Partner relationship management (PRM) software

Grow your partner program without growing your partner team. Partner relationship management software built into HubSpot and Salesforce. Recruit, onboard, activate, co-sell, review and reward every partner on one CRM record, with workflows and AI running the long tail.

Tensis grew partner-sourced revenue 400% and went live in under 2 weeks.

Partner relationship management (PRM) software in Introw: Grow your partner program without growing your partner team
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Definition

What is partner relationship management (PRM) software?

Partner relationship management (PRM) software, also called partner management software, runs a partner program from first application to paid commission: recruiting, onboarding, tiers, deal registration, enablement, reporting and rewards. In Introw, every partner is a record in HubSpot or Salesforce. Each stage reads from the data your revenue team already trusts.

The problem

A program run by hand only reaches the partners you have time for

Your top partners get your attention. The rest get a quarterly email, and that is where the channel revenue leaks.

Without Introw

The partner list drifts into a spreadsheet
Onboarding lives in someone's head
Your top partners get attention, the rest get a quarterly email
Tiers are a slide, not a ladder
Each partner type needs its own tool
Quiet partners surface at the quarterly review

With Introw

One partner list, detected from your CRM and synced both ways
A journey every new partner runs, with progress per partner
Workflows and segments give every partner their next step
Published requirements and benefits, synced to a CRM property
Every motion in one program, with its own experience and rules
Goal pace shows who is behind while there is time to act
How it works

Every partner gets a next step, without a partner manager behind each one

One partner record carries every stage of the lifecycle. Each stage has a part that runs without a person.

Onboard

New partners start with one clear step, and the portal opens as they earn it.

Partners dropped into a full portal do nothing. Introw gives every new partner an ordered journey, agreements included, and opens portal tabs, assets and abilities as they qualify, so your team stops walking each partner through setup by hand.

Journeys from onboarding, activation and certification templates, with progress per partner: to do, in progress, done.

Agreements signed in DocuSign or another signing tool, as an onboarding step.

Tabs and assets open up through segments, such as a certificate earned.

Partner onboarding in Introw: Train from day one
Tier

Moving up a tier changes what a partner earns.

A tier only motivates when a partner can see the rung above and what it brings. Introw publishes what each tier requires and gives, and the tier then sets commission rates, quote discounts, MDF budgets and what partners see.

Requirements as text, a checklist or a goal tied to live CRM progress.

Each partner's tier syncs to a CRM property, assigned one by one or in bulk.

A workflow can move a partner up when the trigger you choose fires, such as a certificate issuing.

Partner reaching Gold tier, with the higher deal discount, commission rate and co-marketing benefits unlocked
Automate

Your program rules run for every partner, every time.

Most programs already know their rules. The work is applying them to every partner, and that is where partner managers lose their week. Workflows enforce those rules on a no-code canvas, triggered by what partners do and what changes in your CRM.

Triggers: a task, journey, course, certificate, segment or CRM field change.

Actions: update fields, switch the portal experience, enrol in a journey, issue a certificate, book a commission, send an email or a Slack or Teams nudge.

Rehearse against one real partner before you switch it on.

Partner workflow automation in Introw: Chase who is behind
Target

Every partner lands in the program that fits them.

Segments decide who sees what across the product, so a new referral partner and a Gold reseller each get the program that fits them. Build them once on live CRM data and every new partner falls into the right place.

Dynamic segments update themselves from live CRM data; static segments are hand-picked.

One segment targets portal tabs, announcements, courses, content, goal targets and deal coaches.

Applications, deal registrations, MDF requests and onboarding steps are all forms, mapped to CRM fields.

Partner announcements and campaigns: Your CRM decides who hears it. Nobody maintains a list
Own

Every partner knows who owns them, and nothing breaks when that changes.

A program where nobody knows who owns what loses partners. Assign each partner a lead partner manager, a co-owner or a technical contact, and when an owner changes, contacts, emails and approvals follow on their own.

The portal shows each partner their points of contact, kept current as assignments change.

Form approvals route to the partner's manager rather than a hard-coded name.

Team roles can map to a CRM property, and team members can be limited to the partners they manage.

Partner relationship management (PRM) software: Every partner knows who owns them, and nothing breaks when that changes
Core features

Everything you need to run a partner program, in one place

Partner management sets who a partner is and where they stand. Every other part of Introw reads from it, from the first registered deal to the last payout.

Deal registration and co-selling in Introw: Partners register deals from anywhere

Deal registration and channel conflict

Partners register from any channel, and every claim is checked against your pipeline before approval.

Partner certification issued from Introw training, ready to share on LinkedIn

Partner training and certification

Courses auto-enrol a whole segment and can be a step in the onboarding journey.

AI deal coaching in Introw: Your best rep's playbook on every partner deal

AI deal coaching

Scope a deal coach to a segment, so each motion's partners get stage guidance written for how they sell.

Partner announcements and campaigns in Introw: Partner news that turns into partner pipeline

Partner announcements and campaigns

Segments built on live CRM fields decide who receives each announcement. A partner who starts matching a dynamic segment gets the next message without anyone updating a send list.

Partner payout statement with revenue share, lead rebate and certification rewards

Partner commissions and SPIFFs

Commission plans pay a different rate per tier or segment, so moving up pays visibly more.

Partner goal tracking in the partner portal, showing partner-sourced revenue against target

Partner goal tracking

Make a goal a tier requirement, and partners see live progress toward the next tier. Segments give each region or motion its own goal target.

AI assistants

Run partner management from your AI assistant

Your team can run the program from Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports MCP, with the same permissions as in Introw.

“Which Gold partners haven't registered a deal this quarter?”
Introw AI
Claude
ChatGPT
Ask your assistant
“Which Gold partners haven't registered a deal this quarter?”
“Move Acme up to the Gold tier.”
“Prepare a QBR for my top partner.”
CRM-native

Built into HubSpot and Salesforce

Run another CRM? Connect it through the API or Zapier, or start without a CRM and add one later.

HubSpot

Introw for HubSpot

Introw reads and writes your own HubSpot objects and properties, custom objects included, so there is no second partner database. Partners register and co-sell on native deals, and your reps work with them from the Introw card on the record. Rated 4.9 on the HubSpot Marketplace.

Salesforce

Introw for Salesforce

Introw runs on Salesforce as the system of record, with two-way sync, custom-object mapping and field-level control. Partners are portal users, never Salesforce users, so no Experience Cloud build and no external seats. Your reps get partner context and actions in the Introw panel on the record. Listed on Salesforce AgentExchange.

For every partner type

One program for every partner motion

Run every partner type side by side. Each gets its own experience, forms, goals and rules, on the same CRM records.

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Referral partners
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Referral partners

Referral partners

Refer in seconds from any channel, see deal progress, get paid referral rewards.

02
Resellers and VARs
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Resellers and VARs

Resellers and VARs

Deal registration that protects margin, quotes on HubSpot, certification and tiers.

03
MSPs and MSSPs
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MSPs and MSSPs

MSPs and MSSPs

Registration, certified engineers, renewals and recurring commission.

04
Distributors and two-tier
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Distributors and two-tier

Distributors and two-tier

Credit for the reseller and the distributor on one deal, and scoped access to their network.

05
Co-sell and technology partners
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Co-sell and technology partners

Co-sell and technology partners

The live CRM deal without a seat, account overlap, shared tasks and MDF.

06
Implementation partners and SIs
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Implementation partners and SIs

Implementation partners and SIs

A clean handoff on the won deal, go-live tasks and certification.

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Affiliates
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Affiliates

Affiliates

Tracked links, live earnings, payouts without an invoice.

Why Introw

Why teams choose Introw

Most teams are choosing between four options: keep it manual, lean on a general AI assistant, buy a legacy PRM, or run Introw. Here is how they compare where it matters.

Introw
Spreadsheets and email
A general AI assistant
Legacy PRM
System of record
Your HubSpot or Salesforce, synced both ways
Spreadsheets and email
Files and inboxes
A general AI assistant
None: it has no program data
Legacy PRM
A separate partner database to reconcile with the CRM
Where partners work
Branded portal, Slack, Teams, email, their own CRM or AI assistant, same rules everywhere
Spreadsheets and email
Wherever you chase them
A general AI assistant
Not a partner surface
Legacy PRM
Mostly the portal
Who does the routine work
AI agents register deals, answer partners and clear routine approvals within your permissions
Spreadsheets and email
Your team, by hand
A general AI assistant
Suggests, cannot act on your program
Legacy PRM
Your team, with rules-based automation
Partner incentives
Commissions, SPIFFs, MDF and Introw Pay payouts calculated from CRM data
Spreadsheets and email
Manual ledgers
A general AI assistant
None
Legacy PRM
Often a separate module or tool
Partner marketing
Announcements by segment, through-channel campaign kits, attribution in the CRM
Spreadsheets and email
Forwarded attachments
A general AI assistant
Drafts copy only
Legacy PRM
Varies by vendor
Security and control
SAML and OIDC SSO, SCIM, role-based access with record scoping, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001
Spreadsheets and email
Files shared by link
A general AI assistant
Sees what you paste, with no program permissions
Legacy PRM
Varies by vendor and plan
Time and cost to run
No-code, owned by your partner team, live in weeks
Spreadsheets and email
Cheap to start, grows with headcount
A general AI assistant
No governance or permissions
Legacy PRM
Often an implementation project and consultants for changes
Integrations

Introw connects to the tools your team and partners already use

CRM

HubSpot and Salesforce, two-way on your own objects and fields.

HubSpotSalesforce

Chat

Slack, Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp. Partners register deals, get updates and ask questions in the channel they already watch.

SlackMicrosoft TeamsWhatsApp

AI assistants

Claude, ChatGPT and any assistant that supports MCP, for your team and your partners, under the same permissions.

ClaudeChatGPTMCP

Payouts and billing

Introw Pay for partner payouts; Stripe and Chargebee feed commissions from billing data.

IntrowStripeChargebee

Data and account mapping

Crossbeam overlaps inside Introw, Power BI embedded with per-partner row-level security.

CrossbeamPower BI

Agreements and automation

DocuSign for agreements as an onboarding step, Zapier and a versioned REST API for the rest.

Zapier
For who

Built for every role on your partner revenue team

Channel Partner Manager

Channel Partner Manager

Pipeline visibility
Deal registration
Partner updates
Tiering
Conflict resolution
CRO

CRO

Revenue generation and attribution
Forecasting
Pipeline quality
Channel leverage
Accountability
RevOps

RevOps

CRM data health
Automation
Governance
Reporting consistency
Routing logic
Partner Marketing Manager

Partner Marketing Manager

Campaigns
Co-marketing assets
Engagement tracking
Lead and revenue generation
Partner content
Customers

What Introw customers say

Every stage

Introw fits your program at every stage

The same platform runs a first program and a global channel, so you start where you are and never re-platform.

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Launching a program

You are moving off spreadsheets, often as a team of one. You go live in weeks with no implementation project: deal registration, a branded portal, onboarding and content, configured by your team.

Scaling from tens to hundreds of partners

You run several motions at once. Segments, tiers, MDF, commissions and workflows run on one platform, and your team ships changes the same day without a consultant.

Enterprise and global channel

Thousands of partners across regions and teams. SAML and OIDC SSO, SCIM, role-based access with record scoping, multi-step approvals, multiple currencies and languages, and a white-label portal on your domain.

Pricing that stays predictable as you grow

Start free

The whole product at the scale of one partner, with no time limit and no credit card.

Partners are counted by portal, not by user

Invite as many of a partner's people as you like.

Your reps stay free in the CRM

CRM-only roles that need partner context in HubSpot or Salesforce do not take a seat.

AI assistant connections are included

MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and your partners' assistants is not an add-on.

No consultants for changes

Your partner team configures forms, portals, tiers and workflows without code.

Dashboard screen with sales pipeline, commission statements, asset library, and a note to register a $20k deal.

See Introw on your own CRM

Bring your HubSpot or Salesforce, and we will show you your partners, deals and attribution live in Introw in one call. Live in weeks, owned by your team.

Related reading

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is partner relationship management software?

Partner relationship management (PRM) software runs the partner lifecycle: recruiting, onboarding, tiers, deal registration, enablement, reporting and payouts. Introw is PRM software built into HubSpot and Salesforce. Every partner is a CRM record, and every partner action writes back to it instead of living in a separate partner database.

What is the difference between a PRM and a CRM?

A CRM tracks your customers and your own sales team. A PRM runs the partners who sell with you: their onboarding, tiers, deal registrations, content, goals and commissions. Introw runs on top of HubSpot or Salesforce, not beside it, so partner data stays in the CRM and partner revenue reports next to direct revenue.

Is Introw a partner portal or a PRM?

Both. Introw is PRM software built into HubSpot and Salesforce, and its branded, no-code partner portal is where most partners work with you. The portal is never the only way in: partners also register deals, get answers and follow progress from Slack, Teams, email, their own CRM or their AI assistant, under the same rules.

Do partners need a CRM seat?

No. Partners work from a branded portal, Slack, Teams, email or their own AI assistant, and never log into your CRM. They see only the records and fields you open to them, and what they submit or edit writes back to HubSpot or Salesforce under your rules.

How long does it take to go live?

Weeks, because setup is configuration rather than a custom build. You connect your CRM, partners are detected from your existing records, and your partner team configures journeys, tiers, forms and the portal without code. Tensis went live in under 2 weeks and grew partner-sourced revenue 400%.

Can we run several partner types in one program?

Yes. Referral, reseller, distributor, co-sell, implementation and affiliate partners each get their own portal experience, forms, goals and rules, all on the same CRM records. Segments decide which partners and which contacts see what, so one program serves every motion without separate tools.

What runs without a person?

Applications create the partner and send the invite. Journeys hand out next steps, segments update from CRM data and conflict checks run on every registration, and commission lines book from closed deals. Workflows cover the rest: a finished course can issue a certificate, add a one-off commission and update the tier.

See AI-Native PRM in Action

Connect HubSpot or Salesforce on the free plan: the whole product at the scale of one partner, no time limit, no credit card.