Partner relationship management

Treat partnerships like the
revenue channel they are

Track partners through a pipeline built for relationships, capture agreement terms, log referrals, and tie revenue back to the partners who drive it — all in a CRM your BD team will actually keep up to date.

Partnerships don't fit a sales CRM

Most CRMs make you bolt partners onto contacts or deals. Driftwood treats partnerships as a first-class, two-way relationship.

Partners crammed into the wrong records

Partnerships aren't deals and they aren't plain contacts. Forcing them into a sales pipeline loses the bidirectional, ongoing nature of the relationship.

Partner tracking lives in spreadsheets

Tiers, agreement terms, and referral logs spread across tabs nobody trusts. The moment a partner manager leaves, the context leaves with them.

No way to prove partner ROI

You can't tie revenue back to the partner who sourced it, so the program can't show its value — and the partners who actually produce go unrewarded.

Everything you need to run
a partner program

From first outreach to renewal, Driftwood gives partnership and BD teams the tools to cultivate partners and measure what they drive.

Visual Partnership Pipeline

See every partnership on a drag-and-drop board that moves through Identified, Outreach, Negotiating, Active, Paused, and Churned. Switch to list view to filter, sort, and export. Active is an open-ended state — because partnerships don't "close," they're cultivated.

  • Kanban board with drag-and-drop
  • List view with filters and export
  • Stage-based organization
  • Multiple pipelines per account

Custom Partnership Workflows

Define your own partnership lifecycle with custom stages. Rename, reorder, color-code, and mark stages as closed. Run separate pipelines for resellers, affiliates, and integration partners.

  • Custom stage names and colors
  • Drag-and-drop stage reordering
  • Closed-stage flags (e.g. Churned)
  • Multiple workflows per account

Partner Types & Tiers

Classify every partnership by type — referral, co-sell, integration, reseller, or affiliate — and assign a configurable tier like Gold, Silver, or Bronze. One model that spans your whole partner ecosystem.

  • Five built-in partnership types
  • Configurable tiers (Gold/Silver/Bronze)
  • Link a partner company and contacts
  • Custom fields for any program detail

Agreement Tracking

Capture the terms that matter: revenue-share percentage, referral fees, exclusivity, co-marketing commitments, and contract and renewal dates. Keep a full history of agreements as they evolve over time.

  • Revenue-share % and referral fees
  • Exclusivity and co-marketing terms
  • Contract and renewal dates
  • Multiple agreements per partnership

Referral Attribution

Log referrals flowing in and out, track them from new to qualified to converted, and attribute the revenue — enter a value manually or link the referral to a deal so its value is the single source of truth. Finally prove what each partner drives.

  • Inbound and outbound referrals
  • New / Qualified / Converted / Lost status
  • Manual value or linked-deal attribution
  • Revenue tied back to the partner

Partner Scorecard

A live scorecard rolls up every partner: referrals sent and received, conversions, and partner-sourced revenue. Know at a glance which partners produce and which are dead weight — and which agreements are up for renewal.

  • Referrals sent vs. received
  • Conversion counts per partner
  • Partner-sourced revenue rollup
  • Upcoming renewal tracking
Included with every account

Built on a complete CRM

Every Driftwood account includes contact and company management, a shared activity timeline, document attachments, insights, and team collaboration. The partnerships module is built on top — your partner data doesn't live in a silo.

Partner company tracking
Partner contacts with roles
Shared activity timeline (calls, emails, QBRs)
Document attachments for agreements
Custom fields and tags
Insights and reporting
BCC email capture
Team management with role-based access
CSV import with column mapping
API and webhook integrations

Built for partner teams like yours

Whether you run alliances, a reseller channel, or an affiliate program, Driftwood fits how you partner.

SaaS Alliance Managers

Running co-sell and integration partnerships with 30 partners? Track each through its lifecycle, log joint QBRs, and attribute the deals your partners source back to them.

Channel & Reseller Teams

Managing resellers and VARs across tiers? Classify partners by tier, capture margin and rev-share terms in agreements, and see partner-sourced revenue on one scorecard.

Affiliate & Referral Programs

Lots of partners sending referrals? Log every inbound referral, track conversion, and roll up attributed revenue so you know exactly which partners to reward.

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your partners drive?

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