ICDSoft Partner Program

Joining our partner program is absolutely free - there are no hidden registration fees. You sign up and start using volume discounts right after purchasing your first hosting account.

Our partner program does not require payments in advance. You can order services after you have received a payment from your customer.

The partner program can be used for several purposes:

a) you can easily manage all your hosting accounts from a single interface, b) you can take advantage of special volume discounts, c) you can resell our hosting services to make a significant profit.

You get to run your own web hosting company without having to worry whether the hosting servers are running, or whether technical support is online, as these are tasks that we are taking care of. As a partner you have one task to focus on - looking for new customers.

There is no explicit requirement to be a partner in order to use the ICDSoft Account Panel. You could actively resell our services to your customers, or you could just manage all your own hosting accounts from one place and take advantage of the volume discounts. In any case, it is not mandatory to actually resell our hosting services. All purchases made through the Account Panel are at wholesale prices, formed by applying your partner volume discount on the base prices of ICDSoft.

As a partner, your discount increases with the number of active hosting accounts you have under your partner account. You can purchase your second hosting account with 40% discount. If you reach 7 active hosting accounts, you will be able to open new accounts with 90% discount, and renew existing accounts with 50% discount. More information about our partner discounts is available in the partner discounts table above. This is a special offer that allows our customers and partners to take advantage of an amazing pricing policy.

In most cases, the answer to this question is yes. Even if you don't wish to expand your hosting business, your website can provide a way for your existing customers to renew their services. We don't believe there's a downside to having an online presence either.

We always strive to help our partners as much as possible, and we have released a series of blog posts providing a great deal of details on how you can set up your own hosting website. You can find the first article here:

https://www.icdsoft.com/blog/start-your-own-hosting-company

We also have a number of YouTube videos regarding this. You may want to check our overview video here:

You don't need to be a professional developer or а website designer in order to resell our hosting services or build your own website. We would recommend that you take a look at our article debunking the most common reseller hosting myths:

https://www.icdsoft.com/blog/reseller-hosting-myths-and-questions-debunked/

After you sign up, you will be able to access your ICDSoft Account Panel at https://accounts.icdsoft.com. To set up your online store, you need to follow these general steps:

a) Create an online store through the Online Stores section of the Account Panel.

b) Create an account at one of the supported payment processors.

c) Configure your online store - products, prices, payment processors.

d) Download the online store widget, upload it to your site, and configure it. Alternatively, you can use our WordPress plugin, or our Hosted storefront solution.

e) (optional) Set up an account balance to process orders automatically.

f) Until you create an account at one of the supported online payment processors, you can use an offline payment method. It allows you to provide specific instructions to your customers as to how they must pay you. With this processor, your customers will see a page with instructions. You need to enter these instructions in the corresponding box. For example, you could provide instructions on how customers can send you money over a bank wire, or another offline payment method, such as a check, postal, or money order.

Your Account Balance represents the current amount that is available for your partner account as a credit or overdraft. Your credit is the amount of money deposited directly into the account, and your overdraft is the amount we allow you to spend in a month without paying immediately. Further information is available for logged in users at https://accounts.icdsoft.com/Help#balance-general-information.

The overdraft is a feature that allows the partner to order services without submitting a payment right away. Instead, the amount of the ordered services is accumulated, and the partner can cover all purchased services for the month with a single payment (Monthly Bill). There is a minimum level - the overdraft would be enabled only if the calculated amount is over $100.00 USD. The overdraft amount is calculated according to a dynamic formula, based on the number of accounts/services in the ICDSoft Account Panel. The more active services you have in your partner account, and the longer they are prepaid for, the greater the amount of the allowed overdraft will be. Further information is available for logged in users in the Help section of the Account Panel:

https://accounts.icdsoft.com/Help#overdraft-monthly-bill-overview
https://accounts.icdsoft.com/Help#overdraft-eligibility
https://accounts.icdsoft.com/Help#overdraft-expiration

We do not impose any kind of interest rates or additional taxes on using the overdraft.

The hosting widget allows you to embed widget pages on your own website. To use the widget, you just need to add the proper code snippet to your new or existing pages. You can view example code snippets by visiting the web address of the widget. When the setup is ready, you should disable the example widget page via the configuration file of the widget.

You can resell any of the services we offer in our product catalog - web hosting packages, domain names, SSL certificates, additional resources (dedicated IP addresses, slots for parked domains, databases, etc.).

You can set your own retail prices for any of the services in our catalog. We would recommend that you stay competitive and set retail prices that are close to those of the other web hosting providers.

a) For online payments: PayPal, 2Checkout, ePay.bg, Authorize.Net, Stripe, PayU.com, PayDollar, Skrill.

b) For offline payments: Offline (generic), Bank transfer, Check, Cash payment, Western Union.

The Online Stores system allows you to have your end customer orders processed automatically on our side. This way the hosting account can be opened, and the customer can receive the account details without any action required on your side. To achieve this, you must have:

- an automatic payment method set for your store, such as 2Checkout or PayPal, for which our system receives a notification about the payments of your customers,

- Order Auto Processing enabled for the specific store,

- available balance in the Account Balance section of your ICDSoft Account Panel. You can have an available balance either through topping up the account balance, or through an overdraft for your account.

All orders can be processed manually as well, no matter if there is any payment received/recorded for the particular order or not. If you do not have available funds in your account, or if Order Auto Processing is turned off for your store, then you will have to process all orders manually. This means that you will need to confirm the order and make a payment to ICDSoft to complete the purchase.

Your profit is the difference between the retail price that you set up and our wholesale price for the specific product. You can set different retail prices for each product that you wish to resell through your online hosting stores.

When payments are processed through our system, they are directly deposited into the payment processor account of your choice. We receive a notification of the transaction, but no fees or commissions. This means that you receive the full order amount right away, and you submit your order to us afterwards. The process has the following steps:

- Your end customer places the order on your website, through the site widget.

- The order is recorded in the "Online Stores" -> "Orders" section.

- The order is moved to the Shopping cart section of your Account Panel. This could be done manually by you, or automatically - if you have Order Auto Processing on and available balance in your ICDSoft partner account.

- You purchase the service from us, through the Shopping cart of your Account Panel, and the order is recorded on our servers. This step will also complete automatically if you have available balance and Order Auto Processing turned on.

All your customers can take full advantage of our professional technical support service absolutely free. They can seek assistance via the ticketing system, or via email.

Yes, we offer a free site migration service, and both you and your end customers can take advantage of it. You can learn more about the free site migration service at our Site migration FAQ and Site Migration terms sections.