Use case / Distributors, VARs & MSPs

Run a multi-tier channel without losing track of who sold what

Distributors recruit dealers, VARs bundle services, MSPs run your product for their clients. Model every tier, give each its own price book and territory, and keep margin, rebates, and overrides on one ledger. Two tiers or five. One ledger.

Distributors · Dealers · VARs · MSPs · Sub-dealers · Wholesale

partnerswatch.com/admin/deals
Deals /Deal pipeline
N
BoardTableForecast
Pipeline: Channel ▾Filter8 deals · $359k
Registered3
Acme Corp
$40,000AC
Vertex
$22,000VX
Lumen
$31,000LM
Qualified2
Meridian
$75,000MR
Orbit
$54,000OB
Proposal2
Helio
$48,000HE
Cobalt
$29,000CB
Won1
Northwind
$60,000NW
Who is in the network

Every tier of the channel, each with its own terms

PartnersWatch nests partners under partners, so a distributor can manage its own dealers while you see the whole tree and each tier sees only what is below it.

Tier 1

Distributors

Buy at wholesale, recruit and support dealers, and earn an override on what their tier sells.

Tier 2

VARs & dealers

Resell with services attached, register deals for protection, and buy from a tiered price book.

Managed

MSPs

Run the product for their customers and need accounts, seats, and credits provisioned on demand.

Tier 3+

Sub-dealers

Smaller resellers under a dealer or distributor, scoped to their own customers and deals.

Vocabulary

The console speaks your language

Choose the Distribution / VAR / MSP business type and the console uses channel words. Commercial models (commission, resale, white-label, agency) can run side by side.

Generic in, your words out
PartnerDistributor · Dealer · VAR · MSPAny tier in the channel.
DealRegistered deal · OrderProtected once registered, priced from a price book.
CommissionMargin · Rebate · OverrideResale margin, volume rebates, upline overrides.
AreaDealer territoryExclusive or shared, by region or postal code.
PortalDealer portalDeals, price book, wallet, and materials.
Channel tiers

Model the channel as deep as it really goes

A distributor sits over its dealers and MSPs, and they sit over end customers. Revenue rolls up the tree, uplines earn an override on their downline, and each partner is scoped to its own accounts.

  • ✓Distributor → dealer / MSP → end customer
  • ✓Overrides and rebates per tier
  • ✓Scoping enforced server-side at every level
Partnership models
channel / hierarchy
Software channel2 chains · MRR override on
2
Chains
6
Partners
$312k
Channel ARR
4%
Avg override
Halcyon CloudVendorlist
Stratus DistributionDistributor22%
Vertex VARReseller · Gold18% MRR
NorthwindEnd customer$84k ARR
Helio IncEnd customer$52k ARR
Zenith LabsEnd customer$61k ARR
Meridian MSPManaged services15% MRR
Orbit SaaSEnd customer$38k ARR
Cloudline SupplyDistributor20%
Cloud RepublicReseller · Silver16% MRR
Fernpath CoEnd customer$44k ARR
Granite Global SIGlobal SIco-sell
Nordic PartnersRegional partner12% MRR
Each VAR, MSP, and SI is scoped to its own accounts — upline earns an override on downline MRR.
Commercials

Margin, rebates, and wallets on one ledger

Run resale on tiered price books, commission on referred deals, and prepaid credit wallets for MSPs, side by side. Every accrual, rebate, and payout is an entry on an append-only ledger.

  • ✓Tiered price books per partner tier
  • ✓Commission, resale, white-label, and agency models
  • ✓Prepaid credit wallets and bulk packs
Pricing & commission models
partnerswatch.com/admin/commissions
Commissions /Commission ledger
N
LedgerSchedulesPayouts
Balance
$12,840
Pending
$3,230
Paid · YTD
$214k
DatePartnerTypeAmount
Jun 21Acmeaccrual+$4,000.00
Jun 20Meridianaccrual+$1,250.00
Jun 18Vertexaccrual+$2,600.00
Jun 15—adjust−$180.00
Jun 12Acmepayout−$5,070.00
Jun 08Lumenaccrual+$980.00
approved · provider transfer executed · appended to audit ledger
Territories

Dealer territories with no double-booking

Give each dealer an exclusive or shared territory by region or postal code. Overlapping exclusive claims are flagged on save, and new leads are routed to the dealer that covers the area.

  • ✓Exclusive or non-exclusive areas
  • ✓Conflict detection on save
  • ✓Lead and deal routing by territory
Territories & routing
partnerswatch.com/admin/territories
Territories /Territories
N
MapListRouting rules
Territories
46
Exclusive
31
Unassigned codes
128
Conflicts
1
Postal codes · Bay Area
94107 is claimed by Bay North and Bay South (both exclusive)
TerritoryAreaAssigned to
Bay Northexclusive941xx · 18 codesRidgeline Fitness
Bay Southexclusive940xx · 14 codesCoastal Strength
East Valleynon-exclusiveregion: Valley2 franchisees
Peninsulaexclusive944xx · 11 codesHarbor Lane
Routing · last lead
lead.created · 94110Bay NorthRidgeline Fitness
Fulfilment

What a dealer sells shows up in your product

When a dealer or MSP sells, your product receives a signed provisioning event: account created, plan changed, seats or credits granted. A policy limits what each tier can grant.

  • ✓HMAC-signed, versioned provisioning events
  • ✓Provision policy per partner tier
  • ✓Live and test environments
Vendor integration
partnerswatch.com/admin/integrations/provisions
Integrations /Provisioning
N
DeliveriesConnectionsPolicyManifest
Delivered · 24h
1,28499.6%
Retrying
3
Blocked by policy
1
EnvEventAccountStatus
liveaccount.createdKeystone · plan pro200
livecredits.grantedVertex Labs · 5,000200
testplan.changedSandbox Co · growth200
livefeature.changedMeridian · sso onretrying
liveunits.grantedAcme · 40 seats409 policy
testaccount.suspendedSandbox Co200
signature: t=1727712000,v1=9f2c…e41a · HMAC-SHA256(timestamp.body)
At a glance

What you configure

4
commercial models side by side
∞
channel tiers
2
territory types
Live + test
provisioning environments

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