Free Link Shortener
Short links that tell you where the clicks came from
Paste a URL and get a short link on refurl.link, free and without an account. Every link records clicks with country, device and referrer. Connect the link to a Referly program and the same short link also records referrals and sales, so you can see which partner a customer came from.
Leave blank and we'll generate a random 4-9 character alias for you
What a link looks like once it has been out in the world for a month.
refurl.link/spring-launch
→ https://acme.com/pricing?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=spring
- Clicks
- 412
- United States
- 38%
- Mobile
- 61%
- Top referrer
- youtube.com
Free tracking, and where it stops
What a free short link tells you
Attribution to a partner is what a program adds.
| What you get | Free, no account | With a Referly program |
|---|---|---|
| Short link on refurl.link | ||
| Custom alias | ||
| Click count | ||
| Country, device, browser and referrer | ||
| UTM parameters carried through | ||
| Link on your own domain | Business plan | |
| Cross-domain tracking | Business plan | |
| Which affiliate the click belongs to | ||
| Referrals and sales attributed to the link | ||
| Commission paid on the sale |
The part shorteners don't do
What happens between the click and the sale
A redirect is the easy part.
60 days
The cookie window
Configurable from days to a year. It decides who gets paid when two partners touched the same customer.
20+
Signals per click
Device, country, referrer, every UTM and ad click id, plus proxy and VPN flags.
Cross-domain tracking
Attribution survives the hop from marketing site to app to checkout. Business plan.
Refunds reverse
A refunded sale claws its commission back automatically. Nobody has to remember.
View as a table
| Step | What happens | What is recorded |
|---|---|---|
| refurl.link/maya | click recorded | device, country, referrer, UTMs, ad click ids |
| Landing page | cookie set, 60 days | configurable from days to a year |
| Signup, second domain | cross-domain tracking | attribution survives the hop |
| Stripe checkout | sale matched to the click | refund would reverse it |
| Commission | 20% of $49 | $10 |
At fifty partners
One link per partner, on your own domain
At fifty partners, not one link.
A link per partner
Affiliates manage their own from the portal instead of asking you for one.
Your own parameters
Rename the default ref parameter and attach extras that carry through to your analytics.
Shopify auto-apply
The short link lands on a cart with the discount already applied. Nobody else on this SERP has it.
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The questions people ask about the free tool.
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Yes. Shortening a link and seeing its clicks, countries, devices and referrers costs nothing. A Referly program adds attribution: which affiliate a click belongs to and what it sold.
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