Kantivo pays 20% to 70% of what your clients spend, depending on how far in you want to be. Start free as an affiliate, earn the Certified Partner credential at no cost, license the software under your own firm's name, or take a reseller licence and run a sales team. Nothing here is negotiated behind a call.
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Six reasons this reads differently from the usual partner pitch.
Certified Partner, Enterprise and Reseller commissions repeat on every renewal, for as long as the client stays. Bring twelve clients across your first year and year two opens with twelve payments already booked.
Certified Partner costs nothing. Sit the Kantivo certification, pass it, and the 35% recurring rate is yours. We ask you to know the software, not to buy your way in.
Your share leaves the client's payment the second it clears and lands in your own Stripe account. Nothing to invoice, no payout run to wait on, no month-end reconciliation with us.
Certified and above ship with an Accountant Pro licence and a spare seat — $660 a year of software — because you cannot credibly recommend a ledger you have never closed a month in.
Enterprise partners rebrand the product entirely. Your firm's logo on the login screen, your firm's relationship with the client, half of every renewal.
Every partner gets a private pipeline inside Kantivo Platform — leads, deal stages, a commission ledger you can audit. Resellers get a separate one for each rep they hire.
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White-label Kantivo as your firm's own accounting software and deploy it across your client roster — or sell it to new businesses. Either way, you earn recurring commissions. Plus, sell Kantivo Platform subscriptions to SaaS founders who need their own partner and revenue management system.
Client referrals. Direct reselling. White-label sales. Platform licensing. The more you build, the more streams you unlock — all recurring, all tracked, all automated.
Commission climbs with commitment. Read the whole ladder before anyone asks you for a call.
That 35% is the certified rate. Nothing stops you applying and referring today — sitting the exam is what moves you onto it, and it takes about an hour and a half.
Not sure where you land? Take the 60-second fit finder — it weighs your role, your client list and how much buy-in you actually want.
The arithmetic most partner programmes leave you to discover after signing.
We'll use Accountant Pro at $540 a year, since that is the tier most bookkeepers and small CPA practices end up on. One client of that size, on each track, and how long it takes to clear whatever you paid to get in.
| Track | Your buy-in | One $540 client pays you | Clients to clear it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliate | None | $108, first year only | None — sale one is already profit |
| Certified Partner | None — sit the certification | $189 a year, every year | None — there is nothing to earn back |
| Enterprise | $1,680/yr | $270 a year, every year | 7 — and your own practice runs on the licence meanwhile |
| Reseller Licence | $11,000 + $63/rep/mo | $378 a year, every year | ~30, after which the recurring base compounds |
Where these numbers bend. Everything above holds one tier constant. Sell the $299 Basic edition and each line shrinks; sell Enterprise and each line grows. Commission is calculated after roughly 3% of shared card-processing cost. And recurring means recurring while they renew — when a client churns, the payment goes with them. The paid tracks are a real cheque, not a formality: if you cannot picture the client count in that last column inside twelve months, start free and upgrade later.
Certified Partners run their practice on Kantivo for nothing. The whole arrangement, spelled out before you apply.
Certified Partner applications clear immediately — no queue, no waiting to hear back. Your referral link works from that moment.
Four modules, twenty questions, roughly ninety minutes end to end. It costs nothing and it is what takes your rate to 35%.
A complete Kantivo licence across two sets of books, for your practice. You claim it in the portal rather than buying it.
Bank and tax details wait until money is actually coming your way. Nothing about getting the licence depends on them.
Seven backgrounds our partners come from, and the track each usually lands on
Put your own name on the product and keep half of every renewal. The Enterprise track was built for you.
You live in the ledger already. Certify at no cost and earn 35% of every client you move across, every year they stay.
Cut your clients' monthly software bill and take a published share of what they do spend, annually.
Take the Reseller Licence, hire your own reps, and keep 70% of everything the operation sells.
Bundle the ledger into your managed-services stack. Certify free at 35%, or licence at 70% if you want the margin.
Sell under an existing reseller and earn on your own pipeline, tracked in a portal you can actually audit.
Bloggers, YouTubers and newsletter writers with a business audience. Free affiliate link, 20% on year one.
What lands in your account, and which track unlocks it
Certified Partner and above: a full licence plus a spare seat, $660/yr of software
Comprehensive training program to become a product expert
Private pipeline, deal stages and a commission ledger you can reconcile
Brochures, QuickBooks comparison sheets and co-branded material
A channel for you and, when it matters, for your clients too
We take the awkward QuickBooks conversions off your desk
Reseller Licence only: recruit reps, set their pay, track them in the portal
No. There is no joining fee, no monthly fee and no minimum client count. What we ask instead is that you pass the Kantivo certification exam, which is how the 35% rate is earned. Uncertified partners still earn while they study — the credential raises the rate, it never blocks the account.
Two ways, and the second one matters more. The rate is higher, and it repeats. Affiliate commission covers the client's first twelve months only; Certified Partner commission arrives again every year that client renews, for as long as they stay.
At the instant the client's card is charged. Stripe splits the payment and sends your share straight to your connected Stripe account, so there is no invoice to raise and no payout cycle to sit through. You do need to finish Stripe onboarding before the first commission can be released.
Yes, for a full 365 days from that first click. The referral is held in a first-party cookie with a local-storage backup, so closing the browser does not lose it. If several partners referred the same person, the most recent click takes the credit.
That is the Enterprise track, at $1,680 a year. The application carries your firm's name and branding, you keep the client relationship end to end, and you keep half of every renewal.
Yes, on the Reseller Licence. Each rep costs $63 a month, gets their own portal login and private pipeline, and you set whatever compensation you want to pay them. Their sales are tracked under your account.
Whether you want to refer clients, resell software, or build a distribution business — find the right fit for you.
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A partner account also opens the no-cost Certified Bookkeeper programme — seven units, a timed assessment, and a certificate anyone can look up.