Add bonus-entry actions and referral sharing
Award additional sweepstakes entries for referrals, social engagement, questions, visits, codes, and other actions.
Offer more ways to participate
Bonus actions let participants earn entries after completing the main form. Use them to encourage meaningful engagement without making the experience confusing.
Add an action
- Open the promotion builder and go to Post-Entry.
- In Social Actions, select Search for a field type, or select + Add New Action.
- Select the action type.

- Enter the destination, instructions, question, code settings, or other required details.
- Set the number of entries awarded.
- Choose whether the action may be completed once, daily, or at another available frequency.
- Save and preview the participant experience.
Available actions can include referral sharing, website visits, questions, polls, extra entries, app downloads, uploads, coupons, passcodes, and supported social-platform actions.
Newsletter Sign Up is not available as a new post-entry action at this time. Use Email Consent on the main entry form, with optional Bonus Entries, and configure your email integration.
Referral sharing
The referral action gives each participant a unique link. A referral award is normally created only when an eligible friend follows that link and completes the required participation. Test referrals with two separate people or browser sessions; using the same identity for both sides may not represent real behavior.
Set clear expectations
Tell participants exactly what they must do and how many entries they receive. Do not describe an action as verified when the connected platform does not provide confirmation. For visit, follow, watch, or share actions, use accurate wording that matches what Revup can observe.
Before launch
- Test every destination URL on mobile and desktop.
- Confirm usernames and public profiles are correct.
- Complete each action and check the participant’s entry breakdown.
- Confirm one-time and recurring limits.
- Check that referral awards match the official rules.
- Remove actions that are unnecessary or difficult to explain.
Bonus actions should be optional unless the official entry method clearly requires them and that requirement is legally appropriate for the promotion.
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