Getting Started with Friendbuy
Best Practices
Referral Program Placements
Friendbuy Referral Emails
Driving Referral Program Awareness
Referral Offer Strategies
Limited-Time Offer Promotions in Referral
Referral Contests, Sweepstakes and Giveaways
A/B Testing Best Practices
Account Management
How can I invite my team to the Friendbuy platform?
Managing Your Account Settings
How to Set Up and Change Your Email Sender
Referral Campaign Management
Widgets
How to Create a New Theme
How to Make Changes to a Theme
How to Apply Theme Changes to a Widget
How to update a Widget or Theme to the latest version
How to Set Up a Ribbon
How to Set Up an Advocate Landing Page
How to Set Up a Friend Landing Page
How to Set Up a Post-Purchase Overlay
How to Set Up an Account Page Widget
How to configure your Terms & Conditions
How to Test a Widget
How to Set up a Self-Referral Overlay
Campaign Settings
How to Create a New Referral Campaign
How to set up Referral Code Personalization for PURLs
Setting Up an Advocate Reward
Setting Up a Friend Incentive
Setting Up Shopify Coupon Code Integration
How to Run an A/B Test
How to Change Your Referral Offer
Setting Up Max Clicks for Referral Links
How to Generate Personalized URLs (PURLs) through Our API
How to Generate Personalized URLs (PURLs) for Advocates
How to Configure Tiered Rewards
How to Archive a Referral Campaign
Code Banks
How to Create a New Code Bank
How to Generate Coupons in Bulk for Shopify
Setting Up Low Code Bank Notifications
How to Add Codes to an Existing Code Bank
Emails
Integrations
Workflow Recipes
Trigger a Direct Mail Campaign to Drive Referral Program Awareness (Friendbuy x Iterable x Poplar)
Send a Triggered Text to Prompt a Referral After a Positive Review with Attentive and Okendo
Automatically Prompt a Referral Post Purchase in Attentive
How to send Referral Links Post Product Review (Yotpo)
How to Prompt a Referral After a Positive Review with Friendbuy and Trustpilot (via Klaviyo)
How to send one time emails with referral links through Klaviyo
How to Send Referral Links Post Positive Product Review (Okendo)
Send Referral Program Text Messages Through Attentive
How to Leverage Friendbuy with Kustomer
How to Send Referral Links Post Purchase through Klaviyo
How to Text Coupon Codes to Advocates using Attentive Journeys
Make it Easy for Advocates to Refer by Sending Their PURL Through SMS using Attentive Journeys
How to Send Advocates a Reminder Text to Redeem Their Coupon Codes through Attentive Journeys
How to Send Referred Friends a Reminder Text to Redeem Their Coupon Codes through Attentive Journeys
How to Send a Coupon Code to a Referred Friend using Attentive Journeys
Increase Referral Program Awareness with a Dedicated Email Blast through Iterable Journeys
How to Enable the Klaviyo Integration
How to Leverage the Friendbuy and Ethyca Integration
How to Enable the Iterable Integration
How to Leverage Friendbuy With ReCharge
How to Enable the Cordial Integration
How to Integrate Friendbuy with CartHook
How to Enable the Tremendous Integration
How to Enable Friendbuy's integration with Recharge
How to set up the Segment Web-Mode (Destination Actions) Integration
How To Enable the Attentive Integration
How to Leverage the Friendbuy x DataGrail Integration
Fraud Prevention
How to Block a Referral Code
How to Block an Email Address
Fraud Settings and Business Rules
Configuring a Global Reward Allowance
Configuring a Referral Link Fallback URL
How to set up expiration for Account Credit or Points
How the Similar Email Address Fraud Check Works
Customer Service Portal
How do I check the status of a referral?
How to Manually Add or Remove Credit / Points to a Customer's Account
Why was my customers reward rejected?
The Referred Friend put in their email address but didn’t get their coupon code. How do I find this?
Resend Reward Email
Override a Rejected or Pending reward
How to Search for a Customer Profile
How to create a Manual Referral
Why didn't the Advocate receive a Reward for a successful referral?
Reasons for Rejected Advocate Rewards and Friend Incentives
Analytics & Reports
Common FAQs
What does Fraud Protection do?
What is a typical referral flow?
How to Apply Theme Changes to a Widget
Difficulty downloading reports after you receive an export email?
What are Fraud Checks, Tier Checks, and Rules Checks in the Rewards Report?
How do I change my password?
What is a self-referral redirect URL?
What do the Reward Statuses and Definitions mean?
How to Create a New Theme
What is a Friend Widget?
How are Conversions Tracked in Friendbuy?
A Glossary of Terms
How long is the Referred Friend attribution window
What are some common scenarios, and how do I troubleshoot them?
Developer Documents
- All Categories
- Fraud Prevention
- How to Block a Referral Code
How to Block a Referral Code
Updated
by William Harper
Overview
Scenarios arise when an Advocate may violate the terms and conditions of your referral program and you would like to block their Referral Link so they do not receive future Friend incentives through the referral program. You can also specify where referred Friends land aftering clicking on a blocked referral link.
This feature enables you to do the following:
Block a Referral code: You can block a referral code by following the below instructions:
Step 1
Navigate to Settings > Block List

Step 2
Click the Blocked Referral Codes tab and then click the blue button that says Add Codes to Block List

Step 3a.
Add referral codes to the block list either manually or you can bulk upload a list of referral codes via CSV.
Step 3b.

Step 4
Click Block {#} Codes and you'll see a success message once the referral codes have been successfully added.

Expected Behavior When Referral Codes are Blocked:
- When a referral code is blocked, the email address associated with that referral code is also blocked from receiving Advocate rewards and Friend incentives.
- Any referred friends who click on a blocked referral link can be redirected to either one of the following flows:
- A Friendbuy hosted landing page that says "Offer Not Valid" that is setup by default (no action needed)
- A specified URL that is setup in Settings > Program Integrity

- If a Referred Friend clicks on an Advocate's blocked Personal Referral Link (PURL) and proceeds to complete the referral conversion event, the conversion will not be counted toward your referral click, purchase or revenue data.
- If a Referred Friend clicks on an Advocate's Personal Referral Link before it is blocked and proceeds to complete the referral conversion event in the future (even after the link is blocked), the Friend will recieve their incentive, however, the Advocate will be blocked from recieveing a reward.