Refer or implement.
Both earn money, just differently.
You know businesses where enquiries pile up: on the phone, in the inbox, on the website. And where the knowledge behind them sits in people's heads instead of in one place. That is where rinqo comes in. You decide how far you go: just make the introduction, or sell setup, training and support as your own service.
Become a partnerIn short
The rinqo partner programme has two routes. As a referrer, you introduce a company. Private individuals aged 18 or over may also participate. As an implementer, you additionally handle setup, training and support and bill that work yourself. There is no territorial protection, minimum turnover or joining fee. Register and confirm your email; your contract, referrals, statuses, commissions and documents are then available in the free partner area. A referrer-only account includes no software or demo access. Approved implementers instead set up demonstration agents in their own account, running on prepaid credit. The company always enters into the platform contract directly with rinqo.
Two doors.
The difference is not the size of your company, but how much of the work you take on.
Referrer
You know the business and make the introduction. Nothing more.
Open to private individuals aged 18 or over as well. If an assigned referral becomes a paying customer, rinqo accounts for the contractual remuneration. Your free referrer area shows referrals, statuses, commissions and documents. No tiers, targets, reports or minimum turnover.
Implementer
You set things up, build the knowledge base, train the agents and stay the first line for the customer.
You bill the company directly for your setup and support. You manage your contract, business opportunities, statuses, commissions and documents in the free partner area. As an approved commercial implementer, you set up one demonstration agent of each agent type in your own account and top up the credit for them in advance; there is no monthly included allowance. You only receive access to a customer account when the company invites you.
What you get
| Monthly revenue of all businesses | Referrer | Implementer |
|---|---|---|
| up to €1,000 | 15 % | 20 % |
| €1,000 to €4,000 | 20 % | 25 % |
| from €4,000 | 25 % | 30 % |
Like income tax: each slice of the revenue is paid at its own band. An additional business never lowers the rate on the ones you already look after.
Example: businesses with €1,050 of monthly revenue between them bring €212.50 a month. That is 20 % on the first €1,000 and 25 % on the rest.
Referrer
10% of what the business pays – for 12 months from its first payment.
No tiers, no targets, no reports. That is deliberate: tiers and targets would legally turn you from a referrer into a commercial agent – with duties you did not want.
With a registered business, a referrer is on the same scale, five points below the implementer: no annual cap, no time limit, and no servicing obligation.
As a private individual, at most 3 businesses a year. Anyone who wants to refer more registers a business or becomes an implementer.
Implementer
20 %, 25 % and 30 %, banded by the monthly revenue of all the businesses assigned to you.
The share runs for as long as you look after the business and the business stays. There is no time limit and no ceiling.
It is calculated on revenue, not on the number of businesses. A large business counts for as much as it brings in.
On an introduction fee there is a further 10 %, whatever the monthly revenue. If you carry out the introduction yourself, you bill the business directly and no bonus arises.
Payment follows once the business's own payment is final: 60 days for direct debit, 120 for card. That is how long a payment can still be reversed.
How a business gets assigned to you
You get a referral code. The business enters it when it registers – that is the moment the assignment happens, and it stands from then on. Without the code, no assignment happens, even if you made the introduction.
So nobody beats you to it, register the business beforehand in the partner area. From that timestamp the case is yours for ninety days – even against our own sales team.
So it is two steps: register, so the case is yours. And make sure the business enters your code, so the payment happens.
What happens if no business joins?
As an implementer you need a paying business within 90 days. If none comes, a grace period of 90 days follows. After that, registering new businesses pauses until the first one arrives. What you have earned, your materials and existing customer contracts stay untouched. This does not apply to referrers: a recommendation that comes to nothing costs you nothing.
What you're actually selling
Anyone who takes rinqo for an answering machine with AI is selling it short.
The company memory
First a knowledge base takes shape: prices, procedures, who handles what, everything that today sits in people's heads and old emails. It is not an agent itself, it is the foundation underneath. Everything else draws on it.
At work on every channel
On that basis, agents work on the phone, in the website chat and in the inbox, as a personal agent for the team's own questions, and in marketing. If a channel is added later, it knows the same material from day one.
One change lands everywhere
When a price changes, the business updates it in one place. After that every channel answers correctly. That is the difference from five tools that each want maintaining on their own.
What that means for your deal
You are not selling a side item but something that stays in the business. That makes your offer bigger, the customer more loyal and your setup work more substantial than with a single tool.
Who this is not for
If you are looking for one more logo for your partner page, we are the wrong address. We hand out no badges, keep no directory without real partners, and chase nobody who never brought a customer.
We keep the door open for referrers because it costs nobody anything. The implementer route has a training in front of it. Not as a hurdle, but because otherwise you promise things in the first customer conversation that the agents cannot do.
What happens when you become an implementer
These steps apply to the second route. As a referrer you need none of them, you simply register your first customer.
The conversation. You name a customer from your own book that you would approach first. Anyone who cannot name one should start with the referrer route.
You learn the product and its limits. With the materials in the partner area. You only access a customer account once the company invites you.
The training. In your own account you set up a demonstration agent and try it out. After that you know what the agents can do and where their limit is.
The first customer conversation. You lead it yourself, with the materials from the partner area.
The first deal.
We do not promise you a signature. We promise accurate materials, and that an open question from a customer conversation won't be left sitting.
A promise about your closing would be no promise at all. Whether a company signs is decided by you in the conversation, not by us. We stand behind what is in our hands, and that holds for the first partner as for the thirtieth.
First to register owns the case
You register a customer by name and get a date. For ninety days they are yours.
Including when we approach them ourselves in that time. Without this rule the first overlap turns into an argument, and after that the partner is gone. That is why it is here and not in the small print.
How to register
In the partner area under "Register a company": company name, town and contact person are all it takes. You see the date and time of receipt straight away, and a confirmation lands in your inbox as well. The ninety days run from that moment.
If the period runs out and the customer is still open, simply register them again. A registration you are visibly working on is not one we take away from you.
Register a businessWhat you must say, and what you may claim
Two rules that do not disappear into a contract, because they have to work in the conversation. The third one is on us.
Say that there is something in it for you
If you recommend a company and are paid for it, tell them. One sentence is enough. A paid recommendation meant to look neutral is misleading. And it comes back on you: they will find out at signing at the latest.
Claim nothing we cannot back up
About rinqo you can say what this website says. Your own comparisons with competitors, figures on savings or availability, and statements about data protection and the legal position you clear with us first. This is not control for its own sake: we are jointly liable for our partners' advertising claims. A warning letter would then hit us both.
We keep your material current
Whatever you may use, you get from us with a date on it. If something changes, we tell you what to replace. We take outdated material back rather than quietly leaving it in circulation.
What you are probably thinking
Three objections that come up in almost every first conversation.
Will you take my customer away?
No, and that is written down rather than promised. You register the customer by name and get a date. For ninety days the case is yours, even if we approach them ourselves in that time.
I am not a developer. Is that enough?
For the referrer route you need no technical knowledge. You spot that a business is losing enquiries, or that its knowledge lives only in people's heads, and make the connection. You can take the implementation route later if you want. It is not a promotion, it is different work.
Can I sell rinqo under my own brand?
No. The platform contract runs between rinqo and the customer. That is not convenience, it is data protection: it stays unambiguous who processes the data and who is liable for it. Your own work underneath of course carries your name.
Common questions
Founder, rinqo
Founder of rinqo. Builds a company memory where an organisation's knowledge comes together and stays available, and the AI agents that work from it: on the phone, in the inbox, in chat, in marketing and in further roles. Writes here about bringing AI into companies, about data protection, and about what holds up in daily operation. Developed in Germany, processed in the EU, no US providers.
Become a partner
Register, confirm your email and choose whether you refer or implement. Private referrers aged 18 or over may also participate.
Become a partnerThe free partner area contains your contract, referrals, statuses, commissions and documents. It is not a software account.