spree referral extension

[Stephane]

Hi,

I working on a spree_referral extension to allow people to invite friends to signup and reward them with a promotion.

The basic need :

- every user have an unique referral_token so we can create a unique url used by their friends to sign up.

- when a friend's first order is paid, a promotion will be created to the referral user.

To implement this feature, I was thinking of having a referral model which links the user (referral) and his friend :

class Spree::Referral

    belongs_to  :user #friend

    belongs_to  :referral, :class_name => "Spree::User" #referral user

    state_machine :initial => 'created' do

    end

end

The state basically allow us to know in which state is the friend : user signed up, order complete or paid,...

There are different callbacks :

- friend signing up with referral_token

- friend order paid

- user creating new order

I am thinking about using the same architecture (rails notifications) as the promotions by inheriting from Spree::Activator model.

However I am not sure how to proceed to have a clean way to define the different spree referral activators and it should be flexible enough for admins to :

- define if the referral (user) should be the only one to be eligible to a promotion or only the friend user, or both.

- define the different set of rules.

I don't know if my approach is over-engineered or there might be a simpler way to implement this feature.

I hope my explanation was clear enough, if not please let me know so I can rephrase it.

Stephane.

[Brian Quinn]

Stephane,

You should take a look at: https://github.com/spree/spree_affiliate

It was built on top of spree_store_credits and used in production with an earlier version of Spree. Looks like there's a few forks that are up-to-date with 1.0 at least.

It supports giving credit to the referrer and/or referee on signup and/or first order.

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Brian Quinn

Co-Founder, CTO

Spree Commerce, Inc.

http://spreecommerce.com

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[Stephane]

Thanks Brian, this is what I am looking for! Indeed, my approach was over-engineered...

There are some few features that I would like to bring, like giving store credit to the referrer only when the referee order is paid.
I will provide pull request asap !

Stephane.

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