Streamline referrals, track applications, and enhance hiring with a customizable portal tailored to your company's recruitment process


Build an employee referral portal with only the features your team needs. Update and expand it easily as your hiring workflows change—no code needed.
Connect spreadsheets, HR systems, and other tools with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for your referrals.
Give HR and hiring teams easy, secure access to manage employee referrals. Set up permissions and user groups with no IT support needed.
Tailor access for HR managers, recruiters, and employees, so each group views only what’s relevant to them.
Tailor access for HR managers, recruiters, and employees, so each group views only what’s relevant to them.
Connect with tools like Make, Zapier, or N8N to automate notifications, tracking, and referral follow-ups.
Access and update the referral portal from any device. Your employee referral tool is mobile-ready out of the box.
Use Google, email, or SSO logins to provide employees and HR with secure, fast access to the referral portal.
Keep referral and candidate data safe with SOC2 and GDPR compliance, plus advanced access controls.
Let HR ask AI about referral stats, candidate status, or process tips—instant answers, all inside your referral portal.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Launch your employee referral portal in minutes with drag-and-drop blocks and templates.
Add features like reward tracking or new workflows as your referral program evolves—no rebuilds needed.
Manage referrals, track applicants, and handle feedback—all in one central internal tool.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












An employee referral portal is a secure online space where employees can log in to submit referrals, track the status of their referrals, and get updates about the referral program. It keeps all information related to employee referrals in one place, so you don’t have to rely on email threads or spreadsheets. This makes it simpler to stay organized and helps everyone involved in the hiring process stay on the same page.
Softr makes it easy to build an employee referral portal that fits your organization's needs. You can connect your existing data—like candidate info in Airtable, feedback in Notion, or contacts from HR tools—and set up a portal where employees can submit referrals, see updates, and check program guidelines, all in one place.
You don’t have to code anything. You can use a template or start from scratch, adjust the layout, choose who can see what, and customize it to match your company’s branding. It’s quick to launch, easy to update, and flexible enough to grow as your referral program evolves.
You can add a variety of helpful features to your employee referral portal, depending on how your referral program works. Some common options include:
\- User logins – so each employee can securely submit and track their own referrals
\- Custom dashboards – to show referral statuses, program metrics, or rewards
\- Forms – for submitting referral details or giving feedback
\- File uploads – so employees can attach resumes or other relevant documents
\- Search and filters – to help HR find candidates or filter referrals
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – to display referred candidates or program updates
\- Comments or status updates – for transparent communication about each referral
\- Charts – to visualize referral performance or reward progress
\- Calendar view – to track interview dates or program deadlines
\- Permissions and roles – so employees and HR see only what’s relevant to them
Everything is built using Softr’s drag-and-drop editor, so you don’t need to code. And if your program changes, it’s easy to update your portal anytime.
No coding is needed. You can build your employee referral portal entirely using Softr’s visual editor. Whether it’s customizing layouts or setting permissions, everything can be tailored to your program without writing a single line of code.
Yes. You can manage multiple employee referrals or departments within a single employee referral portal. Each user only sees the referrals and information relevant to them, based on their login and role. This is especially handy if you’re coordinating referrals from different teams or across the whole company.
Softr supports a wide range of data sources for your employee referral portal. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. You can also bring in data from other sources using the REST API.
You’re not limited to just one. You can integrate multiple data sources into the same portal and display them together—so, for example, your employee referral portal can pull in referral data from both Airtable and Google Sheets. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so any changes in your portal or data source stay in sync automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how users experience your employee referral portal. You can customize the layout, navigation, and content to match your company’s brand and internal processes. Each page or section can be shown or hidden based on who’s logged in, so each employee, manager, or admin sees only what’s relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, like employee, recruiter, or admin, and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, employees can track their own referrals, while recruiters or admins can manage all submissions. You can even create personalized dashboards by filtering referral data for each user.
This level of customization is especially useful for managing multiple referral programs or teams in the same portal. It keeps things organized, secure, and tailored for every user.
Yes, you can. You don’t need to bring existing data from another platform to start building your employee referral portal with Softr. If you’re starting from scratch, Softr Databases is built into the platform and integrates seamlessly with any portal you create.
If you already have referral data in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, you can connect those too. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in data from other sources. Either way, you have full control over how your referral data is organized and displayed in the portal.
Yes, you can fully white-label your employee referral portal in Softr. You can use your own logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain to make the portal feel like a natural extension of your organization. You can also remove all Softr branding, so your employees and referrers only see your company’s identity throughout the experience.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your employee referral portal. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page structure to match your brand. You can also choose how each page is laid out, decide which blocks go where, and set what different users see when they log in.
To display your data, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
\- Table blocks – to show lists of open positions, referral submissions, or referral status updates
\- List or Card blocks – to highlight top referrers, new roles, or important announcements
\- Detail View – to show individual referral details or specific job descriptions
\- Forms – for collecting new referrals from employees
\- Charts – to visualize referral activity or progress
\- Calendar blocks – to display hiring deadlines or referral program events
If your content or design needs change later, it’s easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security in mind. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your apps are hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr apps also give you full control over who can see and do what in your employee referral portal. You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect sensitive data across your entire portal.
For apps connected to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr doesn’t store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You’re always in control of your data and who can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep your employee and referral information safe.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one app with up to 10 app users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your employee referral portal needs more users or features, here’s how the paid plans stack up: <http://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is built to make it easy to create fully functional, user-facing apps—like employee referral portals, internal tools, and other team-facing platforms—without needing to write code or rely on developers. What sets it apart is how quickly you can go from idea to a working portal, and how well it connects with your existing data.
Unlike some no-code tools that focus on mobile apps or are more dev-oriented, Softr is designed for non-technical teams who want full control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build on top of real-time data from tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded portals that employees can log into.
You can customize everything visually—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes things like user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to patch together multiple tools to launch something polished.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations so you can connect your employee referral portal to the rest of your stack. You can sync with HR systems, automate notifications, and streamline tasks using Zapier, Make, and N8N. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced workflows.
Whether you need to send new referrals to another system, trigger follow-ups based on referral status, or display information from your other HR tools, you can build it into your portal—without writing code.