How to hit reseller revenue quotas before getting clients
Joining partner programs before securing a solid client base creates intense stress to meet trailing minimum revenue requirements just to avoid deauthorization. Failing to hit these quotas results in partner termination and forces clients to migrate to a new reseller within a tight window.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Licensing a dev/test tenant through distributorsDid this help you?
- 2Converting direct Microsoft customers to CSPDid this help you?
- 3Waiting the 12 months to reapply after gaining enough clientsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Signed up for Microsoft's Indirect CSP Reseller program way too early, now scrambling to hit the $1k TTM revenue requirement.”source ↗
“deauthorised same reason my handful of clients got an email (well i did as I’m the tenant contact) that they have to move to a new reseller as the partner you are working with is no longer a reseller yada yada, you have 90 days to move or licenses are invalid… sigh.”source ↗