Invite businesses.
Refer other businesses to the platform, track who joins, and let the operator reward you by hand.
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 and is enabled per partner by the platform operator.
An admin switches it on from a partner's Permissions tab (Admin → Partners, edit a partner, then Permissions → Invite businesses). Until a partner is enabled, the page and the account-menu item stay hidden, and their invite link does nothing.
This is deliberate. The operator chooses which partners become a referral channel, usually trusted agencies or resellers who already manage several local businesses.
Your invite link
Once you are enabled, 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, they are attributed to you. There is no code for them to type. The link carries everything, and nothing extra appears on their signup form.
Note: Attribution is captured 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 automatically, 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 widely.
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 simply 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. That side of the picture belongs to the operator.
For operators: the agency playbook
Invite businesses turns trusted partners into a distribution channel without building a commission system.
- Enable a partner. Switch on Invite businesses for an agency or reseller you trust. Leave everyone else off.
- They share their link. The agency hands their link to the businesses they onboard.
- 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.
- You reward by hand. Decide what a referral is worth to you (a discount, account credit, a payout) and grant it directly. The platform does not calculate or move money.
The admin funnel is the full picture. 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, stated plainly so nobody is surprised:
- No commission engine. The platform tracks who referred whom. It does not compute commissions.
- No automatic rewards. Every reward is the operator's decision, granted 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)