Partners
You already sell to shops. Earn from their price boards and menu boards too.
Counterboard turns any screen into a menu or price board that a shop runs from its phone. The owner photographs their price list, Counterboard draws a finished board in about two minutes, and prices are changed from a phone. Tell your customers about it and you earn 50% of everything they pay for their first 12 months, then 20% for as long as they stay.
And it costs them nothing to start: their first board is free, and one screen is free for as long as they like, with a small counterboard.com band on the board, no card. Without the band: £14 a month for one screen.
Shops that join through a partner get 10 credits, and three weeks of the full plan free.
Nothing to buy, stock, install or support. We do all of that. You send a link. Not a business that sells to shops? Get an affiliate link in a minute.
Who it suits
Anybody a shop owner already trusts
Trade bodies and buying groups. Till, ordering and loyalty companies. Shopfitters and sign makers. People who build food trucks and trailers. Packaging and menu printers. Wholesalers. Food safety and business consultants. Accountants with a lot of takeaways on the books. If you talk to cafes, takeaways, barbers, salons or any business with prices on a wall, this is an extra thing to offer them that costs you nothing and pays every month.
What it pays
Half of it for a year, then a fifth for good
A shop with one screen pays £14 a month: that is £7 a month to you for the first year, then £2.80. Two screens is £21 a month: £10.50 to you, then £4.20. Every credit a shop buys counts the same way, free screen or paid: a shop that changes its prices every week spends about £4 a month on them, and half of that is yours.
Send twenty shops, half with one screen and half with two, and that is £175 a month in the first year and £70 a month after it, for as long as they stay, for forwarding a link. Your share is of what they pay after Stripe's card fees, paid by Stripe straight to your bank each month, with a statement of every shop it came from.
How it works
A link, and nothing else
1. You get a link with your name in it, and a code your customers can type if they lose it. 2. You tell your customers however you already talk to them: a line in a newsletter, a card in a delivery, a mention when you fit their shop. We will write it for you if you like. 3. They sign up from your link, free: the first board is free, and one screen is free with a small counterboard.com band on it, no card. They say what they want and the board is drawn in about two minutes, by them, and we help them put it on their screen. 4. When they start paying, so do we. Every month you get a statement of every shop you sent and what it paid.
Questions
The small print, in large print
What does it cost me?
Nothing, ever. There is no fee to join, nothing to buy and no target to hit.
Who looks after the shops?
We do: setting up, questions, billing, all of it. Your customer deals with Counterboard, and thinks well of you for the introduction.
What if a shop signs up and never pays?
Then nobody is paid, and nobody owes anybody anything. You earn a share of what a shop actually pays us, from its first payment.
Can my customers be anywhere?
Yes. Counterboard is sold in any country, and a shop pays in pounds, dollars or euros.
Can I use my own name on it?
Not yet. A version you sell under your own brand, at a wholesale price, is planned for partners who send a lot of shops. Tell us if that is you.
Become a partner
Tell us who you are
It goes straight to George, who started Counterboard, and he replies himself, usually the same day. Stuck? Ask us, or email hello@counterboard.com.