A referral link is a link

Referral partners send qualified leads for your team to close and earn a percentage of the revenue when a deal goes through. The audience of a referral partner is not as large as that of a marketing partner, but a referral partner typically know more about the people they are referring, often having a direct one-to-one relationship, meaning the leads they send tend to be highly qualified.

A referral link is a unique trackable link assigned to a partner. This is the link partners use to promote your product. Any conversions made through that link will be attributed to the partner and logged on your partner platform to facilitate payouts.

A reseller partner sells a vendor’s product directly to their client. In contrast to the relationship between affiliate/referral partners who are involved only at the start of the customer’s journey (it gets handed off to the vendor), a reseller partner owns the whole customer relationship.

Resellers are the most complicated partners to work with, and for good reason! They give you access to a relatively limited but highly qualified audience. This is why they often require more support and enablement resources.

Also see: “Affiliate partner”, “Referral partner”

A type of partnership program where partners fully manage the sales cycle from lead generation to Closed/Won business. Typically, they'll get higher rewards than any other type of partner to acknowlege their greater effort.

A reward structure where the revenue generated from a deal is shared between a vendor and a partner. For example, if a $50,000 deal is closed, the vendor may keep 75% and give the partner 25% for a payout of $12,500.

The payout partners receive for generating leads and revenues. It's almost always monetary, but can occasionally take the form of leads, giveaways, or marketing funds.