Sherwood Hosting offers two types of reseller plans: Affiliates and Resellers. These are free to join, and the ffiliate progran requires no technical knowledge. These types of programs are common throughout the Internet and offer web designers a means of attaining additional profits from their the websites they design. Affiliates sign up their friends and clients for hosting plans and in return receive a percentage of the value of those sales. A distinctive feature of Sherwood Hosting's plans are that after the first year for the resold accounts, the Affiliate/Reseller still can receive residuals without any additional work or sales efforts.
- SherwoodHosting caters
to smaller web design studios who handle accounts
for small businesses, musicians/artists, and personal/home
clients. We provide a personal connection to help you
attain your design and customer goals.
- The Affiliate plan offers a sales commission for each account sold
and SherwoodHosting takes care of all support and billing
- you just
do the selling
and collect your commissions. Like the Reseller Plan, the more accounts
you sell, the greater a commission level you can enjoy (see
notes and examples for details).
- Domain name registration
included for resold accounts.
- Compare "Reseller" plan particulars
Commissions
for Affiliates |
#
of Accounts
Sold/
Active
(Commission
Level)
|
Cost
Per Year
Billed to Client |
Commission
per Account
1st Year
(Plan
D sold at $125)
(Notes
1,2,3,4) |
Residual
Commission
per year
per account's
subsequent
renewal |
Domain
name
registration included? |
Complimentary
Account
for Reseller? |
1st to 5th |
125 |
25(*) |
10(*) |
Y |
No |
6th
and up |
125 |
35 |
10 |
Y |
Yes -
Note (5)
(a $125 value)
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(*)
RETROACTIVE ONCE YOU'VE SOLD YOUR 3rd ACCOUNT - Thus no commission
or residuals until you sell 3 or more, then we remit your commission
for your first and second resold accounts.
DETAILS & NOTES:
(1)
Commission Quantity Level Attained: All
new accounts and subsequent renewals will
be be awarded the new level of commission
for the this and subsequent billing/renewal periods, based
on the number of active resold accounts at the time of sale
or renewal. No
retroactive commission increases are given for accounts already
sold before the new level of commission was attained. The
exception is for your very first and second account sold,
you don't receive those commissions until you have sold your
third account. See
Example.
(2) Terminations:
If one or more of your resold accounts terminate causing you
to fall into the next lower level
of commissions, the next sale or renewal Commission Level will
be adjusted accordingly.
(3) Quantity Add-ons: Contact us for quantity add-on rates for additional quotas
(e.g., +200M disk space or +2G bandwidth).
(4) Domain Registration Renewals:
For domain names registered through SherwoodHosting, the client is responsible
for the domain name renewal fee if an account is not renewed by 21 days
prior to the domain name registration anniversary renewal date, even
if the
hosting account is terminated. This is in effect for domain names registered
by ShewoodHosting even if they are included in a hosting package (and thus
if hosting is terminated after 21 days prior to renewal, the $10 or $15
renewal is charged). We renew all domain names automatically, so we need
this 21-day period to
cancel
a pending
renewal
with our registrar which happes 14 days prior to the expiration date.
For hosting
account renewal cancellations, we are a little more flexible since we handle
our own hosting renewals.
(5) Use
of free account: The complimentary account is not intended
for resale, but is for your own business
or personal
web site. No domain name registration included. Only currently
active/renewed accounts are counted to qualify for this benefit. One
account per reseller.
(6) Domain
Registration Add-ons: Additional
domain names are $10/year (or $15 for some TLDs). There is currently
no parking fee to have multiple domains point to the same hosting account.
Fiscal
quarter boundaries are the first and last calendar days of the
3-month segments: Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, Oct-Dec.
Special
commissions are available to web designers who become Affiliate salespeople for multiple Plan D hosting
accounts. There is no difference in the actual accounts from
a normal customer SherwoodHosting account, except
that you sell your client on SherwoodHosting and you collect
a commission from us. This allows your client to have a trusted
hosting company,
thus simplifying your client's internet experience. There are
no set-up
fees for either the reseller to begin reselling nor the resold
accounts.
Check
out our server information for
software versions and reliability-redundant internet backbone
connections that provide the greatest dependability and fastest
response time.
Reseller
Responsibilities |
- Commissions are paid quarterly via PayPal.
- Payment for
new and renewal accounts are to SherwoodHosting yearly by
check or PayPal in US$. Payment is
for accounts
created or renewed
during that period.
- Reseller
makes the sales contact and requests the new account. The
account is not re-branded to the reseller, it retains all
aspects
of
SherwoodHosting.com
branding. We would contact your client directly
for billing and occasional hosting account notices.
- SherwoodHosting
is the primary point of customer support for
these accounts.
- SherwoodHosting
provides extensive online information (see especially our A-Z
index), and strives to update this repository to document
uncovered questions that arise.
- Reseller
can assist client to set up any mail
forwarding or mailboxes in
the account's Cpanel Email center.
- If
the domain name is not supplied by us, then the
client or reseller is responsible for pointing the
registry DNS
record to ns1.sherwoohosting.com
and ns2.sherwoodhosting.com.
- If
we register domain names for reseller or resold
accounts and that account is closed or the business
relationship is terminated,
it is not the responsibility of SherwoodHosting
to continue to
renew or alert when the domain registration
subsequently expires. Read about
the consequences of expired domain names. (This
is the reason we have automatic renewal for those
we
register. Always.)
- Affiliates
should request new accounts via email or web form(coming soon),
giving account information desired. Hosting accounts are instantly
available,
but DNS
pointer changes take 24-48 hours to propagate.
THIS
PLAN IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
AND NOT OFFICIALLY OFFERED YET.
PLEASE CONTACT US FOR YOUR INTEREST
Quarter |
New/
Term.
accts |
Total
# accounts |
Accounts renewed this quarter |
Commissions |
Comments |
Q1 2005 |
+2 |
2 |
0 |
deferred |
2@25
will be deferred until you sell your third account |
Q2
2005 |
+1 |
3 |
0 |
2@25
1@25 |
First two (above) are paid out now, along with the third new one. |
Q2 2005 |
+2 |
5 |
0 |
2@25 |
Attained
level of 5 accts; there is no retro commission for the
accts already purchased |
Q3 2005 |
+1 |
6 |
0 |
1@35 |
|
Q4 2005 |
+1 |
7 |
0 |
1@35 |
|
Q1 2006 |
+4 |
11 |
2 |
3@35
new
1@35 new
2@10
renew |
In
addition to the normal new-account commission, you receive residuals
for renewals |
Q2 2006 |
-2 |
9 |
3 |
1@10
renew |
2
terminated after 1 year so only 1 of the 3 new accounts for Q2
2005 renewed |
Q3 2006 |
+1 |
10 |
1 |
1@35
new |
|
Q4 2006 |
+1 |
11 |
1 |
1@35
new
1@10
renew |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Characteristic |
Reseller Plan (R1) |
Affiliate Plan (R2) |
Which
plan can I make more $ with? |
More
with R1, especially in subsequent renewal years (residuals)
Domain Names are not included with the resold accounts- registration/renewal is $10 (for .com etc.) extra/year |
Includes one domain name registration
for "Plan D" accounts |
Which
is more work for the reseller? |
More
work with R1 - you need to bill the client and then pay SherwoodHosting
quarterly;
you have to answer client questions
(but we will answer your questions to assist you in supporting
your clients) |
SherwoodHosting
bills client directly and provides technical support |
Which
is best for the client? |
Somewhat
better because it's more of a one-stop shopping experience
because your client only needs to deal with you and not a separate
hosting company |
Same
account, same features, and billing are all directly from SherwoodHosting;
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THIS
PLAN IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
AND NOT OFFICIALLY OFFERED YET.
PLEASE CONTACT US FOR YOUR INTEREST |
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