I have a product which asks user to register. I want to integrate an automated referral system into the emails I send out to my existing customers so that if they refer my app to any of their friends and the friends purchase it, both the friend and them get some discount. I checked zferral and hasoffers but both of them are for affiliates. I am looking for a easily integrable referral system like vonage to keep track.<p>Thanks.
The people that I know that run serious businesses using referral systems rolled their own for tight integration and because of privacy issues.<p>Trusting third parties with the email addresses of all your customers and prospects is not always wise.
Interesting that there are so few responses.<p>Over at <a href="http://blogsetup.com" rel="nofollow">http://blogsetup.com</a> , I set up Post Affiliate Pro with some custom PHP code to integrate it so the commission triggers upon fill out of a form, then goes into a "Pending" state until we manually verify it. Post Affiliate Pro is pretty flexible and has a good API for this kind of stuff.<p>I also looked at iDevAffiliate, but ultimately picked Post Affiliate Pro because it has better SEO on the links and, in general, it had better reviews. The general class of software you are looking for is "affiliate software".
Seems like you are looking for our service - nextbee.com :) For under the hood details about the system do check (<a href="http://support.nextbee.com/faqs" rel="nofollow">http://support.nextbee.com/faqs</a>)
A few other points about zferral:<p>1) We have flexible campaigns (change % without changing links) also enable recurring commissions, rev share and large up front with lower recurring.<p>2) You can create custom currencies (points, t-shirt, gold stars, discounts) you name it.<p>3) We have an open API for seamless integrate into your HTML/CSS.<p>4) it's free to start
Pretty much the entire adult industry (even the very biggest sites) uses NATS as their affiliate management system.<p><a href="https://www.toomuchmedia.com/pp_nats.htm?tmmatt=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.toomuchmedia.com/pp_nats.htm?tmmatt=1</a><p>The company I work for (not in the adult industry) built its own.
Yeah.
I'm building analytics that let you track who invited whom, and you'll be able to actually use this to offer discounts.<p>It's actually part of my site, which I can't really talk about yet :)<p>But the analytics will be a spin-off, so if you can wait 2 weeks you will get it. gregory at gregory dotnet
My company (rentmineonline.com, seedcamp '08, fbfund '09) has been running this kind of service for rental communities.<p>We recently launched a partner site that isn't industry specific, (RefYo) I'd love to get your input about desired features, etc.<p>feel free to drop me a line - klochner@gmail.com
Commission Junction or ShareASale are the two standbys.
<a href="http://cj.com" rel="nofollow">http://cj.com</a><p>A self-managed type is IDEV affiliate: <a href="http://www.idevdirect.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.idevdirect.com/</a>