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Friendbuy Overview

What is Friendbuy?

Friendbuy powers Loyalty and Referral Programs for high growth brands. Transform your customers into brand champions with cutting-edge referral and loyalty solutions. Get your best customers through word-of-mouth and increase lifetime value by fostering interactive experiences. Why choose Friendbuy? Achieve 20-30x return on investment, 5x faster conversions, 3-5x higher LTV and 20 - 40% repeat purchases. - Referral & Loyalty program automation and reward fulfillment - Fully customizable and on-brand - Unlimited rewardable events and tiered rewards - Personalized dashboards for your customers - Comprehensive analytics to track revenue and optimize performance - Premium onboarding services

Friendbuy Details
Languages Supported
German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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Product Description

Friendbuy’s refer-a-friend programs turn word of mouth into a strategic channel for growth, expanding your reach and transforming customers into loyal and engaged brand advocates. With flexible APIs, event-based triggers, and custom templates, your referral campaigns will integrate seamlessly into your user experience. Friendbuy’s robust reporting and analytics suite reveals the metrics that matter so you can quickly achieve optimal growth.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Friendbuy provides a flexible platform so brands can implement a referral program with on-brand assets, custom referral funnels and unlimited campaigns. Our Customer Success team consists of marketing experts, including former directors and VPs of marketing who provide strategic, data driven recommendations for program optimization.

Friendbuy's loyalty platform is fully customizable for modern e-commerce brands. The e-commerce market currently only offers loyalty plug-ins, which are not customizable, or legacy solutions with multi-year implementation cycles. Therefore, Friendbuy provides a unique solution in the e-commerce landscape. Brands can accelerate customer acquisition with a best-in-class referral program that works seamlessly with a customizable loyalty program that increases customer retention, both providing robust integrations with modern e-commerce tech stacks. Friendbuy’s Customer Success experts provide data driven recommendations to ensure loyalty program success.


Seller Details
Seller
Friendbuy
Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
Los Angeles, CA
Twitter
@Friendbuy
6,201 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
28 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Friendbuy Reviews

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"Less of a Loyalty Program, More like a Points System"
There is nothing to like about Friendbuy as it isnt really a Loyalty Program that provides value.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"An easy referral experience"
The customer support is helpful though a little slow at times to fix things that we need regarding dev stuff. Easy to onboard and easy integration
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Experience replacing legacy, custom referral program with Friendbuy"
The various widgets often work well for our needs. In theory, I really like offloading management of a referral program to a devoted service. Wh...
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Friendbuy Media

Friendbuy Demo - Beautiful, Branded Referral Templates - Away
Friendbuy widget templates are mobile-friendly and optimized for encouraging, easy sharing. Make real-time edits with your custom assets for an on-brand referral experience.
Friendbuy Demo - Beautiful, Branded Referral Templates - Bloomscape
Friendbuy widget templates are mobile-friendly and optimized for encouraging, easy sharing. Make real-time edits with your custom assets for an on-brand referral experience.
Friendbuy Demo - Experiment and Measure Success with A/B Testing
Experiment with different offers, creative, and messaging, to discover what drives more sharing and conversions. Friendbuy makes it simple to create variants and measure gain for all your key performance indicators, and quickly pivot when a champion is identified.
Friendbuy Demo - Track Real-Time Referral Funnel Performance
View breakdowns by campaign and drill down into any sharing channel. Go a step further and invite your top Advocates to become active Influencers for your brand with special offers tailored just for them.
Friendbuy Demo - Campaign Management
Experiment with different offers, creative, and messaging, to discover what drives more sharing and conversions.
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Andrej S.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

-amazing support (shoutout to Ryan Caviston)

-Shopify integration

-Tremendous integration

-Simplicity of its widgets

-Safety features to prevent non-compliant use of its widgets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

-Widget builder is a bit clunky at times

-analytics could be better, although not bad

-The code bank feature is not working as it should

-pricing is a bit steep compared to some of the competitors

-Only $ currency supported natively

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What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Increasing sales on certain projects, product features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cenk I.
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

After the tool is setup properly by the developers, as marketers, you can arrange a 0 code referral and loyalty campaigns, edit the widgets via ui and decide the email desings you'll use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

Sometimes while doing changes on the campaigns, you might miss some text since they're split by the tabs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to start and manage referral campaigns without any engineering dependencies. With this, we're ablo to do A/B tests to see which works better. API access allows me to gather information regarding to usage of each advocate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

The Friendbuy onboarding and setup process was greatly aided by their account and onboarding managers' patience and willingness to try out new things. We hit a few bumps in the road but their team was always on call to help figure out how to resolve and keep our team updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

The referral tool is tried and true, but as they release the loyalty tool even internally they are still learning what it is capable of and what their customers want from it, which can lead to some frustration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have no view into our customer's intrapersonal relationships to one another without Friendbuy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emma Kimmerly of Friendbuy

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this feedback. We're glad to hear you felt supported during your onboarding process, and appreciate your feedback on our loyalty offering in return as we push the envelope for what's possible with loyalty programs. We're excited to continue to help you understand your customer's intrapersonal relationships and increase lifetime value.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

Super easy to set up and manage. Easy to track monthly and daily success and their customer success team is one of the best I've worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

Nothing that I can think of. There are a few features that I'd like to have but are restricted to the higher tier. That's not a bad thing though..it's just a reason to upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a great tool for building out a referral and loyalty program. Not only that, but it's super easy to set up referral offers and track usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

I like the ability to create new/different promotions as well as A/B testing. This allows us to figure out what works for our audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

I wish the emails were more customizable. If we could add different blocks and feature areas I think this would increase email engagement and increase the incentive to share/purchase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use friendbuy for our referral program and it was been allowing us to increase our aquisition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

Friendbuy's onboarding process is second to none. Their team walks you through every part of the implementation, and makes every next step clear. Also, they're quick to respond.

Beyond that, we love how configurable Friendbuy is. We can easily reward based on different events/criteria, and they have some really useful integrations (we use Segment and Tremendous). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

These are both minor quibbles:

1) Their widget editor is a little unintuitive. This is mitigated by the fact that you can provide a design file and their team will build your widgets for you

2) There isn't an easy way for us to assign new referrals to the same salesperson who helped the Advocate (referrer) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted to be able to reward out customers for referring friends and family to our brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathan M.
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

It is a robust platform. It is well priced and their customer support is fantastic. They helped me with my project (a bilingual one) on a daily basis to make it happens. I am very pleased and would recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

The back-end of the widgets could be polished but once you understand how it works, it is all good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to increase the virality of our products. Each customers now has the chance to turn into a brand ambassador. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

- Easy to use, intuitive platform

- Simple customer UX

- Seamless setup process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

- Nothing! I have yet to encounter any features/aspects I do not like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Helping to spread the word about our product to new customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

Overall they have the best technology out there for companies looking to integrate with referral. They play nicely with developers and offer a wide variety of program placements allowing a great customer adoption of the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

They were on the pricier side when getting different partners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

FriendBuy is allowing our non-promotional brand to incentivize past customers to make an additional purchase AND to incentivize new customers to make their first, using an approved and streamlined promotion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Furniture
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What do you like best about Friendbuy?

The customer support is helpful though a little slow at times to fix things that we need regarding dev stuff. Easy to onboard and easy integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Friendbuy?

Slower dev team when it comes to fixing problems that involve code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Friendbuy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Referral program that lets users have cash Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.