ReferralFlo
Employee referrals

Your next great engineer is one referral away

Every team says referrals are their best hires. ReferralFlo makes referring effortless, keeps employees informed, and pays bonuses fast — so they refer again.

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A portal, not a spreadsheet Live status for every referral Bonuses via real payout rails
Dev referred Alex — live status
1Submitted
2Interviewing
3HiredSigned
AL
Alex Lin
Senior engineer
Dev's referral bonus
Rule fired on hire · approved · paid
$1,500
The problem you already have

Every team says referrals are their best hires. Then the referral form goes to an inbox, the bonus takes four months, and people quietly stop bothering.

What most teams do: a Google Form nobody can find, status updates that never come, and a bonus that arrives two payroll cycles late — if HR remembers. Participation dies within a quarter.
What ReferralFlo does: treats hiring like the referral program it is — employees get a portal and a link, every candidate moves through a visible lifecycle, and approved bonuses pay out through real rails.
45%
of referred hires are still in place after two years
Jobvite Index
29 days
average time to fill a role from a referral — the fastest channel
Jobvite Index
82%
of employers rate referrals the best ROI of any hiring source
CareerBuilder
Follow one referral

From a hallway 'you should apply' to a paid bonus

Each step shows the human moment — and what ReferralFlo records beneath it.

1
Dev joins the program
Every employee gets portal access and their own referral link.
Advocate record + unique referral code per employee
2
He refers Alex
40 seconds in the portal — name, email, role. Done.
Referral record created, visible to both sides
3
Everyone sees the status
Alex moves through the stages; Dev watches without asking HR.
Submitted → verified → qualified → converted (hired)
4
The bonus actually arrives
Hire confirmed, rule fires, bonus approved and paid.
Fulfilled via Stripe, PayPal or Tremendous, audit-logged
Why run it as a program
01
Effortless for employees
A portal with their link and a 40-second referral form — plus live status on every candidate they've put forward. People participate in what they can see.
02
Credit where it's due
The colleague who made the intro but didn't own the link still gets captured as an enabler and credited — attribution that matches how referrals actually happen.
03
Bonuses that build trust
Reward rules fire on hire, approvals are one click, and payouts run through Stripe, PayPal or Tremendous with status tracking. Fast bonuses are the whole game.

“Our employee referral rate doubled in one quarter. Fast bonuses and visible status did what three all-hands announcements couldn't.”

Jordan Kim
Jordan Kim
Head of Talent, TechScale
The Enabler module

The intro-maker gets credit too

Real referrals are messy — someone recommends, someone else submits. ReferralFlo captures the person who facilitated the referral as an enabler, credits them without breaking attribution, and reports them separately. Professional plan and above.

Refer a friend
Friend's name
Jordan Kim
Friend's work email
jordan@futura.io
Who made this introduction?Optional
Priya Rao
priya@advisory.co
Submit referral
Priya Rao
Enabler register
12
Referrals
$840
Credited

Is this the right motion for you?

Built for
Teams that hire continuously and know their best candidates come from their own people — from a 20-person startup to a multi-team org with role-based admin access.
What's included
Employee portal with unique links · referral form · lifecycle tracking per candidate · enabler credit · reward rules triggered on hire · payouts via Stripe, PayPal or Tremendous · reporting and CSV export.
Pairs well with
Your customer referral program — same platform, separate programs, one bill.
Everything included

The details that make it dependable

Employee portal

Unique link, live referral status, reward history.

Enabler credit

The intro-maker is captured and credited separately.

Lifecycle tracking

Submitted to hired, every stage visible.

Rules that fire on hire

Fixed or milestone bonuses on lifecycle states.

Real payout rails

Stripe, PayPal or Tremendous, with retry.

Audit trail

Every action on referrals and rewards is logged.

Team roles

Scoped, role-based access for recruiting admins.

Zapier, API & webhooks

Send referral events to your hiring stack.

Common questions

How do employees submit referrals?

Each employee joins the program portal and gets a unique referral link, or submits a candidate directly through the referral form. Every submission creates a tracked referral record — no inbox, no spreadsheet.

Can employees see what happened to their referral?

Yes — that's the point. Their portal shows every referral they've made and its current lifecycle stage, so 'I never heard back' stops killing your program.

How are referral bonuses paid?

Reward rules trigger on the lifecycle states you choose — for example when a candidate is marked converted (hired). Approved bonuses are fulfilled via Stripe, PayPal or Tremendous with per-reward status tracking.

Does it work with our existing hiring tools?

ReferralFlo connects to the rest of your stack through Zapier, the REST API and outbound webhooks — so referral events can flow into the tools your recruiting team already uses.

Ready to grow with referrals?

Launch your program in days, not months. See it live in a personalized 30-minute demo.