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

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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

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KimSaxton

Contributor I

Hi, any update on when we will get this feature? Its been 1 year since it was first raised…

alex.hong

Klaviyo Alum

Hi @KimSaxton,

Thanks for reaching out regarding this.

Unfortunately, this feature is still in development with our Product team. My hunch is that Klaviyo does not support/offer any forward to a friend button functionality still due to how it impacts email design. A major reason is that once emails are forwarded, the HTML of the email is rendered twice, often causing style/content errors.

That is not something we are able to avoid at this time, as it is an industry standard. Please see this doc for more information.

Thanks,

Alex

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SeanMcC

Problem Solver III

Hi

Another bump for this feature.

Can it be such a big piec eof development work to add a forward to friend link?

Sean

JamesT

Problem Solver I

Hello,

While Mailchimp has a variable to the “Forward to a Friend” link, you can generate a similar solution using Klaviyo’s {% web_view_link %} variable. Here’s how the composed email will look like once the forward link is clicked.

<a target="_blank" href="mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20ExampleDomain.com&body=Hello%20friend%2C%20%0A%0AI%20just%20received%20this%20email%20and%20thought%20you%20might%20like%20it:%20{% web_view_link %}.%0A%0ACheers">Share the love. Forward this email to a friend</a>

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