MyProtein Referral Code

What you get, and what it takes

Checked on 28 August 2026, the link redirects to myprotein.com/c/referrals/ with the code still attached, and the page that loads is titled Referrals | Myprotein UK. Its one published line runs both sides together: refer a friend and get £15 credit when they spend £45, plus your friend gets the same amount off their first order. Note where that threshold sits. It is attached to the credit, not to your discount, and no separate minimum for the new customer appears on the page or in its FAQ, so apply the code and check the discount lands before you go near checkout. First orders only, though the FAQ confirms an account that has never been used to buy anything still counts as new.

The condition that actually costs money is not the threshold. MyProtein's referral FAQ, read the same day, states that a new customer cannot apply a site discount and a referral code on the same first order, and that choosing the site discount voids the referral. That matters because MyProtein almost always has a sale running: on 28 August 2026 the UK storefront was banner-advertising 35% off almost everything under an Impact Week Sale, plus an app-only extra 10% and a 15% newsletter offer. Around the £45 mark the sale already beats the flat referral discount, and the gap widens the more you buy. This is a choice between two discounts, not a discount on top of a sale.

The other thing to settle first is which MyProtein you are on. myprotein.com doesn't reliably redirect by location: tested from a Latvian connection on 28 August 2026, it kept serving the UK site in pounds even after the shipping destination was switched to Latvia. Its international delivery page lists European destinations such as Albania, Iceland and Switzerland, the countries with no MyProtein site of their own; EU markets each have one. Choose your country from the footer's destination selector and you are handed straight to that storefront without the code: picking Latvia landed on the myprotein.lv homepage with the code stripped out of the address.

The local storefront then quotes its own, differently shaped offer. On myprotein.lv, checked the same day, the referral line reads 45% off one purchase once the order reaches €35: a percentage rather than a flat amount, a lower threshold, euros rather than pounds. Its live promotion that day was a 3 for 2 or 5 for 3 coupon, so the same stack-or-not question applies there too. Before you order, open the /c/referrals/ page on the storefront you will check out from and read the line at the top. That sentence is the offer you will be held to.

Who actually runs MyProtein, and where your order ships from

MyProtein is a manufacturer as much as a retailer. Founded in Manchester in 2004, it built its own production line rather than reselling other brands, and its About page states it holds ISO9001 production certification along with GMP and HACCP food-safety certification dating back to 2007. That matters for a supplements shopper: the powder in the tub was made to MyProtein's own specification, not sourced from a third party and repackaged.

The company joined THG, then The Hut Group and now THG plc, in 2011, and trades under the entity THG Nutrition Limited. THG plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and sits in the FTSE 250 as of August 2026. Worth knowing because it's the same parent company behind LookFantastic, the beauty retailer, and the two sites share more than an owner: near-identical wording on returns policy, the same pattern of running several sitewide percentage discounts at once, and separate country domains that don't always agree with each other, all traits that show up again if you compare the two.

Each EU market has its own MyProtein storefront, myprotein.lv for Latvia among them, quoting prices, delivery terms and this referral offer in the local currency rather than the pound-denominated UK site's.

Delivery, customs and what a return really costs you

MyProtein's delivery pages are set per storefront: Latvia's, checked 28 August 2026, lists standard delivery from €4.99, free above €50, with delivery normally landing in 2 to 4 working days. Around major sales periods and holidays, the same page warns that can stretch to 7 to 11 working days, so a purchase timed for a birthday or event is worth placing well ahead of the date rather than close to it. The storefront publishes no duty or VAT guidance specific to the order, which suggests deliveries within the EU are treated as ordinary shipments rather than cross-border imports, but since that isn't stated outright, check your order summary at checkout for any duty line before you pay if you want certainty.

Returns are where the free-shipping arithmetic turns against you. MyProtein's returns policy, checked the same date, gives you 30 days from receiving an order to start a return, but only if the product comes back in what the policy calls pristine condition: unopened, unused, with all labels and seals intact. For a tub of protein powder, that means you can return it if you change your mind before opening it, but not because you tried it and didn't like the taste or the way it mixed, which is exactly the situation most first-time supplement buyers actually run into.

Assuming a return is accepted, the policy states refunds are processed 3 to 5 business days after MyProtein receives the returned item, with the money landing back in your account within a further 5 business days after that. Return postage itself is explicitly not covered; the returns portal describes it as a paid service, so shipping a low-value item back can easily cost more than the refund is worth.

How the MyProtein referral works and how to claim it

There is nothing to redeem afterwards, but the link alone did not do the work: followed on 28 August 2026 the code stayed in the address bar, yet a basket built straight after showed no discount applied. MyProtein's own FAQ describes the route that does: enter the code at the basket, where you are asked to log in so MyProtein can confirm you are a new customer. Whoever shared the link earns store credit too, but MyProtein's pages disagree about how much and the full terms sit behind a login, so take that figure from your own account.

• Decide which storefront you will order from, because the discount, threshold and currency all change with it.
• Open the referral link and let it redirect; the code should still be in the address bar when the referrals page loads.
• Check you qualify as new. First orders only, though an unused account is fine.
• Build the basket past that storefront's minimum before you check out.
• Do not add a site-wide sale code as well; applying one cancels the referral discount.
• Price the basket both ways first and use whichever is lower, because you only get one.

Where MyProtein orders go wrong, and what the published policy says

MyProtein's Trustpilot profile, checked 28 August 2026, sits at 4.4 out of 5 across 221,149 reviews, 77% five-star and 10% one-star, a healthier spread than a lot of cross-border retailers manage. The one-star complaints that do turn up cluster around a few specific things: taste and texture complaints on flavoured powders, packaging arriving damaged or water-soaked in transit, and a support process that reviewers describe as slow to approve exchanges without extensive proof.

None of that is unusual for a company shipping powder in bulk across Europe, but it lines up with the returns condition above. Because opened products aren't eligible for a standard return, a tub that tastes wrong to you specifically, rather than one that's genuinely faulty, is not something the stated policy will refund. Photographing a damaged box on arrival is worth doing immediately, since that's the category MyProtein's own policy is built to handle; a flavour you personally dislike is not.

Pros, cons, and who MyProtein actually suits

MyProtein is genuinely strong in three places: it manufactures what it sells rather than reselling third-party stock, its catalogue under one roof (protein, vitamins, snacks, activewear) covers most of what a regular gym-goer buys repeatedly, and free delivery above €50 is an easy threshold to clear on a normal restock order.

It's weaker in three places worth weighing before you order. The discount structure is genuinely confusing: a shopper who doesn't check the voucher page first can easily use a referral code that's worse than the promotion already running, and MyProtein's own conflicting referral pages show the company isn't especially careful about keeping its own numbers straight. Returns only work if you don't open the product, which rules out the most common reason someone actually wants to send something back. And delivery windows stretch considerably around peak periods, which matters if you're ordering for a specific date.

MyProtein suits someone who already knows which flavour and product they want, is comfortable comparing a few live discount codes before checking out, and is ordering enough to clear the €50 free-delivery line. It suits that person less well if they want to try something new and keep the option of returning it if they don't like it, in which case a local retailer selling smaller trial sizes, even at a higher per-kilo price, removes both the opened-product return problem and the longer delivery window.

Working out whether a discount code actually saves you money

This is the part that matters more for MyProtein than almost any other referral program, because the headline percentage is close to meaningless on its own. A bigger-sounding code isn't automatically the better deal: if a smaller-looking code is already applied to the exact product you want while the referral only works on a narrower list, or if MyProtein's list price for that product was quietly raised before the promotion started, the bigger number can leave you paying more, not less. The only way to know is to compare the final price, not the percentage on the banner.

MyProtein's own product pages do the useful part of this work for you: prices are shown per kilogram and per serving, not just per tub, specifically so different pack sizes and different discount codes can be compared on equal terms. Before you check out with a referral code, open the product you actually want, apply the code, and read the resulting price per kilo or per serving. Then remove the code, apply whatever sitewide promotion is currently running instead (the voucher-codes page lists them), and compare the two resulting per-kilo prices side by side. Whichever number is lower is the one to use, regardless of which discount looked bigger at checkout.

Do this every time, not once, because which code wins changes as MyProtein's promotions rotate. What is live on 28 August 2026 will not be next month's offer, and a referral code that beats the site promotion this week may lose to it next week. The comparison takes under a minute once you know to read price per kilo rather than the percentage on the banner.

MyProtein referral code FAQ