Bring Referly
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Referly to Claude Desktop and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Referly MCP Server?
Connect your Referly (referly.so) account to any AI agent and take full control of your referral marketing and affiliate orchestration through natural conversation. Referly provides a powerful platform for managing partners and conversion tracking, and this integration allows you to retrieve affiliate metadata, trigger custom referral workflows, and monitor program performance directly from your chat interface.
What you can do
- Affiliate & Partner Orchestration — List all managed affiliates and retrieve detailed performance metadata, including creating new partner profiles programmatically.
- Referral & Conversion Intelligence — Track real-time conversion events and attribute sign-ups or sales to specific referral codes directly from the AI interface.
- Workflow & Automation Control — Trigger custom referral workflows and monitor their execution statuses via natural language to keep your growth loops synchronized.
- Coupon & Promo Oversight — Validate discount coupons and list active promo codes to ensure your marketing campaigns are always optimized.
- Operational Monitoring — Access analytics summaries and manage tenant metadata using simple AI commands.
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Referly Tenant ID and API Key from your dashboard at referly.so
3. Start managing your growth programs from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
No more manual CSV exports or attribute hunting. Your AI acts as a dedicated growth manager or affiliate coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Growth Marketers — quickly retrieve referral stats and monitor partner performance without switching apps.
- Partnership Managers — automate the onboarding of new affiliates and track their impact via natural conversation.
- Operations Teams — streamline the retrieval of conversion metadata and monitor organizational growth health directly within the chat.
Built-in capabilities (12)
Requires name and email. Create a new affiliate
Get details for a specific affiliate
Get authenticated user profile
Get referral performance summary
Check workflow execution status
List all affiliates/partners
List all discount coupons
List automation workflows
List all referral events
Track a new referral conversion
Manually trigger a workflow
Validate a discount coupon
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Referly to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Referly in Claude Desktop
Referly and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Referly to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Referly in Claude Desktop
The Referly MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Referly for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Referly MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can my AI automatically find if a specific discount code is valid in Referly?
Yes! Use the validate_coupon tool. Provide the promo code, and your agent will return its eligibility status and technical metadata instantly.
How do I find my Referly Tenant ID and API Key?
Log in to your Referly dashboard at referly.so, navigate to Settings > API Keys, and you will find your unique Tenant ID and secret API key there.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.