Informal
20%of a client’s first payment
What it takes
Nothing. Sign up, take your link, start referring today.
What it unlocks
- A referral link that starts working immediately
- Every partner resource and template
- A directory listing
Build your practice on sparx.
Your clients run their whole business on one platform instead of five subscriptions, so the pitch gets easier, your fee stays yours, and you earn on every client that goes live and keeps paying.
30%
of what a client first pays you brings in: 20% before you apply.
5%
every month after, for as long as a managed client stays.
$0
to join. No reseller contract, no minimum, no quota.
3 days
is the longest an application sits before you hear back.
What this is actually worth.
Percentages are easy to publish and impossible to act on. Set it to the work you actually do and the page will do the arithmetic. Both halves of it, yours and your client’s.
What your clients run
Builder · Commerce · CMS · CRM · Email
Your tier
Certification, plus the ongoing 5%.
Clients you bring over in a year: 10
150
$558
paid to you as those clients place their first invoice.
$93/mo
every month after, for as long as you manage them.
$1,674
your first twelve months, both parts together.
And those 10 clients stop paying $97,920 a year
Between them. The same stack costs $1,002 a month across separate subscriptions and $186 a month on sparx, so every client you move keeps $9,792 a year that used to go to software. That is the conversation, and it is the reason your fee never has to be the thing that gets cut.
Rates are the published ones: 20% of the first payment at Informal, 30% at Registered and Certified, plus 5% of every month after on accounts you manage as a Certified partner. Stack prices are sparx's own; the comparison figure is the published 2026 price of the tools each module replaces. Year one assumes each client stays the full twelve months: real books churn, so treat it as the ceiling, not the forecast.
Three tiers. You pick the pace.
Every tier earns on referrals and lists in the directory from day one. What separates them is how much you put in up front, and whether the money stops after the first invoice or keeps arriving.
Registered
30%of a client’s first payment
What it takes
A short application and a look at your work. Three business days.
What it unlocks
- Half again the commission of Informal
- A support channel that skips the queue
- A verified badge on your directory listing
- Bootcamps you can build but not yet publish
Certified
30% + 5%first payment, then every month after
What it takes
Certification: a self-paced course on the platform you are selling.
What it unlocks
- The only tier that keeps paying after month one
- A named partner manager, not a queue
- Top of the directory, with the Certified badge
- Bootcamps published publicly on sparx.works
- Co-marketing, and new modules before anyone else
Application to first payout.
Four steps, and none of them is a sales call. There is no onboarding program to sit through and nobody decides whether you are allowed to sell.
Apply
Tell us who you are and how you work with clients. Informal needs no review at all; the other two take about three days.
Set up
You get a partner dashboard with your referral link, every client account in one login, and the decks and proposal templates to pitch with.
Refer
Bring a client over on your link. It is credited to you for 30 days, and your rate is locked in at that moment: a later rate change never rewrites your history.
Get paid
Commission clears once the client’s first payment does. Payouts run monthly to your own Stripe account, once you are over $50.
You are not starting from a blank page.
The program is not a link and a rate card. Here is what is waiting the day you are approved.
Every client in one login
Your own dashboard lists every client account you have access to, and you move between them without signing out. The client invites you and can revoke it whenever they like. You never hold their password.
The pitch, already written
Decks, proposal templates and the cost comparison against the stack you are replacing. You are welcome to rewrite all of it; you should not have to write it first.
A referral link that tracks itself
Attribution runs for 30 days from the click, and your rate is snapshotted when the client is credited. Nothing to reconcile at the end of the month.
Bootcamps as a lead source
Run a session on getting a business online. Everyone who registers lands in your own CRM as a lead, and Certified partners get theirs listed publicly on sparx.works.
Looking for a partner, not a program?
If you run a business and want someone to set sparx up properly, the directory lists partners by where they are and what they specialize in. Contact them directly. They work for you, not for us.
Find a partner →Apply in two minutes.
This is not a job application. Tell us who you are and how you would put sparx in front of clients.
You do not need a sparx account first
Apply now, sort the account out after. Already run a sparx site? We link the partner record to it.
Every application is read by a person
Including Informal. It is a quick look at who you are and how you work, not an interview, and you hear back within three business days.
You are not locked into the tier you pick
Start Informal and certify later; the higher rate applies to everything you refer from then on. Nothing you have already earned changes.
Partner questions.
Commissions, tracking, tiers and payouts: the specifics, before you spend two minutes applying.
Monthly, to your own Stripe account, once you are over $50. It is calculated on net revenue after payment fees. Informal earns 20% of a referred client’s first payment, Registered earns 30%, and Certified earns 30% plus 5% of every month after on accounts you manage, for as long as that client stays.
Start earning on sparx.
Apply this afternoon, refer your first client this week, and get paid when their first invoice clears. No contract, no minimum, and nothing to buy.