Your Friendbuy account provides three pre-configured widgets that every referral program should have. These widgets will help you get live quickly with the best practices of our top performing clients.
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The Site-wide Overlay is the most important of your three best practice widgets. This widget gives your customers a fast and easy way to refer friends on impulse without leaving the page they are currently on.

Most of our clients trigger the Site-wide Overlay with a call-to-action in one of the following locations:

In the example below, Proof Eyewear places their ribbon on the bottom right with a bold color to grab their customers' attention:

The Refer-a-Friend Landing Page is critical for promoting your referral program – through banners in emails, with automated social media posts and even through paid advertising.

This widget should be embedded on a page that you control, such as www.yourstore.com/referral-program. The page can contain your site header and footer or it can be an empty page.

In the example below, Ringly embeds the widget on a page that contains only their site header:

The Post-Purchase Overlay can account for 15% to 25% of your total referral revenue. Using auto-pop, you can achieve 10x sharing and referrals versus without auto-pop.

This widget should be installed on your post-purchase page as an overlay. The overlay should be triggered automatically when the customer arrives on the Thank You page, after completing her purchase.

Now that we've configured your three best practice widgets and their pre-configured settings, all you need to do is: