It includes lots of services to help you run your business with Tiny ERP, including: * leads and prospects generation by countries * training material (technical and user) * support * trainings (real and upgrade training once a year) * bugfix guarantee * svn access * partners meetings (irc monthly or real annualy) * partners mailinglists * work directly with the Tiny team (for sales and technique) * visibility on website, newsletter, ... The complete list is in the contract: http://tinyerp.com/images/pdf/new%20partner%20program.pdf
> And what can't non-partners do that partners can, in terms of offering > services about TinyERP? It's open source, so you can offer all services you want on Tiny ERP without being a partner. But it will be costly for non partners: for example, if you provide a maintenance contract, support contract or bugfix guarantee contract without going through Tiny, that means you have to take care of all of this yourself for the customer. You must do all bugfix, maintaining work, technical support... at your own charge. That will cost you much more than subcontracting generic part to Tiny. (because we spread this cost between all customers/partners) For instance, if you plan to train your customer, we already have the training material. We can assist you for your firsts trainings, ... I also think it is much more easier to start with Tiny, getting training, support, visibility than doing everything alone. Compared to the selling price of an ERP project, our partner program is ridiculously cheap. I'am also sure that if you start selling Tiny ERP without being a partner, that will cost you much more than starting with our help. I also think you may loose some contracts if you are not a partner: customers need guarantees. But it's fully open source and we promote that. So you can do what you want, you don't have selling constraints. (being a partner or not). Regards, _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
