How can I test in a sandbox or development environment?

If you are looking for a way to run your referral program in a "sandbox" environment before going live, you can accomplish this by creating two GrowSurf programs: One for "development", and the other for "production".

A program is simply a referral program or affiliate program.

You can create a new program by going to your dashboard and clicking New Program in the the top-left program menu dropdown (or duplicate an existing program).

Every GrowSurf program has a unique ID that you can find in the URL or from your installation instruction's program-specific GrowSurf Universal Code.

This way, you can keep your test/development participants separate from your actual customers/participants and test your integrations (e.g, different webhooks, rewards) before going live with your referral program.

Here's an example of implementing the GrowSurf Universal Code to support environments for staging and production:

<script type="text/javascript">
   const STAGING = 'xyz789'; // Replace 'xyz789' with your staging program ID
   const PRODUCTION = 'abc123'; // Replace 'abc123' with your production program ID
   const PROGRAM_ID = (STAGING || PRODUCTION);

   // Call the GrowSurf Universal Code
   (function(g,r,s,f){g.grsfSettings={campaignId:PROGRAM_ID,version:"2.0.0"};s=r.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];f=r.createElement("script");f.async=1;f.src="https://app.growsurf.com/growsurf.js"+"?v="+g.grsfSettings.version;f.setAttribute("grsf-campaign", g.grsfSettings.campaignId);!g.grsfInit?s.appendChild(f):"";})(window,document);
</script>