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 "id": "partnerstack",
 "name": "PartnerStack",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "partnerstack.com",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "Sales outreach, leads & CRM",
 "summary": "The partner platform we run our own 58 programmes on: affiliate tracking, lead and deal registration, partner payments and a marketplace where B2B partners find you. Quote-only at every tier.",
 "best_for": "B2B SaaS teams that want partner payments, lead and deal registration and a marketplace of active B2B partners in one place, and are prepared to go through a demo to find out what it costs",
 "skip_if": "you want to know the price before you talk to anyone, you need click-level attribution back to the page that earned it, or you only need a simple affiliate link tracker",
 "honest_knock": "The reporting counts clicks and calls them customers. A record in the Partner API's customers endpoint is a tracked click, not a signup: on 29 July 2026 a single bare curl against one tracking link at 07:09:01 UTC produced a customer record at 07:09:02, with no browser, no account and has_paid false. Read that endpoint's length as signups and you will report volume that never existed. The second half of the problem is that there is no referring-URL field anywhere in the partnership data, so you can see that a link was clicked and never learn which of your pages earned it — which is exactly the thing you need to decide what to write next.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Launch",
    "price": "quoted — book a demo",
    "includes": "pick affiliate link tracking OR lead and deal registration, not both; marketplace access, partner payments, CRM integrations, AI + MCP connector"
   },
   {
    "name": "Growth",
    "price": "quoted — book a demo",
    "includes": "adds advanced integrations, a learning-management solution, partner challenges and incentives, MDF management and segmentation"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "quoted — book a demo",
    "includes": "the only tier with tracking and both registration motions together, plus custom workflows, a designated CSM and priority support"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "hand-curated from the vendor's pricing page",
  "notes": "(read 2026-08-26 on partnerstack.com/pricing) There is no public price at any tier. PartnerStack publishes three plans — Launch, Growth and Enterprise — and every one of them carries a Book your demo button where the number would be; /plans is a 404. What the page does publish is what moves between tiers, and it is unusually specific. Launch gives you affiliate link tracking OR lead and deal registration — you pick one — plus marketplace access, partner payments built for B2B sales cycles, onboarding and enablement tooling, CRM integrations and their AI and MCP connector. Growth adds deeper integration support, a learning-management solution, partner challenges and incentives, MDF management and payments, and segmentation by performance or strategy. Enterprise is the only tier with full access to link tracking AND both registration motions at once, and adds custom workflows, a designated CSM with semi-annual business reviews, partner introductions and priority support. So the meter is not seats or volume as far as the page will say — it is which partner motions you are allowed to run, and the choice between tracking and registration on the entry tier is the line worth reading twice.",
  "verified_at": "2026-08-27",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price: Launch, Growth and Enterprise all route to Book your demo and /plans is a 404 (read 26 Aug 2026)",
   "verified_at": "2026-08-27",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Reditus",
  "why": "the alternative people weigh this against — Reditus publishes its entry price ($99/mo billed annually) where PartnerStack quotes every tier, and the split is whether you want a number you can budget against or a marketplace with the volume of B2B partners PartnerStack has"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/partnerstack.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/partnerstack-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/partnerstack/",
  "vendor_site": "https://partnerstack.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.partnerstack.com/oj4obett8k3n",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product."
 ],
 "task_evidence": {
  "structured_checks": [],
  "sessions": [
   {
    "source": "session",
    "product_name": "PartnerStack",
    "product_id": "partnerstack",
    "run_date": "2026-08-26",
    "what": "We did not read the docs and summarise them: PartnerStack is the platform our own affiliate operation runs on. We manage 58 partner programmes through it, pull the Partner API v2 on a schedule, and stamp sub-IDs across 704 pages of our own site. PartnerStack is also an affiliate partner of ours — we earn 15% of every sale for a year on anyone who signs up through our link — which is why the findings below are things we measured against our own records rather than claims from their marketing.",
    "findings": [
     "A record in the customers endpoint is a tracked click, not a signup. One plain curl on a tracking link produced a customer record one second later, has_paid false, with no browser and no account. Records surface in the API about five minutes after the click, so allow ten before concluding a test did nothing.",
     "Clicks arrive without a source. There is no referring-URL field in the partnership data, so the platform can tell you a link was clicked and never which page produced it. We had to build sub-ID stamping across our own pages to answer that question ourselves.",
     "Commission terms do not come from the API. offers.base_rate is returned null on every partnership we hold. The readable source is PartnerStack's own public directory at market.partnerstack.com — and it sometimes contradicts the vendor's own affiliate page, which is worth knowing before you quote a rate to anyone.",
     "Programme status lags the reality by days. One partner sent us a welcome email with a working tracking link on 7 August; the API still read application-denied and only turned active somewhere between 13 and 18 August. Treat the vendor's email as the leading indicator and the API status as the one that catches up.",
     "The earned-commission endpoints are the weakest part. rewards and transactions did not return usable data for us, so what you have actually been paid is a dashboard question rather than an API one.",
     "Partner replies break email threading. A partner answers inside the PartnerStack dashboard and the platform sends that on as a fresh message from hello@partnerstackmail.com, with a new Message-ID and no reference to the mail it is answering. Any automation of yours that matches replies to threads will not match these."
    ],
    "not_tested": null,
    "report": null,
    "result": "reported",
    "note": "Findings as written up after the session; no pass/fail per task was scored.",
    "in_catalog": true
   }
  ]
 },
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "partnerstack:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "partnerstack:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "partnerstack:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "partnerstack:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "partnerstack:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 },
 "task_scope": {
  "scope": "partner_program",
  "label": "Affiliate or partner programme software",
  "why": "The partner platform we run our own 58 programmes on: affiliate tracking, lead and deal registration, partner payments and a marketplace where B2B partners find you.",
  "source": "our dossier",
  "phrases": [
   "affiliate program",
   "affiliate programme",
   "affiliate software",
   "partner program",
   "partner programme",
   "referral program",
   "affiliate tracking",
   "partner management"
  ]
 }
}