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How do Tiers and Tier Points work?

HubSpot’s Tier Points Program has been designed to recognize your business’s strengths as you grow through tiers.
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Earning Points

  1. You progress through tiers by earning sold and managed points. As you’d expect, sold points are earned by selling to new or existing customers (Sold points can also come from increases in a customer’s subscription that don’t come from deals, like discount changes at renewal), and managed points are earned by servicing your existing customers. And when you sell to clients that are based in specific growth markets you can receive more points. See current growth markets.

    The current point conversion rates are:

  2.   Sold Points
    (Growth Market)
    Managed Points
    (Growth Market)
    US$100
    US Dollar
    3 points
    (6 points)
    1 point
    (2 points)
    AU $105
    Australian Dollar
    COP $300,300
    Colombian Peso
    EUR €75
    Euro
    GBP £62.5
    Pound Sterling
    SGD $140
    Singapore Dollar
    JYP ¥12,000
    Japanese Yen
    ZAR R1,545
    South African Rand
    CAD $130
    Canadian Dollar

    Currency conversion rates are factored into the point values for local currencies. In order to prevent market volatility from causing volatility in tier performance, point values may not reflect current market conversion rates.

  3. Points Expiry

    Your sold and managed points expire over time.

    Points Type Expiry
    Sold Points

    1 year after deal close

    Sold points will be lost if the customer downgrades, even before 1 year. Sold points are always calculated by the increase in subscription value on the product line from 1 year ago to today.

    Managed Points 60 days from the Partner’s last account action

     

Earning Tiers

  1. As your sold and managed points grow, you’ll earn new tiers. 

    There are four tiers,

    • Gold
    • Platinum
    • Diamond
    • Elite

    To attain a tier you must earn that tier’s total points (which are a combination of sold and managed points). While you grow through a combination of sold and/or managed points, each tier requires that you earn a minimum number of sold and minimum number of managed points. Elite tier has some additional requirements.

      Total Points Sold Points Minimum Managed Points Minimum

    No Tier

    0 0 0
    Gold 243 113 38
    Platinum 645 270 150
    Diamond 2,020 570 550
    Elite 5,950 1,950 1,700

     

    Example

    You can see how Tier points help you move through tiers with the following example: Partner A and Partner B both aim to achieve platinum status and both have the same number of total points:

      Tier Points Needed Sold Points Managed Points Has the Partner Earned Platinum Status
    Platinum Status requirements 645 270 150  
    Partner A's Points 650 250 400

    No

    Partner A needs 20 more sold points

    Partner B's Points 650 300 350

    Yes

    Partner B has exceeded all minimums

    While both partners have exceeded the total combined points for platinum status, Partner A has 250 sold points, which is below the 270 sold points minimum needed to earn platinum status. Partner A must earn 20 additional sold points to be eligible for platinum Status.

  2. Basic requirements to tier

    To qualify for a partner tier, you must have a median client tool usage of 3 or more for the past 90 days. 

    Find out how we calculate median client tool usage

    To calculate this, we first count how many unique tools each of your sold or managed clients used in the past 90 days. From there, we take the median across all clients that count toward your sold and/or managed MRR tier credit. Using a tool might mean launching a marketing campaign or publishing content. Both your management activity for the client and their own activity count toward tool usage.

    Solutions Partner Certification

    To qualify for a tier you must also have a valid Solutions Partner Certification. This means at least one employee at your company must pass the partner certification exam once every 25 months. Find out how to become partner certified.

Growing through your Tier

  1. Once you’re credited with a tier, you keep that tier for at least six months. As you earn higher tiers you unlock access to more partner benefits.

    Tier changes take place on a calendar basis. You have the opportunity to move up tier once a month, while moving down in tier only takes place twice a year during tier adjustment.

  2. Moving up tiers

    Every month you have the opportunity to move to a higher tier. If you have achieved the sold, managed and combined tier points minimums on the 15th of the month for a tier higher than your current one, then you will earn that higher tier (Note: Elite tier has special additional requirements). Since managed credit can take time to reflect, we recommend aiming to meet the requirements of your goal tier by the 13th of the month.

    Special Elite Requirements

    Special criteria must be met before a partner is granted Elite status, these include,

    • achieving an Average C$R (Customer Dollar Retention) of at least 85%,
    • holding at least 100 user certifications among your employees,
    • being invited.

    These Elite-access special criteria are subject to change.


    How do we calculate C$R and Average C$R?

    C$R is a measure of the install base dollars you would be expected to retain over a 12-month period if you maintained your current retention rate. 

    To calculate your C$R we first work out the percentage of your install base dollars that you have retained for a specific month (i.e. that have not canceled). We don’t take downgrades or portal-cancellations by multi-portal customers into account for this, only cancellations.

    We then  ‘annualize’ this monthly figure, meaning that we take that month's result and multiply it by itself 12 times. You can think of the resulting number as, "If things continue in the same way for the next 12 months, where would we be at the end of those 12 months?"

    The formula for this looks like,

    ((beginning-of-month install base dollars - cancellation dollars in-month)÷beginning-of-month install base dollars)*^12                          

    Your ‘Average C$R,’ which is used when considering partners for Elite status, is the average of each month’s C$R calculations over the past 12 months. The formula for Average C$R is,

    (Add C$R for each month over the past 12 months together) / 12

  3. Shared Deals

    If you close a deal in collaboration with a HubSpot rep, you will receive the full points value of that deal. If you close a deal in collaboration with another partner the lead agency will receive the deal points.

  4. Maintaining or moving down tiers

    Here are the most important things to know:

    • If your tier performance drops below your credited tier (the tier you currently have), you will have at least six months to restore it
    • Tiers only decrease twice a year (see below for details)
    • If your Solutions Partner Certification is expired at the time of tier recalibration (taking place on January 15 and July 15 each year), you will be down-tiered. In order to remain a tiered partner, please ensure your certification is valid in advance of the next recalibration date.

    Here’s how maintaining your tier works:

    When you have been credited with a tier, you keep this for at least six months. 

    Your dashboard shows your “tier performance”, which is your current performance against the requirements of your current tier. If your tier performance drops temporarily below your credited tier, you can still keep your credited tier.

    We review your tier performance twice a year

    Tier Review Date Review Period
    January 15 August 15 to January 15
    July 15 February 15 to July 15

    As long as you performed at your credited tier for at least one month in the review period, you will keep your credited tier. If you performed below your credited tier for all six months, your tier will be adjusted to your best performance during that time.

    Tier adjustment example

    This is an example for the July 15th tier adjustment date.

      Credited Tier Tier Performance at July 15th Highest tier performance from February 15th through July 15th Tier Status after the July 15th tier adjustments

    Partner A’s Performance

    Diamond Gold Platinum Platinum

    Partner B’s Performance

    Diamond Gold Diamond Diamond

    Partner C’s Performance

    Diamond Gold Gold Gold

    While all three are Diamond partners they are currently operating at Gold levels. However, in the six months prior to July 15 Partner A had achieved Platinum status at least once and Partner B had achieved Diamond status at least once; since these were the highest tier status that each earned these will be their new status after July 15. Partner C’s highest status was Gold during this same period, and so will be created as Gold from July 15.

     

    Tier Recalibration for untiered partners

    Starting at Partner Kickoff February 15 and 16, 2023, all new partners will have two years from the date of them joining the program to achieve gold tier status. If untiered at the 2-year mark, partners will be notified and have another six (6) post recalibration to reach the gold tier level. If not reached the partner then will have the choice to move to the provider level of the  program or leave the program altogether and/or become a customer. Partners who choose to be moved to the provider level will only receive commission for one year from the deal sold date. For deals sold beyond the trailing 12-month period (as in, the partner has already received 12 months worth of revenue share for a deal at the time they move to provider level) or if a partner chooses to move out of the program all together to become a customer, commissions will end immediately.

    Starting at Partner Kickoff February 15 and 16, 2023, all partners in the partner program who have been in the program for at least two years must achieve and/or maintain gold status to remain in the program. This analysis of tier level and recalibration will continue every six months. If you ever fall at risk of being downgraded you will be notified by the program and given time (six months) to tier up before being moved to the program provider level. For more details, visit the Untiered Partner Requirements page.

     


Current Growth Markets

Growth Market is determined by the customer's location. Current Growth Markets include all countries in Latin America, North Asia (including India), and Southeast Asia, as determined by HubSpot’s corporate geography segmentation. 

North and South East Asia: Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, China/Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, and India

Latin America: any country/territory in the Caribbean, South America or North America (excluding Canada and the USA).

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