Installation

To install pinax-referrals:

pip install pinax-referrals

Add pinax.referrals to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # other apps
    "pinax.referrals",
)

See the list of settings to modify pinax-referrals‘s default behavior and make adjustments for your website.

Add pinax.referrals.middleware.SessionJumpingMiddleware in order to link up a user who registers and authenticate after hitting the initial referral link. Make sure that it comes after the django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    ...
    "django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware",
    ...
    "pinax.referrals.middleware.SessionJumpingMiddleware",
    ...
]

Lastly you will want to add pinax.referrals.urls to your urls definition:

...
url(r"^referrals/", include("pinax.referrals.urls")),
...