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PLATESOFTWARE

Partner programme

Offer modern plate software without funding a software team

Five routes to market, from a simple referral to a full white-label deployment. One application and one codebase behind all of them, so no partner is ever stuck on a fork that has fallen behind.

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01Five routes

Pick the arrangement that matches your business

The difference between them is who bills the end customer, who owns first-line support, and how much of the experience carries your name.

Referral Partner

We bill the customer

You introduce the business, we sell and support it, and you receive commission. No licence administration on your side at all.

Commitment · No minimum

Best for

  • Component suppliers
  • Consultants and installers
  • Hardware engineers
  • Trade associations

What it includes

  • Tracked referral links or partner codes
  • Commission on the initial term and first renewal
  • No inventory and no support obligation
  • We own the customer relationship and the billing

Authorised Reseller

You buy credits and resell

You buy prepaid licence credits at wholesale and resell or bundle them with the printers and media you already sell.

Commitment · From 25 credits

Best for

  • Printer suppliers
  • Blank media suppliers
  • Plate system retailers
  • Businesses wanting margin and control of the offer

What it includes

  • Prepaid Core or Essential credits at volume pricing
  • Each credit gives one end customer twelve months from activation
  • One Production Licence per credit, with wholesale add-ons available
  • You set your own retail price

Strategic Co-branded Partner

Contracted annual commitment

The standard application carries your branding, your support details and your printer profiles, without you maintaining a software team.

Commitment · Setup fee plus annual minimum, typically 24 months

Best for

  • Recognised national suppliers
  • Suppliers with a meaningful annual commitment
  • Partners wanting their own customer experience

What it includes

  • Partner Edition naming alongside Plate Software
  • Your logo, support details and approved links
  • Preloaded, versioned and tested printer profiles
  • A partner installer landing page and co-branded activation emails
  • Licence and renewal reporting

OEM / White-label Partner

Multi-year contract

A deep branded deployment with its own release channel, activation journey and hardware integration, under a substantial multi-year agreement.

Commitment · Setup fee plus annual recurring minimum, multi-year

Best for

  • Large suppliers
  • Hardware manufacturers
  • National automotive groups
  • International and OEM opportunities

What it includes

  • Partner-led branding and a dedicated release channel
  • Custom activation journey and private installer page
  • Deep hardware integration
  • Partner-managed first-line support with a contracted SLA
  • Security and procurement review

Wholesale, sponsored and OEM rates are agreed commercially rather than published as a general price list, because they depend on volume, support model and commitment. Tell us roughly what you are looking at and we will send real numbers.

02Why partner with us

What you get out of it

Software your customers will actually recommend

A product built this decade, maintained continuously, and kept current with the rules — so the software is a reason to buy from you rather than something to apologise for.

Software bundled with the hardware you already sell

Ship printers and complete systems with production software already configured for them, instead of leaving the customer to work it out.

Preconfigured printer profiles

We build, version and test profiles for the hardware you supply, so setup friction stops being your support problem.

No software team to fund

You get a maintained, updated product without hiring developers, running releases or owning a codebase you did not want.

Renewal visibility and upsell

See what is active and what is renewing, and move customers from Core to Essential when their product range grows.

A path into records and compliance

As Professional and Business arrive, the customers you introduced are already on the platform they will grow into.

03The ground rules

What we will and will not do

These apply to every partner arrangement, and they exist to protect the end customer as much as either of us.

Every licence is assigned to a real end-customer business. No partner receives an unlimited reusable activation key.

One application and one codebase powers direct, co-branded and OEM configurations. There is no forked build to fall behind.

A partner can pay for a licence without gaining access to the customer's project files.

Bought direct, Plate Software stays supplier-neutral. Commercial conditions attached to a sponsored licence are clearly identified as partner conditions.

If sponsorship ends, the customer converts to direct billing and keeps the same installation and the same projects.

Partner-specific printer profiles are versioned and tested before release.

Support ownership is defined in the contract and recorded in the licence metadata, so nobody is left guessing who to call.

04Get in touch

Tell us what you are thinking

A short message is enough to start. If it helps, say roughly how many end customers you are considering and whether you would want to bill them yourself.

Type of partnership

Or email us directly

partners@platesoftware.co.uk

Pilot partners

We are actively looking for a small number of first partners and can offer onboarding concessions in exchange for access to test printers and drivers, technical cooperation and structured feedback from real production use.