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Loyalty & Referal
Considering adding either Squaredance or Friendbuy to your ecommerce brand's Shopify tech stack? Loyalty, referral and affiliate marketing tools are critical tech stack components to grow your sales and overall customer satisfaction. Squaredance and Friendbuy offer different features, integrations and pricing models. Read our comparison below to discover which one is best for your brand.
Squaredance is the leading affiliate marketing platform that connects direct-to-consumer brands with partners such as media buyers, publishers, and influencers on a pay-for-performance model. Squaredance helps small and medium sized brands unlock the affiliate marketing channel and drive profitable volume and new customer acquisition.
High-growth brands can get more out of every customer with Friendbuy. With a best-in-class referral and loyalty program, brands can achieve at least 5-15% of new customer acquisition, with a 4x higher lifetime value. Friendbuy works with DTC brands like Casper, AWAY, and Outdoor Voices as well as Fortune 100-ranked companies like Walmart, Disney and Nestle. Plus, Friendbuy integrates seamlessly with your tech stack, so you can incorporate referrals and loyalty seamlessly into your customer journeys.
- Access to a curated marketplace of high-quality media buyers, publishers, and creators to launch performance-based marketing campaigns across diverse online channels.
- Streamlined campaign management tools to easily onboard partners, communicate, and track the performance of affiliate, influencer, and referral programs.
- Flexible, pay-per-sale pricing model with no upfront costs, monthly fees, or long-term contracts, allowing merchants to scale their marketing efforts risk-free.
- Comprehensive reporting and analytics to measure the impact of partnership campaigns across various metrics like conversions, revenue, and customer acquisition costs.
- Educational resources, playbooks, and 1-on-1 support to help merchants develop effective partnership strategies and maximize the return on their marketing investments.
- Comprehensive referral program management tools to easily onboard customers as brand advocates, track referral activity, and automate reward fulfillment.
- Seamless integration with leading ecommerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magento, as well as email, SMS, and other marketing tools to create a cohesive customer experience.
- Advanced analytics and reporting to measure the performance of referral campaigns, identify top referrers, and optimize strategies for higher conversion rates and customer lifetime value.
- Flexible reward structures and incentive programs to incentivize customers to share your brand, including the ability to offer discounts, credits, and other personalized rewards.
- Dedicated customer success team and educational resources to help merchants develop and execute effective referral marketing strategies tailored to their business needs.
Squaredance operates on a pay-for-sales model, where they charge ecommerce merchants a 15% fee on the total weekly sales generated by their affiliate partners. This fee can be discounted down to as low as 11% for merchants that exceed certain weekly sales volume thresholds. Squaredance does not require any upfront setup fees, monthly subscription charges, or long-term contracts.
Friendbuy offers customized pricing plans based on the ecommerce merchant's total monthly revenue. They have a self-serve package for businesses with up to $50K in monthly revenue, more flexibility and support for businesses with $50K-$100K in monthly revenue, and customized features for businesses with over $100K in monthly revenue. Friendbuy does not publicly disclose their exact pricing.
Squaredance integrates with a variety of platforms to support marketing and advertising, including:
- Instagram
- Shopify
- YouTube
- WooCommerce
- Google Ads
- TikTok
- Shopify Plus
- Alexa
- Taboola
- Outbrain
- Yahoo Native
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Squaredance
 in their tech stack:
Tusol
Tusol Wellness offers a range of high-quality, plant-based wellness products designed to support overall health and well-being. Their product line includes supplements, tinctures, and topicals formulated with carefully sourced, natural ingredients like CBD, adaptogens, and botanical extracts.
Bubs Naturals
Bubs Naturals offers a range of premium collagen and MCT oil products to support your wellness and vitality. Their products are clean, pure and made with all-natural ingredients.
Dose
Dose crafts expertly formulated organic wellness shots, combining potent, clean ingredients in clinically-researched dosages to support a healthier body daily. Their product line, free from sugar and calories, includes turmeric, aloe vera, elderberry, and milk thistle, boasting enhanced bioavailability and strength. Emphasizing a holistic approach to health, Dose aims to deliver the most effective wellness shots for those seeking natural, functional support for their liver, immunity, skin, and more, backed by a passion for holistic living and natural medicine.
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Friendbuy
 in their tech stack:
Oliver Cabell
Apparel
Oliver Cabell designs stylish, luxury shoes for men using old-school, Italian shoemaking methods. Their shoes are handcrafted and all made in Italy.
HealthyBaby
Kids
HealthBaby's mission is to protect and enrich the full potential of every child and support parents along the way. They do this by offering the safest baby essentials and provide science-backed, age-based content around brain and body development.
Candid
Personal Care
Candid transforms and straightens your teeth with clear, customized aligners made with dentist directed care!
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