Bring Referral Marketing
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect ReferralCandy to Claude Desktop and start using 16 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the ReferralCandy MCP Server?
Give your AI agent full programmatic control over your ReferralCandy ecosystem. With 16 tools tailored for referral marketing, your agent can instantly track referrals by period, register attributed purchases, identify top advocates, monitor pending rewards, manage campaigns, and send referral invitations directly from your natural language workspace.
What you can do
- List and filter referrals by period
- Register purchases to trigger rewards
- Identify and manage top-performing advocates
- Monitor pending referral payouts
- Configure campaigns and send invites
- Access overall program statistics
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server 2. Enter your ReferralCandy API Keys (found in your developer settings) 3. Let your AI agents start managing your referral operations via VinkiusWho is it for?
Designed for marketing teams, e-commerce operators, and growth hackers who need instant, conversational access to affiliate and referral performance metrics.Built-in capabilities (16)
Verify connectivity
Get campaign details
Get referral details
Get advocate profile
Get program stats
Get top advocates
List campaigns
List sent invites
List pending rewards
List referred purchases
List all referrals
List referrals by period
List all advocates
List all rewards
Register a purchase
Send a referral invite
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect ReferralCandy to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 16 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
ReferralCandy in Claude Desktop
ReferralCandy and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect ReferralCandy 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 ReferralCandy in Claude Desktop
The ReferralCandy 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 16 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
ReferralCandy for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the ReferralCandy 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 register a new purchase to trigger a referral reward?
Yes! Use the register_purchase tool providing the buyer's email, order amount, and order ID. Your agent will send this data to ReferralCandy, triggering the referral attribution and payout flow instantly.
How do I easily find out who my best performing advocates are?
Simply ask the agent to run the get_top_referrers action. It will compile your highest-performing ambassadors ranked by total successful referrals and the total revenue they generated for your store.
Can I check if a specific customer has any pending referral rewards?
Absolutely. By using the list_pending_rewards tool and filtering by the customer's email, your agent can instantly fetch their reward status and payout timeline without you needing to open the dashboard.
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.