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
- Referral Campaign Management
- Campaign Settings
- Setting Up Max Clicks for Referral Links
Setting Up Max Clicks for Referral Links
Updated
by William Harper
Overview
To help prevent fraudulent usage of the referral program, Friendbuy allows you to configure a maximum number of clicks allowed on a referral link before the link becomes automatically disabled. These settings can especially help to protect the integrity of the campaign if a customer decides to post their referral link on a public page such as a coupon-sharing website. In this help article, we will go over how to set up the max limit for your referral campaign!
Setting Up Max Clicks for a Campaign
You can set up Max Clicks at the campaign level by going to Referral > Select Your Campaign > General > Max Clicks. This setting is disabled by default and is optional to set up.

Step 1
Click on the toggle button to enable the feature when needed.

Step 2
Set the desired click limit by entering a numerical value in the respective field.

Step 3
Click Save if your campaign is not yet running, or Publish Changes if your campaign is running, in the top right-hand corner of your screen. Be sure to double-check each input is correct before pushing your changes live to the referral program.
Congratulations, your Max Clicks limit has now been successfully configured! When a customer clicks through a referral link that has already hit its maximum limit, the customer will be redirected to your Referral Link Fallback URL. By default, this will take the customer to a 'We’re sorry. This referral offer is no longer available' page hosted by Friendbuy. You can learn more about how to set up a Referral Link Fallback URL by clicking here.
Additional Notes
- Each Advocate share channel (PURLs, Email, SMS, social channels, etc) is a unique referral link with a unique click count that is checked against the settings current limit.
- The counts are not combined across referral links, so if one link from an advocate gets blocked, others will remain active
- Click counts are accumulated over the lifetime of the link, starting on June 28, 2021