Employee referral software
The referral scheme your employees will want to use
Referred candidates are 7x more likely to be hired than job board applicants. Pinpoint gives your employees their own referral portal, right inside your ATS.
Better hires from the networks you already have
Built into your ATS
Referrals live alongside your job postings, candidate profiles, and hiring workflows, all inside Pinpoint. No switching between systems. No copy-pasting updates. When a referral moves through the pipeline, you see it in the same place you see everything else.
Easy for employees to join
Let employees register themselves with a simple sign-up link, or add them automatically by team. They can browse roles and start referring straight away, even if they don’t have a company email or system login.
Referrals run automatically
Once you've enabled referrals on a job and set the bonus amount, Pinpoint handles the rest. Employees get their unique link, and the referral dashboard shows who's owed what, how much has been paid, and what's outstanding. You simply review and approve at the right moment
Data that shows what's working
Every referral is tracked as a source in Pinpoint's reporting, so you can see how referrals compare to job boards, social, and direct traffic. You can see which roles, locations and departments generate the most referrals and apply what’s working across the rest of your organization.
Everything you need to run a referral program
Built-in employee referral portal
Sign-Up link for employees
Per-job bonus amounts
Approve and reject workflow
Referral launch email template
Multi-brand referral support
Partial payment tracking
Chosen by leading talent acquisition and HR teams
Hospitality
65%
reduction in time to hire
Streamlined
casting day coordination
Increased
candidate communication
“With these new tools, we’ve set a good foundation to scale our hiring while maintaining our culture and delivering a really great candidate and employee experience.”
Michael Easton
Nonprofit
Strengthened
candidate engagement
Increased
candidate trust
Reduced
reliance on paid ads
“Pinpoint has completely changed how we work. We're more efficient, more consistent, and better equipped to give every candidate a great experience.”
Emma Bishop
Professional Services
Lower
risk of candidates stalling
Improved
visibility for TA leaders and stakeholders
3,500
employees supported in the states
“I just love that I can manage everything and every role in one place without having to jump between systems.”
Liz Mellor
Retail
Centralized
visibility on all candidates
100+
locations supported
Strengthened
hiring manager adoption
“It’s been really lovely using Pinpoint to align things a bit more. Across the board now, all of our candidates are getting a more similar experience, and the communication they’re getting is much stronger.”
Adam Barnes
See how Pinpoint handles your whole referral program
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G2
4.8
Capterra
4.8
SSR
4.8
Employee Referral Software FAQs
An employee referral program is a structured way for your team to recommend people they know for open roles at your company. Employees share job opportunities with their personal and professional networks, and if a referral is hired, they typically receive a cash bonus. The best referral programs are easy for employees to join, transparent about how bonuses work, and fully integrated with your hiring process so recruiters can see exactly where candidates are coming from and what they owe. When done well, referral programs consistently outperform other candidate sources on quality, speed, and retention.
Very. Based on Pinpoint's own analysis of 4.5 million applications, referred candidates are 7x more likely to be hired than candidates from job boards. That gap exists because referred candidates come pre-validated by someone who knows the role, the company, and the person they're recommending. The quality is better, the fit tends to be stronger, and referred hires often settle in faster.
Most companies pay a flat cash bonus per successful hire, typically ranging from a few hundred to several thousand dollars, depending on seniority and how hard the role is to fill. Some split the bonus into two payments (one when the candidate starts and one at the end of their probation period) to reduce the risk of paying out for a hire who leaves quickly. Pinpoint lets you set a specific bonus amount per job and tracks both what's owed and what's been paid, including partial installments.
No. Pinpoint's employee referral portal is part of the Pinpoint ATS and isn't available as a standalone product. This is by design; the greatest value of Pinpoint's referral feature comes from being part of the ATS platform. Referred candidates flow straight into the same hiring pipeline as all other applicants, with full source attribution, so your team gets a complete picture of where their hires are coming from. If you're looking for a way to run referrals within a fully integrated ATS, that's exactly what Pinpoint does.
Three things: making it easy for employees to join and share, keeping employees informed about the progress of people they've referred, and making sure the bonus process is transparent and reliable. Most referral programs fail because they're clunky, employees hear nothing after submitting a referral, or bonuses take months and require constant chasing. Pinpoint addresses all three; employees sign up via a single link, see their referral's status on their dashboard, and track their bonus from earned to paid, all without needing to contact anyone in HR.