Loyalty & Referal
Considering adding either Referral Candy or Social Snowball to your ecommerce brand's Shopify tech stack? Loyalty, referral and affiliate marketing tools are critical tech stack components to grow your sales and overall customer satisfaction. Referral Candy and Social Snowball offer different features, integrations and pricing models. Read our comparison below to discover which one is best for your brand.
ReferralCandy helps online stores attract new customers, increase sales and grow their brand with easy-to-setup and automated referral and affiliate programs.
Affiliate marketing made frictionless. Social Snowball makes it easy to build, launch, and automate your word-of-mouth marketing programs. Whether you want to turn your customers into revenue-generating affiliates or launch a TikTok influencer program, Social Snowball is the control center that lets you configure programs, track referral sales, send commission rewards, and automate it all.
- Automated referral program management, including post-purchase email invitations, customizable referral widgets, and seamless integration with ecommerce platforms like Shopify.
- Comprehensive analytics and reporting to track key metrics like referral sales, revenue, and customer participation, enabling data-driven optimization of the referral program.
- Flexible reward structures, including cash rewards, store discounts, and custom gifts, that can be tailored to incentivize customers and drive successful referrals.
- Fraud prevention and management capabilities to identify and mitigate suspicious referral activities, ensuring the integrity and ROI of the referral program.
- Seamless integrations with popular marketing tools like email, analytics, and remarketing platforms to create a cohesive, data-driven referral marketing ecosystem.
- Automated affiliate program management, allowing merchants to easily onboard customers as revenue-generating affiliates with a single click.
- Streamlined influencer and creator partnerships, including features like automated product seeding and one-click payouts to incentivize and reward top-performing creators.
- Customizable affiliate signup forms, commission structures, and payout methods to provide a branded and personalized experience for both merchants and their affiliates.
- Robust reporting and analytics dashboards to track the performance of various marketing channels, affiliates, and referral campaigns, enabling data-driven optimization.
- Seamless integration with Shopify, as well as popular marketing apps like Klaviyo and Postscript, to create a cohesive and automated word-of-mouth marketing ecosystem.
Referral Candy offers three main pricing plans - a Premium plan starting at $59/month plus a 3.5% commission on successful referral sales, a Plus plan starting at $299/month plus a 1.5% commission, and an Enterprise plan with custom pricing. The plans are structured based on the merchant's needs, with the Premium plan offering basic features and the Plus and Enterprise plans providing additional functionality, support, and customization options.
Social Snowball offers two main pricing plans - the "Snow Day" plan at $99/month plus 3% of revenue generated through the platform, and the "Blizzard" plan at $499/month with no commission fees. The Snow Day plan includes features like unlimited affiliates, customer referrals, and up to 2 programs, while the Blizzard plan adds customization options and the ability to have up to 10 programs. Both plans come with a 30-day free trial.
ReferralCandy supports a variety of integrations to enhance its referral marketing capabilities. Here are some of the most notable integrations:
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Shopify
- Klaviyo
- Gorgias
- Mailchimp
- Recharge
Social Snowball offers a suite of integrations designed to enhance affiliate and referral marketing efforts. Key integrations include:
- Klaviyo
- Attentive
- Postscript
- KnoCommerce
- PageFly
- Zapier
- Sendlane
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Referral Candy
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These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Social Snowball
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ManiMePersonal Care
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