<h2>What is TopLayer/LEO – Bulk Notifications?</h2>
<p>TopLayer/LEO – Bulk Notifications is the simplest way to keep your customers informed at scale. Instead of adding notes to orders one by one, you can update hundreds or even thousands of customers at once with just a simple comma separated value (CSV) file. Each note is added to the correct order and automatically emailed to the customer, saving you hours of manual work and ensuring no one is left in the dark.</p>
<h3>Why you should choose Bulk Notifications</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Save time and effort</strong>: Post updates across many orders in minutes.</li>
<li><strong>Keep customers in the loop</strong>: Every note triggers the standard WooCommerce email so customers stay informed without extra steps.</li>
<li><strong>Stress-free performance</strong>: Built with background batching that prevents timeouts, even on shared hosting.</li>
<li><strong>Simple and familiar</strong>: Upload a two-column CSV right from WooCommerce settings — no complex setup or mapping required.</li>
<li><strong>Perfect for common use cases</strong>: Send shipment tracking details, service updates, or personalized messages to entire groups of customers with ease.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download the CSV template from the extension settings.</li>
<li>Enter the <em>Order ID</em> and <em>Customer Note</em> for each order you’d like to update.</li>
<li>Upload the file and click <strong>Save changes</strong>.</li>
<li>Bulk Notifications handles the rest — your notes are queued, processed in the background, and emailed to customers automatically.</li>
</ol>
<p>This extension was designed to solve one problem well: bulk customer communication. It gives store managers a safe, reliable, and time-saving way to deliver order updates at scale, while keeping the WooCommerce experience simple and familiar. As part of the <strong>Low Earth Orbit (LEO)</strong> suite of store-management extension from TopLayer Creative, Bulk Notifications integrates seamlessly with other tools built to enhance your store’s capabilities and create a smoother experience for both merchants and customers.</p>

TopLayer/LEO – Bulk Notifications

<p>Bulk Notifications lets you upload a CSV, sending customer notes automatically. Optimized to avoid timeouts, it’s ideal for posting shipment updates, service notices, or personalized messages across many orders at once.</p>

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<p>Note: <strong>AutomateWoo Refer A Friend</strong> requires <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo/">AutomateWoo</a> to be installed and active on your store.</p>
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<h2><strong>Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.</strong></h2>
<p>Adding a referral program to your WooCommerce store is a great way to increase your word-of-mouth sales and numerous studies show that people trust recommendations from people they know.</p>
<p>With AutomateWoo Refer A Friend you can quickly set up a referral program that is customized for your store.</p>
<p>Run a ‘coupon based’ campaign where advocates can share a unique coupon, giving the friend a discount and the advocate store credit for each successful referral. If you don’t wish to offer coupon discounts you can run purely ‘link based’ campaigns where advocates can refer their friends by sharing a unique link to your store.</p>
<h2>Why Use Refer A Friend?</h2>
<h3>Effortless Referral Management</h3>
<p>Easily create and manage a WooCommerce customer referral program all from your WordPress admin area. You can choose between either an automatic or manual referral approval process. Selecting automatic approval means that any referral that does not appear to be fraudulent will be automatically approved once its corresponding order is marked as complete.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-listing.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874122 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-listing.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="382" /></a></p>
<h3>Intuitive Referral Process</h3>
<p>The customer referral process is easy and flexible for advocates, allowing sharing via Email, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.</p>
<p>For the advocate’s friend the process is just as simple, all they need to do it use a coupon to gain their referral discount.</p>
<figure id="attachment_4917272" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4917272" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-4917272 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/automatewoo-refer-a-friend-page.png?w=620" alt="WooCommerce customer referral page" width="620" height="443" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4917272" class="wp-caption-text">Full Share Page – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_4874132" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874132" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referral-email.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874132" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referral-email.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="578" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874132" class="wp-caption-text">Share Email Default Template</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Post-Purchase Widgets</h3>
<p>Encourage referral sharing by including the post-purchase share widget on the order confirmation page and by creating order follow-up emails using the email version of the widget.</p>
<figure id="attachment_4874126" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874126" style="width: 620px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/widget.png"><img class="wp-image-4874126 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/widget.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="247" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874126" class="wp-caption-text">Order Confirmation Widget – Screenshot taken using the Storefront theme</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_4874128" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4874128" style="width: 543px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/email-widget.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874128" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/email-widget.png?w=543" alt="" width="543" height="368" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4874128" class="wp-caption-text">Email Share Widget</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Fraud Prevention</h3>
<p>It’s important for your customer referral program to include fraud prevention methods. Our WooCommerce Refer A Friend add-on has a few fraud rules out of the box:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Advocate IP address matches that of the customer</strong> – The referral will be marked as potentially fraudulent and will be blocked from auto-approval. Matching IP addresses don’t always mean that the referral is fraudulent as your store could be shared among co-workers who use the same IP address.</li>
<li><strong>Matching cookies</strong> – A cookie is placed in the advocates browser and if present they will not be able to use a referral coupon. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.</li>
<li><strong>Matching emails</strong> – When attempting to use a referral coupon the billing email is checked against any previous orders. If there is a match the coupon cannot be used.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-detail.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874135 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/referrals-detail.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="395" /></a></p>
<h3>Reporting</h3>
<p>Evaluate the success of your customer referral program by using reports that show the number of referral orders placed.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/report.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874137 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/report.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="453" /></a></p>
<h3>Advocates Accounts Tab</h3>
<p>Advocates can view their successful referrals from their account area.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/accounts-page.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874138 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/accounts-page.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="361" /></a></p>
<h3>Workflows Integration</h3>
<p>The Refer A Friend add-on integrates with AutomateWoo workflows adding new triggers and variables. This lets you set up automation for your customer referral program and also gives you complete control over any email notifications that you want to be sent to admins or advocates.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/workflow.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4874139 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/workflow.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="471" /></a></p>

AutomateWoo – Refer A Friend add-on

<p>Boost your organic sales by adding a customer referral program to your WooCommerce store.</p>

TopLayer/LEO – Bulk Notifications vs AutomateWoo – Refer A Friend add-on