Turn employee referrals into tracked hires and paid rewards

Employee Referral Program connects every referral to your Odoo Recruitment pipeline, calculates cash bonuses and reward points automatically, and gives referrers a self-service portal to follow their candidate from submission to payment.

The problem

Referrals disappear into inboxes and chat threads. HR has no shared record of who referred whom, no visibility into whether a candidate ever got interviewed, and no reliable way to calculate or pay the bonus that was promised — so the program quietly dies while employees stop bothering to refer.

The solution

Employee Referral Program gives every referral a visible pipeline from submission to payment, automatically calculates cash bonuses or reward points against configurable rules, routes bonus approval through recruitment and accounting with an audit trail, and lets referrers track their own candidates and rewards from a self-service portal.

Capabilities

Everything a referral program needs

Every capability below is implemented in the module.

01

Referral submission with CV upload

Employees submit a referral for a specific open job position with the candidate's CV attached, so every submission starts tied to a real position and a real candidate.

02

Visual pipeline from submission to payment

A kanban board and stage-decorated list track each referral through submitted, application, interview, contract, hired, bonus approved, and paid, so status is obvious at a glance instead of buried in email.

03

Recruitment workflow integration

Recruitment officers convert a referral into a job application and, on a successful hire, into an employee record, closing the loop between referral and actual hire without leaving Odoo.

04

Cash bonus or reward points, per job

Reward rules define a bonus amount and/or reward points per job position, so compensation can be tailored per role instead of forced into a single flat payout.

05

Bonus approval, vendor bill, and payment

A bonus moves through approval, vendor bill creation, posting, and payment registration with a full audit trail, giving finance the proof it needs before money moves.

06

Reward points ledger and redemption

Earned, redeemed, and adjusted points are tracked in a running ledger; employees request redemptions that move through an approve-and-fulfil flow.

07

Points leaderboard

A leaderboard pivot ranks employees by reward points earned, turning the incentive into a visible, ongoing source of motivation.

08

Referrer self-service portal

Referring employees see their referrals, candidate progress, and point balance in a dedicated portal, no more emailing HR to ask what happened.

09

Milestone notifications and escalation

Referrers get emailed when their referral becomes an application, gets hired, and when the reward is processed, while a daily automated check escalates any bonus approval that has stalled.

Workflow

How it works

1

Employee refers a candidate

An employee submits a referral for an open job position with the candidate's CV attached.

2

Recruitment reviews and advances

A recruitment officer reviews the referral, creates the job application, and moves it through interview, contract, and hire.

3

Reward is calculated automatically

On hire, the configured reward rule calculates the cash bonus and/or reward points for the position.

4

Bonus is approved and paid

The bonus is approved, billed, and paid with a full audit trail, while the referrer tracks every step from their portal.

Questions

Frequently asked

No sales fog. If your question isn't here, email us and we'll answer it the same way.

No. This app is built for a structured, recruitment-officer-driven workflow with cash bonuses, points, and a portal; Odoo's native Referrals module remains available for gamified public job sharing. The two can run side by side.

Get the app

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Employee Referral Program

Referral submission with CV upload, a pipeline tied to Recruitment and per-job cash bonuses or reward points — with approval, vendor-bill payment, a leaderboard and a self-service portal.

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