Refer a Friend to Mrs Quilty and Both of You Get Rewarded
Quick Summary
You told a friend about your subscription, she signed up, and nothing showed up in your account. That happens for one reason, and it is fixable. By the end of this you will know exactly how to send a referral that tracks, what the reward looks like, and how to apply it to your next box.
Picture two identical boxes arriving on the same Tuesday. Same fabric bundle, same exclusive pattern, same notions, same video walkthrough. The only difference is that one quilter mentioned the box to her sewing group over coffee, and the other sent her personal referral link in a text message first. A month later, one of them has a credit sitting in her account and the other has nothing but a nice conversation.
Nothing about the quilting changed. The fabric behaves the same way under a walking foot either way. What changed is whether the system could see who sent whom, and that is entirely a matter of using the link instead of the recommendation. Once you understand that one mechanism, the rest of the program is short and honest.
How the Mrs Quilty Referral Program Works
Your account contains a referral link that belongs only to you. It is a normal-looking web address with a tracking tag on the end, and that tag is what tells the store which existing customer sent the new one. Log in, open your account area, and look for the referral or rewards panel.
When someone opens that link and completes a subscription order, two things happen. Your friend gets a welcome discount on her first box, and a reward is credited to your account. Both sides benefit, which is the whole design — nobody is asked to advertise for free.
The exact reward value is shown inside your own referral panel rather than quoted here, because promotions rotate through the year and a number in a blog post goes stale. Check the panel before you share so you can tell your friend what she is actually getting.
A referral is counted at the point of a completed first order, not at the point of a click.
That distinction matters more than anything else in this article. Someone can love your link, bookmark it, and think about it for three weeks. Nothing lands in your account until she checks out. If she is the type to browse first and buy later, it is worth understanding how the tracking survives that gap — which is the next section.
Sending the Link So It Actually Tracks
Copy the link straight from your account and paste it whole. Do not retype it, do not shorten it by hand, and do not screenshot it. The tracking tag lives in the part of the address after the question mark, and that is precisely the part people trim when a link looks long and ugly in a message.
Where sharing works best
- A direct text or email to one person who has already said she wants to start quilting.
- A group chat for your guild or sewing circle, with a line about what arrived in your last box.
- A comment or post in a quilting community, where people are already asking what to try.
Community spaces tend to convert best because the question has usually already been asked out loud. If you are not in one yet, the reasons to join the Mrs. Quilty community Facebook group apply just as much to sharing a link as to getting help with a wonky block.
What goes wrong here
Three failures account for almost every "my referral did not count" message. Your friend was sent the discount code instead of the link, so there was no sender attached to the order. She clicked on her phone and then completed the order on a laptop, which can break the tracking cookie. Or she already had an account from a previous subscription, and referral rewards apply to new customers.
The fix for the middle one is simple: tell her to finish the order on the device she opened the link with. It sounds fussy. It takes ten seconds and saves an email to support.
A referral only counts if the order can be traced back to you, which is why the link matters more than the enthusiasm behind it.
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Redeeming the Reward on Your Own Account
Rewards sit in your account and apply to your subscription rather than arriving as cash. Once a referral completes, you will see the credit listed in the same panel that holds your link. From there it either applies automatically to your next renewal or is issued as a code you enter at checkout, depending on how the reward was generated.
Check your account before your renewal date rather than after. A credit applied one day late does not retroactively change a charge that already went through, and untangling that takes longer than the two minutes it would have taken to look.
What goes wrong here
The most common disappointment is expecting rewards to stack. A welcome discount and a referral credit generally will not combine on a single order, and most stores allow one code per checkout. If both are available to your friend, she should use whichever one is worth more.
The second is timing. If a referred order is cancelled or refunded inside the return window, the reward attached to it reverses too. That is standard practice everywhere, and it is worth knowing rather than being surprised by.
You keep full control of your own subscription throughout. Referral credits do not lock you into extra months, extend a commitment, or change your skip and cancel options.
Referral Link, Discount Code, or Gift Subscription
These three get confused constantly, and they solve different problems. A referral link rewards both people. A discount code rewards only the person ordering. A gift is paid for by you outright.
| What matters | Referral link | Discount code |
|---|---|---|
| Who benefits | Both of you | Only the person ordering |
| Who pays | Your friend | Your friend |
| Tracking needed | Yes, via your unique link | No, just type the code |
| Best used when | You are already a subscriber | You are recommending publicly |
A Mrs Quilty discount code is the right tool when you are talking to a room, writing in a public thread, or answering a stranger. It is easy to remember, easy to type, and it works without anyone clicking anything. It just will not credit you.
If you want to pay for someone's first box yourself — a birthday, a retirement, a daughter who keeps saying she would love to learn — that is a different route entirely, and the practical steps for gifting a Mrs. Quilty subscription without the guesswork cover it properly.
The Short Version
The referral program is not complicated once you separate the three things people mix up. The link is yours and it tracks. The code is public and it does not. The reward lands in your account and applies to your subscription.
What to remember
- Copy your referral link whole from your account panel — never retype or shorten it.
- Tell your friend to finish her order on the same device she opened the link with.
- A referral counts when the first order completes, not when the link is clicked.
- Check your rewards panel before your renewal date, not after the charge lands.
- Referral credits apply to your subscription and do not extend any commitment.
FAQ
What if I cannot find a referral link in my account?
Use the public discount code instead so your friend still saves on her first box, then contact support with your order email and ask them to attach the referral manually. Support can usually credit a referral after the fact if you can name the person who ordered and roughly when. Do this within a few weeks rather than months later, while the order is still easy to match.
My friend already has an account. Can I still refer her?
Referral rewards apply to new customers, so a returning subscriber will not trigger one. What she can often use instead is a reactivation offer on her account, or a standard welcome code if her old subscription has been closed long enough. If neither applies, gifting her a box is the substitute that always works — it costs you money rather than earning it, but it gets her quilting again.
Can I use a discount code and a referral credit on the same order?
Almost certainly not — checkout accepts one code at a time, and stacked promotions are the standard exception everywhere. Compare the two values and use the larger one, then save the other for a later renewal if it has no expiry date. If the credit applies automatically to your subscription rather than at checkout, you may find the code field simply rejects a second discount, which is the system telling you the credit is already working.