Referral: Sharing as referral

[HIM92]

Description

When a user shares a thread or a community, their referral code is appended to it so that whenever I share content, and users click that content, visit common, and create an account they count as this user's referrals

Project Owner

@HIM9289

Bucket ID

#7766

User Stories / Acceptance Criteria

As a referrer on Common, I share a thread or a community just to a telegram group I am a part of. I have not gone through the referral link process. When my friends click the link, they are taken to Common and met wiht the onboarding modal after ten seconds. If they join Common they count as one of my referrals and receive the benefits of joining via referral link. I receive a revenue fee split from any and all transactions they may execute on the platform, for life.

Design Devlink

https://www.figma.com/file/Vr3dv2IjUFSonyxZdwzfVU/Referral-Program?type=design&node-id=234-4556&mode=design&t=hMVCNvvXJuSSZuOt-0

Design Screenshot

Additional Context

No response

[masvelio]

1. We need to have share buttons that support that as we need to:

• generate referral code
• build the link
• save it in the clipboard or share it with social apps

We can't simply add the code to the url when it is being pasted. We need to add the code when it is copied/saved to the clipboard. Thus, we need to define places in the app where those kind of buttons will appear.

2. Should we consider referral to be successful only when user creates an account right after clicking the referral URL? What if user opts out from creating account process and creates it in one hour? So basically, should we try to implement some localStorarage/cookie solution to keep the referral around in the user's browser?

[dillchen]

Probably need to be discussed with platform tmr as a parking lot item. I will bring this up then

[sssssabinaaa]

Probably need to be discussed with platform tmr as a parking lot item. I will bring this up then

Let me know if this ends up needing a design solution!

[dillchen]

Question #1

We need to have share buttons that support that as we need to:
generate referral code
build the link
save it in the clipboard or share it with social apps

Answer:

We already have share buttons and items that create associated share links. see image. This ofc is for a thread, but we will have it for profiles and for communities #9989 and #9988

in these three locations we should generate the referral link and use the components for #10051 (on community and for threads, we ofc should use the community link), and for the profile (we should use the site)

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Question #2

Should we consider referral to be successful only when user creates an account right after clicking the referral URL? What if user opts out from creating account process and creates it in one hour? So basically, should we try to implement some localStorarage/cookie solution to keep the referral around in the user's browser?

Was originally considering only upon after referral creation, but I am okay with a 14 day window. Let's use a local storage solution. if it needs other tickets, can you stub them and add to the milestone

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Add'l context

https://www.figma.com/design/Vr3dv2IjUFSonyxZdwzfVU/Referral-Program?node-id=234-9289&t=DHfnOROq31eF65Zd-4