cleverbridge offers clients a complete partner management solution to help facilitate relationships with affiliates, VARs, resellers and distributors, and to manage the specific contract details with each partner.

Partners come in many shapes and sizes and partner-generated sales rarely stem from any single type of relationship (i.e. affiliates).

An ideal management solution, therefore, should accommodate all unique partner types and provide the functionality necessary to allow clients to delegate unique pricing structures for each partner. Unfortunately, most e-commerce providers to date have placed a significant emphasis on affiliates while downplaying other types of relationships. Competing partner management tools tend to be free standing or legacy systems not fully integrated into a single management application (which results in inefficiencies).

As an advanced e-commerce provider, cleverbridge has integrated partner management into its single management application, the Commerce Assistant. With cleverbridge's partner management solution clients are free to segment product lists, set discount pricing and uniquely assign pricing structures to one or more partners. For instance, Partner A can be offered a specific subset of a client's products at a 10% discount and Partner B can be offered the same subset of products but at a 20% discount. Essentially, cleverbridge's solution can be configured in countless ways to ensure that deep ongoing partner relationships can be maintained.

Since partner management can be an important sales channel, but can also be quite difficult to manage, clients will be comforted to know that cleverbridge's straightforward management system is seamlessly integrated into its Commerce Assistant, thus saving time, energy and money in managing key relationships. With cleverbridge's partner management, clients can:

• Manage specific reseller discounts, credit line decisions and purchase order payment methods.
• Quickly filter partners by: partner type, partner status, company name, username, price configuration, email address, or main contact name.
• Edit information like partner's price configuration and purchase order limit.

Furthermore, cleverbridge has eliminated a major barrier to seamless partner management by funneling partner transactions through the client's online store. By logging in with their unique credentials, any partner can place discounted orders through the online store at any time of the day or night. Clients can set the parameters for each of their partners individually, allowing them to buy the client's software on the client's terms. Partner specific price configurations, currencies, languages, payment methods, and purchase order limits can be adjusted instantly, and the Commerce Assistant will track and manage partner commissions generated by both referrals and sales.

Finally, clients can easily track the sales referred through their store by their affiliates, and use that information to leverage a viral marketing channel or other powerful campaigns.

cleverbridge's partner management solution is a complete service and is fully integrated into the Commerce Assistant. It packs in maximum functionality, consolidates tasks and allows the flexibility for specific contract configurations.

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