Affiliate codes

An affiliate is someone who recommends a course and earns a commission from its creator when you buy. Their code goes in the same field as a discount code. The commission comes out of the creator's share, never out of your price.

How it works

• Following an affiliate's link does the same as typing their code. The link opens a page that asks whether we may remember who recommended the course. Continue keeps one cookie for 90 days; Continue without remembering keeps nothing.
• Some creators fund a discount of up to 15% for buyers who arrive on a code or a link. The buy box takes it off, and its total shows a Referral discount line.
• It does not stack with one of our discount codes. You get whichever takes more off; on a tie, the discount code applies.
• Once you buy, the credit is fixed for that purchase and its renewals.

How to enter a code

1. 1.

   On the course page, choose Add a discount or referral code. In the bag, use the field under Checkout.

2. 2.

   Type the code and choose Apply.

3. 3.

   The box says the purchase is credited to the person who recommended the course, with the discount if the course offers one.

If a link has already credited someone and the course offers a buyer discount, the total shows it without your typing anything.

Rules and limits

• A referral code does nothing on a course without an affiliate programme, and bundles take no codes.
• A code left in the field is checked when you buy. One that does not work stops the purchase and says why; clear it to buy without it.
• On a free trial, the code applies to the charge when the trial ends.
• An affiliate never sees who you are. They see the course, the kind of charge and what it earned them.
• Affiliates must say they earn a commission wherever they share a link. If one did not, you can report them from their profile.
• What affiliates may and may not claim is set out in the Marketing Guidelines.

If something goes wrong

"No discount or referral code has that name."

Check the spelling with the person who gave it to you.

"That is your own referral code."

You cannot earn commission on your own purchase.

"That referral code belongs to…"

It is the code of the course's creator or a collaborator, who earn no commission on it.

"This course is not paying referral commission right now…"

The creator has no affiliate programme on this course. Clear the code to buy without it.

"You bought this course before on someone else's recommendation…"

Your purchase goes ahead, credited to whoever sent you the first time.