The 1C-Bitrix affiliate program brings together companies that create, maintain, support Internet projects, distribute software, provide IT consulting and hosting services.

Partners offer a wide range of services: analysis of requirements for a web project, preparation of technical specifications, design and development of design, project functionality, search engine promotion, Internet advertising, technical support, etc.

Partner statuses

He has extensive experience in developing web projects, including complex software solutions based on 1C-Bitrix: Site Management. Employees of the partner company have successfully completed all available training courses, passed tests and received specialist certificates. Gold certified partner has a large number of large and medium projects developed based on the product.

has sufficient experience in the development of web projects in order to provide professional services for the development of sites based on "1C-Bitrix: Site Management". Employees of the partner company completed training courses on setting up and integrating the product. A certified partner has a sufficient number of projects created on the basis of "1C-Bitrix: Site Management".

provides or begins to provide services for the development of sites based on "1C-Bitrix: Site Management". A business partner may also specialize in online or offline software distribution, consulting services for various companies.

Competencies

When choosing a partner, pay attention to the competencies they have acquired that are relevant to your project. This will allow you to more purposefully select a developer that meets your requirements.

Partner competencies

Nikolay Sementsov

Marketplace of ready-made solutions Marketplace has opened up new opportunities for us to replicate our developments and ready-made solutions. Growth according to 1C-Bitrix in 2015 was 53%, which shows its demand among entrepreneurs.

However, it has many problems that prevent it from being fully used:

Lack of prompt and clear technical support

Inability to test the solution before purchasing it

Wasting time installing and configuring the solution

Lack of teaching materials

The developer of the solution does not fix bugs

No paid solution maintenance

Integration with 1C is impossible without template improvements

This list can be supplemented by any partner who actively works with ready-made solutions. For these reasons, many are hesitant to start selling ready-made solutions. At the same time, there are many customers who want to have an online store, but the price of “development from scratch” scares them.

We recently analyzed the purchase statistics of our Miss Shop and Mister Shop stores, to our surprise, we found that we have no more than 25% of partner sales. We want to change this situation and use the full power of the affiliate network. When working with clients, we use methods that help us sell better, this is all available for partners.

How we sell:

Free installation and demo mode

All our solutions have a demo mode of 14 days. This helps us to remove fears from the client, because during this time we can fully test the solution. Our primary goal when communicating is to involve the client in the work, and installing the site in demo mode is perfect for this. We set up a website for free hosting. But if the client does not have hosting or he does not even understand what it is, then we help him with the choice and design of hosting.

11.09.2011

The main thesis for this article will also be "the road will be mastered by the walking one." This is, in principle, everything you need to know in order to become a 1C-Bitrix Gold Certified Partner, as we did. But if you want to hear a few more practical tips, we will provide them.

Also, we would like to remind you that this article echoes the first part, where we described our own experience, how we became a 1C-Bitrix Gold Certified Partner.

1) The most important thing is the problem statement. Set yourself a goal. Not very big, not complicated and quite doable, but bringing you closer to the global goal. Try not to think about Gold. It is not so important for you at this stage. I can suggest the following intermediate goals:

• Become a 1C-Bitrix Business Partner and conclude an agreement;
• Get 100 points and become a 1C-Bitrix Certified Partner;
• Get any 1C-Bitrix competency. It is most realistic to get "1C integration", but if you get the "Corporate Portal" - this will seriously help you in the future.
• Earn 500 points and become a Gold Certified Partner

2) Carefully study the partnership agreement and the affiliate section of the 1C-Bitrix website - this is a storehouse of information for you. The rules tend to change and the rules described in this article may lose a significant part of their relevance in a year and a half.

3) If your goal is to get one or another status, do not neglect any way to get points.

It's actually quite a strange goal to "become a Gold Partner". If you are a business owner or studio director, then you should probably have goals like "become profitable" or "make X". But if you are a middle manager or a department head, then this goal is also suitable for you.

Let's now take a closer look at what and how you can do at each stage:

Conclusion of an agreement with 1C-Bitrix

In my opinion, this is a really important milestone in the life of many companies (and private developers as well). It is very important that, unlike many other affiliate programs (the same Microsoft or 1C), when working with Bitrix, you do not need to fulfill a sales plan. In order to be a Business Partner, you do not need to sell anything to anyone. But you will be entitled to a discount.

It is also nice that the 1C-Bitrix company is much calmer about partnership issues, so even an individual could become a partner before! And it was not necessary to create an LLC or IP. I do not know how things are now, but you can always find out about it in the affiliate department.

What is needed for this? At least 1 certified specialist with practical experience with 1C-Bitrix. Portfolio preferred. But the most important thing is the desire and initiative on your part. Call or write to the partner department!

Transition to the status of a Certified Partner

The most difficult stage, in my opinion, if you do not have your own clients to whom you can offer 1C-Bitrix. If there is a pool of clients, then there will be no problems. 100 points is 1 sale and implementation of 1C-Bitrix edition "Business" + 2 more points. It's not hard to get 2 points.

I have already said that you should not neglect any way to get points if they are important to you.

• Once every six months, a 1C-Bitrix affiliate conference is held before which a survey of partners takes place. Don't miss the opportunity to get 10 points effortlessly.
• Do your job well, and the client will provide you with written confirmation of the quality of work in addition to money. Feedback or written thanks are valued at 5 points.
• If you have developed an interesting project (even on the Start or First Site editions this is more than possible) - take at least 4 spectacular screenshots of the project and prepare an interesting marketing description for the 1C-Bitrix website of at least 2000 characters - an application for a well-executed case implementation brings 20 points.
• Are you sure that you will sell X licenses of the same type in the next six months? Be careful with your grades! However, if you are sure, then you can buy several licenses “in reserve” at once, save money, and at the same time get points. The main thing is that you need to activate licenses in the next six months, otherwise their validity period will start automatically!
• Are you sure that you will sell 2 licenses for the same type during the year? And you will have enough license of the same type to develop your own website? You have the opportunity to obtain an NFR license of the appropriate type “on request”, launch your own website on it and get points for launching (as well as for a good case). The main thing here is that you sell 2 licenses for the same or older editions during the year.

Calculations how many and which licenses need to be sold / implemented are also on the partner site. We just remind you that on 1 license you can run 2 sites within the framework of multi-site and count both of them!

Obtaining 1C-Bitrix competence

In this case, it's just some intermediate goal. You don't even have to achieve it, but the process of moving towards it will help you achieve your main goal - Gold status.

A description of the requirements for obtaining competencies is on the site and, unfortunately, there are no special ways to simplify the movement to them. Only projects made for clients will help you gain competence.

However, it is important that you should not rush at this stage, because the points awarded for the project are valid for only a year.

Decide what is more important to you. The competence is valid indefinitely (until 1C-Bitrix changes the rules), but to achieve the status, you may not have enough burnt points and it will be very disappointing. On the other hand, competence can help you get new projects, and with them money, experience, and of course points.

Obtaining the status of a Gold Certified Partner of 1C-Bitrix

You are at the finish line. If you scored 100 points last year, then not all of them will remain active by the time you are ready to upgrade your status. In fact, you may need to score those same 500 points.

I will not talk about well-known things, such as the sale of 1 license of 1C-Bitrix "Business Web Cluster" and the implementation of the site on it, this is 498 points. If you have such clients, you hardly need our advice, because you are most likely already on your way to the “leader of sales”.

I would rather remind you that a Certified Partner receives 2 NFR licenses of 1C-Bitrix "Business" and 1 license of 1C-Bitrix Corporate Portal "Business Processes". And these are 4 multi-site sites and 1 corporal. This is not only and not so points - this is a great experience! And if you implement good projects on them, then this is what you can show your clients!

Instead of an afterword

The main thing - do not stop! Never give up! And never forget - the road will be mastered by the walking one!!!

Universal software product for the development, support and development of Internet projects

1C-Bitrix software products are professional web project management systems: company websites, online stores, social networks and communities, corporate portals, web application rental systems and other projects.

1C-Bitrix products run on Windows and Unix platforms running PHP and ASP.NET and are suitable in terms of functionality for 95% of modern projects. The products are united by the main goal - to provide clear, convenient, comfortable and at the same time professional project management for both the end user and the developer.

Internet agency "Mibok" is a gold certified partner of 1C-Bitrix in Rostov-on-Don. You can purchase, implement and receive system support in our company.

On June 4, 2010, in the competition of Internet solutions "Virtual Rostov", one of the studio's projects received a diploma of the winner in the nomination "Best Site on 1C-Bitrix". The competition jury consisted of a number of competent experts, including Sergey Ryzhikov, General Director of 1C-Bitrix.

	In 2012, the competency “PHP Hosting” of the “Certified Hosting” level was obtained
	In 2011, the company received the "Corporate Portal" competency
	In 2012, the competence of the new cloud service Bitrix24 was obtained

If you are thinking about a partnership with 1C-Bitrix, read this article-instruction on how to get it. To cover all the steps, all material will be given to a freelance programmer who has had little interaction with this company, as this is the most difficult case. In the case of official employment and / or the presence of an individual entrepreneur or LLC, the presence of registration on the Bitrix website will make everything even easier: you just need to immediately go to step two.

Foreword

You definitely need Legal status. Despite the fact that you can become a partner by being just an individual. face, it almost makes no sense: everything you get in this case differs little from having a regular account on the site, except that you can upload free solutions to the Marketplace. The easiest way to move forward is to open an IP. Detailed instructions on this subject are given. Remember that you need to have the OKVED code 72.20, this is a mandatory requirement for a partner.

If you have an individual entrepreneur or LLC, you should not have any problems registering. Just fill in your certificates correctly. It is important to understand that the absence of a current account will not give you the opportunity to earn on the partnership, although moderation can be passed, so the RS is already needed.

First step: registration on the website 1c-bitrix.ru

There should be no problems here, the usual simple registration.

Preparing for the second step

The second step will be filling out the partner questionnaire on the same site. There are several points that will not allow you to go through this step from absolute zero. In order for you to skip this paragraph, you need to have: your website, company logo.

Your site

This is a mandatory point, Bitrix argues that this is how you prove that you are real, therefore it is not necessary to have your own website, you can just have a page about yourself on some corporate website, although it is difficult to imagine a situation where such page about you and you are looking for a partnership. Just because of this requirement, this site appeared, as written on the main page. It should also be taken into account that there are requirements for the partner site.

Requirements for your site:

• Availability of a contact email on the site
• Availability of a contact phone number on the website
• The presence of the actual address on the site (since I am a freelancer and by definition I do not have an office, and the actual address is quite personal information, they went to a meeting and allowed me not to write the address on the site)
• Portfolio as confirmation that you participated in the development using Bitrix products
• Can be created on a trial version of Bitrix
• Logo

Logo

When moderating a profile, you can simply insert your face into the logo field, but it’s better to have your own right now. I will talk about its creation in a separate article.

The second step: filling out the partner card on the site

At this stage, you will definitely need your own website (or at least a page about yourself) and a logo, it is written about them a little higher. Filling out the questionnaire itself should also not be more difficult than registration, the details are not needed yet, in theory, moderation can be completed without them at all. But there are a couple of not-so-obvious points, especially for individual entrepreneurs or individuals. faces, although flexibility is allowed, here is my fill example.

Third step: signing the contract

In theory, this is not a mandatory step, but in practice I had to sign, especially since this is a mandatory step to access Markteplace and to obtain an NFR license. Here you will already need your details of an individual entrepreneur or LLC. Enter them correctly and double-check, and double-check again, especially since changing them will be a rather long process. A current account is not required, but its absence will not allow you to earn. The details themselves are entered in the form in the partner's office, where you can also find the contract. This agreement will need to be printed in two copies, both copies signed and sent to the Bitrix office.

We all know how the Russian Post works, my contract went on for about two months. Since this is infinitely long, Bitrix went to meet me and allowed me to sign the contract by sending them an electronic scan of the printed and signed contract. So when the contract finally came, I already had an active partner account, but the paper version is still needed.