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Setting Up A Forward To A Friend Link [or Button]

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November 20, 2020
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Rather new to Klaviyo and am trying to find a solution to adding a Forward to a Friend link or button at the bottom of our emails. Some platforms have widgets or block with this functionality built in, but Klaviyo does not appear to, and I have had no luck finding a solution to this in the Help Docs.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Best answer by retention

One possible workaround if you have the technical resources is you can have a link or button that passes the “Web View” link to a page on your site. From there, you can use the Web View link as a parameter to push into some kind of “share tool” or function which then can be sent to the user’s specified friends/family email address(es) or social sharing tool.

But, I agree with @mike.hoang - most people will simply “Forward the Email” - so perhaps try a prompt or message to see if you can encourage that behavior.

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Joseph Hsieh // retentioncommerce.com // twitter: @retenion

mike.hoang

Klaviyo Employee

Hi there,

At this time Klaviyo does not have a Forward to Friend link/button. Recipients would just need to forward the email using their email provider's normal function to do so.

Thanks,

Mike

retentionAnswer

2025 Champion

One possible workaround if you have the technical resources is you can have a link or button that passes the “Web View” link to a page on your site. From there, you can use the Web View link as a parameter to push into some kind of “share tool” or function which then can be sent to the user’s specified friends/family email address(es) or social sharing tool.

But, I agree with @mike.hoang - most people will simply “Forward the Email” - so perhaps try a prompt or message to see if you can encourage that behavior.

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Joseph Hsieh // retentioncommerce.com // twitter: @retenion

Joseph Hsieh // retentioncommerce.com // X: @retention

Omar

2025 Champion

@bbigda a poor mans solution can be to create a text only version of what you want to share.

Or have it coded up in HTML and then create a link on a button with or text. Example below.

<a href="mailto:enter@forward.address?subject=this%20is%20the%20subject&body=The%20text%20version%20of%20this%20email%20is%20entered%20here.%0A%0AGreetings%0A%0AOmar">Forward to a Friend</a>

@retention's solution seems the best though.

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jensdes

Contributor I

I was searching this forum to find out more about the “web view” link in the emails…

In Mailchimp, they generate a custom URL for each campaign that works even in testing mode before the email goes out - which is preferable. Klaviyo doesn’t have that option. As a designer / developer, I’d like to be able to collect links to all of my email campaigns for portfolio, for marketing purposes and even for reporting that work without having to manually forward an email.

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dennis1and1life

Contributor I

What is the ETA for adding ‘forward to a friend’ or a simple link to the web version of the email hosted on Klaviyo?

David To

Klaviyo Employee

Thanks @retention and @Omar for brainstorming some great solutions to this topic!

@jensdes and @dennis1and1life, currently we do not have a timeline on when our Product Team implements new features due to the many great feedback and improvements to the Klaviyo platform we receive from our clients. I’ll certainly be sure to pass this recommendation to our Product Team!

Thanks for being a part of the Klaviyo Community!

-David

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teawithtae

Contributor I

Any update on this??? We would love to place a button at the bottom of our email campaigns so people could just one-click and forward the email to a friend.

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kwilliams

Contributor I

We would also love to see this feature come to fruition- I manage multiple Klaviyo accounts and every one of my clients is frustrated that this feature still doesn’t exist.

alex.hong

Klaviyo Alum

Hey @teawithtae @kwilliams and others!

At this time, we cannot give an exact ETA for this feature to be public onto our product. But to clarify, there is indeed a product feature request out there in regards to this post!

In the meantime, I would go over past answers submitted by @retention as I believe that is a great thought process and strategy there already.

Thank you for your patience :)
Alex

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FB3

Contributor I

I would like to add here that this would be so useful for getting recipients to share certain assets of an email on social media. For example if we are having a sale, it would be great for customers to be able to share the sale banner direct to facebook from the email.

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