Thirty-one partners, and here is what they actually made
No calculator on this page. A slider shows what you could earn from numbers you picked yourself, which is arithmetic rather than evidence — these four figures are last quarter's, including the median rather than only the top.
- Median partner, last quarter
- €2,140Median partner, last quarter
- Top partner, same quarter
- €11,800Top partner, same quarter
- Commission duration
- 24 moCommission duration
- Active partners, total
- 31Active partners, total
Four partners, including one for whom this is not working
Sasha's row is here on purpose. Her audience is three-entity bookkeepers, where we are the expensive option, and no programme page that omits that case is telling you how the programme works.
“I write one newsletter a month for finance controllers. Two referrals a quarter, both of which stuck, and the twenty-four month tail means last year’s referrals are still paying this year. It is not a business. It is a good lunch every week.”
“Fractional CFO work. I recommend them to roughly one client in four, and only the multi-entity ones. The programme pays me either way, but the reason I stay is that I have never had to apologise for the recommendation.”
“Honestly below what I hoped. My audience is small-business bookkeepers and most of them have three entities, where Acme is the expensive option. That is my targeting problem, not theirs, and they told me it would happen on the application call.”
“The implementation partner tier is the one worth having. I get a lower commission and a much higher conversion rate, because I am the one doing the migration afterwards.”
The commission ladder
Percentages rather than prices — the number under each name is the share of first-year revenue, not a monthly fee. Advocate is applied automatically; you do not have to ask.
Referral
The default tier. You send a link, we do everything else.
- 20% of first-year revenue
- 24-month cookie window
- Paid monthly, €50 minimum
- Dashboard with per-link attribution
- No exclusivity, no minimum volume
Advocate
For partners past €5,000 in lifetime commission. Applied automatically.
- 30% of first-year revenue
- Plus 10% of year two
- Co-written case study if you want one
- Direct line to a named person here
- Early access to the roadmap themes
Implementation
For consultants who run the migration themselves. Lower rate, much higher conversion.
- 15% of first-year revenue
- Plus the implementation fee, which you keep in full
- Sandbox workspaces for your clients
- Named in the partner directory
- Certification, two days, free
What gets you removed, before you apply
Four behaviours and two payment questions. The first two are the ones that end partnerships, and both are stated as absolutes because they are.
Bidding on our brand name in paid search
Immediate removal and forfeited commission. This is the single commonest reason a partnership ends, and it is not a grey area — if you bid on "Acme" or any close variant, the account closes. We would rather say this before you apply than after a payout.
Coupon and deal-aggregator sites
Not accepted. The traffic converts but it converts people who were already buying, and every one of those is a commission we pay for nothing. There is no version of this where we say yes.
Claiming things we do not do
If a referral arrives believing we are SOC 2 Type II or that we self-host, they churn in month two and we both lose. Say what we actually do. The comparison page is deliberately honest so that you can point at it.
Undisclosed affiliate relationships
Disclose it. Legally required in most of the markets our partners operate in, and separately it is the thing that makes the recommendation worth anything.
What if a referral cancels?
Commission is clawed back within the first sixty days and not after. Around one in nine does, which is the same rate as our direct signups.
When do you actually pay?
Monthly, on the 15th, for the month before, once the balance is over €50. Bank transfer or PayPal. We have never missed one and if we do, say so publicly.
Apply
A person reads this, usually within two days, and the reply either says yes or says which part of your audience we think is a poor fit. Thirty-one partners out of about ninety applications, and we tell the other fifty-nine why.
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Proof before arithmetic — what four named partners actually earned last quarter, including the one for whom it is not working, and no calculator anywhere. A slider shows what you could earn from numbers you picked yourself.