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✨Boost add-on 101

Getting started with affiliate campaigns

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ReferralCandy Boost is a paid add-on. Visit the signup page in the web app or Shopify app to subscribe.

🤝 Get more out of your campaigns

ReferralCandy offers refer-a-friend and affiliate campaigns out of the box, complete with features to help you manage and optimize your referral program.

With Boost add-on, merchants are equipped with additional tools to optimize, manage, and monitor referral and affiliate campaigns.

🪙 Pay and reward customers

With Boost add-on, you can pay your advocates and affiliates cash commissions from the 2nd reward tier onwards if you're using a tiered reward structure. Cash commissions drive more affiliate engagement as they are flexible and universal. Learn more about reward types.

✏️ Edit the referral code

With the Boost add-on, Shopify and BigCommerce merchants who use a discount coupon as the friend offer can customize customer referral codes. This allows you to create easy-to-remember and recognizable discount codes that customers can share with their audience. Learn how to customize the customer's referral code on Shopify and BigCommerce.

📈 Advanced analytics and portal

Uncover insights about your affiliates' social media engagement and its impact on your referral sales. Affiliates get an upgrade too with the new affiliate portal where they can manage their rewards and see data about their referral performance. Learn about Brand Lift and affiliate portal insights.


Boost add-on FAQ

How much is the Boost add-on?

The Boost add-on (formerly AffiliatePlus) is available for an additional $29 per month on top of your ReferralCandy plan, charged on your next billing.

To subscribe to the Boost add-on, visit the signup page in the ReferralCandy web app or Shopify app.

What’s the difference between a refer-a-friend vs. affiliate campaign?

Refer-a-friend and affiliate campaigns have the same features that ReferralCandy offers. However, an affiliate campaign has additional capabilities:

  • A customizable signup page where affiliates can sign up for your program

  • Additional segments for curated, invite-only, or instant access affiliate programs

  • An affiliate management dashboard where merchants can review and approve applicants

  • An improved affiliate portal where partners can track their performance and earnings

The ReferralCandy Boost add-on provides merchants with extra tools to create and manage affiliate programs on a larger scale, such as:

  • Brand Lift, an advanced dashboard that provides insights about the affiliates' social media engagement and its impact on referral sales

  • Customizable coupon codes for advocates and affiliates

  • Ability to use cash rewards for the 2nd tier onwards, if using a multi-tiered reward structure

How do I disable or unsubscribe from the Boost add-on?

Removing the Boost add-on disables Brand Lift, customized referral codes, and cash rewards set after the first tier. Deleting or unsubscribing from your ReferralCandy plan automatically unsubscribes you from the Boost add-on.

To remove the Boost add-on from your ReferralCandy subscription:

  1. Navigate to your ReferralCandy Plans page:

    • From the ReferralCandy dashboard, go to Profile > Plans & Pricing.

    • From your Shopify admin, go to Account > Plans.

  2. Find the Boost section and click Disable add-on.

  3. A warning popup appears. To proceed, click Disable add-on.

Once confirmed, all Boost add-on features are disabled immediately unless you sign up for the add-on again. Custom referral codes are disabled.

How can I pay or reward affiliates? What platforms can I use?


ReferralCandy offers several ways you can reward your affiliates. Choose the reward that best fits your business and your affiliate strategy. You can offer the following:

Cash rewards are paid out exclusively via PayPal. ReferralCandy doesn't support other payment platforms to send out cash commissions. Learn more

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