You bring the clients. We do the work. You get paid.
Every consultant and agency turns away marketplace work — or takes it and subcontracts blind. The partner program is the third option: introduce or resell the account, keep a share of the revenue for as long as the client stays, and watch the execution happen in a portal instead of a status email.
Recurring, not a one-time finder's fee. It pays while the client bills.
A client asks about Amazon. You have about four seconds.
You can say no and watch them find someone who says yes to everything. You can say yes and subcontract to a freelancer you can't see. Or you can have an answer ready.
The revenue you never see
The account goes to a competitor who does run marketplaces — and often the rest of the relationship follows within a year. Declining isn't neutral; it's a slow handover.
Your name on someone else's work
You take the account, hand it to a freelancer, and find out something went wrong when the client tells you. The reputational exposure is yours; the visibility isn't.
Hiring for one logo
Recruiting a marketplace specialist, training them, and covering them through leave and turnover — to service a client base that doesn't yet justify the seat.
Pick how involved you want to be.
All three pay recurring. What changes is who holds the client contract and how much you do.
| Track | Referral | Reseller / white label | Co-managed |
|---|---|---|---|
| You do | Make the introduction | Own the client relationship and billing | Own strategy and the relationship |
| We do | Sell, deliver, support | Deliver invisibly under your brand | Deliver, and join client calls as your team |
| Client contracts with | Engin8 | You | You |
| Client sees | Engin8 | Only you | You, with named specialists |
| You're paid | Recurring share of what the client bills | Your margin between your rate and ours | Your margin, plus your own strategy fee |
| Effort after signing | None | Account management only | Strategy cadence |
| Best for | Consultants, freelancers, community operators | Agencies protecting a brand | Agencies wanting depth in the room |
Reseller and co-managed run on the back-office and staffing agreements.
The difference between a referral fee and a partnership is visibility.
Most referral programs go quiet after the introduction. You find out how the account is going when it churns. The portal exists so that never happens.
Every client in one place
All of your accounts on one screen — status, service lines running, who owns what internally, and the current stage of anything in flight.
Task and ticket visibility
The actual work, live. What was raised, who picked it up, what state it's in. Not a monthly summary written after the fact.
Talk to the team directly
Raise a task or ask a question inside the portal against a specific account. It routes to the operator running it, not a shared inbox.
Client-ready reporting
Performance reports you can forward or re-brand. On white-label accounts they carry your template, not ours.
Earnings and payouts
What each account has generated, what's due, and when it's scheduled. No reconciliation email chain at month end.
Already a partner?
Sign in to the portal to add a client, raise a task or check this month's earnings.
Partner portal login ↗Four channels, one partner agreement.
You don't sign a new contract to add a service line. The master agreement covers all four; each client sits under it as a schedule.
Apply to partner →- Amazon — Seller and Vendor Central operations, advertising, catalog and brand protection, at four engagement levels from self-service operations up to weekly strategy.
- TikTok Shop — store operations, creator and affiliate programs, and the content velocity the channel needs to work. Creators always contracted under the brand's name.
- Creative — listing optimisation, A+ content, storefronts, video, and AI-assisted UGC at volume. Sold per asset, as bundles, or as a monthly credit pool across a portfolio.
- Staffing — embedded operators placed into your team in about ten business days, for when a client wants the capacity inside their own business.
What would the accounts you decline be worth?
Recurring revenue compounds differently from a one-time fee. Set your own numbers and compare the two shapes.
Your share is set in the partner agreement and varies by track, volume and service line. The 15% default here is illustrative, not a quote.
This is a model, not a projection — it assumes every referral closes and holds for the full period. Its point is the shape of the two curves, not the number.
Apply to partner →Four steps, and only the first one is yours.
Add the client
Through the portal or a note to your partner lead. We take it from there — discovery, audit, proposal and close, in your brand or ours depending on your track.
We execute
Operator named, pod assembled, account live inside seven business days. Nothing lands back on your team unless you asked for it to.
You watch it happen
Performance, open tasks and reports in the portal. Forward the reports, re-brand them, or ignore them — but you always know where the account stands.
You get paid, monthly
Your share is calculated against what the client billed and scheduled on a monthly cycle. It keeps paying for as long as the account does.
Anyone with marketplace demand and no marketplace team.
Agencies
DTC, brand, performance and creative shops whose clients keep asking about Amazon and TikTok Shop. Usually reseller or co-managed.
Consultants and fractional operators
You advise on the channel but don't want to run it. Referral track pays without adding delivery obligations.
Software and platform partners
Listing tools, affiliate platforms, 3PLs and ERPs whose customers need someone to actually operate the account. Services wrapped around your product without building a services arm.
Multi-brand groups and PE portfolios
Five to fifty brands needing consistent marketplace operations across the portfolio, under one master agreement.
Start with a 30-minute conversation.
We map your client footprint, the gap on your team, and which track fits. If it isn't a fit we'll say so on the call rather than send paperwork.
- Mutual NDA and a 24-month non-solicit, both directions, in every agreement.
- Commercial terms confirmed in writing before you introduce anyone.
- Portal access from day one, including before your first client is live.
- Already a partner? Sign in to the portal.
We don't publish partner names without written permission. Nothing is shared with your clients at any stage.
One login for every account you've placed.
Status, deliverables, reporting and commission in one view, so you can answer a client's question without opening a thread with us. White-label by default — your logo on the front, our floor behind it.
- Account status and active work per client.
- Reporting you can forward or re-brand.
- Commission and payout history.
Recurring, on a monthly cycle, for as long as the client keeps billing — not a one-time fee on signature. On the referral track your share is calculated against what the client bills Engin8. On reseller and co-managed tracks you set your own client rate and keep the margin over ours.
It varies by track, service line and volume, and is confirmed in writing in the partner agreement before you introduce anyone. We don't publish a single rate because a one-off referral and a portfolio of twenty accounts are not the same commercial arrangement.
No. Every partner agreement carries a mutual non-solicit running 24 months, in both directions. On reseller engagements we hold no contact with your end client at all — all communication routes through you.
A dashboard at partner.engin8.io where partners add clients, see live task and ticket status across every account, message the delivery team, pull client-ready reports and track earnings and payouts. Access is granted at agreement signature, including before the first client goes live.
No minimum to join the referral track. Reseller and co-managed engagements run under a master agreement with terms that depend on volume, and we set those out at the intake call rather than after you commit.
Yes, on reseller and co-managed tracks. Reports and decks ship in your brand template with your fonts and logo, and source files carry no Engin8 metadata.
Seven business days from a signed agreement to a live account — a 72-hour audit, a roadmap on day five, and the pod running by day seven. The variable is usually how fast the client provides platform access.
We'll tell you during the audit rather than after the contract. Taking an account we can't move costs you more than the commission is worth, because it's your relationship that carries the result.
Stop turning marketplace work away.
Thirty minutes to map your client footprint and pick a track. Portal access from day one.
Apply to partner →