A/B Testing
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 overall performance. You can create and test multiple versions of a promotion and discover ...
Additional Users
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 you manage multiple brands and need to invite users to specific brands you are managi...
Announce Winners
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 the promotion has ended. If you collected first and last name on your promotio...
API
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 of your platform, or you can run promotions inside of ViralSweep and use the API to send d...
Audience Segments
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 such as number of entries, number of referrals, sign up source, and more. You can select...
Autocomplete Field
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 options you have input, and the user can select an option that is returned. Set...
Auto Login URL
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 immediately direct them to the post-entry page. However, if the user returns on a new dev...
Auto Submit Forms
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 after you have successfully prefilled the fields so the user never has to see the entry f...
Block or Allow IPs or Emails
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 entering your promotion. This feature is on a per campaign basis, so you can choose to a...
Coupon Codes
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 Coupon Codes feature is a social action that allows users to: A) receive a code automaticall...
Custom Actions
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 award them with entries. What type of actions can I track? Using our provided tracking script...
Custom Captions
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 contest, please contact us via live chat so we can ensure you have set this feature u...
Custom CSS
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 Custom CSS is a developer only feature that allows you to overwrite our default styles w...
Dedicated Sendgrid Account
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's Email Notifications feature sends emails using Sendgrid. On our Premium plan, you ca...
Draw Winners
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 of doing a private drawing, go here: Live Draws . You can draw winners at anytime...
Edit Entries
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, some users may complete actions and not receive entries for them. This featur...
Email Notifications
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 address and company name, and the content of the email can say anything you w...
Entry Codes
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 requires users to input a unique code in order to enter the promotion. You can upload a CSV ...
Entry Frequency
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 a user can only enter one time during the promotion. If you'd like, you can choo...
Entry Limit
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 number of entries. This is great for first come first serve giveaways where you only have ...
Entry Purging
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 that will remain are your valid entries. Why do you purge entries? There are million...
Events Mode
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 comes through your form AND when you want to be able to refresh the page so th...
Expand Social Actions
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 upon entry, you can have any action automatically expanded for the user when they ...
Form Builder
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 Add as many form fields as you want Use our pre-made fields, or create your own custom fie...
GDPR
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" on the chat icon in the lower right corner to talk with our support team.
Geo Targeting
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 country. For example, if your promotion is only open to people in the United States, you c...
Import Entries
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 spreadsheet. Setup 1) Download Template To import entries go to the Entrants tab and click Imp...
Language
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 all of the language fields will appear. Type in the box to override the default tex...
Leaderboards
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 referrals in your promotion. Simply choose how many leaders you want to show in the leader...
Live Draws
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 audience to watch and see who won! Watch the video below for an overview on how it ...
Manage Brands
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 invite users to specific brands you manage, and they will only have access to...
Multiple Languages
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 different languages. The benefit of this feature is that you do not need to create separ...
Official Rules
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 agreeing to the following: ViralSweep provides an official rules template that will...
Payments
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 from entrants to your campaigns. In addition, you can use this to set up a form to sell...
Prefill Email Address
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 Forms . Overview Planning to send an email to your existing email list to promote your ...
Prefill Fields
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 Auto Submit Forms . Prefilling fields allows you to pass data into our form...
Redirect Upon Entry
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 promotion they will get taken to a post-entry page that allows them to earn bonu...
Refer Friends
The Refer Friends feature encourages people to share your promotion with their friends via a unique referral link in order to earn bonus entries. When a user enters your promotion, they will see the Refer Friends box which allows them to copy thei...
Refer Friends via Email
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 via email in order to earn bonus entries. When a user enters your promotion, they will...
Sales Tracking
This feature is only available on the Business Plan and higher. Skip to: Standard Pixel | Shopify Pixel | BigCommerce Pixel The Sales Tracking feature allows you to track sales coming from people who have entered your promotion. If a user who...
Sender Authentication
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 deliverability and help to ensure that emails do not bounce or end up in spam folders...
Social Actions
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 see a live example of all social actions. The following actions are currently sup...
Source Tracking
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 sets of URL's for you from each entrant to your promotion. The first URL we will track i...
Spam Filter
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 per IP address. Typically, your official rules will only allow one entry per ho...
Spotify URI
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 your Spotify URI, simply copy the link to the artist and in the URL you will see a ...
Styles
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 everything from the fonts, to the colors, sizes, and even borders. There are mult...
Tracking Links
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 order to track any and all marketing initiatives. This feature will allow you to create ...
Tracking Scripts
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 pre-entry and post-entry pages of the campaign. This will allow you to track pageview...
Verification Codes
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 receive via email before their entry is considered complete. This feature is a great way to ...
Video URLS
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 supported platform, then provide us with a URL to their video which we can then pull int...
Video Uploads
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 videos to your contest. Videos are hosted on the ViralSweep platform using an HTML5 vi...
White Label Branding
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, and either hide it entirely, or replace it with your own text and link. Add your own br...
YouTube Channel ID
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 you will see an error on the YouTube subscribe button. To get your Channel ID, s...