Invite businesses.

Invite businesses lets a partner bring other businesses onto the platform with a personal link. You share the link, the businesses you bring in show up on your scoreboard, and the operator decides how to thank you. There is no automatic payout and no commission engine. It is a scoreboard, and no rights are derived from it.

This is separate from Refer & Earn, which is how your customers refer their friends. Invite businesses is how you refer other businesses.

Turning it on

Invite businesses is off by default, in every plan. The platform operator enables it per partner, or offers it with a plan.

An admin grants a single partner from the partner's Permissions tab (Admin → Partners, edit a partner, then Permissions → Invite businesses). To offer it with a plan instead, switch on Invite businesses for a tier in the Plans editor. Until you enable a partner one way or the other, the page and the account-menu item stay hidden, and their invite link does nothing. While no plan and no grant enables it, the feature also stays off the plan overviews on registration and My Plan.

The default is deliberate. The operator chooses which partners become a referral channel, most often trusted agencies or resellers who already manage several local businesses.

Your invite link

Once the operator enables you, open your account menu and choose Invite businesses. At the top is your personal invite link:

https://your-platform.example/en-us/partner/register?ref=your-code

Copy it with one tap and share it however you like: email, WhatsApp, a slide, a printed card. When a business opens the link and registers, the system attributes them to you. There is no code for them to type. The link carries everything, and nothing extra appears on their signup form.

Note: The system captures attribution the moment a business arrives through your link, and it counts once they verify their email. If a visitor later arrives through a different valid link, the most recent one wins.

Renaming your code

Every partner gets a code from the start, so your link works straight away. You can rename it to something memorable on the same page.

Codes use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, 4 to 32 characters, and must be unique across the platform. A few words are reserved, and obvious profanity is blocked.

One thing to know: changing your code breaks links you already shared. Settle on a code before you hand it out.

Your scoreboard

Below your link are three numbers and a list:

• Invited: Businesses that joined through your link and verified their email.
• Active programs: Of those, the businesses that have verified their email and created at least one active loyalty card, stamp card, voucher, or prepaid pass.
• Activation rate: The share of invited businesses that became active, a quick read on how well your invitations turn into live programs. It is Active programs ÷ Invited.

The list shows each business by name, whether it is Joined or Program active, and the date it joined.

You only see businesses you brought in, and only after they verify. You never see another partner's referrals, and you never see anyone's plan or billing details. The operator handles that side.

For operators: The agency playbook

Invite businesses turns trusted partners into a distribution channel without building a commission system.

1. Enable a partner. Switch on Invite businesses for an agency or reseller you trust. Leave everyone else off.
2. They share their link. The agency hands their link to the businesses they onboard.
3. You read the funnel. Open Admin → Partner referrals for the platform-wide view: who referred whom, whether the referrer is enabled, whether each business verified, their plan, and whether they are paying. Export it to CSV to work in a spreadsheet.
4. You reward by hand. Decide what a referral is worth to you (a discount, account credit, a payout) and grant it yourself. The app does not calculate or move money.

The admin funnel shows everything. It includes unverified signups and the paying column, which partners never see.

You can show a short disclaimer on every partner's scoreboard. Set it in Admin → Settings → Onboarding. Leave it blank to use the default: This is a scoreboard. No rights may be derived from it.

What this is not

The boundary, in plain terms, so nobody is surprised:

• No commission engine. The platform tracks who referred whom. It does not compute commissions.
• No automatic rewards. The operator decides every reward and grants it by hand.
• No rights from the scoreboard. The scoreboard records what happened. It is not a promise.

If you want recurring commissions, subscription-revenue attribution, or a self-serve affiliate portal, that is a larger build and is not what this feature does.

Related topics

• Partner registration: How a business signs up through your link
• Partners overview: What you can do as a partner
• Refer & Earn: How your customers refer their friends (a different feature)