Referrals and Affiliates

New! Brands can now launch their own referral program. How does it work? Customers and affiliates share their unique referral link to earn rewards when new customers sign up

Shopwaive's Referral program empowers your loyal customer base and affiliates to share your brand with new potential customers through vlogs, social, messaging, and email channels

While the default settings will be best suited for most, you have the option to customize your Referral program settings however you like, for example define the Affiliate Commission earn rate and affiliate discount value

Shopwaive's powerful referral and affiliate program allows you to easily setup affiliate payments with the Shopwaive Earn Commission action available in Shopify Flow. Just simply connect the Earn Commission action to the Order created trigger, and you're set! Just add the Order ID using liquid syntax that's passed down from the Order created trigger.

Add the Earn Commission action downstream of the Order created trigger in Shopify Flow

Referral orders

When new potential customers visit your site and make a purchase with an affiliates' unique discount code or referral link; the affiliate receives commission at a fixed percentage of the sale value after discounts. If an order is cancelled or refunded, you can use Shopwaive's reversal actions like Void deposits and Refund balance to reverse the earned and/or redeemed credit.

With Shopwaive's New customer accounts app extension, each affiliate gets a dedicated Affiliate and Commission dashboard that provides all of their metrics, referral link, and unique discount code.

Shopwaive's Affiliate and Referral Program dashboard for New customer accounts

Making changes to your desired commission structure is easy and simple. Just visit the Referral panel in the Shopwaive app, and select the Affiliate earn rate and discount value.

Define your Commission Structure like earn rate and referral discount value in the Shopwaive app

A particularly powerful aspect of Shopwaive's Affiliate and Referral program is that it connects with all other Shopwaive touchpoints, like Checkout extensions, Shopify POS, Upsells, Cash Outs and more. This means affiliates can mix-and-match on redemption, i.e. redeem a portion of their commission on merchandise (if they prefer) and for the remainder opt to receive a direct deposit into their connected bank account or debit card

Referral signups

Each of your customers and affiliates are assigned a unique referral link; if new customers sign up using their link you can select to reward one or both parties from the Referral program settings shown below. You can even choose to expire the reward after a given amount of time or select to never expire.

Enable the referral program to begin

Next, enter a description of the reward, or you can leave this blank. You can use the {{credit}} merge tag to place the amount of the reward anywhere in the description text.

Enter a description, url path, and CSS query selector. Then click Save

Next, enter your landing page url path where your new potential customers will sign up on your website. For example, the path /account/register is a common landing page for new account sign ups, but your sign up page path could be different. If you have multiple sign up pages, simply enter a single forward slash / for the path.

Next, choose your CSS query selector. This is the selector of the form, html, or button submitted when your customers create their account on your site. If you're unsure, just reach out to us, we can help.

Finally, just click Save. Now your Referral program is live and customers and affiliates can start earning rewards on each referral.

After turning on the Referral program, developers can use the GET Customer API endpoint to fetch the unique referral links of customers and affiliates and display them on their account page or in email notifications, for example