Account, plans, credits, and teams

Open your account controls#

Select your name or avatar in the Dashboard. The account menu can include:

• Buy credits
• Start a plan, for the owner of an Enterprise workspace that is not active
• Billing, for Enterprise subscription owners
• Enterprise, which opens the Enterprise dashboard
• Leave a review
• Email Preferences
• Logout

The available items depend on the account and team role.

Generation and download balances#

The Dashboard and cover workspace display the balances relevant to your plan.

Basic purchases can attach generation and download allowances to a particular book. Pro accounts use generation credits across their books and include unlimited high-resolution downloads. Enterprise subscriptions use a shared monthly and overage generation balance and also include unlimited high-resolution downloads.

Free trial credits and free credits from an email campaign link are included in your generations balance and are spent before your other credits — so the balance goes down as you use those tools even while a purchased pack still looks untouched.

What each action costs#

Every credit-consuming action shows its cost in the interface before it runs. The amounts below are in generation (image) credits unless a row says otherwise. Because Pro and Enterprise include unlimited high-resolution downloads, download credits apply only to Free and Basic access.

Creating and varying covers#

Editing a cover#

Other outputs and exports#

Costs shown in the live interface take precedence if the product changes.

Buy more credits#

On the Dashboard, a Pro account selects the chip that shows its balance, for example 12 generations. Any account without an Enterprise workspace can also use Buy credits in the account menu. In the cover workspace, select the credit counter in the header (on a phone, Buy more credits in the More menu).

Credit packs top up a paid plan. On a free account, the credit top-up opens the plan chooser instead, with Pro first. A Basic account can buy the Pro Author Pack once to upgrade: it adds Pro access and 50 more covers.

If a Basic purchase has no valid credit allocation for another book, BeYourCover opens the plan or generation-pack chooser before starting a new project. Pro refills apply to the shared Pro balance. Enterprise credit purchases are managed from the Enterprise dashboard by the workspace owner.

If you leave a checkout before paying, your checkout is saved: you may receive a single email with a link that reopens it so you can complete your one-time purchase. The link stays valid for 30 days, and the email is only sent if you haven't purchased in the meantime. If you left a plan checkout and have never bought from BeYourCover, the email may instead link to the Pro plan with 20 bonus covers at the same price. This offer depends on where you are and on your email preferences.

Credit expiry#

Paid credits and bonus credits never expire. Credits from a plan, a credit pack, a gift, a referral, the affiliate program or a webinar offer stay on your account until you use them.

Enterprise plan credits work differently. At each renewal, the workspace's monthly credits reset to the plan amount, so unused monthly credits do not carry over. Overage credits you buy stay until you use them.

Only free credits have a date:

• Free trial credits expire seven days after you get them.
• Free credits from an email campaign link expire 14 days after you claim them, unless the campaign states another period.

When you generate, BeYourCover uses free credits first, then the rest of your balance.

Refer a friend#

The Dashboard's header band includes a Refer a friend strip just under the main actions — Copy link puts your personal referral link on the clipboard. When a friend opens your link and later goes Pro — the Pro plan, a Pro-granting pack, or the New User Bonus offer — you both receive +10 generation credits: yours are added to your balance, your friend's are added on top of their plan.

• Referral credits never expire.
• The link stays associated with your friend's browser for 30 days after they open it.
• Each new Pro member can trigger a referral bonus once, and referring yourself doesn't pay out.

Billing#

The Enterprise subscription owner opens Billing from the account menu. On the Enterprise dashboard, Upgrade under Get more credits opens the same page. Billing is managed through Stripe's customer portal.

Only the owner manages billing. No team role has billing access.

Buy Pro before you have an account#

On the Pro page and the External Cover Studio page you can buy Pro while signed out: enter your email and continue to payment. Your account is created from the receipt email, and a sign-in link brings you back.

A short security check runs before payment. Usually you see nothing. Sometimes you are asked to tick a box. If the payment button stays greyed out, refresh the page, or sign in and buy from your account.

Buying as a business (VAT)#

Euro prices on the site include VAT. Every checkout has an option to add a tax ID, on your first purchase and on every later one. If you buy for a VAT-registered business in an EU country other than Spain, enter your VAT number there before you pay: the VAT comes off and you pay the price without VAT, under reverse charge. For example, €39 becomes €32.23. Businesses in Spain pay Spanish VAT as usual, and US-dollar prices do not change.

Stripe then checks the number against the EU VIES register. If the check fails, we will contact you, and later purchases may carry VAT until a valid number is on file. The tax treatment is set at the moment of purchase, so add the number before you pay: a completed purchase cannot be converted to B2B afterwards.

Enterprise dashboard#

Only the workspace owner can open the Enterprise dashboard. Editors and reviewers cannot. The owner manages:

• Shared credit balance and overage
• The marketing-kit allowance for the month
• Subscription tier
• Team seats
• API keys
• Webhook URL
• Recent API activity
• Billing or tier changes
• The Clients panel of the agency workspace

The API documentation covers programmatic book and cover workflows.

Credits, marketing kits and seats#

Each Enterprise tier has two allowances and a number of team seats. Credits pay for covers, wraps, edits and the API. Marketing kits pay for the kit page: each marketing kit is one book's full kit for the month, with 40 regenerations included (then 1 credit per asset) and a review link. You can create as many books as you like; only the marketing kits are counted.

Overage prices show in your currency (USD or EUR) on the pricing page and in the Enterprise dashboard.

When you start an Enterprise plan, the unspent credits on your own account move into the workspace as overage credits.

A marketing kit is used the first time you generate a book's marketing kit in a month. Unused marketing kits roll over for one month. When they run out, the kit page offers an extra marketing kit for that one book. The Enterprise dashboard shows both allowances side by side, for example This month: 142 of 150 credits · 3 of 5 marketing kits left. It does not show while the workspace plan is not active.

API plans#

An API plan gives monthly credits for the REST API and the MCP server only. Buy one on the book cover generator API page, which also lists what each credit buys.

The credits of an API plan work through the API and the MCP server only. An API plan does not include the web app: in the generator, the editor and the dashboards you use your own account, with Pro or credit packs, as before you bought the plan. Credits you bought for the app stay in the app.

An API plan has 1 seat. It has no marketing kits, no extra seats, no review links and no white label. For those, or to use plan credits in the app, choose a workspace plan (Starter, Growth or Scale) instead.

Your API plan has its own page, the API dashboard. You land there after checkout and when you sign in, and API plan in the account menu opens it. On it you:

• see your credits left this month and your overage credits;
• buy overage credits, and open Billing;
• create and revoke API keys, and set a webhook URL;
• copy a quick start for the REST API and for the MCP server;
• open the API reference, the MCP guide, the OpenAPI spec and auth.md.

Open the app at the top takes you to your normal Dashboard. It shows a strip with your plan and its credits, and a link back. Books you make through the API show on your shelf; download their covers through the API. There is no trial for an API plan.

Workspace trial#

A workspace trial lasts 14 days. It includes 50 credits, 1 marketing kit, 1 review link and 1 seat, and its files carry a trial watermark. Your card is charged for the plan when the trial ends, unless you cancel before then.

When the workspace plan is not active#

If a workspace plan is cancelled, or a workspace trial ends without payment, the workspace becomes read-only. This applies to the owner and to every teammate.

• Your books and covers stay. You can open them, but the workspace's credits and tools stop.
• What you pay for yourself keeps working. An active Pro plan, unspent paid credits, and downloads you already paid for work as before.
• Without those, you cannot generate or edit covers, or make high-resolution downloads. Free credits do not apply.
• If you have never bought anything yourself, your covers show as low-resolution previews with our watermark: on the Dashboard, in the cover workspace and on the marketing kit page.
• The owner and editors can still revoke the client review links on the books they can still open, so a forwarded link does not stay open until it expires.
• The owner sees Start a plan on the dashboards and in the account menu. Teammates are told to ask the owner.
• A teammate can select Leave workspace to leave it for good. The owner can remove teammates from the Enterprise dashboard.

When the owner starts a plan again, teammates get their seats back automatically, up to the number of seats in the new plan. Teammates who left or were removed do not come back.

Team roles#

The Dashboard can show books created by the owner and active teammates. Credits come from the effective enterprise subscription.

Invite a team member#

1. Open Enterprise → Team Management.
2. Enter the email address.
3. Choose Editor or Reviewer.
4. Select Invite.

Pending invitations show their expiry date. You can revoke an invitation before it is accepted. A pending invitation holds a seat until it is accepted, revoked or expires.

There is no admin role for teammates: the owner is the workspace admin. After a member joins, the owner can change the member between Editor and Reviewer or remove the member. The owner occupies one seat.

If all seats are used, buy an extra seat or upgrade the plan before you invite another person.

Buy an extra seat#

The workspace owner can add one seat at a time:

1. Open /enterprise-dashboard and find Team Management.
2. Select Buy an extra seat, then confirm.

The seat is added to your plan subscription and billed monthly with it. Stripe charges the prorated amount for the current billing period straight away. If that payment fails, no seat is added.

Prices show in your currency (USD or EUR) on the pricing page and in the team section. Only the owner can buy a seat. A trial covers one seat: to add more, start your plan first with Start my plan now. While the workspace plan is not active, Buy an extra seat does not show: the owner starts a plan first.

API keys and webhooks#

Every enterprise tier (Starter, Growth and Scale, and the API plans) includes REST API access. Subscribers can:

• Create named API keys.
• View the raw key once at creation.
• Revoke active keys.
• Save a webhook URL.
• Review recent jobs.

The API and the MCP server cover this work:

• Books: create a book, edit its saved details, and list your books and the covers made for each one. The list shows every team member's books, as the shared shelf does, and names who created each one. It can search titles and authors and filter by kind (generated, uploaded, premade) or by client. Each book shows its cover count and the cover that represents it on your shelf.
• Clients: list your agency clients, create a client, and file a book under a client or move it back to Unassigned. These are the same clients as the agency workspace. Set a client's logo in the app.
• Shelf: favorite a cover so it leads its book on the shelf, hide a cover, or hide a whole book. Hidden books and covers stay out of the lists, as in the app, until you ask for them. All of this is free.
• Generation: generate covers for a book, also from reference images you upload, and make 1–5 close variations of a cover. Each variation is a new cover of the same book.
• Who designs the covers: the same art director that designs a new book's first covers in the app, unless you pin a template. Up to half of its covers follow the styles of the templates that fit the book best. With a template, its style options, a motif or your own verbatim prompt, the template engine renders the covers instead.
• Generation controls: the same choices as the app's Create tab. Pin a template, or send your own complete prompt in verbatim mode (up to 6,000 characters), which renders as written with no template. Through the REST API you can also pick a pinned template's style options (title colour, font style and the template's other options) and the story motif from the book's motif list; the MCP server leaves these two out, as the app hides their pickers. A book with no subgenre gets one before its first cover, as in the app.
• Directions: send 1–5 directions, as Pick one or more directions does in the app. The art director that designs a new book's first covers in the app designs one new cover from scratch for each direction, 1 credit each. The app's draft picker stays in the browser.
• Import a cover you own: upload a finished front cover, as in the External Cover Studio, into a new book or an existing one. A cover that is already 5:8 imports free. Any other shape costs 1 credit, because an AI outpaint extends it to the 5:8 working format; if the outpaint fails, the credit comes back and the original is kept. Each import appears in the jobs list with the credits it used. The image is checked and moderated before anything is saved or charged. You confirm on every call that you have the rights to the image. The imported cover then works with every cover tool below: wraps, audiobook covers, text removal, upscale and export. Reviewers cannot import.
• Edits: change a cover with a text instruction.
• Replace person: put the person from an uploaded photo on a cover, with two versions for one credit, as in the browser. The caller confirms consent on every call: it is the person in the photo or has that person's permission, and the person is an adult. A call without that confirmation is refused before anything is charged. BeYourCover records who confirmed it (the API key or the signed-in member) and the workspace.
• Text removal: remove all rendered text for a text-free version. To replace that version, ask again with regenerate: true. The new run is charged like any other run.
• Upscale: take a cover, its text-free version, or its audiobook version to print resolution.
• Advanced export: a cover or its text-free version as a JPG or PNG at an exact pixel width, or at a print size in inches with the DPI written into the file, as in the browser's Advanced export. Or name the file you need with a preset: kdp_ebook (1600 × 2560 JPG, the size Amazon KDP recommends for an eBook cover) or ebook_2x3 (1600 × 2400 JPG). It is free and uses the same high-resolution master as the browser. A cover whose text you set in the text editor exports from the browser only, because the API cannot draw that text. Add shape: "2:3" for a 2:3 file, as in the browser.
• Audiobook covers: make the square audiobook version of a cover. regenerate: true replaces an existing one, as for text removal.
• Jobs: list your workspace's jobs, filtered by operation, status, or where they ran (the API or the browser).
• KDP print wraps: full print wrap covers for Amazon KDP, with back artwork, typeset back-cover copy, and a KDP-ready PDF, without opening the editor.

These work in the browser only:

• Try a different style (style conversion), and precise mode for Change elements or layout.
• The text editor (Edit title & author) and the font editor (Restyle typography).
• Series.
• Wrap reuse across books, Barnes & Noble wraps, and the editable PDF with layers.
• Cover Chat with the Cover Expert.
• Client logos, renaming and archiving in the agency workspace, and cover concept review links.
• Marketing resources and the marketing kit.

A book opened in the marketing kit includes one print wrap, one audiobook cover and one text-free cover a month. The API honours them as the browser does: the book's first of each costs no credits, and the job's response says included_format: true. The credit balance (GET /api/v1/credits, or the agent's balance check) lists the books whose kit is open this month and the included renders each one still has.

Keep API keys secret. Revocation cannot be undone. For endpoint details and webhook payloads, use the API documentation.

Connect an AI agent (MCP)#

Enterprise API keys also work with AI agents. BeYourCover runs a remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets tools like Claude create books, generate covers (including more options for a book you already started, and one cover per direction you name), check job status and credits, list your books and the covers already made for each one (with where each cover came from: the art director, a style, your own prompt, an edit or variation of another cover, or an import), edit a book's saved details, hide or favorite covers and hide books, show the cover templates for a genre with a preview image of each, download covers, export them as a JPG or PNG at the exact pixel or print size you name, upscale them to print resolution, edit them with text instructions, make close variations of them, put the person from a photo you share onto a cover (the agent asks you to confirm consent each time), remove all rendered text for a text-free version, import a finished cover you already own (free when it is already 5:8, 1 credit when it must be extended to that shape; the agent asks you to confirm you have the rights to it), design a cover from reference images you share with the agent, create audiobook covers, list your workspace's jobs, and calculate KDP print-wrap dimensions on your behalf — using your subscription's credits.

To use an image from your conversation — a cover you like as a reference, a photo for a cover, or a finished cover you want to import — attach it as usual. The agent cannot send an attachment to BeYourCover by itself, so it gives you an upload link instead: open it, drop the file, and tell the agent it is uploaded. The link works for 15 minutes, needs no sign-in, and costs nothing. The page checks the image's size right away, so you can pick another file before anything is charged.

The agent's replies include an Open in BeYourCover link to the book's page in the app. Download links expire after an hour, but this link does not, so you can come back to the book the next day, see every cover and wrap, and make changes the agent cannot, such as fixing a typo in the rendered title. You don't need to ask the agent to keep checking on a cover. Each status check waits up to 25 seconds for the job, so the agent shows you the result as soon as it is ready, usually within a minute.

Agents can also build a complete print wrap: hand one a finished cover, your trim size and page count, and your back-cover copy, and it generates the back artwork, lays the text out, extends the front to the full print panel, and hands back the KDP-ready PDF (1 credit, whatever the back style). The spine shows your book's title and author in capitals, as in the editor, unless you ask for different spine text or a blank spine. The agent can later turn any back into a flat colour for free; on a wrap with AI back artwork it asks you first, because the artwork is replaced. Back text that would be hard to read over busy artwork gets a translucent panel behind it, and the agent tells you. When the book's marketing kit is open this month, its first wrap, audiobook cover and text-free cover cost no credits through an agent too, and the agent tells you when one was included.

Changing your mind afterwards is free. Ask the agent to update the wrap — never to make a second one — and it can rework the text, the spine colour, and, on a solid-back wrap, the back-cover colour itself, at no charge. It sees the new preview right away, so it can check its own change. You only have to name what you want changed: everything you don't mention stays as it is, and the agent can read the wrap's current back-cover text back to you at any time rather than asking you to retype it. Re-running the front extension is free too, if the artwork came back with a visible seam or a white edge. The one thing that does cost again is new AI back artwork: on a wrap whose back is AI-generated, the colour comes from the art, so a different look means generating it fresh. Wraps an agent creates are real designs: they show up in the wrap editor named API, so you can open one and adjust it by hand. It works the other way round too: if you built a wrap yourself in the editor, an agent changing its text or its colour leaves your own text blocks, your images and your arrangement exactly as you set them.

Because the agent can list your existing books and covers, you can come back days later in a fresh conversation and say "show me the covers for my thriller" — it doesn't need anything from the chat where you first made them.

There are two ways to connect, both pointing at https://beyourcover.com/api/mcp:

• Sign in with your account (OAuth). In clients that support custom connectors (Claude Desktop, claude.ai), add that URL as a connector and approve the connection on a BeYourCover sign-in screen — no API key to copy.
• API key. In developer tools like Claude Code, connect with your enterprise API key as a Bearer token.

An agent connected by signing in acts as you, the team member. A book it creates belongs to you, so you can open it, edit it and hide it in the app. It reads every teammate's books and covers, and can generate on them, as you can in the app. It can edit details or hide covers only on books you created. Each job records which member ran it. An agent connected with an API key acts as the workspace owner. Credits always come from the workspace.

Connecting works with any BeYourCover account, so you can add the server and see what it offers before you commit to anything. The tools themselves need an Enterprise plan: without one, the agent lists them and then says the account has no active plan when you ask it to do the work. If you do have a plan and still see that, check that you signed in with the account that holds it — and, if you're on a team, that your seat is active.

A reviewer seat can connect an agent too, but only to read. The agent can list books, covers, clients, jobs and wraps, check job status and the credit balance, list templates, read a wrap, calculate wrap sizes and download covers. Every tool that spends credits or changes a cover or a book tells the agent that reviewers cannot use it, including the free ones: upscaling, advanced export, reference uploads, cover imports, wrap updates, book edits, and hiding or favoriting. A reviewer can download a print-resolution file that a teammate already made, except while the workspace is on a trial. To do more, ask the workspace owner for the Editor role.

Every finished cover comes back with a download link that opens the full-resolution image, valid for an hour. Ask again any time for a fresh one.

The cover is also sent as an image, which some agent tools display right in the conversation — Claude Code does. Claude Desktop and claude.ai currently don't show it, so there you'll get the description and the link rather than the picture. Print-resolution files are always a link, because they're too large to display anywhere. If you're driving the server from a script and only want links, ask for include_images: false.

Connection examples and the full tool list are on the MCP server page. Either way, the agent spends your subscription's generation credits, so only connect agents you trust.

Email preferences and reviews#

Email Preferences manages two separate channels, each with its own switch:

• Newsletter — publishing tips, design trends, and the biweekly BeYourCover newsletter. Off unless you opt in.

On the free plan, the app asks for this opt-in once, on the Images Dashboard, on a visit with covers on screen at least 24 hours after you sign up: tick the box and we email you your covers together with the book launch checklist. The covers in that email are low-resolution previews with our watermark; upgrading unlocks the full-resolution, watermark-free files. If you choose Not now, you get one more chance on a later visit, and then the question does not come back. Paid plans are not asked on the dashboard — use the switch here. Either way, you can change it at any time.

• Product updates — occasional news about new features for the tools you use. Shown to paying customers, on by default, and you can switch it off any time.

The unsubscribe link in any email opens a preference page where you choose: stop that email's channel only, or stop everything. Turning off the newsletter keeps product updates, and the other way round. Choices made there and on this page stay in sync. Marking an email as spam stops both channels. Transactional messages required for account, purchase, or batch-download delivery are handled separately.

Use Leave a review to submit product feedback and, when offered, consent to publication of your testimonial.