Partner performance management

Know which partners will hit the number while the quarter is still open. Set goals on any metric in your CRM, see who is on pace and who is behind, and show every partner their own numbers. Reports, dashboards and QBR prep read the same data your revenue team reports on.

Cumulocity went from 0 to 20% of deals partner-sourced in 15 months.

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

What is partner performance management?

Partner performance management is how a vendor sets targets for partners, tracks progress against them and acts on the gap. In Introw, goals, partner analytics, reports and dashboards all compute from live HubSpot or Salesforce data. Partners see their own progress in the portal, so both sides read the same numbers.

The problem

By the time the quarterly review shows a miss, the quarter is gone

Partner numbers that live in spreadsheets arrive too late to change anything.

Without Introw

Targets sit in a spreadsheet
A miss shows up at quarter end
Partners do not know the bar
Every question is a RevOps ticket
Partner numbers live apart from direct revenue
QBR prep takes a morning

With Introw

Goal progress tracks itself from CRM data
Pace status flags who is behind in week two
Published goals show each partner their own progress
Partner teams build reports and dashboards themselves
Partner-sourced and influenced revenue on the same CRM records
The copilot assembles the review from live data
How it works

From the target to the conversation with the partner

One chain on one set of CRM numbers: set the goal, track the pace, show the partner, act on it, review together.

Set the target

Turn partner targets into numbers that track themselves.

Partners perform to a number they can see, and a target in a spreadsheet moves nobody. Goals count or sum whatever your CRM already holds, so you know who to chase and who to recognise while the quarter is still open.

Closed revenue, open pipeline, deals, leads shared, tickets resolved or certified people.

The same target per tier, a custom target per partner, or one per segment, so APAC and EMEA resellers can carry different numbers.

A frequency from one-time to yearly, on your fiscal calendar.

Partner goal tracking: Set it once on live CRM data. No spreadsheet to maintain
Act in time

A partner who is going to miss shows up in week two, not at the QBR.

Halfway through a quarter, 40% of target is not 40% done. It is behind. Introw scores every partner against the time elapsed, so your team spends its week on the partners who can still hit the number.

Achieved at 100% of target, on track within 5% of the expected pace.

Behind at 5% to 50% off the pace, critical past 50%.

Nudge from the goal's page, or automate the chase with a dynamic segment and a workflow.

Partner goal tracking: Partners see where they stand every day, so they push the right deals
Grow a tier

Give partners a reason to push this quarter: the next tier and what it pays.

A goal is the first step on a partner's growth path. Tie it to a tier and partners see exactly what the next level takes and what it pays. You keep the final say on every promotion.

Add a goal as a tier requirement, and partners see live progress toward the next tier.

Commission rates can target a tier, and on HubSpot tier discounts set the price partners quote.

Promotions run through a workflow or a manual or bulk tier change, never on the goal alone.

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

Answer "how much did partners source?" in minutes, not after a ticket.

Your partner team builds reports without SQL or a BI project, on the same CRM records your revenue team reports on. Partner revenue then stands next to direct revenue in every leadership review.

CRM deals, contacts and companies next to engagement, assets, certifications, commissions and MDF.

Roll up fields like ARR or sourced revenue, split by region, tier, phase or partner manager.

Arrange saved reports on dashboards, and embed any dashboard in a partner's portal.

Partner performance management: Answer "how much did partners source?" in minutes, not after a ticket
Review together

Prep the QBR in one question, not one afternoon.

Partners go quiet before they leave. Each partner's overview shows revenue, engagement, top deals and goal progress, and Introw AI assembles the QBR from live data, so your managers spend the prep time on the plan.

Engagement metrics flag partners whose activity has dropped.

Ask Introw AI, or Claude or ChatGPT over MCP, to prep a QBR: pipeline, goals, activity, commissions and open tasks.

The partner sees the same numbers in their portal, so the review is about the plan.

AI agents: A QBR that took an afternoon comes back as one answer
Core features

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

Performance data is what the rest of the program runs on. These are the parts of Introw that feed the numbers and act on them.

Partner goal tracking in Introw: Set the bar per partner

Partner goal tracking

Goals count or sum live CRM data per tier, partner or segment, with a pace status on every partner.

Partner reporting and dashboards in Introw: Report on every program

Partner reporting and dashboards

Build reports on CRM deals next to engagement, commissions and MDF, and arrange them into dashboards.

Partner Connect in Introw: Meet partners in their tools

Deal registration and channel conflict

Partner analytics reads the partner-attached pipeline from shared deals, so every registered deal shows up in that partner's numbers.

Partner workflow automation in Introw: Chase who is behind

Partner workflow automation

Build a dynamic segment on the same CRM data as a goal, and a partner entering it starts a workflow that chases them.

Partner referral, incentive and payout software: See the return on every MDF dollar

Partner commissions and SPIFFs

Earned commission lines roll into partner analytics, so each partner's revenue and payouts report side by side.

AI agents in Introw: Prep the review with AI

AI agents

Ask Introw AI to prep a QBR from live pipeline, goals, activity, commissions and open tasks. It also lists who is closest to the next tier and what they still need.

AI assistants

Run partner performance from your AI assistant

Ask about performance from Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports MCP, with the same permissions as in Introw.

“Which Gold partners are at risk?”
Introw AI
Claude
ChatGPT
Ask your assistant
“Which Gold partners are at risk?”
“How is Acme tracking against its goals this quarter?”
“Prepare a QBR for Acme with pipeline, goals, activity, and commissions.”
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
02 / 07
Resellers and VARs

Resellers and VARs

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

03
MSPs and MSSPs
03 / 07
MSPs and MSSPs

MSPs and MSSPs

Registration, certified engineers, renewals and recurring commission.

04
Distributors and two-tier
04 / 07
Distributors and two-tier

Distributors and two-tier

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

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Co-sell and technology partners
05 / 07
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

Partner scorecards
Goal progress per partner
Tier movement
QBR prep in seconds
At-risk partner alerts
CRO

CRO

Partner-sourced revenue
Forecast by partner
Pipeline quality
Channel leverage
Accountability
RevOps

RevOps

One CRM data model
Live HubSpot or Salesforce metrics
Consistent KPI definitions
Automated reporting
Governance
Partner Marketing Manager

Partner Marketing Manager

Campaign performance
Content engagement
MDF return
Partner-sourced leads
Activation by partner
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

More on running a partner program

Partner Performance Metrics: How to Measure, Diagnose and Improve Results

Partner Performance 101: What Every Channel Leader Should Know

Partner Analytics - Metrics & Tools to Measure Partnership Channel ROI in 2026

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is partner performance management?

Partner performance management sets targets for partners, tracks progress and acts on the gap. In Introw, goals compute from live HubSpot or Salesforce data and score each partner on pace: achieved, on track, behind or critical. Partners see their own goals in the portal, and reports and dashboards cover the rest of the program.

Which partner performance metrics can we track?

Anything your CRM holds that you attribute to partners. A goal counts CRM objects or sums a property: closed revenue, open pipeline, deals, leads shared or tickets resolved, and goals can also track certifications. Reports add engagement, asset views, commissions and MDF, and any field rolled up onto the partner account.

Can partners see their own goals?

Yes. You publish a goal and each partner sees their own progress against the target in the portal, updated as CRM data changes. They can also get a dashboard scoped to their own numbers, such as revenue, deal count, average deal size and sales cycle.

Can goals differ by region, tier or partner type?

Yes. A goal can carry the same target per tier, a custom target per partner, or a target per segment, and segments can filter on region or motion. Resellers can be measured on revenue, referral partners on leads shared and implementation partners on tickets resolved or certifications.

How do goals connect to tiers and commissions?

Add a goal as a requirement on a tier, and partners see live progress toward the next tier. Commission rates can target a tier or segment, and tier discounts set partner pricing in CPQ on HubSpot. Meeting a goal does not promote a partner on its own: a workflow or your team makes the tier change.

How do I prepare a partner QBR in Introw?

Ask Introw AI to prep a QBR for a partner. It pulls pipeline, goals, activity, commissions and open tasks from live data, and you can run the same request from Claude or ChatGPT over MCP. The partner sees the same numbers in their portal, so the review starts from agreed figures.

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.