Now with Points, Badges & Leaderboards

Turn your employees into your best recruiters.

Employees share open roles by link, QR code, email, or social — earn points and cash for every successful hire — and climb the leaderboard. You get the hires. They get rewarded. Everyone wins.

Free to start. No credit card. No time limit.

Passwordless employee login ATS & HRMS sync Mobile-ready
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Sarah Chen
Engineering
Rank
#3 of 142
Points balance
1,840 pts
+220 this week
To "Referral Legend" 1,840 / 2,500
Recent activity
Talent Scout badge earned
+50
Tom Lee · hired for Sr. Designer
+100
Anna K. · applied via your link
+10

How it works

Three steps. No spreadsheets.

From job post to bonus payout, every step runs on autopilot.

Step 01

Employees share roles

Send a unique link, generate a QR code, email contacts, or post to LinkedIn — all from the employee portal. Every share is tracked back to them.

Step 02

Candidates apply

Applications flow into your pipeline with the referrer attached. Watch candidate status change in real time — no manual tagging, no missed credit.

Step 03

Employees earn

Points hit instantly when a referral applies; cash bonuses trigger on hire. Achievements unlock as employees move up the leaderboard.

Savings Calculator

See what referrals save you

Move the sliders to see your projected savings, ROI, and the right plan.

Your Organization
500
100 10,000
50/year
10 500
Projected Savings
Estimated Annual Savings
$125,000

Keep that $125,000 in your budget.

Admin Hours
360 hrs
Agency Avoided
$180k
Referral Hires
18
ROI
10.4x
Recommended Growth $3,960/year
  • Up to 5,000 employees
  • API-based bonus management
  • Greenhouse & Lever integration
  • Advanced analytics
Get Started for Free

Or explore free — no commitment until you're ready to scale.

A sourcing engine, not a spreadsheet.

Teams running SmartRefer fill roles faster, spend less per hire, and keep referred employees longer than candidates from any other source.

50%
faster time-to-hire
40%
lower cost vs. agencies
retention for referred hires

Setup

From signup to first referral in under 10 minutes.

Meet Auto-Import — our AI reads your careers page and builds your referral program for you. No CSVs, no API keys, no ATS project plan.

1

Sign up with your work email

Verify in one click. No credit card. Free to start, no time limit.

Auto-Import scans your careers page

AI-powered

Drop in your company URL. Our AI reads your live careers page and pulls in every open role — title, location, department — in about 30 seconds. Works with any ATS, no setup.

3

Share unique links with your team

Every employee gets a passwordless portal and a personal referral link for every role. You're sourcing the same afternoon.

acme.com/careers

Scanning your careers page…

AI

Found careers page · extracting roles…

Senior Software Engineer
Engineering · Remote (US)
Product Designer
Design · New York, NY
Customer Success Manager
CX · London, UK
14 jobs found ~12s remaining

Features

Everything a referral program should be

Built for HR teams who want results, and for employees who want to be recognized.

Share anywhere

Unique tracking links, one-click LinkedIn & Twitter posts, programmatic email invites, and printable QR codes for in-person referrals. Every share is attributed automatically.

New

Points, badges & leaderboards

Configurable points for applications and hires. Achievement badges that unlock with milestones. Company-wide leaderboards that turn referring into a game worth playing.

New

Boosted roles

Hard-to-fill role? Mark it Boosted and offer multiplied points. Employees see the spotlight, your urgent reqs get sourced first.

ATS & HRMS sync

Bring jobs in, push candidates out — Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and more. Bulk-import your employee roster from CSV or sync directly from your HRMS.

Bonus management

Approve, schedule, and track cash payouts in one workflow. Configure multi-stage payouts, eligibility rules, and approver routing — your finance team will thank you.

Zero-friction employee login

No passwords to forget, no IT tickets to file. Employees log in with a one-tap magic link to their work email — and they're in, on any device.

Gamification

Make referring something employees actually want to do.

Cash bonuses bring people in. Points, badges, and leaderboards keep them coming back. Recognition compounds — and so does your candidate pipeline.

Configurable points rules

Set point values for every action — applications, interviews, hires. Boost roles when you need urgency.

Achievement badges

First Success, Talent Scout, Referral Legend — milestones that turn casual sharers into power users.

Live leaderboards

Company-wide rankings keep healthy competition front and center, with real-time updates as referrals come in.

Top Referrers
This quarter
Live
1
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Maria Rodriguez
Sales · 12 hires
3,420 pts
2
JK
James Kim
Engineering · 9 hires
2,180 pts
3
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Sarah Chen You
Engineering · 7 hires
1,840 pts
4
PT
Priya Tan
Marketing · 6 hires
1,520 pts
5
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David Martinez
Operations · 5 hires
1,300 pts
Recently earned
Talent Scout First Success Referral Legend

One portal. Four ways to share.

Wherever your employees' networks live

Tracking links

Personal URLs that attribute every click and application.

Social sharing

One-click posts to LinkedIn, X, and the platforms employees already use.

Email invites

Send personalized invites to up to five contacts in one go.

QR codes

Auto-generated codes for posters, events, and offline referral capture.

Your next great hire is one referral away.

Spin up your referral program in an afternoon. Free to start — upgrade when you're ready.

Get Started for Free

No credit card required · Setup in under an hour