Refer a distributor, converter, or light-production shop to BlueApe. When they subscribe, you earn 35% of their first-year collected revenue — or pass it to them as a 35% year-one discount. Your call, per client.
BlueApe is an AI-native ERP for $5M–$100M distributors, converters, and light-production operations running on QuickBooks + spreadsheets. It reads their quote requests, prices them, builds the quote, follows up, turns the yes into an order, and runs inventory and shipping — alongside the QuickBooks they already have.
Your distributor clients are quoting out of their inbox and counting stock in a spreadsheet. BlueApe fixes the ops without touching the books you keep.
QBO stays · no re-platformMargin lives in quoting speed, inventory accuracy, and freight bills. BlueApe gives you a system of record for all three, synced to QuickBooks.
quote-to-cash visibilityZebra / Honeywell VARs and barcode-label dealers: BlueApe gives the scanners and label printers you sell something to do on day one. Co-sell details ↓
scanner quote + software lineOperators, ERP consultants, industry brokers, and anyone whose network runs on quotes, inventory, and shipments. One intro is enough.
referral only · no quotaFour steps. We run the demo and the onboarding; you make the introduction and stay the trusted advisor.
Share your referral link (blueape.ai/?ref=yourcode) or introduce us by email. The link carries your code for 90 days, so the referral is attributed even if they come back later.
They see BlueApe answer their kind of quote, on their catalog shape, with QuickBooks in the loop. You're welcome on the call.
7-day free trial, then a monthly subscription. No implementation fee, no consultants, quoting through BlueApe in 2–4 weeks.
35% of everything they pay in their first 12 months, paid monthly in arrears via Stripe — or the client takes it as a 35% year-one discount. Your choice, per client.
Founding Partners earn more in year one than the standard 30% accounting-platform share — and unlike most programs, you can hand the whole thing to your client instead.
Accountants are used to this from the big platforms. Pick whichever reads right for the relationship.
Revenue share on the client's first-year collected revenue, paid to your firm via Stripe.
Same value, applied as a year-one discount on the client's subscription. You look like the hero; we don't pay twice.
Year-one program. Renewal-year terms are announced to Founding Partners first.
Zebra and Honeywell VARs and barcode-label dealers sell into exactly the warehouses BlueApe runs. The hardware needs software that uses it on day one — that's the attach.
Every warehouse step is a scan. License-plate pallet tracking, multi-UOM conversions, and physical counts — all on the handhelds you already quote.
Pallet labels, pick labels, and carrier shipping labels (UPS / FedEx / LTL) print straight from BlueApe to the label printers in your bundle.
"What software runs on these?" stops being a stall. BlueApe is the answer: quoting, orders, inventory, shipping — synced to the QuickBooks they already run.
Hardware partners earn the same Founding Partner rate on referred subscriptions. This is a referral program today — if you want a reseller margin on the subscription, say so on the application and we'll talk.
Enter your partner code to build your link. Don't have one yet? Apply below — you get a code the moment you submit.
https://blueape.ai/?ref=yourcodeTwo minutes. You'll get your referral code immediately and a note from us within one business day.
No. BlueApe syncs with QuickBooks Online and runs alongside it — invoices, bills, customers, and payments stay in the books you keep. BlueApe is an Intuit App Partner (Silver tier). The client moves their system of record on their own timeline, if ever.
No implementation fee and no consultants. Most clients are quoting through BlueApe in 2–4 weeks. That's the point for an advisor: there is nothing for the client to blame you for.
Monthly in arrears. Each of the client's paid invoices accrues 35% to you, sits for a 60-day clawback window, then becomes payable and goes out with the next weekly payout run (Fridays) to your Stripe account. If an invoice is refunded inside the 60 days, that accrual nets out and is never paid.
You onboard once as a Stripe Connect recipient. Stripe collects your W-9 during onboarding and issues the 1099 at year end. BlueApe never handles your tax forms by hand.
Yes — per client. Tell us when you refer them and the 35% is applied as a year-one discount on their subscription instead of paid to you.
Not yet. Today every partner class, including hardware/AIDC resellers, is on the same referral-fee model. If you'd want a reseller margin on the subscription, say so on the application; we'll build that with the first partner who needs it.
The Founding Partner rate is locked for the first 25 partners on every account they refer, for that account's first 12 months. The standard rate published after that may be lower. Renewal-year terms are announced to Founding Partners first.
Apply, get your code, send one referral. We run the demo; you stay the advisor. Want the leave-behind? Download the partner one-pager (PDF).