Partner with Pdftools

The infrastructure your delivery team can depend on and your clients can defend under audit.

Near-100% PDF/A validation accuracy: Top compliance market benchmark
On-prem and airgapped deployment: Data stays inside your client's stack.
Complete document processing stack: normalize, convert, validate, extract, redact, archive.
Direct engineering access: Edge cases go straight to our engineers
Deal registration and exclusivity: Your margin and leads are protected

Why the document infrastructure you choose matters

When you embed a document processing component, you own what happens next. Pdftools is built to carry that weight. A unified stack covering frontend interaction, backend processing, redaction, and archiving, with deterministic outputs and direct engineering access when edge cases hit a live client environment.

Built for system integrators, ISVs and consulting firms

System integrators

In tendered public sector and regulated programs, you decide what gets embedded. Pdftools is the pre-validated document component that survives procurement, holds up under audit, and gets reused on the next engagement.

Independent software vendors

Embed a compliance-ready document layer once and deploy it into any customer environment. The compliance burden stays with the component, not your roadmap.

Consulting firms

Advise clients on digital transformation where document compliance is a delivery requirement. Pdftools gives you near-100% PDF/A validation accuracy: compliance evidence your clients’ procurement teams can verify.

What the Pdftools partner program includes

Commercial terms

Deal registration with exclusivity protects your margin and leads
Joint pricing per opportunity, structured to fit your delivery model
We won't go direct to your client

Technical support

NFR licenses for demos and POCs so you can demonstrate the capability before you commit
Direct engineering access for edge case resolution
Training and enablement to get your team delivering faster

Growth opportunities

Co-marketing with regulated industry buyers
Quarterly roadmap sessions with our product team
Expand into modernisation, archiving standardisation and AI readiness programs

Partner Program Tiers

Certified Partner

Strategic Partner

What's included

Technical support hours

12 hours/year

36 hours/year

Onboarding and training

Included in support hours

Deal registration and exclusivity

Preferential pricing

NFR licenses (demos/POCs)

Co-marketing assets

Joint co-marketing assets

On request

Included in co-marketing plan

Product roadmap influence

Quarterly input sessions

Priority support escalation

36h

24h

Initial term

12 months, auto-renewing

How the Pdftools Partner Program works

1. Register your opportunity

Identify a client opportunity and submit it through our partner channel. You receive 6 months of exclusivity on that customer and scope, extendable as the opportunity develops.

3. Deploy with confidence

You own L1: installation, configuration, integration and first-line triage. We own L2/L3: if a product defect is identified, we take over diagnostics, patches and updates.

2. Structure the deal

Pricing is built per opportunity, structured around your delivery model. You retain full control over your integration services margin.

4. Grow the partnership

Co-marketing, training and roadmap input scale as the partnership does.

Frequently Asked Questions

What counts as a "technical support hour"?

Support hours cover direct engagement with Pdftools' technical team: onboarding sessions, integration troubleshooting, training calls, and architecture consultations. They do not cover L2/L3 bug fixing, which is provided separately and not deducted from your allocation.

What happens if I need more than my allocated support hours?

Additional hours are available on request and allocated based on the scope of the business need.

Can I register multiple opportunities simultaneously?

Yes. Deal registration is per-opportunity, not per-partner. There is no cap on simultaneous registered opportunities.

What does "product roadmap influence" mean in practice for Strategic Partners?

Strategic Partners participate in quarterly sessions with Pdftools' product team. You share use cases, pain points, and feature requests directly from your deployments. We cannot guarantee implementation timelines, but these sessions are a direct and structured input into our planning process.

What if my client is a large enterprise with multiple divisions?

Exclusivity is granted at the division/team level. If the deal expands to other parts of the same enterprise, you have 10 business days of right of first refusal to register the additional scope before Pdftools can appoint another partner.

What legal agreement governs the partnership?

All partnerships operate under a formal written agreement governed by Swiss law, covering data protection and GDPR obligations, anti-corruption compliance, and contract duration. The full agreement is provided during onboarding and must be signed before the partnership becomes active.

Join the Pdftools Partner Program

The document infrastructure you choose defines your delivery risk. Book a call to find out whether Pdftools fits.

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