Money: what integrators save and resellers earn

Hello and welcome to the PaperOffice AI Academy. In episode three of the partner series, it’s all about money: what you save as an integrator and what you earn as a reseller.

Result first: Three sentences about money

First, the result, in three sentences. As an integrator, your usage draws forty percent fewer credits from your plan. As a reseller, you buy your customers’ plans forty percent below list price and set your own price. And for every partner you recommend, you receive ten percent of their plan costs.

Chapter 1: Integrator: more affordable credits

As an integrator, your products run on your own PaperOffice account, and your customers pay you at your price. Your benefit is in the credits. Your usage draws forty percent fewer credits from your plan pool, seventy percent fewer as an Elite partner. Credits beyond the pool cost you twenty percent less, thirty-five percent less as an Elite partner. The benefit applies from the Plus plan upwards. You can see this on the partner badge on your plan card and on every line under API usage. Partners who are integrators only also see it in the integrator section of their Partner Dashboard.

Chapter 2: Reseller: purchasing, margin, Overage

As a reseller, you buy your customers’ monthly plans forty percent below list price, seventy percent below as an Elite reseller. You issue the invoice yourself and set the price. Your margin is the difference between your purchase price and the price you charge your customer. If you charge your customer the list price, you keep forty percent of it, seventy percent as an Elite reseller. You can find a calculation example with current prices on the reseller page at paperoffice.ai. If a customer needs more than their plan includes, the extra usage runs through blocks of one hundred euros from your wallet, at list price. With the overage limit, you set the monthly maximum for each customer.

Chapter 3: The reseller wallet

All money for your customers runs through the reseller wallet. At the top, you see your balance, the required airbag and how much of it is available. The airbag grows with your customers: five hundred euros plus two hundred euros per customer. With one customer, that makes seven hundred euros. Beyond that, you pay for plan bookings and overage blocks. Below, you will find the Overage blocks for each customer along with their respective block balances. If a customer requires more than what is included in their plan, PaperOffice automatically books blocks of one hundred euros, but only up to the overage limit that you have set for this customer. You can also manually book a block here. You can top up by bank transfer, by credit card or with a balance code. Your invoice from PaperOffice comes with each top-up; you issue your own invoice to your customers.

Chapter 4: Elite

Elite stands for the best PaperOffice partners. You apply for Elite for each path in the app, with a short justification. PaperOffice awards Elite by hand. Typical criteria include a dedicated presence with PaperOffice and regular contributions. Submit your monthly proof under Monthly tasks, for example, the link to your LinkedIn post.

Chapter 5: Recommend partners

And if you recommend PaperOffice to a company that becomes a partner itself: With Recommend partners, you receive ten percent of its plan costs as long as it remains a partner. This includes its own plan and the plans it pays for as a reseller for its customers, starting from the Plus plan. The recommended partner creates a referral code and gives it to you. You enter it together with the email address of their account, no later than ninety days after their approval. The bonus applies to the partner you recommended directly. It becomes billable after a holding period of one hundred and eighty days: you receive a monthly statement and send PaperOffice an invoice for it. In short: integrators save on credits, resellers earn on the plans they buy, the wallet holds the airbag and the blocks, PaperOffice awards Elite by hand, and recommendations bring ten percent. All current figures are in the participation terms and on the partner pages of paperoffice.ai. The next two episodes are about practice: first for integrators, then for resellers. Until next time in the PaperOffice AI Academy.