This post contains some affiliate links, marked by an *. These will still give you your referral credit!
Let’s get straight to it – you know what a refer a friend scheme or referral code is, and you want to either sign up for a new service and get a welcome freebie, or send a link to a friend and get a reward.
Or maybe you want to do both – clever! Here’s my list of referral codes and referral links to get you some cash, in this order:
- Banking, investing & money
- Shopping
- Sales & rentals
- Utilities & telecoms
- Holidays
- Marketing
- Get-Paid-To sites
This post doesn’t go into great detail about what these products/services offer, so if you’re not aware of what they are, read up on the individual websites or on my related posts where I’ve linked to them for more info.
Banking Refer A Friend schemes
Nationwide – £100 for you, £100 for a friend
Big building society with good rates of interest on accounts. This is a great win-win offer, but it’s not as simple as clicking a link. If you want to be referred (we’re friends, right?), fill in the form below.
Please note that it can take a few days for me to get back to you as the link is generated by Nationwide and I’ve got to wait to receive it.
If you want to refer someone yourself, start with this form.
Curve – £5 for you, £5 for a friend
A digital wallet and app to combine all your debit and credit cards – download the Curve app and use code G68DX to get £5 to spend on your Curve card.
I’m a regular user, and you can read my post all about Curve and 5 reasons you should get a Curve card.
Monese – £15 for you, £15 for a friend
Digital GBP and EUR current account with no credit check. Sign up for Monese using this link* and use the code provided to get £15. Then you can refer your friends as well, and each get £15.
Monese also provides business accounts.*
Pockit – £5 for you, £5 for a friend
Prepaid Mastercard with cashback from various retailers. I was an early adopter of Pockit back in 2014, and my post about it is in dire need of an update! I’ll link to it when it’s ready.
Transferwise – £50 for you when you invite 3 friends, a free transfer for a friend
Bank accounts in GBP and a wide range of foreign currencies. This referral scheme’s a bit fiddly as you have to invite three friends first. I use Transferwise for my USD account – it’s great for receiving and spending income from the blog, which often comes in dollars.
AJ Bell YouInvest – £50 for you, free book for a friend or £100 for you, free book for a friend
Stocks and shares investment accounts. A free guide is a bit underwhelming, but hey. This one only seems to serve the person doing the referring and the person referred has to do all the work! I have an ISA with AJ Bell YouInvest though, so if you fancy giving me some cash you can check it out here:
https://www.youinvest.co.uk/our-services/special-offers/recommend-our-lifetime-isa
https://www.youinvest.co.uk/our-services/special-offers/recommendafriend
goHenry – £10 for you, £10 for a friend
Kids’ prepaid Mastercards that parents control. I don’t have a referral code at the moment, but this link* gives you a 2 month free trial – a £5.98 value. Once you have an account you can give £10 to a friend who opens an account, and earn £10 for your account.
FreeTrade – a free share for you, a free share for a friend
Fee-free stocks and shares trading. My referral link has been used but here’s Ste’s link for you. Apparently the link is single-use, but I’m still being prompted in the app to share my link, so we’ll see.
Shopping Refer A Friend schemes
Quidco – £10 (or £15) for you, £10 for a friend
Cashback on almost any kind of purchase. Quidco’s referral program gives you £10 for referring a friend, but £15 if you’re a Quidco Premium member. Well worth joining either way!
TopCashback – £5 (or £7.50) for you, occasionally £5 for a friend
Cashback on – again – almost anything. TopCashback’s referral program gives you £5 for referring a friend, or £7.50 if you’re a Plus member.
There are often bonus promotions that offer you higher rates and include an incentive for your friend as well.
Shopmium – £3 for you, a free product for a friend
Shopmium is my new favourite cashback app – you have to use a code after you download it to get your free product (currently a jar of Nutella). When one of your friends uses your code, you’ll get a £3 credit towards cashback.
Code: s9pi6x
Ocado – £20 for you, £20 for your friend
Minimum spend of £80 applies and your friend has to order within 12 weeks – you get a £20 voucher.
Sales & rental services Refer A Friend schemes
Etsy – 40 free listings for you, 40 free listings for your friend
Sell handmade crafts, jewellery and art, or supplies for making these types of things.
Fat Llama – £10 for you, £20 for your friend
Lend and borrow items you don’t want to sell or buy. You can earn up to £40 – £10 each time a friend buys, sells, borrows or lends on Fat Llama.
Utilities & telecoms Refer A Friend schemes
Bulb Energy – £50 for you, £50 for a friend
Gas and electricity from renewable sources at great rates.
You can read up more about Bulb Energy and 5 reasons why you should switch here.
Sky – £75 for you, £75 for a friend
https://secure.sky.com/introduce-a-friend
Virgin Media – £75 for you, £75 for a friend
https://keepup.virginmedia.com/referafriend
giffgaff – £5 for you, £10 for a friend
Cheap mobile SIM-only packages and more. Your friend gets £10 credit if they activate their SIM before August 31st, 2019.
Three – £25 for you, £25 for a friend
O2 – £25 for you, £25 for a friend
www.o2.co.uk/shop/tell-a-friend
Holidays & travel Refer A Friend schemes
AirBnB – £12 for you when you invite a friend to become a host, or £23 for you, £34 for a friend who completes a stay
Earn money from guests renting your property, or save money by renting a property instead of a hotel.
Click here for your host referral.
Click here for your guest referral.
Booking.com – £100 for you when your friend rents their property
As above, earn money from guests renting your property, or save money by renting an affordable property. Not a lot of incentive for your friend besides – well – actually making money through their property, which is useful.
Marketing Refer A Friend schemes
Tailwind – $15 for you, $15 for a friend
The best Pinterest scheduler out there… it also schedules Instagram, but I love it for Pinterest. The credit gives you and a friend a month of Tailwind Plus for free.
AppSumo – $10 for you
Get cheap stuff like apps, software packages and stock photos through this middleman. You get $10 in credits for every first purchase from a friend.
RawPixel – a free month of premium for you, a free month of premium for a friend
Very nice stock photography, great for bloggers or social media. RawPixel has a number of plans, but you can give a friend a month of their premium plan and get a month in return.
Moo – £15 for you, 25% off for a friend
Posh business cards, postcards etc. Moo gives you a £15 gift card. You can also get £200 for referring a business with 10+ employees.
UK Postbox – 50% of commission for you, 50% of commission for a friend
Virtual mailboxes so you don’t have to reveal your home address online. You can get 10% commission on anyone you refer to a paid plan with UK Postbox, but you can adjust the commission split to go from keeping 100% of it yourself down to splitting it 50/50.
Get-Paid-To sites Refer A Friend schemes
Oh My Dosh – £5 for you, £2 for your friend
Hot pink GPT fare.
Click here to get your referral.
InboxPounds
Paid emails and other offers.
Click here to get your referral.
Swagbucks – 300SB for you (+ 10% of your friend’s earnings), 300SB for your friend.
SB stands for Swagbucks, the points used on this site.
Click here to get your referral.
Maximiles – 500 points for you, 100 points for a friend
Get 500 points when your friend completes 3 surveys.
PickMyPostcode
A free, non-gambling daily draw site funded by advertising. Referrals add up to 20p to your “bonus”, which is added to the amount you could win in a draw.
Temporarily unavailable
Tesco Credit Card – £10 Tesco gift card/1000 clubcard points for you, £10 Tesco gift card/1000 clubcard points for a friend
Unfortunately this one has just been paused. The following products were eligible for referrals:
- Tesco Bank Credit Card
- Tesco Bank Car Insurance policy
- Tesco Bank Home Insurance combined buildings & contents policy
- Tesco Bank Pet Insurance Premier, Extra, or Standard Cover policy
When it comes back, I’ll let you know.
And now folks, I need a lie down. There are so many more I could add, and that I probably will add. Bear with me as I update this post as I go along!
