Your published Program is what your agency partners see and rely on — so it should say what you really offer, not a guess.
Partner Partner can build a Program and Tier draft for you from an agency partner's agreement with you — reading its rate and term into a starting point on your side. That draft sits in Draft, owned by you, until you review it and publish. (It's a starting point Partner Partner sets up — not something the agency creates or triggers by approving their own agreement.) This article covers that review-and-publish step. For what a published Tier actually does — how requirements and benefits get tracked — see How Partner Tier Health & Accountability Works.
1. Where Your Draft Comes From
You don't have to build your Program and Tiers from scratch in Partner Partner. When an agency partner's agreement with you is uploaded and approved, Partner Partner can read that agreement's terms — commission rate, term — into a draft Program (with at least one Tier under it) on your side.
A few things worth knowing about that draft:
It's owned by you, the tech partner — never the agency. Your agency partner approving their agreement doesn't create or publish anything on your side; the draft is Partner Partner's starting point for you to act on.
It sits in Draft status. Nothing about it is visible to your agency partners until you publish it.
If you already have a published Program that matches (same name, owned by you), Partner Partner links the agreement to that instead of drafting a duplicate. A brand-new draft only appears when nothing matching exists yet.
2. What's Firm vs. What's a Suggestion
Not everything in the draft carries the same confidence. Partner Partner only asserts what the agreement actually says — everything else is a starting point for you to confirm.
In the draft | How confident it is |
Commission rate | Firm — taken directly from the agreement |
Term | Firm — taken directly from the agreement |
Tier structure, requirements, benefits | ⚠️ Suggested — a starting point, not asserted as fact |
The honest limit: a draft built from an agreement starts simple — a single default Tier reflecting the agreement's rate. An agreement doesn't carry your full tier ladder (its requirements and benefits per tier), so if your real program has several tiers, expect that first draft to be a starting point you build out before it matches your actual structure.
3. Reviewing Your Draft
Any Program waiting on you shows up with Status: draft in your Programs list, alongside your already-published programs. Opening it shows the drafted details — rate, term, and the tier(s) underneath — for you to check against what you actually offer.
⏳ Draft — not yet visible to agency partners
🟢 Published — live and visible to your agency partners
4. Publishing
Once the draft looks right, publishing it is a single action from that same review screen. A few things are guaranteed about this step:
Only you can publish. Your agency partner approving their agreement never creates, edits, or publishes anything on your Program or Tiers — that whole side stays yours until you act on it.
Publishing flips the Program — and its Tier(s) — from draft to published in one step.
From that point on, the published Tier is what's visible to your agency partner as the current version of your Program.
5. What This Feeds
A published Tier is the reference point for your partnership going forward — the requirements and benefits your agency partner is expected to meet and receive, as defined in the published Tier. For how that ongoing tracking works — Met / Not Met, health scores, confidence — see How Partner Tier Health & Accountability Works.
6. The Takeaway
You don't have to hand-build a Program from nothing. Partner Partner drafts a starting point from an agency partner's approved agreement — firm on rate and term, suggested on the rest — and nothing goes live for your partners until you review it and publish.