Getting Started as a Partner#

Welcome to the ShopStable partner program. This article covers what you get when you are accepted, where to find it, and the first three things to do.

What you get#

• Your referral link and code. Both are on your partner portal home. A business that signs up through your link, or types your code during signup, is credited to you. Send the link; the code is the backup.
• Your partner portal at /partner: your clients, your team, your resources, and (as the program grows) your earnings and payouts.
• Access to client websites. When a client lets you work on their website, it appears under Clients and opens straight into their dashboard, with a bar at the top that says who you are working as.

The first three things to do#

1. Copy your short link from the portal home. It looks like shopstable.com/p/YOURCODE. Put it on your website, your email signature, and your proposals.
2. Invite your team from the Team page. Everyone on your team can open every client site you look after.
3. Partner with the businesses you already work with. Send them your link. When they are signed in, it opens their dashboard and asks whether to let you in.

How clients use your link or code#

Your portal home has Instructions for your client, with screenshots of every step, and Copy a message for your client, which puts the same steps into a message you can paste into an email or text.

New to ShopStable

1. They open your link. It opens "Create your ShopStable account"; they enter their email and choose Send Verification Code.
2. They confirm their email and phone.
3. On the Your business step, you are already shown as their partner. They choose Yes to let you work on their website.
4. They fill in their business details, choose Continue, and pick a plan.

If they sign up without your link, they type your code on the Your business step, in Referred by a partner?. The link is remembered for 60 days, so they do not have to finish in one sitting.

Already on ShopStable

1. They sign in first.
2. They open your link. Their dashboard opens and asks "Work with [your name]?"; if they have more than one business, they choose which one.
3. They choose Let them in.

If they open the link while signed out, they can choose Sign in on the page it opens and are brought back to the same question.

Not ready to sign up? Use Start a client site and hand the site over when it is ready (see "Building and Handing Over a Client Site").

Where your clients come from#

• A new business signs up through your link and says yes when asked whether you may work on their website.
• An existing ShopStable business opens your link while signed in and chooses Let them in.
• You build a site for a client under your own login and hand it over when it is ready (see "Building and Handing Over a Client Site").
• A business requests you from the partner directory.

One rule to remember#

Commission is for working with a customer. It starts one month after you partner with a business, continues for as long as you keep working with them, and ends when your access ends. Tell customers you are a paid ShopStable partner when you recommend us.