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  Mitch - Referrals

  Mitch Referrals gives your community an easy, powerful way to spread the word — and gives you clear

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  Mitch Referrals

  Turn your members into your best promoters
  
  Growing a forum is hard. Keeping it growing is even harder.
  Mitch Referrals gives your community an easy, powerful way to spread the word — and gives you clear insight into what's actually working.
  
  No gimmicks. No hacks. Just a clean referral system built the XenForo way.
  
  

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  Simple referral links (that just work)

  
  Every member gets a unique referral code they can share anywhere using links like:
  
  ?ref=ABC123
  
  ✔ No pretty URLs required
  ✔ No URL clutter
  ✔ No core file edits
  
  When someone visits using a referral link, Mitch Referrals:
  

  • Tracks the click
  • Stores attribution securely via cookie
  • Automatically cleans the URL to prevent double-counting
  • Credits referrals only when a registration is completed

  Fair, accurate, and abuse-resistant by design.
  
  

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  Share the

  
  Why send everyone to the homepage?
  
  With Mitch Referrals, members can generate referral links for any page on your site, including:
  

  • Forum threads
  • Categories
  • Resources
  • The homepage
  • Custom landing pages

  From the affiliate dashboard, members can paste any internal URL (or relative path) and instantly generate a referral-enabled version. This lets them share the content that actually convinced them — which means better engagement and better signups.
  
  Bonus: the optional sidebar widget automatically creates a referral link for the page the user is currently viewing, making organic sharing effortless.
  
  

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  Everything members need, in one place

  
  Each member gets a clean, easy-to-use affiliate dashboard where they can:
  

  • View their referral code
  • Copy referral links with one click
  • Generate referral links for specific pages
  • Track total clicks and unique clicks
  • See how many users registered through their links
  • View recent referral activity

  It feels native. It looks native. Because it is native.
  
  

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  Clear insight for admins (without the noise)

  
  Admins get a dedicated stats page that shows:
  

  • Top referrers
  • Click totals and unique clicks
  • Registration counts
  • Conversion performance over time

  Plus a focused set of admin options:
  

  • Referral cookie lifetime
  • Unique click tracking window
  • Enable/disable click tracking
  • Control whether referral cookies can be overwritten

  No bloated settings pages. Just the controls that matter.
  
  

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  Built the XenForo way

  
  Mitch Referrals is built specifically for XenForo 2.3.x and follows best practices:
  
  ✔ No core edits
  ✔ No URL rewriting
  ✔ Uses native entities, listeners, widgets, and templates
  ✔ Safe for live production sites
  ✔ Fully dev-mode exportable
  
  Install it, turn it on, and let your members do what they already do best — talk about your community.
  
  

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  Designed to grow with you

  
  Mitch Referrals is intentionally lightweight, but built on a solid foundation. It's ready today for:
  

  • Organic community growth
  • Member-driven promotion
  • Content-specific referrals

  And it's structured to support future upgrades like:
  

  • Referral rewards
  • Paid upgrade commissions
  • Leaderboards
  • Trophy or badge integration

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  In short

  
  If you want a referral system that:
  

  • Feels native to XenForo
  • Empowers your members
  • Tracks real results
  • Avoids common abuse pitfalls
  • And leaves room to grow

  Mitch Referrals has you covered.
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• License Terms
  
  By purchasing this resource, you are granted a license to use it on one (1) site, for as long as your license remains valid. You are not purchasing ownership of the underlying code.
  
  How your license works
  

  • Your license is checked automatically in the background. This never affects your site's visitors.
  • As long as your license is valid, this resource keeps working normally — even if our license server is briefly unreachable, a temporary network issue will never disable it.
  • Your license is bound to your site's domain the first time it's used.

  
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  Contact us and we'll move your license for you.
  
  What's included
  Updates and support for the period stated on this resource's page (see the Version tab for the current release).
  
  What's not allowed
  

  • Sharing your license with others, or using it on more than one site at a time
  • Removing or bypassing the license check in the code