A partner programme for parts distributors
You already know which shops need better software — you sell to them every week. Introduce them, and their subscriptions pay for yours.
Five steps, and you only do the first
From naming a shop to skipping a bill, with nothing to install and no code to hand out.
- 01Tell usSend the shop's name and who to expect, before they sign up.
- 02They startThey sign up and run the fourteen-day trial like anyone else.
- 03They payTheir first paid month is the month your credit is earned.
- 04It banksCredit adds up and does not expire. Three shops is a free month.
- 05You skip a billSay the word before it goes out and that month is not charged.
None of that happens inside an app yet. We match introductions and apply credit by hand, which is honest at this size and is the first thing we will replace when it stops being.
Bring the shops you already supply, and stop paying for months
Every shop you introduce earns credit against your own subscription. Three of them is a month you do not pay for — banked until you want it, and spent on whichever month suits you.
| To earn | One free month | Two free months | Three free months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shops on Starter | Three | Six | Nine |
| Shops on Professional, Supplier Pro or Enterprise | Two | Four | Six |
The rules, in full, before you ask
Eleven of them. Several are limits rather than benefits, and those are not kept for the bottom.
- It has to be a shop that was not already coming
- A business that is not already a SlickCell customer, and not one of your own locations under another name. A shop that had already started a trial before you told us about it does not count.
- Tell us before they sign up
- Send us the shop's name and who to expect, and we match it when they arrive. There is no referral code in the app and no partner dashboard — while the programme is small we run it by hand, and we would rather say that than show you a screen that does not exist.
- It counts once they are paying
- The fourteen-day trial does not count. A shop earns you credit on the first month it pays for a plan, and the credit is yours from that point.
- A shop earns once
- Credit is for bringing a shop, not for keeping one. A shop you introduced earns its credit on its first paid month and does not earn again, so a free month next quarter means another shop rather than the same three.
- It counts at the plan they start on
- A shop that starts on Starter and moves up later does not earn again on the upgrade. Whichever plan they first pay for is the one their credit is worked out from.
- Plans add up, and remainders carry
- Credit is worked out per shop and added together, so two on Starter and one on Professional make a free month between them. Anything left over is not lost — four on Starter is one free month with credit still in hand towards the next.
- Spend them when you like
- Free months bank up and do not expire. You choose which bills to skip, so a quiet month can be one you do not pay for. Tell us before the bill goes out and we will apply it.
- It comes off your subscription, not your locations
- A free month covers your own plan. Additional locations are charged separately and are not covered by it.
- If you pay yearly
- Free months earned on a yearly term are added to the end of that term rather than paid back, because there is no monthly bill to skip.
- One shop, one supplier
- If two suppliers introduce the same shop it counts for whoever told us first, and we will tell you which it was.
- If we change it
- We can change the programme or close it, and we will give notice before we do. Months you have already earned stay yours — we will not take back credit you were told you had.
None of that is conditional on how much they buy from you. Credit follows the shop's subscription, not their orders.
What a distributor asks before signing up to this
Including who it is not for, and the one thing you need before you can take part.
Parts distributors and wholesalers who sell to repair shops — businesses that already have a book of shops and a reason to talk to them. It is built around that relationship rather than around advertising: you are not being asked to find strangers, you are being asked to mention us to customers you already speak to every week.
Yes, and it is the one hard requirement. What you earn is free months of your own subscription, so there has to be a subscription to take them off. If you are not on the platform yet, the fourteen-day Supplier Pro trial is the place to start, and anything you introduce while you are on trial still counts once you are paying.
Then this particular programme is not written for you yet. The arithmetic is built around a distributor's book of trade customers, and we would rather say that than take an introduction under terms that do not fit. If you have shops you would introduce anyway, get in touch and we will talk about it properly rather than pretend a page covers it.
Three shops is a month you do not pay for, and two is a month if they are on Professional or above — so the arithmetic starts working at two or three rather than at thirty. What it will not do is pay you: credit only ever cancels your own bill. The plan prices it is measured against are on the pricing page.
No. Credit follows their subscription, not their orders. If a shop you introduced starts buying from another wholesaler as well, or instead, the month you earned is still yours — they are still a customer here and you are still the reason. We would rather not be in the business of policing who you trade with.
As many as you like, and there is no ceiling on what you can earn — nine on Starter is three free months, eighteen is six. Because credit is earned once per shop rather than paid out every month, bringing more is the only way to keep earning, which is exactly the way round we want it.
Not yet, and it is worth being straight about it. You tell us who you are bringing before they sign up, we match them when they arrive, and we apply the free month to your subscription when you ask for it. That is the whole mechanism. We would rather run it by hand and honestly than build a dashboard around a programme nobody has used yet.
Tell us who you are bringing
There is still no code to generate and nothing applied automatically — a person reads every introduction. Tell us the shop's name before they sign up, and we will do the rest.
Tell us about a shop you introduced
Three things we need: who you are, how to reach you, and the shop’s name. Everything else just helps us match them faster.