WooCommerce Product Share For Discounts

What is WooCommerce Product Share For Discounts?

WooCommerce Product Share For Discounts is a social share plugin for WooCommerce that adds share buttons to product pages and rewards sharing with a discount. The customer who shares earns one discount. The customer who buys through their shared link earns another. Both amounts are set by you.

Social share buttons that earn their place

Most WooCommerce social share plugins add buttons and stop there. Shoppers rarely press them, because sharing a product page does nothing for the person sharing it.

This plugin attaches a reason. The share button tells the customer what discount they will earn, so pressing it becomes a purchase decision rather than a favour. The shared link is tracked, so you can see exactly which shares produced orders.

The two discounts explained

• Share to Discount goes to the customer who shared the product, once someone completes a purchase of that product through their link.
• Share by Discount goes to the customer who buys after arriving through a shared link.

Each is configured independently as a fixed amount or a percentage of the product price. Registered customers earn both. Guests can share, and a guest buying through a shared link still receives the Share by Discount. To earn Share to Discount rewards they must register.

How sharing works for the customer

1. On the product page the customer sees the share options and the discount available for sharing.
2. Social Share opens a popup with the networks you have enabled.
3. Share via Mail sends the product to an email address, using your branded email template.
4. Anyone opening that link and adding the product sees the referral details in the cart, at checkout, and on the thank you page.
5. When you mark the order complete, both discounts are generated and the sharer is emailed that theirs is ready to use.

Customers track their own discounts from a menu on the My Account page and see the reduced price when they return to the product.

What you control

• Which social networks appear in the share options.
• The social share button text and the share via mail button text.
• The position of the share buttons on the product page, plus a shortcode to place them anywhere.
• Whether email sharing is available at all.
• Products excluded from sharing.
• The discount type and amount for both discounts.
• The My Account endpoint slug, its title, and whether sidebar widgets appear.
• The email template used for share and discount notifications.

A reporting screen lists every discount generated, with totals, and filters by date range or by referring customer. Referral details also appear on the order in the admin.

Who this plugin is for

Stores with visually shareable products such as fashion, homeware, and gifts. Stores with an engaged repeat customer base worth activating. Anyone paying for social ads who would rather pay their own customers for the same reach.

Setting up social share buttons for WooCommerce products

General configuration

Activate license

Enter your purchase code and email to activate the license before use.

Enable product sharing

Turn the share buttons and discounts on or off for customers.

Enabled social share options

Choose which social networks appear in the share popup. Only the ones you enable are shown, so the popup stays short.

Social share button text

Set the wording on the share button. The default is “Social Share”. Naming the reward here lifts the click rate.

Enable share via mail

Turn email sharing on or off. This is the one that works for products people recommend privately rather than post publicly.

Share via mail button text

Set the wording on the email share button. The default is “Share via Email”.

Position on product page

Choose where the share buttons sit on the single product page.

Social share shortcode

Place the share options anywhere with this shortcode.

Excluded products

Choose products that customers cannot share.

My Account menu endpoint

Set the endpoint slug for the customer’s discounts menu.

My Account menu endpoint title

Set the title shown on that menu.

Sidebar widgets

Show or hide the sidebar widgets on that menu.

Discounts configuration

Two separate rewards, set independently. One pays the sharer, the other pays the buyer who arrives through the link.

Share to Discount: type

Fixed amount or percentage, applied to the product price.

Share to Discount: amount

The reward earned by the customer who shared the product, once someone completes a purchase through their link.

Share by Discount: type

Fixed amount or percentage.

Share by Discount: amount

The discount earned by the customer who buys after arriving through a shared link.

Referral and discount reporting

Every discount generated, with totals, filtered by date range or by referring customer. This tells you which customers are actually driving sales, not just which ones clicked a button.

WooCommerce email template

Share and discount notifications use the WooCommerce email template system, so shared product emails carry your branding into someone else’s inbox.

What customers see: sharing a product for a discount

The product page shows the share options together with the discount available for sharing. That is the difference between this and a plain social share plugin. The customer can see what pressing the button is worth to them.

Pressing Social Share opens a popup with the networks you enabled.

Pressing Share via Mail opens the email sharing window.

The recipient receives a branded product email at the address entered.

Anyone opening that link and adding the product sees the referral details in the cart.

The referral details carry through to checkout.

And appear again on the thank you page after the order is placed.

You can see the referral on the order in the admin.

When you mark the order complete, both discounts are generated. The customer who shared is emailed that their reward is ready to use.

Customers track their own discounts from the My Account menu.

Returning to the product, the sharer sees the discounted price, usable on one order of any amount.

Guest users

Guests can share products on social media or by email. A guest buying through a shared link still receives the Share by Discount. To earn Share to Discount rewards they must register, which is itself a reason to create an account.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1. Which social networks are supported?

You choose which networks are enabled from the configuration screen, and only those appear in the share popup on the product page.

Q2. How is this different from a normal social share plugin?

The shared link is tracked and tied to a discount. The sharer earns a reward when their link produces a completed order, and the person buying through it gets a discount too.

Q3. Can customers share by email as well as social media?

Yes. The share via mail option sends the product to an address the customer enters, using your own email template.

Q4. When is the discount actually issued?

When the referred order is marked complete. At that point both discounts are generated and the sharer is emailed that theirs is ready.

Q5. Do guest users get the discounts?

A guest buying through a shared link receives the Share by Discount. Guests can share products, but they must register to earn the Share to Discount reward.

Q6. Can I set the discounts as a percentage?

Yes. Each of the two discounts is configured independently as either a fixed amount or a percentage.

Q7. Can I stop specific products from being shared?

Yes. Add them to the excluded products list and the share options will not appear for them.

Q8. Can I see which customers are driving referrals?

Yes. The notifications screen lists every discount generated, with totals, and filters by date or by referring customer. Referral details also show on the order in the admin.

Q9. Can I put the share buttons somewhere other than the product page?

Yes. A shortcode places the share options anywhere, and you can also set the position on the product page itself.