has a quick response time. I'm truly impressed :)

Cons

Not as sophisticated as other options, but great for the price point

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Tyler F.

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A Solid, Easy-to-use Referral System

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

ReferralCandy was extremely easy to implement and is very easy to manage day-to-day. The support is also great; I typically get all issues resolved very quickly. It is also affordable compared to other options.

Cons

I'd just like to see more features that allow us to customize the ReferralCandy experience. The best example would be a feature that would allow us to control when we send rewards to advocates. Some advocates complain that payouts only happen on a monthly basis. If we could control payouts and make them more frequent if we wanted to, like some other referral platforms allow, that would be excellent!

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Jason O.

Investment Management, 1-10 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Specific review to address excellent customer service by [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]

Reviewed 4 years ago

Haven't started using it yet. But I think our loyal customers will help us spread the word about us and help grow our database.

Pros

The program is relatively easy to set up and get started. However, don't rush make ourself know with the consequences of certain settings.

Cons

Although the software is relatively straightforward, I had many questions about reward setting and other areas of the software. Only once you get really deep into the software certain consequences become clear or start raising questions. I think the reward setting page could be more clear. If you want I am willing to give you more detailed information and input. I think it would help to add a calculation model feature that can be used to simulate what cost/benefit a certain reward will have. Ie. what does a reward cost and what is the benefit. I made this in Excel now, and it was really useful. I have had frequent contact with your customer service officer [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]. Her help has been very friendly, fast and accurate. In my opinion she's doing a great job!

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E-Learning, 11-50 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Functional and Gracefully Simple

Reviewed 3 years ago

We needed a simple referral system we could activate to increase our acquisition. Most platforms on the market have affiliate marketing capabilities that we didn't need and their pricing scaled along with that. ReferralCandy offered a simple referral system that matched our requirements in an easy to manage package with a lot of thoughtful features that could get anyone's referral program up and running quickly.

Pros

The software is functionally operational from day 1. It has the core features of a referral program and common access points for integration. Their system is open enough to allow for additional tinkering to adapt it to your system but it you can hit the ground running.

Cons

The ways of accessing information on users enrolled to the referral programs and analytics needs more granular control. Its virtually impossible to manage and migrate large amounts of data in an efficient manner. As such, it may be difficult to use the product to scale but their customer support and development team maintained comms with us so we were able to eventually solve the issues but there were many compromises.

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Justin T.

Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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We love ReferralCandy

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

It is an easy way to manage our referral program. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] was incredibly helpful in getting our program setup.

Cons

There could be more technical features built out, but then would likely be more expensive.

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kiril a.

Sporting Goods, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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very easy to use, our customers love it

Reviewed 3 years ago

great, customer service is top notch and solves anything that ever comes up which is usually never

Pros

ease of use, great customer service, affordable for a small business

Cons

nothing really, didn't dislike anything

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Gary S.

Retail, self-employed

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Amazing onboarding customer service

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

I have been using this product for less than a month so I can't really comment on how great the product is yet - however I can comment that the onboard process is thorough. I've had a couple of issues setting up due to the complexity of my website, but two different support staff have worked with me to get everything working the way I need it.

Cons

The pricing of this product is quite expensive compared to other referral programs, but I had to choose it due to its integrations with other apps I use. It will remain to be seen as to whether it pays for itself but I'm hoping it will make it easy for customers to refer their friends.

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Mea C.

Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great Value

Reviewed a year ago

ReferralCandy has great customer support.

Pros

ReferralCandy has helped us save when it comes to having a referral program to serve our customers.

Cons

Given we have subscriptions, we had a big hiccup with the integration with Recharge that the ReferralCandy team helped resolve. It would have been great if that was already smooth before we launched.

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Julie L.

Cosmetics, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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A suitable solution

Reviewed 5 years ago

We have definitely increased the number of people that tell friends and whose friends convert to a purchase. Word of mouth is our most cost effective means of promotion. We still do many other things as well but dollar for dollar this is a fantastic value compared to advertising.

Pros

Referral Candy is easy to use and implement on my site. Customer support is friendly and prompt with responses. My customers really appreciate the rewards for telling friends.

Cons

The emails are a little clunky to edit and I had a little trouble finding the setting that controlled how frequently people received reminder emails, and a few clients got irritated by that. I found the setting for that finally and now no longer send reminder emails.

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Kyle B.

Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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ReferralCandy experience

Reviewed 5 years ago

It's been a good experience so far, though we have not had much luck thus far getting referrals, but that is more on us and our customers, not the software. Their customer support has been very responsive by email, Representative has been especially helpful.

Pros

I like the pricing structure of a low monthly fee compared to other products coupled with a modest pay-for-performance fee. Product was very easy to setup, we were able to easily setup the Javascript on our check-out page.

Cons

For the emails that go out I'd like to be able to reference some more dynamic fields we can build into the email message such as the referrer's referral link.

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Zahidi A.

Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Making a difference through ReferralCandy

Reviewed 8 months ago
Pros

What I like most is the support from the team especially from Cris and Sam.

Cons

It is quite confusing at times based of my level of understanding is low.

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Ian M.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Magnifi RC Review

Reviewed a year ago

Despite some of the short comings with tracking, I'm quite happy at the moment. The cost is definitely worth the effort.

Pros

I love how easy it is to implement. Also the customer service is responsive which is helpful for a first time user.

Cons

I wish there were better tracking options. Outside of integrations there aren't too many ways to track performance.

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Michael D E.

Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Easy to use with Woocommerce

Reviewed 5 years ago

The amount of detail I can see from the dashboard regarding my customer interactions is really amazing.

Pros

The ease of setup and implementing into our woocommerce marketplace. Rep was a great help in ensuring we were live and functional with ReferralCandy.

Cons

I don’t like the commission on referral dollars. Our marketplace does not make money on most of the transactions from our site so this will be a cost we have to eat as our traffic increases, but we hope that the traffic will add to our overall subscription services sales. It is risky as we grow.

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Used other for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Amazing product for boosting word of mouth marketing.

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

What I like most about this software is how easy it is to set up and get started on creating referral programs. Referral Candy makes it very easy for us to implement their system for merchants to boost conversions and spread the word about their companies in such an amazing way.

Cons

What I like least about this software is the leap for monthly pricing as you get into the enterprise space, however that's just because it's harder to get a client to sign up for it (but hey, that's just business and I get it). The monthly price point is hard to beat for something like this, so it's a good alternative.

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Nora C.

Photography, self-employed

Used other for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Great product and customer service

Reviewed 4 years ago

Had a great experience with [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] helping me with an issue I was having. Very helpful and quick responses. Thank you, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]!

Pros

I like that it motivates my clients to refer people.

Cons

I wish it was a little less expensive on the commission side.

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Education Management, 1-10 employees

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Easy to use, affordable & great support

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

I was able to set up my referral campaign within 24 hours! Their ready made templates, intuitive software, easy to understand help documents and quick live support made installing and going live a seamless experience!

Cons

No integration with Zapier & no LinkedIn social sharing option

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Used monthly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Its a cost-effective, user-friendly application that can be customized per my use.

Reviewed 6 years ago

Its is best solution, per se, to maximize the voice of customers. I've found out that the best thing a customer loves is getting rewarded for their time, their referral.

Pros

I've tried other apps in the remote past, but sticked to this one because it can be customized and re-customized to my needs. I like clean UI and stats and it really boosted our revenue by 15-20%. Works well with shopify and each and every clean customer who recommends our site/product is rewarded. I have already recovered the ReferralCandy cost in the third month of its use.

Cons

Price may be a concern for small stores. Limitations in discount codes is a big no-no, and fraud automation instead of full automation makes other competitors suffer.

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Marc P.

Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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That candy is sweet!

Reviewed 3 years ago

Great onboarding, very helpful getting us setup, very patient with all our questions and concerns

Pros

Very cost effective, easy to setup, love that we are able to customize all of the landing pages and emails sent to customers. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] from customer support was very helpful in solving a post-setup issue we had.

Cons

It would be ideal if the customer doing the referring could email the referrals to their friends using the software.

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Kate J.

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Appreciate the support

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

I appreciate that [sensitive content hidden] support was timely and helpful. Thanks.

Cons

There are many features I would like to have available but for the price, it is reasonable value.

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Ayo I.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best Shopify Referral App!

Reviewed 2 years ago

Great value for what it actually does.

Pros

When referring to a friend, the friend does not need to have a profile on the merchant's store and the code is automatically added at checkout.

Cons

Can't think of any. The app is very easy to use for customers and to set up.

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Andy R.

Sporting Goods, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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Reviewed a year ago

Poor and expensive

Pros

Nothing. It isn't working yet for us, so I have no results at all

Cons

Few examples how other brands have used it... How often to use it, where it is placed on out site, examples of the process etcThe software didn’t work for our trial period. Without asking, they billed a year in advance, even before it worked. We are now 6 weeks in and have not used it once and have so far paid over $500!!Customer service is also poor! With no response to messaging, thus the review. I told them if they didn't get back to me I will write the review and hey ho... they didn't respond.We are still trying to get the money back and still trying to make it work, to then decide if it is good or not ! You have been warned! Andy Rigg Owner Rigged and Ready

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Linda S.

Consumer Goods, self-employed

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Good

Reviewed 4 years ago

Referral programme to get more organic conversions and a motivation for current customers to stay longer because of getting a discount for their next box if they refer someone else.

Pros

When everything is set up, it is easy to use. Customer support was great.

Cons

Unfortunately there were quite a lot of technical issues before I could start working with it. Also I find the monthly price that will be charged after the trial quite high since it is not only that but also the percentage that is taken off the referrals that are made.