Ecommerce

Friendbuy

Referral and loyalty platform for enterprise DTC brands

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★4.4ratingPricing · PaidRising
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Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Moderate
Band
Saturation
Open
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Rising
Market trend
Rating
4.4
of 5 · FalcoScan rating

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The Brief

What Friendbuy does

Friendbuy is a software platform for running referral, loyalty, and influencer programs. Its referral product includes advocate activation, rewards and incentives, testing and optimization, fraud prevention, and product sharing. The loyalty product includes rewards and incentives, VIP and membership features, receipt scanning, retention optimization, and wallet passes with notifications. The influencer product includes creator activation, rewards and commissions, campaign management, and attribution and measurement. The platform also offers analytics, insights, AI recommendations, and incentive optimization. It integrates with tools such as Shopify, Klaviyo, Attentive, Braze, Recharge, and Segment. Listed target industries include ecommerce and retail, subscription, financial services, consumer services, travel and hospitality, telecom, energy, and education. The page does not state a pricing model.

How Friendbuy compares with its closest alternatives

3 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan; Friendbuy does not. Among the 2 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Refersion at $119 a month and the median is $209. All 5 offer an API, as Friendbuy does. Friendbuy offers a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Friendbuy was founded in 2012; the alternatives were founded between 2009 and 2018, 1 of them earlier. The alternatives with a known headquarters are in Cyprus and the United States.

Market position · Ecommerce

How Friendbuy compares in Ecommerce

Friendbuy has moderate opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 300 live Ecommerce tools on FalcoScan. Across Ecommerce, the average opportunity score is 65.2 and the average saturation score 35.9. FalcoScan rates Friendbuy's own market position as open. 58 of the 300 operating Ecommerce tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 6 shutdowns in the category.

Friendbuy compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
FriendbuyFounded 2012ModerateOpenPaid—NoYesWebRising
RefersionFounded 2014ModerateOpenFreemium$119/moYesYesWebRising
ExtoleFounded 2009ModerateOpenPaid—NoYesWebStable
HypeAuditorFounded 2018 · Limassol, CyprusHighOpenFreemium$299/moYesYesWebHot
Grin CreatorFounded 2014 · Sacramento, United StatesHighOpenPaid—NoYesWebRising
RouteFounded 2018 · Lehi, United StatesHighOpenFreemium—YesYesWebHot

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in Ecommerce.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Friendbuy exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Fraud DetectionAttribution Modeling
Industry Verticals
E Commerce
Tagged

Friendbuy shows up when builders search for these

referralenterprisefraud-detectionshopify-plus
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Extole

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HypeAuditor

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Questions

Friendbuy: common questions

Is Friendbuy free?

No. Friendbuy is a paid product.

What are the best alternatives to Friendbuy?

The closest alternatives to Friendbuy that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Refersion, Extole, HypeAuditor, Grin Creator, and Route.

Is Friendbuy still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Friendbuy as operating at friendbuy.com.

Does Friendbuy have an API?

Yes. Friendbuy offers an API.

Who is Friendbuy for?

Friendbuy is built for enterprise dtc and shopify plus.

How do I sign in to Friendbuy?

Sign in on Friendbuy's own website, friendbuy.com. FalcoScan reviews Friendbuy but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Friendbuy directly.

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