Referral program - plugin for Shopy-Script applications

Increase sales through partners.

Referral program (affiliate program) is an effective tool for promoting online stores. The essence of an affiliate program is to acquire partners who distribute information about your website on the internet and social networks and receive bonuses for doing so. Partners can use the earned bonuses to make purchases in your online store or, if your company policy allows, receive bonuses in cash or to a bank account. By publishing links to your online store on various websites, your partners will increase the pool of referrals, promote your online store in search engines, attract new customers to your online store, and ultimately increase sales.

Any customer or user registered on your website can become a participant in the affiliate program: in the "Affiliate program" section of your personal account on the website, each partner accepts the terms of the referral program, receives an individual promotional link, such as yourdomain.com/?promo_id=184254, starts bringing in customers using this link, and receives bonuses for their paid orders.

Features of the plugins "Referral program" for the Shopy-Script app:

• Instantly launches a referral program in your online store based on the Shopy-Script app. No registration on third-party sites is required. All referral management takes place on the backend of your online store.
• Any registered user or customer of your online store can become a referral partner directly from your website in the "Affiliate program" section of the personal account.
• Partner links are generated by simply adding the parameter ?promo_id=partner_code to any page address of your online store, allowing your partners to receive promotional links not only to the main page of your online store but also to specific product pages, categories, lists, search results, etc.
• In their personal account, partners can track conversion, sales, and click-through rates for promotional links based on the traffic source (websites from which referred customers come).
• Clicking a promotional link triggers a 301 redirect that "swallows" the promo_id parameter. This allows for the correct distribution of reference mass (PageRank) across the online store's pages.
• Promotional links can be published on any website, forum, blog, or social network. When published on a social network, a short text and preview image (posts, tweets) are generated based on the content of the main page to which the promotional link leads (which will receive the 301 redirect).
• One account for managing the referral program and accruing bonuses for orders (bonus points are accumulated). The ability to use accumulated bonuses to obtain discounts on purchases in the online store.
• Implementation is based on a partner cookie that is set at the moment of clicking on the promotional link. The validity period of the cookie is configurable (default is 30 days). If, before the cookie expires, a customer clicks on another partner's referral link, their future purchases will be counted as referred by that partner.
• Plugin automatically creates a referral program for all websites of your online stores. The referral cookie is placed on the current main domain.
• The ability to register the payout of accumulated bonus points in the partner profile (if your company's policy allows for the payout of accumulated bonuses). Payouts can be processed in any way and can be made outside the plugins interface. Application Shopy-Script and plugin "Referral program" serve only as a tool for recording payments and accruals.
• A dedicated backend section "Referred referrals" with a list of all users registered in the referral program.
• Automatic email notifications to partners about new bonus payouts.
• Partner registration only after accepting the terms of the referral program (the contract text is edited in the plugins settings).