Referral Link Sharing Options: Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Email & More

Making it easy for customers to share is one of the most important parts of a successful referral program.

With Viral Loops, every campaign participant gets a unique referral link and can share it with friends, colleagues, or their audience across multiple channels.

Depending on your campaign setup, participants can share their referral link through social networks, messaging apps, email, or simply copy the link and share it anywhere they want.

Viral Loops provides several ways for participants to invite others to your referral campaign.

Your participants can share their unique referral link using options such as:

They can also copy their personal referral URL and share it through virtually any other channel, including SMS, community platforms, private messages, newsletters, or other social networks.

This makes it easy for your customers to promote your referral program through the channels they already use.

When someone joins your Viral Loops campaign, Viral Loops can generate a unique referral link for that participant.

For example:

https://yourwebsite.com/?referralCode=abc123

The participant shares this link with their network.

When someone follows the referral link and completes the required action in your campaign, Viral Loops can attribute that referral back to the original participant.

This allows you to track who referred whom and reward participants based on the rules of your referral program.

Participants can share their referral links directly through the sharing options available in your campaign.

This makes it easier for customers to promote your referral campaign on social networks without manually copying and pasting their referral link every time.

You can also configure how your referral links appear when shared on social media using your campaign's sharing appearance and Open Graph settings.

For example, you can control elements such as the image, title, and description users see when your campaign is shared.

Referral links can also be shared through messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Messenger.

This is especially useful for referral programs because participants can send their personal referral link directly to friends, family, customers, or colleagues instead of posting it publicly.

Participants can also use the Copy Link option and paste their referral URL into any messaging application they prefer.

Participants can also invite their contacts by email.

When using the email sharing option, clicking the button opens the participant's email application so they can send their referral invitation.

Note: This option relies on an email application being configured on the participant's device. If no compatible email client is available, the email application may not open.

Viral Loops also supports referral sharing from mobile devices.

When participants interact with their referral link on a supported mobile device, they can use the device's native sharing menu to share their referral link through compatible apps installed on their phone.

Depending on the device, this can include:

This means participants aren't limited only to the sharing buttons displayed in your Viral Loops campaign.

Yes.

Participants can copy their unique referral URL and share it anywhere they want.

For example, they could paste their referral link into:

The key is that the participant's unique referral information remains in the URL so Viral Loops can identify the referrer.

Yes.

Depending on your Viral Loops campaign template, you can customize different parts of the sharing experience, including the Sharing Options Widget and how referral links appear when they are shared.

For example, the Universal template includes a Sharing Options Widget that customers can use to share their unique referral link.

You can also configure where referral links direct invited users and customize the experience they see after following an invitation. Viral Loops uses the referral link to associate the new participant with the person who invited them.

Different customers prefer different channels.

Some may prefer sending a referral through WhatsApp, while others may share on LinkedIn, Facebook, email, or a private message.

Providing multiple ways to share reduces friction and makes it easier for participants to invite people through the channel that feels most natural to them.

The goal is simple:

Make sharing your referral link as easy as possible.

The easier the sharing experience is, the easier it is for participants to promote your referral campaign.

Create your referral campaign with Viral Loops and give customers unique referral links they can share across their favorite channels.

Yes. Participants can use the available WhatsApp sharing option or copy their unique referral link and send it through WhatsApp.

Yes. Viral Loops supports social sharing options, and participants can also copy their referral links and publish them on other social networks.

Yes. Mobile users can use available sharing buttons and supported native mobile sharing functionality. The existing Viral Loops article already documents native mobile sharing when participants copy their unique link.

Participants in a referral campaign can have their own unique referral information so Viral Loops can attribute successful referrals to the person who invited them.

Viral Loops campaign analytics can report sharing and referral activity by channels such as email, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and copied links.

​Keep in mind that, in order for the email option to work, participants need to have a desktop email client installed. Otherwise, the button just won't open their email application to send the invitation.

For more details on the Email sharing option, click here.
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Your participants can share your campaign from their mobile as well. Apart from the sharing buttons, we have a native sharing dialogue that appears when they click to copy the unique link. 

So as you can see, even though Viral Loops supports specific sharing buttons, participants can actually share your campaign virtually everywhere!

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