Partner program terms

Version 2026-10-28, in effect since October 28, 2026.

1. Joining the program

• Anyone who works with training teams may apply. L&D consultants, instructional designers, training providers, trade associations, and LMS admins and consultants fit best.
• We review each application by hand. We may approve or decline any application.
• You must be 18 or older and able to sign a contract where you live.
• You join as an independent partner. You act on your own behalf, and you present yourself as a partner of Curriculum Builder.

2. What you earn

• You earn 15% of the build fee a referred client pays for their first paid course build.
• You earn 5% of that client's further build fees for 12 months after their first payment.
• We figure each commission on the build fee before tax. Credit-wallet top-ups and taxes fall outside the program and earn 0%.
• Your own purchases, and purchases by a company you own, fall outside the program.
• Today our build fees run $4,995.00 to $49,995.00. At those prices, a first build pays you $749.25 to $7,499.25.

3. How credit works

• A click on your link stores your code in a first-party cookie for 90 days. The last partner link a visitor clicks gets the credit.
• When that visitor sends our contact form, we save your partner ID on their lead. That credit holds for 12 months from the date of the lead, even if the cookie clears.
• The client's first paid build must land within those 12 months.
• We may assign or move credit by hand when our records show a different partner made the intro. We log each change with a reason.
• Planning to refer your own employer? Tell us on your application, or contact us before you share your link. We review those deals by hand.

4. Hold period, refunds, and chargebacks

• Each commission stays in a 60-day hold after the client pays. The hold covers refunds and payment disputes.
• A refund or chargeback reverses the matching commission. A partial refund reverses the same share.
• If we already paid you for a payment that later reverses, that amount comes off your next payout.
• We may hold a commission for review when a lead comes from a connection you sign in from, matches your company or employer, or arrives while your account is paused.

5. Payouts

• We pay once a month, by the 15th, for every commission that cleared its hold.
• We send a payout once your payable balance reaches $100.00. Smaller balances roll into the next month.
• We pay in U.S. dollars by PayPal or by ACH bank transfer.
• For PayPal, we store your PayPal email. For ACH, this site stores only your bank name and the last four digits of your account. Our team collects full bank details through a secure channel before your first ACH payout.
• You cover any fee your bank or PayPal charges to receive the money.

6. Taxes

• Before your first payout, send us the tax form that fits your US tax status. US persons (US citizens, US residents, and US companies anywhere) send Form W-9. Individuals outside the US send Form W-8BEN. Companies outside the US send Form W-8BEN-E. Our team tells you how to send it safely.
• We keep your signed form in secure storage away from this site, as tax law requires. This site records only which form we have and the date we got it.
• We hold payouts until we have a valid form on file.
• You handle the taxes on what you earn. If you are a US person and we pay you $2,000 or more by bank transfer in a year (the IRS limit for 2026 payments), we file Form 1099-NEC. PayPal reports PayPal payouts on its own Form 1099-K when the law calls for one.

7. How to promote Curriculum Builder

• Share your link with people who want to hear about course production.
• Describe our product with facts from our site, and promise only what our site promises.
• Keep paid search ads off our brand terms. That covers "Curriculum Builder", "coursesdesigner", and any misspelling of either, as keywords or in ad text.
• Send email only to people who agreed to hear from you, and follow the CAN-SPAM Act and any local rules: honest sender names and subject lines, a clear note that the email is an ad, your postal address, and a working opt-out you honor within 10 business days.
• Use your plain partner link. Cookie stuffing, hidden frames, pop-unders, and forced clicks end your membership.
• Present yourself as an independent partner. Coupon sites, deal sites, and review sites that pose as official Curriculum Builder pages fall outside the program.
• Use our name only to describe our product, and use our logo only as our kit shows it.

8. Disclosure

Federal law (the FTC Act and the FTC Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255) requires you to tell your audience when you earn money from a link. Add a clear disclosure each time you share your link, close to the link itself, where people see it before they click. In a video, say it and show it on screen. In audio, say it. Use our line or your own words:

"Disclosure: I am a Curriculum Builder partner, and I earn a commission if you buy through my link."

We may review your posts and ask you to fix or remove any that miss these rules.

9. Your account and our review

• Keep your sign-in details private. You answer for activity on your account.
• We may pause or close an account that breaks these terms. We close any commission that came from a broken rule.
• You may leave the program at any time by contacting us. We pay the commissions you earned before you left once they clear the hold.

10. Changes to these terms

• We may change these terms or end the program. We give you 14 days notice by email and by a banner on your dashboard.
• Once a change takes effect, you accept the new terms at your next sign-in.
• Partners on older terms keep earning on clients already credited to them. New referrals start again once you accept the current terms.

11. Your data and visitor data

• We store the details you give us, your clicks, your leads, and your earnings.
• For each click on your link, we store a one-way hash of the visitor's IP address in place of the address, a short form of their browser name, and the domain of the site that sent them.
• Your dashboard shows lead and client counts by stage. Names and contact details of referred clients stay with us.

12. Contact

Questions about the program? Reach us through our contact page.

Apply to join About the program