An agreement is a promise on paper. The real question is whether reality is still tracking it.

This article covers the five checks Partner Partner runs against your uploaded agreements — renewal timing, payment timing, rate, commission tail, and tier — and how each one turns into a Receipt worth bringing to your next partner conversation.

1. Agreement-Derived vs. Data-Derived Receipts

Not every Receipt comes from the same place.

How Partner Partner Tracks Commissions & Rewards covers Receipts built from your transaction data — billings, payouts, and how they're matched to each other.
This article covers Receipts built from your agreement itself — the rate, cadence, renewal date, and tier terms you uploaded, checked against what's actually happening.

The two work together. A commission Receipt might tell you a payout looks off. An agreement Receipt tells you what it should have looked like, according to the document you signed.

None of this runs until an agreement is uploaded and approved. For how an agreement gets into Partner Partner and turned on, see Uploading a Partner Agreement and Approving an Agreement.

2. The Five Agreement Checks, At a Glance

Check	What it watches	What it flags
Renewal window	Your agreement's term end and notice period	The decision deadline is approaching or has passed
Payment timing	How long payouts are taking, relative to your agreement's cadence	A gap outside what your agreement's payout rhythm would predict
Rate check	Your effective rate vs. the rate stated in the agreement	The two don't line up
Commission tail	How long commission should keep paying out after a referral	Commission stopped before the agreement's tail period ended
Tier check	Your recorded tier assignment vs. what the agreement states	A mismatch between the two

Payment timing is cadence-aware — it reads your agreement's actual payout rhythm before deciding a gap is worth a second look, so a quarterly partner paying every 90 days isn't "late" at day 45. The renewal window check works in a similar spirit, tracking your agreement's own term end and notice period rather than a generic clock. Rate, commission tail, and tier are direct comparisons against what the agreement states, not timing checks.

3. Renewal Window Approaching

Every agreement with a term end date has a renewal decision point — the date by which you need to renew, renegotiate, or knowingly let it lapse. Miss it, and depending on the agreement, you either lose the program or get auto-renewed into another term without a chance to revisit it.

Partner Partner tracks that date for every active agreement and surfaces a Receipt as the decision deadline gets close, getting more pointed the closer — or further past — the deadline you are:

⏳ Deadline is approaching — worth a look
⚠️ Deadline is close, or has already passed

This Receipt doesn't carry a dollar figure — it's a date, not a claim. It exists so you're never finding out about a lapsed program after the fact.

4. Payment Timing

Every agreement implies a payout rhythm — monthly, quarterly, annual, or whatever cadence it states. This check compares what's actually arriving against that rhythm.

The point isn't to flag every gap — it's to flag the ones your agreement's own cadence says shouldn't be there. A payment that lands a little later than usual within a normal cycle isn't treated as late. A partner going silent for multiple cycles in a row is worth raising.

When this Receipt appears, it's evidence that the timing looks off relative to what was agreed — not a statement that a payment is confirmed missing.

5. Rate Check

Your data shows you an effective rate — what you're actually seeing land, based on billings and payouts. Your agreement states a contracted rate. This check compares the two.

A mismatch here doesn't mean something was withheld — rates shift for legitimate reasons. It means the number worth confirming out loud is: "our agreement says X — what we're seeing is Y. Can you walk me through that?"

6. Commission Tail

Many agreements promise that commission keeps paying for a defined stretch after a referral converts — the "tail." This check reads that clause and compares it against how long commission actually kept flowing.

This is distinct from the general commission-dropout signals covered in How Partner Partner Tracks Commissions & Rewards — that article covers commission stopping in your data generally. This check specifically ties a stoppage back to what your agreement promised: if the tail clause says 12 months and commission stopped at month 4, that gap is worth naming.

7. Tier Mismatch

Your agreement may state which tier you're in. Your account has a recorded tier assignment. This check confirms the two agree.

This is a narrower, one-time alignment check — not the ongoing tracking of requirements and benefits within a tier. For that broader picture — whether what's promised at your current tier is actually being delivered — see How Partner Tier Health & Accountability Works. This is the check that surfaces it if the tier itself was recorded wrong in the first place.

8. Where the Evidence Comes From

Every agreement-based Receipt links back to the specific agreement it was checked against, so you can see exactly which clause it's referencing before you bring it up. Some Receipts also carry a confidence label — how much the underlying evidence supports the finding — so a thin or partial signal doesn't read the same as a well-supported one.

9. The Point: Conversation Prep, Not a Claim

None of these five checks produce a bill. They produce a starting point.

A real conversation built on an agreement Receipt sounds like: "Our agreement says renewal notice is due in three weeks — want to get ahead of that?" or "The agreement states a 12-month tail and we saw it stop at month four — can you help us understand what happened?"

That's the whole model: verified reality, checked against what was agreed, brought to the conversation with the evidence attached. Not an accusation. Not a number dressed up as owed. Something worth raising, together.

How Agreement-Based Receipts Work