PartnerStack is a B2B partnership platform that helps software companies manage affiliate, referral, and reseller programs in one place. It pairs a management dashboard for companies with a marketplace where partners (affiliates, influencers, consultants, and agencies) can discover SaaS programs to promote and earn commissions. If you landed here, you’re likely either a company exploring ways to grow through partnerships or a potential partner trying to understand the platform before signing up.
How PartnerStack Works for Companies
At its core, PartnerStack gives SaaS companies the tools to recruit partners, onboard them, track the revenue they generate, and pay them automatically. The platform handles each stage of a partner relationship:
- Recruiting: The platform promotes your program to its network of active partners and lets you search for and invite specific types of partners, whether those are affiliates, B2B influencers, or resellers.
- Onboarding: You can build custom, automated onboarding journeys for different partner types, complete with training materials and marketing resources.
- Tracking: Every partner-sourced lead is tracked through its lifecycle, with two-way syncing to your existing CRM so partners get credit for the deals they influence.
- Paying: PartnerStack calculates commissions automatically and pays all your partners at once. You receive a single invoice instead of managing dozens or hundreds of individual payouts.
- Reporting: Both you and your partners get dashboards showing revenue generated, rewards paid, partner lifecycle stages, and performance trends.
The platform integrates natively with major CRMs like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Microsoft Dynamics, as well as billing systems like Stripe, Recurly, Braintree, and QuickBooks. That means partner-driven revenue flows into the same systems your sales and finance teams already use, without manual reconciliation.
The PartnerStack Marketplace
One feature that sets PartnerStack apart from generic affiliate software is its built-in marketplace, called the PartnerStack Network. This is a centralized directory where partners browse and apply to software programs. Think of it as an app store, but instead of downloading software, you’re signing up to promote it.
Partners can filter programs by industry categories like marketing, sales, e-commerce, HR, accounting, AI, and customer service. They can also browse by software ecosystem, filtering for programs that integrate with platforms like AWS Marketplace, HubSpot, Salesforce, or Shopify. Each listing shows the commission structure upfront, including whether the program pays a flat fee per sale, a percentage of revenue, recurring commissions, or lifetime earnings.
For companies, this marketplace acts as a built-in recruiting channel. Rather than hunting for affiliates on your own, your program gets listed alongside other SaaS brands, giving you exposure to partners who are already looking for new programs to join.
What It Costs Companies
PartnerStack is priced for mid-market and enterprise SaaS companies, not solo creators or small blogs. The platform offers two main pricing tracks depending on your program type.
For marketing partner programs (affiliates, influencers, referral partners), pricing starts at $1,000 per month on the Launch plan, paid annually. The Growth tier starts at $1,520 per month. Enterprise pricing is custom.
For co-sell partner programs (where partners actively sell alongside your team rather than just referring leads), pricing starts at $1,250 per month on Launch and $1,520 on Growth, also paid annually. Enterprise is again custom.
Final pricing depends on the size of your partner program, the features you need, and your support level, all of which get confirmed during a sales demo. Every plan includes guided onboarding and setup, and there’s no cap on the number of internal team members who can access the platform.
How Partners Get Paid
If you’re on the partner side, here’s how the money works. Throughout each calendar month, you earn and accrue commissions based on the activity you drive for each program you’ve joined. Approved commissions become available for withdrawal around the 13th of the following month, though some companies process payouts slightly earlier, between the 8th and 13th.
You can withdraw earnings via PayPal, Stripe, or direct deposit. The minimum withdrawal threshold is $5. If your balance after fees falls below that amount, your commissions stay in “pending” status until you earn enough to clear the threshold.
Commission structures vary by program. Some pay a one-time flat fee per customer you refer, others pay a percentage of the subscription revenue, and some offer recurring commissions for as long as the customer stays subscribed. You can see these details on each program’s listing before you apply.
Who Uses PartnerStack
PartnerStack is designed specifically for B2B SaaS companies. That focus means the platform handles the nuances of software sales that generic affiliate networks don’t, like longer sales cycles, recurring billing, and multi-touch attribution where a partner might influence a deal months before it closes.
On the company side, typical users are SaaS businesses that have reached a stage where channel partnerships make strategic sense. You’d generally have an established product, a functioning sales process, and a budget that supports at least $12,000 per year for the platform. Startups in their earliest stages or companies selling physical products would likely find the pricing and feature set mismatched to their needs.
On the partner side, the network attracts a range of participants: content creators who review software, consultants who recommend tools to their clients, agencies that bundle SaaS products into their service offerings, and technology partners whose products integrate with the programs they promote. If you already create content or advise businesses in a SaaS-adjacent space, the marketplace gives you a centralized place to find and manage multiple affiliate relationships instead of juggling separate dashboards for each program.
Getting Started
For companies, the process begins with a demo call where PartnerStack’s team assesses your program needs and confirms pricing. From there, every plan includes a guided setup to help you configure partner types, commission structures, onboarding flows, and CRM integrations before launch.
For partners, signing up is free. You create an account on the PartnerStack marketplace, browse the program directory, and apply to the programs that fit your audience or client base. Each company reviews applications independently, so acceptance timelines vary. Once approved, you get access to tracking links, marketing materials, and a dashboard where you can monitor clicks, conversions, and earnings across all your programs in one place.