Features

Features of ViralSweep

A/B Testing

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Premium Plan and higher. Overview The A/B Testing feature allows you to tweak and optimize your promotions to improve ov...

Additional Users

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. This feature allows you to invite users to a specific brand within your account. This is great if...

Announce Winners

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The Announce Winners feature allows you to display the information of your winners on the entry form for your promotion. The winner information will only appear after  ...

API

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Premium Plan and higher. Overview The ViralSweep API enables you to build, run, and manage your own promotions outside o...

Audience Segments

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Premium Plan and higher. The Audience Segments feature allows you to segment your audience based on a variety of filters su...

Autocomplete Field

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The Autocomplete field allows you to input options that are searchable as a user types into the field. The field will automatically narrow the search down based on the o...

Auto Login URL

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   How it works Normally if a user enters your promotion from one device, then returns to the page a few days later on the same device, we remember the user and immediat...

Auto Submit Forms

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   In order to use this feature, you will want to follow the steps to  prefill your form . Our Auto Submit feature will automatically submit the ViralSweep form aft...

Block or Allow IPs or Emails

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Overview This feature allows you to allow or block specific IP addresses or email domains from...

Coupon Codes

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The static coupon code feature is available on all plans. The dynamic coupon code feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Overview The Coup...

Custom Actions

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Overview With custom actions you can track users completing tasks on your own website and awar...

Custom Captions

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Overview This feature allows you to populate the contest caption area with any form fields a user submitted through the contest entry form. Before launching your...

Custom CSS

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Please note, this is a developer only feature and we will not write your CSS for you. Overview ...

Dedicated Sendgrid Account

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on the Premium plan. This feature is not enabled by default. You must request this feature be enabled on your account. ViralSweep'...

Draw Winners

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   How do I choose winners? To draw winners at random, click the Winners tab on the promotion in your dashboard. If you're interested in our Live Draw feature, instead o...

Edit Entries

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   ViralSweep automatically tracks and awards entries to users when they complete actions on your campaign. However, due to how some users configure their browser settings,...

Email Notifications

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The email notifications feature allows you to automatically dispatch an email to an entrant the second they enter your promotion. This email can come from your own email...

Entry Codes

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Entry Form Codes The Entry Codes feature allows you to add a field to your entry form that req...

Entry Frequency

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The Entry frequency settings can be modified under the promotion settings for sweepstakes or contests. By default, all promotions are set to single entry, which means...

Entry Limit

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. The Entry Limit feature allows you to close your promotion down as soon as you hit a certain numb...

Entry Purging

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   What is entry purging? Every 180 days we will purge your invalid entries from our system so that they will no longer display under your campaign. The only entries tha...

Events Mode

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The Events setting under the Spam Filter should only be used when you are in an environment where you want the system to automatically collect every single entry that co...

Expand Social Actions

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   By default, when someone enters your promotion all social actions are collapsed and a user must click on an action to expand it. With the option to expand an action u...

Form Builder

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Our flexible form system allows you to collect any data that you want from your entrants.  Some of the main benefits are: Create required or optional fields ...

GDPR

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   To learn more about ViralSweep and GDPR, please see our GDPR Overview . We're here to help If you have any further questions, please start a Chat. Just "Click" ...

Geo Targeting

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Geo Targeting allows you to deliver your promotions to certain users based on their state or coun...

Import Entries

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Premium Plan and higher. The Import Entries feature allows you to upload entries to your promotion using an excel spreadshe...

Language

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Change all of the text on the promotion from English to any language that you prefer. To access this feature, simply go to: Edit > Design > Language > Show All and...

Leaderboards

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on the Business Plan and higher. The leaderboard feature allows you to display the entrants with the most entries or the most refe...

Live Draws

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   ViralSweep's Live Draw feature allows you to conduct engaging and interactive drawings for your audience. You can stream your drawings across social media for your audie...

Manage Brands

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Managing multiple brands within ViralSweep allows you to have separate dashboards for each brand that you manage, this way all your promotions are separate. You can even...

Multiple Languages

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on the Premium Plan and higher. Our Multiple Languages feature allows you to create one promotion and translate it into several di...

Official Rules

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   ViralSweep provides you with an official rules template that you can use to quickly get your promotion up and running. However, by using our official rules you are ag...

Payments

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on the Premium Plan and higher. Our payments feature integrates with Stripe.com , allowing you to collect payments or donations f...

Prefill Email Address

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Need to prefill more data than just an email address? See Prefill Fields . Want to automatically submit the form after prefilling the fields? See Auto Submit For...

Prefill Fields

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Need to prefill just email addresses that you already have? See Prefill Email Address . Want to automatically submit the form after prefilling the fields? See Au...

Redirect Upon Entry

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   The Redirect Upon Entry feature allows you to automatically direct people to any page that you want after they enter the promotion. By default, when a user enters the...

Refer Friends

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Learn about 3 proven referral marketing strategies that work. The Refer Friends feature encourages people to share your promotion with their friends via a unique re...

Refer Friends via Email

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on the Business Plan and higher. The Refer Friends via Email feature encourages people to share your promotion with their friends ...

Sales Tracking

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on the Business Plan and higher. Skip to: Standard Pixel | Shopify Pixel | BigCommerce Pixel The Sales Tracking feature al...

Sender Authentication

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature allows you to authenticate your domain with ViralSweep, so that we can send emails on your behalf as a verified sender. This will improve your email deliver...

Social Actions

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Social Actions allow you to incentivize your entrants with additional entries into the promotion by having them perform a variety of different actions. Click here to ...

Source Tracking

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. The Source Tracking feature is an automated system that will track (if possible) two different se...

Spam Filter

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   ViralSweep's spam filter is enabled by default on any promotion you create. The recommended setting is high, which will automatically limit your promotion to one entry p...

Spotify URI

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   In order for the Spotify Follow button to work properly, you need to input your Spotify URI. If you input a full link the artist, it will not work properly. To get yo...

Styles

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   Use our styles feature to customize everything about your campaign without using any CSS. If you'd like to also use CSS, see our CSS documentation .  You can modify ...

Tracking Links

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. The Tracking Links feature allows you to create unlimited tracking links for your campaign, in or...

Tracking Scripts

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. The Tracking Scripts feature allows you to add 3rd party tracking and conversion scripts onto the...

Verification Codes

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. The Verification Codes feature allows you to require your entrants to input a code they'll receiv...

Video URLS

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is available on our Starter and Business plans. Our Premium plan offers  direct  video uploads . This feature allows users to upload a video to a su...

Video Uploads

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Premium Plan and higher. Our Starter and Business plans support  Video URLs . This feature allows users to directly upload ...

White Label Branding

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   This feature is only available on our Business Plan and higher. Our white label branding feature allows you to remove our default Powered By ViralSweep text, a...

YouTube Channel ID

NOTE: THIS HELP DESK IS OUTDATED. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW HELP DESK  HERE .   In order for the YouTube subscribe button to work properly, you need to input your channel ID. If you input a full link to your channel, it will not work properly and yo...