Share Fern Dale Makers Studio with the makers you support, and earn a referral commission when they join

You already know the makers on your stalls, in your groups and on your courses. You also know what stops them growing — and it is almost never their craft.

• They undersell themselves. Prices guessed from what the next stall charges, with their own hours counted as nothing. The Studio helps them work out their making costs more clearly, so they can price with more confidence.
• Their business lives in a carrier bag. Recipes on scraps, batch numbers in a notebook, costs in their head. Everything sits in one place instead, searchable, and it comes with them to the market.
• The paperwork frightens them. Candle and cosmetic makers face labelling, allergens and safety records. The Studio gives them structured places to keep records, ingredient information and batch history together.
• Marketing is the thing they never get to. Product descriptions, emails and social posts written from their own products and their own words — nothing published for them, nothing generic.
• They can’t tell a good day from a busy one. Stall fees, travel, takings and what actually sold, recorded per event, so they know which fairs to book again — and which to let go.

For you, that can mean makers arriving better prepared, with clearer pricing, better organised stock and more confidence in what they’re selling — and makers who remember it was you who pointed them here.

Built in the UK by a maker, for makers — not a generic small-business tool with candles bolted on.

Makers who join through your link are welcomed with a discount on their first payment — a tenth off a monthly plan, or a twentieth off a yearly one — so your recommendation comes with something for them, not just for you.

You earn half of one month’s eligible subscription value, and one twelfth of the year on a yearly plan — so a yearly sign-up thanks you more.

• Full Studio monthly £14.99 → £7.50 to you
• Full Studio yearly £149 → £12.42 to you
• Smaller Maker plans earn the same share of whatever the maker pays

The Marketing Suite add-on is excluded. Rewards are earned on a maker’s first payment only — not renewals, plan changes or someone re-subscribing — and you never earn on your own subscription.

1. Apply from inside the Studio. You need a Studio account so we know who you are.
2. We review your application and let you know. Organisers can ask for a memorable code, so a link reads well in a traders’ pack or on a stall sign.
3. Share your link. Anyone arriving through it is remembered for 90 days, and the last link clicked is the one that counts.
4. When they subscribe, the reward appears in your partner area.

Sign-ups made inside the iPhone or Android apps can’t be traced back to a link, so rewards come from website sign-ups.

Each reward is held for 30 days from the payment that earned it, which covers cancellations, refunds and cooling-off. Rewards that have cleared the hold are paid on the 15th of the following month, by bank transfer or PayPal — you choose when you apply.

For example: a maker pays on 20 January, the hold ends on 19 February, and the reward is paid on 15 March.

Wherever you use your link, you must say clearly that you may be paid a commission. It’s a condition of the programme, and it’s the law — hiding a paid relationship is misleading under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the CAP Code. Wording you can copy:

We are an affiliate of Fern Dale Makers Studio and may be paid a commission if you subscribe through our link. We only recommend tools we believe in and use ourselves.