Who is this article for?
This article will be useful to you if you are a company looking to recruit high-performing partners into your program.
PartnerStack's partner discovery tool empowers you to discover and recruit qualified partners from the PartnerStack Network to join your program.
Discovery & Recruitment overview
The Discovery & Recruitment tool helps you search, filter, qualify, and recruit PartnerStack Network partners into your program. Discover thousands of partners actively using PartnerStack to market and sell software, find recommended partners that are a good fit for your program, automate partner recruitment with an agent, send emails to share your program’s value, track recruitment efforts, save email templates, and monitor partner activity.
What are Network partners?
Network partners are partners that have applied to PartnerStack Network, and have been reviewed and approved by our Network team.
For more information on the PartnerStack Network application, see the partner-facing Joining the PartnerStack Network support guide.
The PartnerStack partner discovery tool elevates the prospective partner pool while streamlining the otherwise painful process of recruiting partners across tools. There is no more efficient recruitment lever on the market to have in your toolkit.
Using the partner discovery tool
From the Discovery & Recruitment tab, you can
- Browse thousands of partners identified by PartnerStack as top performers or high-potential partners
- Search and filter partners by type, audience size, location, main industry, and more
- Review partner profiles to see key information, including active programs on PartnerStack and preferred commission structures
- Save partners for later or mark them as a bad fit to avoid future outreach
- Contact partners directly by sending emails from PartnerStack
For a video walkthrough of using the Discovery & Recruitment tool, see the Company dashboard: Video walkthroughs.
Browsing Network partners
A Network partner's profile provides a comprehensive view of their business details, including their website, audience size, industry, sales channels, active programs, preferred commission structures, and social media links.
To browse potential Network partners
- Navigate to your Discovery & Recruitment tab in your left-hand menu
- Select the Discover Network Partners tab
- Click on a Network partner to open their profile
AI partner matches
We use AI to generate relevant partner recommendations based on your industry preferences, past interactions, similar programs, and partner engagement and activity. As you recruit and work with partners, the AI learns over time and improves its suggestions.
Our AI automatically refines your partner recommendations daily at 10:00 EST (UTC-5) based on your activity. By approving, inviting, or saving partners, you help the system learn what you are looking for. Marking a partner with a thumbs down signals that the partner is not a good fit for your program.
PartnerStack Recruit Agent
The PartnerStack Recruit Agent automates partner recruitment for your program. It discovers relevant partners from the PartnerStack Network using the AI recommendation engine based on your selected criteria and automatically reaches out to recruit them on your behalf.
Set the partner type, country, and message to send, and the agent will begin outreach the day after it is activated. Invites sent by the agent are not counted toward your weekly invite limit, and invites are sent from the user who first activated the agent.
Partners contacted or recruited by the agent will appear in the respective tabs with an Agent label. You can pause the agent or adjust your criteria at any time, and the agent will pick up the updated criteria and continue outreach on the original day of the week after it was activated.
Reviewing Network partners
Network partners in your Discovery & Recruitment tool can be searched by name or website and can be filtered by audience size, main industry selling method, location, and status (new or emailed).
Multiple filters can be applied at a time to help you locate specific types of new partners, i.e. applying an industry (Marketing) and location filter (Canada) to help you locate partners specializing in a specific vertical, in a specific country.
- Audience size: SMB (small-to-medium business), mid-market, and enterprise
- Main industry: Industry verticals like marketing, sales, HR software, and more
- Selling method: The channels each partner uses, like blogs, newsletters, events, paid search, and more
- Location: The countries filtered partners reside in
- Website: Whether or not the partner has provided a link to their website
- Status: Filter partners you've viewed, contacted, and marked as a good or bad fit
Partner type: Affiliate Marketer, Agency partner, Reseller partner, Influencer and more
Monthly views: ranges of number of monthly views
- Commission Structure: % rev share, CPC, CPL and more
- Domain Authority: Score predicting website search ranking based on link quality and quantity
To apply a Discovery & Recruitment filter:
- Log into the PartnerStack portal
- Select Discovery & Recruitment from the menu on the far left
- Select “Add filter” and select your desired filters from the drop-down list
- To remove a filter, click the “X” next to the filter
Contacting Network partners
Once you have marked a Network partner as a good fit, you can send them an email from your PartnerStack dashboard to kick off the relationship and invite them to join your program. You can reach out to a maximum of 200 new partners per week. This email count doesn’t include follow-up emails sent to partners you have already reached out to — only your first email to a new partner counts toward this limit.
To invite a Network partner:
- Select Discovery & recruitment from the menu on the far left
- Navigate to the Discover Network Partners tab and select a partner to open their profile
- On the top right of the partner profile, you can either click on the flag icon
to save the partner for review later, mark this partner as a bad fit, or compose an invite to your program
- Click
- Use the email builder to create your email or write an invitation with AI
- To learn more about creating stylized emails, check out our support guide here
- Once you're ready to invite your partner, click
Writing invitations with AI
You can now leverage our new AI feature to write personalized, on-brand invite emails for every potential partner! This capability works for both individual outreach and bulk sends, allowing you to execute faster campaigns while maintaining an authentic and customized message for each recipient.
- Navigate to the Discover Network Partners tab and select a partner to open their profile
- Click “Compose recruitment invite"
- Select the group to allocate the partner to
- If the group already has a pre-existing email template, click on the template dropdown menu and select None - draft new subject line and message
- Click
The initial email is sent from hello@partnerstackmail.com, but when a partner replies it will be directed to your email address.
Creating Follow-Ups
You can streamline communication with partners by sending follow-up emails in bulk.
- Select Discovery & recruitment from the menu on the far left
- Click on the "Contacted" tab
- Select all partner(s) you wish to send a follow up email to by clicking the box to the left side of the partner profile(s)
- Click the "Follow up 'x' selected partners" button
- Make any necessary selections/ changes in the email builder window
- Click "Send 'x' Recruitment Invites" button
As a best practice, we recommend using the Filter option to view the email status. Filter by 'opened' status to quickly multi-select and send a follow up in bulk.
Discovery and Recruitment FAQs
Is there a limit to how many Network partners I can reach out to?
You can reach out to a maximum of 200 new partners per week. This doesn’t include follow-up emails sent to partners you have already reached out to — only your first email to a new partner counts towards this limit.
Will all partners show up in this tool?
The partner discovery tool will feature partners that have applied to and been approved to the PartnerStack Network. Network partners that have been identified by PartnerStack as top partners, premium partners, or high-potential partners will also be highlighted with a badge. Click here to learn what each of these designations means.
Partners also need to have opted into being reached out to from within their profile page.
Is this a premium feature? Do I have to pay to access it?
There is no cost associated at this time.
Can an invite template be edited or deleted?
Templates currently cannot be deleted once created. The name cannot be edited, but the template body can be edited
What happens when a partner replies to an outreach email?
When an outreach email is sent through PartnerStack, it is sent directly to the partner. When partners reply to an email sent through PartnerStack's discovery tool, it will go directly to the email inbox of the person who sent the outreach to the partner. No portion of the email thread is visible inside of PartnerStack.