Maintaining Referral ID

I installed CF7 Leads Tracking and it works great in the fact that it provides the info I need.

But there is one caveat and I’m hoping there is a simple solution. I’m sure there must be a way. Here is there scenario:

A user enters the site ie. the home page via a url that has a referral id, so it would be like: https://mywebsite.com?REF=ID and they fill out the contact form that is on the page. In the tracking email that I receive, the referral ID is shown. (Beautiful!)

BUT let’s say a user comes through the same referral url as shown above, but instead of filling out the form on the page they landed on they instead decide to visit another page(s) and they go back to fill out the form or they fill out a form that is on one of the other pages, once they leave the initial entrance page, the referral id is dropped and so when I get the email with the tracking information – the referral id isn’t there.

So essentially the referral wouldn’t get credit for the lead since their referral id isn’t present even though the visitor did take action in the same session.

Is there some way to maintain the ?Ref=ID or ?AFF=ID whether they fill the form out right away or on a subsequent page? I’m thinking there must be some kind of code (or script) that can be added to prevent the ID from being dropped.

I hope someone can help.

Thanks

KG

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