UPDATE - We now allow hosting partners to resell Breezi directly to customers through their hosting plans. Click here for the simple site creation modal you can add on your site after collecting payment, or here for our advanced site creation API. We’ll just need to add your server IP(s) so your customers’ sites are flagged as paid. Please email us with questions and for more information: navid@breezi.com
What’s the breakdown of the various billing / integration options?
| Self Charge | Referrer | Own Installation | |
| Who It’s For | For hosting companies that want to provide a website builder with their current packages and own the billing component. | For hosting companies that want to just offer the solution but not integrate it heavily. | Only suggested for companies that really need to emphasize their brand. |
| Billing Model | You charge your customers and we charge you for the total number of sites on a monthly basis (prorating where it applies). | We charge the users directly and you get paid a recurring commision on a monthly basis. See more details here | There is normally an installation fee + a per site fee. If you plan to create more than 8,000 sites, we can setup a dedicated server for you. |
| Suggested Workflow | Bundle Breezi with one of your hosting packages and pre-charge for the site, because you will be charged for all the sites that under your account. | Just share the link wherever you can share it. You’re just trying to maximize for reach. | Contact us |
| Cost Per Site | $9/mo Volume pricing is available. Contact us for more info. | $9/mo | Contact us |
| Support / Documentation | We handle it. See http://breezi.com/how | We handle it. See http://breezi.com/how/ | You need to create your own starting points and documentation. |
| Multilingual Support | Coming soon | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Single Sign-on | Available (contact us) | Not offered | Available (contact us) |
| Branding | Breezi | Breezi | Your Own |
| Integration Options | * Site creation API * cPanel plugin * iFrame Signup form option | * Site creation API * cPanel plugin * iFrame Signup form option | * Site creation API * Basic signup form * iFrame Signup form option |
| To Get Started | See the “Integration Option” articles above. You can use any of those options to get started. | Signup here | Contact us |
What’s the business model, and how does pricing work?
All customers can start out with a free 14 day trial, which gives them full access to Breezi’s robust website creation, design and management platform. Customers can upgrade at any time to Breezi Pro for $9/month, and you get revenue sharing commissions on a recurring basis.
Are there licensing fees or required minimums for becoming a partner?
No. There’s virtually no overhead to becoming a Breezi hosting partner and offering our premium website builder to your customers.
This is yet another big difference between Breezi and competiting website builders – most either require steep licensing fees, monthly minimums, or other risky lock-ins.
We’re looking to build value with our partners, and we really care about our relationship with you and your customers. Breezi’s quality speaks for itself, and you’ll see this based on customer adoption. But if customers are slow to catch on for whatever reason, there’s no harm done.
For the Breezi Pro upgrade, do customers pay through our billing system or yours’?
Upgrading to Breezi Pro happens through Breezi’s secure payment gateway, the same way that many popular cPanel plugins work for upgrade options, like Attracta and CloudFlare.
You’ll have complete visibility into all transactions at all times, and customers can cancel their plan at any time.
How can I see how many customers have upgraded?
You’ll have a reporting dashboard, directly accessible through your WHM account, where you can see how many customers have upgraded, and the associated revenue sharing commissions you’ve earned.
Can customers cancel their plan after upgrading?
If a customer is not satisfied with the added value from Breezi, they can cancel their plan entirely at any time – no questions asked!
What’s my revenue sharing commission percentage?
You’ll receive 20% revenue sharing commissions on every recurring transaction from your customers – and 10% on your resellers’ customers – who upgrade (resellers can also opt-in to earn 20% commissions for their customers’ upgrades). You can see the revenue sharing details in the Partner Agreement you’ll accept upon opting in for the program via WHM, after you’ve installed the plugin. If you have a high volume customer base, contact Navid to discuss a custom partnership arrangement and/or premium revenue sharing commission rates. You can track your commissions through the Breezi Revenue Tracking Portal in WHM, and you’ll be paid out monthly via PayPal payments.
Do I install Breezi on my servers? How does it work?
There’s nothing to install but our simple cPanel plugin, because our actual website editing platform remains hosted on our side. You simply run the Breezi cPanel install commands listed above, and the plugin is made available to all cPanel user accounts on the server.
This setup enables us to deploy new features and enhancements on a very regular basis, which your customers can take advantage of immediately without you ever needing to perform maintenance or updates.
Do customers download anything to use Breezi?
No, Breezi’s website editor is online and there are no downloads required.
Will Breezi compete with services I offer? I don’t want to hand my customers over to you.
Breezi does not market competing hosting services, and thus we do not compete with our partners. We are 100% dedicated to developing and continually innovating the world’s leading premium website creation, design and management platform.
And this is a critical distinction between Breezi and competing website builders. Almost every other website builder directly markets hosting services in their retail offerings, posing a very real competitive threat to the web hosts they supposedly “partner” with.
Even with “white label” versions of such site builders, there are always branding and support loopholes, and it opens a huge vulnerability for hosting companies to lose customers and cannibalize their business unknowingly.
Is there a white label version I can install on my servers?
No. We are big believers that transparency is very important to cultivating customer trust, and it’s short-sighted to deceive customers by masking the identity of the underlying products they’re using.
For software products that are not updated frequently, or are intended for white label wholesale distribution entirely from the beginning, white labeling can be effective. But for modern website builders with both retail and wholesale distribution channels, white labeling is a bad idea and a slippery slope to losing customers.
How does support work? Do you handle support or do we?
We handle support directly through the website editor, so customers can seamlessly get answers whenever questions come up. And we’re fanatical about making sure every customer is responded to quickly and courteously.
Naturally some of your customers will inquire about Breezi through your support, but you can always politely connect them directly with us. This relieves your support team from having to become product experts on Breezi, which is very difficult to manage with any third party tool because of regular updates and new features.
Can I offer prospective customers a trial before they sign-up for a hosting package?
We currently do not have a process in place allowing customers to try Breezi and then be forwarded back to a host’s website to sign-up for a hosting account. But this is something we hope to make available soon.
I’d like to become a partner, what’s the next step?
Install the cPanel plugin following the commands listed above, and then you’ll see “Breezi Hosting Partners” in your WHM account under Plugins in the left sidebar – this is where you can sign up for our partnership program.
Note: You’ll be given an Affiliate ID after you sign-up. Make sure you save this ID in the “Breezi Hosting Partners” page in WHM for every server you install the plugin on, so we can track all sales back to you.
You can also email Navid at navid@breezi.com about any additional questions you’d like to discuss.
Do you offer marketing materials so I can announce and promote Breezi to my customers?
Yes indeed! Head over to our Hosting Partner Marketing Materials & Checklist page to find email templates, copy, images, and more.
I installed the plugin, but there’s an issue with the FTP Sync…
9 times out of 10 this is because your server is blocking our IP addresses for some reason. Make sure that the following IP addresses are white listed:
67.202.36.93
23.22.44.85
If you’re still having problems, please use the Live Chat on this page between 9-6pm CDT, or email navid@breezi.com so we can look into it for you.