Referral partner pilot
Join free, with no quota, contact list, or introductions required. There is no limit on the number of eligible referrals you can send. A U.S. adult who accepts the concise program rules can verify their email and immediately receive a permanent affiliate ID plus a ready-to-share associate page. Partners can earn a two-stage commission when a referred author hires MyBookIllustrator for the standard $200 custom book and reaches the paid project milestones below. The author still pays the same $200 price.
Two verified milestones
Earn $15 when the referred author makes the qualifying start payment, then another $35 after completed paid delivery of the standard $200 book.
The referred author’s $100 deposit must be cleared and non-pending, project fit and scope must be confirmed, work must have started, and 24 hours must have elapsed after the deposit cleared without an immediate failure or reversal.
Your first $15 becomes eligible when all four start conditions are complete.
The referred author’s final $100 payment must be cleared and non-pending, MyBookIllustrator must complete delivery of the approved standard book project, and 24 hours must pass after the payment cleared without an immediate failure or reversal.
Your additional $35 becomes eligible when the paid delivery milestone is complete.
Refunds and payment reversals reduce eligibility. No commission is owed on an unpaid, fully refunded, reversed, or charged-back stage. A partial refund reduces that stage’s commission in the same proportion as the refunded part of its $100 payment. If a commission was already paid, the correction is offset only against future referral commissions; the partner is not asked for a separate repayment.
A permanent ID and your own page
Your affiliate ID is your referral code. Email verification automatically creates one permanent MBI-… identifier; it is the same exact identifier used for attribution, and there is no second partner code. Your default associate page works immediately. You may later choose an optional public address such as https://mybookillustrator.com/referral/p/maya-books. If you rename that vanity address, earlier vanity links continue to the current page while the account remains active; your permanent affiliate-ID fallback never changes.
An author who submits the project form on your associate page does not need to copy or type a code. The portal securely attaches your affiliate ID to the submission and records the author’s submission as confirmation. You may still share the permanent code or other approved links wherever relevant and permitted; no tracking cookie, contact list, or personal introduction is required.
Plain-language program rules
There is no fee, quota, site, plan, contact list, or payout detail required at signup. A U.S. adult supplies a name and email, accepts the terms and fair-promotion rules, and completes the two-step email confirmation. That automatically activates one permanent affiliate ID and a default associate page; owner approval is not required for activation.
The permanent affiliate-ID page is always the reliable fallback. Customization is optional: choose an approved color theme, one of three existing MyBookIllustrator story scenes or no hero image, a split or editorial layout, a fixed offer focus, and a fixed button label; you may also edit only your display name, headline, short introduction, and an available vanity address. A changed vanity address keeps its old link continuity while the account remains active.
Partner text is displayed as partner-supplied content. Partners are responsible for it being truthful, permitted, and non-infringing. The portal accepts plain text only—no arbitrary HTML, scripts, outside links, email addresses, prices, deposit/refund language, Amazon or KDP claims, guarantees, or edits to MyBookIllustrator’s offer and disclosures.
We are testing the pilot with U.S.-based partners and referred authors first, and plan to open additional countries as payout and compliance support becomes ready. During this first phase, the standard $200 custom book package is the qualifying offer.
The author must have had no project inquiry, active sales conversation, quote, or paid MyBookIllustrator project during the prior 180 days when the partner’s promotion first reached them. The author may confirm one valid active code in any clear, documented way—even after work starts—provided final payment has not cleared and no other partner code is already confirmed. The first author-confirmed code locks to the project; a clerical correction may be documented, but a later partner claim cannot replace it.
Place a clear, conspicuous commission disclosure close to every referral link or endorsement: “I may earn up to a $50 referral commission if you purchase MyBookIllustrator’s $200 package using my code.” Share only where relevant and permitted. No unsolicited bulk messages, fake reviews or testimonials, deceptive endorsements, repeated link dropping, prohibited community promotion, impersonation, typo or deceptive domains, brand-keyword ads, or other paid ads using the brand, offer, code, or links without MyBookIllustrator’s prior written approval. Full protections appear in the terms.
A partner cannot earn on their own order or an order from the same household, create duplicate identities, alter a customer’s information, interfere with another code, or use fraudulent traffic, payments, or inquiries.
Passwordless email sign-in opens a private dashboard with the permanent ID, share links, page settings, and limited referral events. Referral records may be labeled received, deposit pending, deposit eligible, final pending, completed, paid, or disqualified/reversed. A partner may request their referral ledger or ask MyBookIllustrator to correct a record. Customer privacy limits what the dashboard or ledger can reveal.
There is no minimum payout threshold. A $15 or $35 stage becomes eligible after its customer payment is cleared and non-pending, the stage’s work or delivery milestone is complete, and the 24-hour immediate-failure/reversal wait has elapsed. After manual approval, MyBookIllustrator sends the partner’s chosen electronic payout within two business days by PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, or Cash App. If a processor shows pending or under review, eligibility waits and we explain the status in writing.
A partner may choose a mailed business check instead. After eligibility, we privately request the legal payee name and U.S. mailing address, mail it by USPS, and send the mailing date and check number. If it has not arrived after 10 business days, the partner may report it so we can verify the address, stop the original check, and reissue it. Each payout notice also lists the per-project referral record ID, amount, date, method, and transaction or check reference. The referral record ID is separate from the partner’s affiliate ID/referral code.
MyBookIllustrator may pause a page, suspend or close an account, disable vanity-link continuity, disqualify an affected referral, or change the program prospectively for abuse, deception, security, legal, or rules concerns. A change does not erase an earned, undisputed commission, but pending or unqualified stages remain subject to manual review and the actual payment facts.
Referral partners are independent participants, not employees, representatives, or legal agents of MyBookIllustrator. Partners are responsible for their own disclosures and tax obligations. See the service terms and privacy notice.
Free self-service signup
Signup is intentionally small: name, email, U.S. and age confirmation, acceptance of the concise terms, and promises to disclose the commission and promote fairly. There is no fee, quota, website, referral plan, contact list, or payout detail to provide. The verification link first shows a confirmation screen; the account activates only when you choose Continue, protecting against automated email scanners.
What appears on your page
Your default page is useful immediately. It offers a free sample or a project-start inquiry, explains that MyBookIllustrator reviews fit, direction, and scope, and states that a $100 deposit is requested only after written confirmation. It is not an instant or unconditional order.
Author submissions are privately recorded with the permanent affiliate ID, added as a limited dashboard event, sent to MyBookIllustrator for fit and scope review, and acknowledged to the author. Account activation is automatic after email verification; referral qualification and payouts are not automatic. See the full terms and privacy notice.