All people have friends. Two, three… or even more than one hundred. They go throughout the whole life together: help each other, communicate, share ideas and experience, visit football matches, work and go shopping… How can on-line store merchants get profit from this?

The answer is the Refer a Friend Magento extension by aheadWorks. This smart piece of software enables your customers to invite their friends to your store. As a result, the customers who referred a certain number of friends get % or flat rate discount and you gain more clients and more benefit. This ‘must-have’ plugin helps customers promote your on-line store for you!

Today we are glad to bring to your attention the release of the Refer a Friend extension version 2.0. The module became even more stable than ever to meet any store owner needs. From now on you can create a new rule, discount or transaction faster and easier than before.

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If you have ever watched a snowball roll down, then you know that the power of mass and speed can become unstoppable. Your network business can become like a snowball if you use Refer a Friend Magento extension. With this extension you can easily enable your customers to refer friends to your store. In return, reward the referrers with percentage or flat discounts. Today we’d like to present you the updated Refer a Friend extension version 1.4.3 that will help store owners benefit from viral advertising. The following bugs have been fixed in Refer a Friend v.1.4.3: ‘Per customer’ rule does not work Incorrect title in edit rule menu Fatal error during installation Incorrect discount calculation if there are two rules related to signups quantity ‘Per order trigger limit’ option is visible for rules related to signups quantity

Learn more about all extension features or run the extension demo on the Refer a Friend page.

Improve your sales enabling your customers to refer friends to your store. In return, reward the referrers with percentage or flat discounts. Get the expanded and greatly improved Refer a Friend Magento extension v. 1.4 to benefit from a viral advertising.

With a bunch of great improvements implemented recently, there are more reasons for the Refer a Friend Magento module to be a ‘must-have’ plugin.

New Features:

• Give a bonus to the invited customer
  Now you can reward not only the referrer, but give discounts to the customer who makes a purchase after being invited by another customer, or for any other activity on your website.

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Stimulate your customers to invite MORE NEW friends to your online store. The “referral’s orders limit” condition implemented in Magento extension Refer a Friend v.1.3.3 allows you to restrict the quantity of orders that will take part in discount calculating.  Buy Refer a Friend extension

Now you can set the “1″ value in this new field and only the first purchase of each invited friend will bring in a discount to referrer.

The following bugs have been fixed in Refer a Friend v.1.3.3:

• Sorting doesn’t work at Refer a Friend Statistics page
• Incorrect extension disabling
• Discount is displayed incorrectly on checkout in Magento 1.4
• Compilation causes fatal errors in Magento 1.4
• Incorrect window title in backend in Magento 1.4

Please find more information about this aheadWorks extension on the Refer a Friend page.

We are glad to announce the release of the latest version of the Refer a Friend extension by aheadWorks. Now this software is more stable than ever as the following bugs have been fixed:

• Store crash while installation
• Wrong total number of records in admin statistics
• Incorrect rules applying
• Invite button style returned

To find more information about this smart piece of software that helps you boost your business, please visit the Refer a Friend page.

While the much-awaited weekend beckons, there’s nothing quite like ending the week on a high! And our development team sure gets a high either rolling out new products or some nifty enhancements to one of our existing ones. Today, we are pleased to announce the release of some major enhancements to our Refer a Friend extension.

For those who haven’t heard about/ used this product, let’s just say that it is a smart piece of software that will help you benefit from a combination of viral and affiliate marketing (without launching a conventional affiliate program!). Read complete details on Refer a Friend.

Refer a Friend has been a hugely popular product – to the best of our knowledge, there’s no comparable extension in the market- and with today’s enhancements, we reckon it will differentiate it even further.

Here’s a quick summary of some of the most important enhancements:

Added a new action type
Offer customers discounts/ commissions based on a % of the purchase value of their referrals. Previously, you could offer only a fixed sum or fixed percentage to your customers for referrals. Quite simply, this should incentivize your customers to refer more friends, as the more the parties referred by them buy, the more they benefit.

Ability to broadcast the referral link
Not only can customers earn more per referral, they now have the opportunity to generate more referrals. Besides broadcasting the referral link by e-mail, they can choose to publish it online on their website or a blog post (why, they could add these links on their social networking profiles!).

New rule conditions related to order volume and size of discount
You can set a condition to allow customers to use the referral discount only if the order value is greater than a certain sum and/or the total discounts they are entitled to is more than a specified value. Such rules will help you ensure that the referral program is always a profitable proposition for you.

Dynamic explanatory label for greater clarity of the rules
The last thing we want is for the rules and options to make it confusing for you to understand and manage. Therefore, we provide this ‘dynamic explanatory label’ that interprets the (complex) logic/rules and presents it in a simple language every time a field is updated.

Some examples of how the labels would read are given below:

• This rule gives $10 discount after reaching $40 total referral purchases
• The rule checks this condition by summarizing purchases of each referral.
• The discount can be earned 4 times by a referrer accumulating discount sum
• The earned discount can be used 1 time(s), only if the order total is greater than $100 and can be applied together with a coupon

Ability to allow/block additive discounts
You can now allow/forbid your customers from using a referral discount together with a shopping cart coupon or any other promotional offers/ discounts.

Allows same person to be referred by different customers
This means that a customer is not prevented from referring someone who has been referred by somebody else as well. Of course, who gets the referral discount depends on whose invitation the recipient chooses to act upon to make a purchase.

Personalization of the referral message
The standard message template is sent when a customer refers friends contains the referrer’s name. We believe this will help increase the e-mail open and clickthrough rates.

Triggers limit for each action type
You can set limits to the number of times every rule is triggered. For example, say, you have a rule to “give 10% off for 3 sign-ups”. If the trigger limit is set as 1, the discount can be earned only once, while if the trigger limit is set as 2, then the customer is entitled to 20% discount when he generates 6 sign-ups from referrals.
Previously, we had trigger limits only for 2 of the 3 action types; these limits are now available for all action types.

Processing priority default value
Default priority values will be inserted when creating a new rule in the interface, so that you don’t have to enter it each time.

“Eligible for discount” field in the customer area

Improved look to the referrers page for the admin

Besides all the new and improved features, we have taken care of some of the outstanding bugs in the previous version. These include:

• The “Cancel” button is now functioning in Google Chrome and Safary
• Return discount on non-completed orders
• HTTPS problem with AJAX invitation form
• Hardcoded button titles
• Unregistered referral has non-zero number of items purchased and total
• Deprecated Prototype notation

We hope you like the new features. Do feedback with your comments or questions. We are all ears to your inputs.

Some minor bugs were fixed in this release:

• HTTPS backend
• Discount usage

To get more information about Refer a Friend please visit the extension page.