Important Note: If your campaign is configured to add participants automatically through a form on your website (see image), skip this step.
First, in the code where you capture the new person's email, add them to your GrowSurf campaign as a participant with growsurf.addParticipant(). Let's say you have a signup function called signUpFree(), here's what that looks like:
your-script.js
1
// In this example, a new person is just signing up for a free account
2
constsignUpFree=(userEmail)=>{
3
// ...code that registers a new user...
4
// Then add the new user as a participant in your GrowSurf campaign
5
if(window.growsurf){
6
growsurf.addParticipant(userEmail);
7
}
8
};
Copied!
Behind the scenes, the GrowSurf Universal Code will associate the referrer (if they exist) with the new participant. At any future date within the referral credit window, if this new participant triggers a referral, GrowSurf will provide credit to the referrer.
Step 3: Trigger the referral
Then, in the code where the action takes place, trigger the referral with growsurf.triggerReferral() . Let's say you have a function called upgradeToPaidPlan(), here's what that looks like:
your-script.js
1
// In this example, the user upgrades to a paid plan
2
constupgradeToPaidPlan=(userEmail)=>{
3
// ...code that upgrades the user...
4
// Then trigger this action as a referral trigger
5
if(window.growsurf){
6
growsurf.triggerReferral(userEmail);
7
}
8
};
Copied!
Important Note: Make sure your campaign's referral trigger is set to Custom Event (see image). If the referral trigger is set to Signup Event, triggering referrals will not work since referral credit has already been provided.
Remember to set up reward fulfillment automation
Make sure you have Webhooks or Zapier set up so that rewards automatically get fulfilled to the participant once they reach a reward goal.
Example 2: Open GrowSurf window on button click
Sometimes you want people to access your referral campaign from any webpage. Or perhaps you just want to use buttons that look native to your website's branding instead of using the GrowSurf floating widget button.
Just paste <div data-grsf-block-form></div> anywhere in your HTML, and the GrowSurf form will appear. If you want your participant to be already logged in and see their stats (instead of the form), you can add an attribute data-grsf-email to have the value of the participant's email.
Important Note:
If you have participant authentication enabled for your campaign, then the participant's unique share link and social buttons will only display if the participant entered your referral program from their browser (either via automatic form detection, via the GrowSurf form, or via JavaScript Web API). This is because a browser cookie will be saved that identifies the participant. Otherwise, the signup form will be shown, and the participant can click the login link to get sent a one-time login email.
index.html
1
<!-- Providing just this code will make the GrowSurf form appear -->
2
<divdata-grsf-block-form></div>
3
4
<!-- Add a `data-grsf-email` attribute to authenticate the participant -->
Here's an example of retrieving the participant data, then updating the #share-url and #referral-count HTML elements to show their unique referral link and referral count.
If you are using the Embedded Form, you can add the following HTML attribute: data-grsf-redirect-url.
Remember to replace https://replaceme.com with your redirect URL.
1
<divdata-grsf-block-form
2
data-grsf-redirect-url="https://replaceme.com">
3
</div>
Copied!
If you are using your own form via automatic form detection or JavaScript Web API, then include the following snippet of code within the <HEAD> of the HTML source code. This should be the same page(s) where you have included the GrowSurf Universal Code. Remember to replace https://replaceme.com at line 7 with your redirect URL.
1
<script>
2
// Listen and wait for the Growsurf Universal Code to initialize
3
window.addEventListener('grsfReady',()=>{
4
console.log('GrowSurf is Ready!');
5
// Your redirect code goes here....
6
growsurf.subscribe('signup',(participant)=>{
7
window.location.replace("http://replaceme.com");
8
});
9
});
10
</script>
Copied!
Please note: If the redirect is not working, it is most likely because the form submission is failing. If this is the case, please check your browser console for errors.
Example 5: Add a personalized message to your Share URL for a warm welcome
When a new visitor lands on your site from using their friend's unique link, you can personalize a message for them with growsurf.getReferrerId() and growsurf.getParticipantById(). In this example, we have a simple page with a h1#header that will display as "Emily S. invited you to pet puppies on-demand" if a referrer exists, otherwise it will display as "Pet puppies on-demand".
Example 6: Only add a participant if they were referred
In this example we will only add a participant if they were referred by another participant within your campaign. We will utilize the GrowSurf functions growsurf.getReferrerId() and growsurf.addParticipant() to do this.
Here we are only adding the participant but if you wish to trigger a referral replace the growsurf.addParticipant()method with growsurf.triggerReferral() in the example below.
The example code also assumes that you have setup a submit listener on your form which will listen for submission events and invoke the callback function described below. If you are not sure how to add a form submission listener here is an example.
// Only Add the participant if they were referrered
25
window.growsurf.addParticipant(userEmail);
26
}
27
event.preventDefault();
28
};
29
</script>
30
</html>
Copied!
A few things to notice here are the window.addEventListener and the form.addEventListener snippets of code. The window.addEventListener listens for the GrowSurf script grsfReady event which is emitted when the GrowSurf script is ready. Once the GrowSurf script is ready we are adding a submit event listener to our form form.addEventListener to listen for submission events. You will need to get the form element using document.getElementById using the id of your form for this to work - this is just an example.
The next piece of code we will look at is the onFormSubmit function that is called when our form is submitted. The getReferrerId() function provided by the GrowSurf JavaScript API is used to determine if the submitter of the form was referred. If this function returns a value we then continue to add the participant using the addParticipant() function. You will need to get the value of theuserEmail input using the id or name of the input element of your form - this is just an example.
Please note that this example will attempt to add a participant on all form submissions regardless if the form is valid or not. If you wish to perform some validation before adding the participant that will require some extra coding to do so but is out of scope for this example.
Example 7: Hide the GrowSurf embedded form until a GrowSurf participant is detected
Let's say you are using the GrowSurf embedded form and passing an email address as a data attribute so that a participant gets created. Because GrowSurf needs to wait for a network request to finish, the signup form may be shown for a few seconds or less. To change this behavior to hide the signup form, you can use the following HTML, CSS, and JS code as an example below.
// Listen and wait for the Growsurf Universal Code to initialize
17
window.addEventListener('grsfReady',function(){
18
showGrsf();
19
});
20
}else{
21
showGrsf();
22
}
Copied!
Example 8: Add internationalization support for the GrowSurf embedded form and embedded invite
In this example, we'll walk through how to use GrowSurf embeddable elements to support multiple languages on your website. We will use the Embedded Form and Embedded Invite elements and customize data attributes to display text in English and Spanish.
These examples only use facebook and twitter as the enabled social share buttons. If you have other social share options enabled, make sure to account for them.
These examples also assume that you have a custom signup field called "Phone Number" (see image). Custom fields are supported via kebab-case (see example usage of phone-number at lines 6 and 7 in the code snippets below).
