# Referrals > Invite coworkers, investors, and friends to refer candidates and track every referral in Dover. ## Overview Invite coworkers, investors, and friends to refer candidates for your jobs. Referrers sign in to the referral portal to submit candidates, and you track every referral on each job's **Referrals** tab. --- ## Invite a referrer You invite a referrer from **Settings → Referrers & Agencies**. You can also start from a job, which fills in the job for you. 1. Open a job and click the **Referrals** tab. 2. Click **+ Referrer**. Dover opens **Settings → Referrers & Agencies** with the **Invite a referrer or agency** window open and the **Referrer** tab selected. 3. Enter the referrer's **Email**. This field is required. 4. Optionally, enter their **Name** and choose their **Relationship to company**. 5. In **Jobs**, select every job they can refer candidates to. This field is required. 6. Click **Send invite**. Dover emails the referrer a link to the referral portal and shows **Invite sent!**. Click **Done** to close the window. --- ## What referrers do in the referral portal Referrers sign in to the referral portal with the email address the invite was sent to. If they don't have a Dover account yet, they create one from the sign-in page. In the portal, a referrer can: - See every job you shared with them, with counts of **Submitted**, **Active**, and **Hired** candidates. - Click **+ Candidate** next to a job to submit a candidate. - Click a job to see the candidates they submitted, each candidate's **Current stage**, and their **Status**. - Click the copy link icon next to a job to copy a custom referral link. Candidates who apply through that link are credited to the referrer. The **Submit a candidate** window has these fields: | Field | Required | | --- | --- | | **Job** | Yes | | **Resume** (Dover fills in the fields below from the resume) | No | | **First name** | Yes | | **Last name** | Yes | | **Email** | Yes | | **LinkedIn URL** | No | | **Why are they a good fit?** | No | When the referrer clicks **Submit**, Dover adds the candidate to the job and shows **Candidate submitted!**. The referrer can click **Add another** to submit more candidates. ### Preview what referrers see To see the portal before you invite anyone, go to **Settings → Referrers & Agencies** and click **Preview portal**. The preview shows sample jobs and candidates. --- ## Track referrals Open a job and click the **Referrals** tab. Each row shows a referrer and counts of **Submitted**, **Active**, and **Hires** candidates. Click a row to see the candidates that referrer submitted. --- ## Manage referrers across all jobs **Settings → Referrers & Agencies** lists every referrer and agency recruiter on your account with their **Type**, **Status**, and number of **Jobs**. The status is **Active**, **Invited**, or **No account**. - To change which jobs a referrer can refer to, click the referrer's row. Use the **Active** and **Deactivated** tabs, turn a job on or off, or select a job under **Add job** and click **Add**. - To send an invite again, click the three dots on the row and click **Resend invite**. For a referrer with **No account** status, the option is **Send invite**. - To copy the portal link and share it yourself, click the three dots and then **Copy portal link**. - To remove access to all jobs at once, click the three dots, click **Deactivate all jobs**, and confirm. You can turn jobs back on later. --- ## Frequently asked questions ### How do referrals help my hiring process? Referrals bring candidates you already have a connection to into your pipeline. You see every referred candidate in one place, and you can compare the number of submitted, active, and hired candidates for each referrer. ### Are referred candidates specific to one job? Yes. A referrer submits each candidate for a specific job they were invited to. After a candidate is added, you can move that candidate to another job. ### What happens to the old referral links? The old referral links no longer open a submission form. They show a page that asks the referrer to sign in to the referral portal with the email address the invite was sent to. Referrers you already added keep their candidates. ### Can I stop someone from referring candidates? Yes. In **Settings → Referrers & Agencies**, click the referrer's row and turn off the jobs, or click the three dots and then **Deactivate all jobs**. You can turn the jobs back on later. ### Where can I see pricing and plan details? The number of referrers you can invite depends on your plan. See [dover.com/pricing](https://www.dover.com/pricing). If you see an upgrade message when you click **Send invite**, you've reached the limit for your current plan. ### Where can I get more help? Ask the Dover Support team on the [Contact Support](https://app.dover.com/support/messages) page (**Get Help → Contact Support** in the app).