The Conversion Redirect option allows you to capture referral conversions and/or updates by sending users to a custom Referral Rock URL after completion of the desired action. This is useful for websites that don't allow you to use JavaScript code on their site (so you cannot use our referral tracking scripts) but does allow you to pass users to an external URL after the desired action is completed.

Redirecting users to our confirm page checks for the existence of a Referral Rock cookie and creates a new referral tied to the referring member if a cookie is found. Once the referral is captured, Referral Rock will automatically forward the user on to your desired thank you or confirmation page. The confirm page gets injected in between your desired action and your desired confirmation page so that your user doesn't even know it's there.

Capture New Referrals

To capture new referrals using the Conversion Redirect method, complete the following steps.

Set Up Your Confirm URL

First, you will need to set up your Confirm URL.

Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Conversion Tracking > Conversion Redirect.
First, let's set up your confirmation conversion page. This will look like the following: https://yoursitename.referralrock.com/confirm
To include information to store with the referral, put a ? at the end and then add any of the following optional parameters and match them to available user information fields in your form, e-commerce, or other software.
Each parameter past the first is separated by &. While all parameters are optional, we do highly recommend including at least some of the key parameters if they are available.
1. Referral Conversion Parameters:

Key Parameters	Description
overrideconfirmredirecturl	Sets where a user is sent after referral capture
externalidentifier	Something unique to each customer, like a customer# or order#
firstname	The referral's first name
lastname	The referral's last name
fullname	The referral's full name, separated by spaces
email	The referral's email address
amount	The referral's order or purchase amount

ii. Additional Optional parameters:

Parameter	Description
companyname	Company Name
referralcode	Can set to a member referral code, you can set to “TESTID” for testing
phone	Passed as customer’s phone number
note	Passed as any note or other information you want to see tied to the Referral
publicnote	Passed as any note that you want to be publicly tied to the Referral
preferredcontact	Passed as the customer’s selected preferred contact method
customoption1name	Passed as a custom option 1 name
customoption2name	Passed as a custom option 2 name
customtext1name	Passed as a custom text 1 name
customtext2name	Passed as a custom text 2 name
customtext3name	Passed as a custom text 3 name
customoption1value	Passed as a custom value tied to customoption1name
customoption2value	Passed as a custom value tied to customoption2name
customtext1value	Passed as a custom value tied to customtext1name
customtext2value	Passed as a custom value tied to customtext2name
customtext3value	Passed as a custom value tied to customtext3name

Your link should look something like the following, with placeholders matching your form, e-commerce, or other software's placeholders. https://yoursitename.referralrock.com/confirm?overrideconfirmredirecturl=yourthankyoupage.com&fullname=placeholder&email=placeholder
Now that you have your custom confirm URL with parameters, you will need to find where to paste it on your site so that users are redirected after they complete your desired action. Most services refer to this as a 'redirect after submit URL', 'redirect after purchase URL', or similar.

Establish Your Redirect URL After Confirm

Referral Rock sends users to wherever you want after their information is captured as a referral. This redirect happens almost instantaneously and users simply see a blank page for a split second before ending up on your selected URL. If you included the overrideconfirmredirecturl parameter in your confirm URL above, users will be directed to that URL. For most use cases this is unnecessary as you can set a site-wide redirect URL that will work for all of your programs.

To set up your site-wide redirect URL, scroll down to the Redirect URL box in the Conversion Redirect settings. Add your desired redirect URL to the box.

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Keep in mind that the overrideconfirmredirecturl parameter in the confirm URL, if used, will always override the redirect URL entered in this box.

You can also add Referral Merge Tags from Referral Rock so that you can pass referral information on to your final redirect URL.

If you want to pass information through the confirm page and onto the final page for everyone, it's better to use the overrideconfirmredirecturl parameter and add the desired information onto the end of the URL in that parameter.

Update Existing Referrals

To update exisiting referrals using the Conversion Redirect method:

Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Referral Update > Referral Update Redirect/Postback or click here.
First, let's set up your confirmation conversion page. This will look like the following: https://yoursitename.referralrock.com/referralupdate

To include information to store with the referral, put a ? at the end and then add any of the following optional parameters and match them to available user information fields in your form, e-commerce, or other software. Each parameter past the first is separated by &.

Referral Update Parameters:

Key Parameters	Description
redirecturl	REQUIRED. Sets where a user is sent after referral update
referralkey_email	REQUIRED (or use referralkey_externalID) If referrals have associated email addresses, you can use their email address to search for the correct referral to update
referralkey_externalid	REQUIRED (or use referralkey_email) If referrals have associated external ID from your system, you can use this ID to search for the correct referral to update
status	Sets the status of the referral. Can be set to "qualified", "approved", or "denied". Generally hard-coded into the script.
amount	If you want to pass back a purchase amount, you can do so with this parameter. Rewards that are calculated as a % of referral amount require the amount field to be passed back.

ii. You can also add the following additional optional parameters:

Parameter	Description
companyname	Company Name
referralcode	Can set to a member referral code, you can set to “TESTID” for testing
phone	Passed as customer’s phone number
note	Passed as any note or other information you want to see tied to the Referral
publicnote	Passed as any note that you want to be publicly tied to the Referral
preferredcontact	Passed as the customer’s selected preferred contact method
customoption1name	Passed as a custom option 1 name
customoption2name	Passed as a custom option 2 name
customtext1name	Passed as a custom text 1 name
customtext2name	Passed as a custom text 2 name
customtext3name	Passed as a custom text 3 name
customoption1value	Passed as a custom value tied to customoption1name
customoption2value	Passed as a custom value tied to customoption2name
customtext1value	Passed as a custom value tied to customtext1name
customtext2value	Passed as a custom value tied to customtext2name
customtext3value	Passed as a custom value tied to customtext3name

Your link should look something like the following, with placeholders matching your form, e-commerce, or other software's placeholders. https://yoursitename.referralrock.com/referralupdate/?refrerallkey_email=placeholder&amount=placeholder&status=qualified&redirecturl=yourredirectsite.com
Now that you have your custom referral update URL with parameters, you will need to find where to paste it on your site so that users are redirected after they complete your desired update action. Most services refer to this as a 'redirect after submit URL', 'redirect after purchase URL', or similar.