What is an affiliate?
An affiliate is a person or company that promotes products or services for a commission. In the case of a foundry selling on Monotype’s e-commerce websites, you can promote fonts that are on MyFonts and Monotype Fonts and get paid a commission on the sales you help generate. You’ll get paid a commission if someone purchases your fonts OR other fonts!
How does it work?
To sign up, email affiliates@monotype.com. A team member will reach out and help you get started.
Once your account is created, you can generate links to refer traffic to our sites, whether it be your foundry page, a specific family page, or any page on the sites. Refersion offers easy to use tools and ways to generate these links.
Think of the affiliate program as an extra revenue source in addition to the royalties you earn. We recommend using these links when promoting your own fonts, for example on your website or in social media posts. This way if someone purchases your font through your link, you’ll get an extra commission on the sale! You can also link to any of our big promotions or sales; you’ll get paid if anyone uses your links, regardless of if they buy one of your fonts or another font. You sent the traffic to the site, so you earn the commission.
If a customer who clicks through your link makes any purchase on the site within 30 days of clicking the link you will be paid a commission on their order. This is what’s called a “last touch tracking model.” This means that the last affiliate link used will get the credit for the referral. If the customer does not check out within 30-days of the link being used, the sale will not be eligible for commission.
What are the rates?
MyFonts: 10%
How do I manage my account?
Log in to your account on Refersion to:
- Access your tracking links
- View commission earnings
- View all performance reports and transactions
How do I get paid?
When signing up, you will need to provide your preferred payment method (PayPal, Cash Pro, or Wire Transfer) along with the necessary banking information.
All commissions are paid monthly for earnings generated two months prior. Example: January commissions are paid in March. February commissions are paid in April. This payment cycle allows our internal team time to review and process all transactions, reverse any fraudulent orders, and to account for the 30-day cookie window.
Monotype will pay you directly to your preferred payment method and not through Refersion. Refersion is simply the affiliate program’s tool to track any sales you refer. As a result, when you login to Refersion you will see your total commissions for the full year, not the month. Commission totals in Refersion will be reset at the beginning of each new year in January.