Introduce a shop, and stop paying for months
Suppliers know which of their customers are fighting their software. Shop owners know the other shops in town. Introduce one, and their subscription pays for yours.
Two kinds of business are in a position to introduce a shop
The offer is the same for both. What differs is who you already have a reason to talk to.
- If you supply repair shops
- Parts distributors and wholesalers with a book of trade customers. You sell to these shops every week, and you already know which of them are fighting their software. Introducing one costs you a sentence in a conversation you were having anyway.
- If you run a repair shop
- You know the other shops in your town, and the ones you pass work to when a job is out of your line. A shop you introduce comes off your own bill, on exactly the same terms a distributor gets. You do not have to be a supplier to take part.
One requirement, and it is the same for both: you have a SlickCell subscription of your own. What you earn is credit against it, so there has to be a bill for it to come off.
Five steps, and you only do the first
From naming a shop to skipping a bill, with nothing to install and no code to hand out.
- 01Tell usSend the shop's name and who to expect, before they sign up.
- 02They startThey sign up and run the fourteen-day trial like anyone else.
- 03They payTheir first paid month is the month your credit is earned.
- 04It banksCredit adds up and does not expire. Three shops is a free month.
- 05You skip a billSay the word before it goes out and that month is not charged.
A person matches every introduction and applies every free month. There is nothing for you to log in to and no code to hand out.
Every shop you introduce is worth a month of what they pay
Not a share of it, and not a fraction of your own bill. A shop that signs up through your link and pays for Professional earns you £59 against your next invoice.
| The shop pays for | One shop | Three shops | Ten shops |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, £39 a month | £39 | £117 | £390 |
| Professional, £59 a month | £59 | £177 | £590 |
| Supplier Pro, £99 a month | £99 | £297 | £990 |
| Enterprise, priced individually | £99 | £297 | £990 |
The rules, in full, before you ask
Thirteen of them. Several are limits rather than benefits, and those are not kept for the bottom.
- It has to be a shop that was not already coming
- A business that is not already a SlickCell customer, and not one of your own locations under another name. A shop that had already started a trial before you introduced them does not count, because they no longer have a first payment for it to count on.
- Share your link, or tell us the name
- Your link and its QR code are in the app under Settings → Referrals, and a shop that signs up through either is matched to you automatically. If you would rather tell us who to expect, the form still works and a person still reads it. Both mechanisms earn the same.
- It counts once they are paying
- The fourteen-day trial does not count. A shop earns you their first month's plan price the first time they actually pay for a plan, and nothing before that.
- They have ninety days to start paying
- From signing up through your link to their first payment. A shop that trials, leaves, and comes back a year later is not one you introduced any more.
- A shop earns once
- The reward is for bringing a shop, not for keeping one. A shop you introduced earns on its first paid month and does not earn again, so more credit next quarter means another shop rather than the same one.
- It counts at the plan they start on
- A shop that starts on Starter and moves up later does not earn again on the upgrade. Whichever plan they first pay for is the one the reward is worked out from. Enterprise is priced individually, so a shop on it earns the Supplier Pro rate.
- Fourteen days before it is yours
- A reward is held for fourteen days after the shop's first payment. If that payment is refunded inside those fourteen days you earn nothing, because the shop never really paid. It is a holding period, not a delay in applying it.
- If they are refunded later, it comes back in proportion
- A refund after the holding period takes back the same share of the reward as the share of the payment refunded. A full refund takes all of it. We will not take back more than the shop got back.
- It comes off your next bill
- Credit is added to your SlickCell account and the next invoice takes as much of it as it is worth, carrying the rest to the one after. It covers whatever that invoice covers, additional locations included. It does not expire and it is not paid out in cash.
- If you pay yearly
- It comes off your next annual invoice, in the same way. There is no separate arrangement and nothing is added to the end of your term.
- One shop, one introducer
- If two partners introduce the same shop it counts for whoever told us first, and we will tell you which it was. It makes no difference whether they are a supplier or another repair shop, or whether one used a link and the other a form.
- We may hold one while we look at it
- An introduction that looks like the same business twice, the same owner, the same company number, the same card, is held and read by a person before anything is paid. If it is genuine it is released and earns exactly as it would have. You cannot introduce yourself.
- If we change it
- We can change the programme or close it, and we will give notice before we do. Credit you have already earned stays yours. We will not take back credit you were told you had, other than the refund rule above.
None of that depends on what the shop does with you afterwards. The reward follows their subscription and nothing else.
What people ask before signing up to this
Including the one thing you need before you can take part, whichever side you are on.
Two groups. Parts distributors and wholesalers who sell to repair shops, and repair shops themselves. Both are built around a relationship you already have rather than around advertising: you are not being asked to find strangers, you are being asked to mention us to businesses you already speak to.
Yes, and it is the one hard requirement. What you earn is free months of your own subscription, so there has to be a subscription to take them off. If you are not on the platform yet, the fourteen-day trial is the place to start, and anything you introduce while you are on trial still counts once you are paying.
Yes. One shop is worth something on its own: £39 if they pay for Starter, £59 for Professional, £99 for Supplier Pro. Two or three is a month you largely do not pay for, so the arithmetic starts working at two or three rather than at thirty. What it will not do is pay you, the reward only ever cancels your own bill. The plan prices it follows are on the pricing page.
As many as you like, and there is no ceiling on what you can earn. Credit that is worth more than your next bill is not lost, the invoice takes what it is worth and the rest waits for the one after. Because a shop earns once rather than every month, bringing more is the only way to keep earning, which is exactly the way round we want it.
Both, in the app under Settings → Referrals: your link, a QR code for it, who has arrived through it and what each one is worth. A shop that signs up through the link is matched to you without anybody doing anything. If you would rather tell us a name than share a link, the form still works and a person still reads it.
If they cancel, the reward is still yours, it is earned on their first paid month and it is for bringing them, not for keeping them. What does come back is a REFUND: inside the first fourteen days you earn nothing, because the payment did not stand, and after that we take back the same share that was refunded and no more.
The earning is automatic, the link matches them, their first payment qualifies it, fourteen days pass and the reward is yours. Moving it onto your account is done by a person here, and then your next invoice takes it automatically. If you are close to a bill and want it on that one, say so and we will make sure it is applied first.
Yes, on exactly the terms a distributor gets, and it is worth the same to you as to them: a shop that pays for Professional is £59 off your bill whether you are on Starter or Supplier Pro. The only requirement is that you are on a plan yourself, because the credit comes off your own bill.
Nothing changes about your own shop. The other business gets their own account, their own data and their own subscription, and neither of you can see anything belonging to the other. Most shops introduce the ones they already pass work to, or the ones in the next town rather than the next street.
They are separate things and neither blocks the other. The extended trial is a one-off fourteen days after your first trial ends. Partner credit is earned on shops you introduce and comes off bills you are already paying, so it needs you to have started paying before it has anywhere to go.
No. The reward follows their subscription, not their orders. If a shop you introduced starts buying from another wholesaler as well, or instead, what you earned is still yours. They are still a customer here and you are still the reason. We would rather not be in the business of policing who you trade with.
Tell us who you are bringing
There is no code to generate and no dashboard to watch: a person reads every introduction. Tell us the shop's name before they sign up, and we will do the rest.
Tell us about a shop you introduced
Four things we need: whether you supply shops or run one, who you are, how to reach you, and the shop’s name. Everything else just helps us match them faster.