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The Bloop dashboard is organized into three areas: a Referral area for your customer referral program, an Affiliate area for your partner program, and a Settings area for store-wide configuration. Each area is split into tabs, and most tabs map directly to a feature doc. This page is your map of where things live, so when a doc says "open the Campaign tab," you already know which part of the app it means.
Tab names and groupings stay stable even as the interface is refined, so this orientation describes the app by area and purpose rather than by where anything sits on screen. To understand the concepts behind these areas first, read How Bloop works.
The Referral area
This is where you build and monitor your customer referral program. The tabs cover setup, the offer, and the results:
Campaign — Create and configure referral campaigns: the audience, rewards, and conditions that define your program. See Create and configure a referral campaign and Set up referrer and referee rewards.
Target audience — Decide who is allowed to become a referrer. See Set your referral target audience.
Sharing / referral methods — Choose how referrers share — link, code, or both. See Choose a referral sharing method.
Branding — Style the storefront touchpoints: the popup, the standalone page, the post-purchase screen, the account extension, and social sharing. Start with the referral popup and referral page.
Customers — View and manage the people in your referral program. See Manage referral customers.
Orders — Review referred orders and the rewards tied to them. See Review and manage referral orders.
Fraud center — Catch and review suspicious referral activity. See Detect referral fraud with the Fraud center.
Activity — A chronological log of program events. See Read the referral activity log.
Analytics — The performance metrics behind your program. See Read your referral analytics.
A/B testing — Compare reward variants to see what converts. See A/B test your referral rewards.
Emails — The notifications sent to referrers and referees. See Referral email notifications.
The Affiliate area
This is where you run your partner program — recruiting affiliates, tracking the sales they drive, and paying commissions:
Campaign — Set the commission structure and cookie window, and run multiple campaigns. See Affiliate campaigns and commissions.
Affiliates — Add, approve, and manage your partners. See Managing affiliates.
Sales — Review the orders affiliates drive and approve the valid commissions. See Affiliate sales tracking.
Payouts — Record payments of approved commission and keep payment history. See Affiliate payouts.
Branding — Configure the affiliate-facing portal and registration: the registration form, portal style, translations, on-site content, and the overall portal. See the registration form and the portal guide.
Settings — Payment methods and other affiliate-program configuration. See Affiliate settings.
Emails — The notifications sent to affiliates. See Affiliate email notifications.
The Settings area
Settings hold the store-wide configuration that both programs draw on:
General — Store-level options and program-wide preferences. See General settings overview.
Sharing link — Customize the referral sharing link your customers pass around. See Customize your referral sharing link.
Portal link — Customize the affiliate portal link your partners log in through. See Customize your affiliate portal link.
Email sender — Set the sender domain your program emails come from. See Customize your email sender domain.
A note on finding things
If a doc references a tab you cannot see, check that the matching program is enabled — the Referral and Affiliate areas appear independently, so a store running only referrals will not show the Affiliate tabs until that program is set up. New to either program? The two getting-started guides walk the setup end to end: Getting started with referrals and Getting started with affiliates.
Where to go next
Learn what each area does conceptually in How Bloop works.
Look up any unfamiliar tab or term in the glossary.
Follow the customer and partner experiences in The referral journey and The affiliate journey.
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