Partner Program Terms

VantageTech Apps Limited, a corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act ("we," "us" or "our"), runs the School-Core Partner Program (the "Program"). These terms describe the Program before anyone joins it: who can apply, how applying works, what partners earn and how they are paid.

Applying does not bind you or us. Sending an application does not make you a partner, and approving an application does not make a partnership either. A partnership starts only when both sides have signed a Partner Agreement. The owner of your partner account signs it in the partner portal, and then we countersign it. We email you the signed copy, and it stays in the portal for you to download.

If your Partner Agreement and these terms differ, the agreement wins.

Organizations and individuals who work with schools can apply, for example:

• education consultants;
• companies that provide services to schools;
• technology resellers;
• independent advisors.

You cannot apply if:

• you are on a sanctions list, or you are owned or controlled by anyone who is;
• you, or anyone who would work for you in the Program, is barred from working with children;
• you work at a school and would refer that school without declaring that you work there.

1. Apply with the form at school-core.com/partner-interest.
2. We email you a reference number and a link to your application's status page. Opening that link confirms your email address.
3. We reply to your application within three business days.
4. We may ask you a question about your application. You answer it on the status page.
5. Our decision is to approve or to reject the application. If we reject it, we tell you why, and the date from which you may apply again. That date is 90 days after the decision.

You may withdraw your application at any time from the status page, and you may apply again later.

When you apply, you make four declarations:

• Anti-bribery. You will not offer or pay bribes, gifts or other payments to school staff or officials to win business.
• Sanctions. You are not on a sanctions list, and you are not owned or controlled by anyone who is.
• Safeguarding. No part of the Program involves unsupervised access to children. When you are on a school site, you follow the school's rules.
• Conflicts of interest. You tell us about any conflict of interest, for example that you work at a school you would refer.

Before we approve an application, we check by hand:

• your company registration (not for a sole proprietor);
• sanctions lists;
• the conflicts of interest you declared;
• safeguarding.

Before your first payout, we also check:

• that the bank account holder's name matches the partner;
• your tax form: a W-9, W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, or a VAT or GST number.

• Referral partner. You refer schools with your own referral link, and you earn commission on what those schools pay.
• Territory partner. You hold a country, or a state or province, on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, and you earn commission the same way.

A territory carries a one-time registration fee. The fee is set for each territory, and you see it before you sign the agreement. The territory becomes active only once the fee is paid or waived.

An exclusive territory means we grant no other partner a live territory that overlaps yours. A country overlaps each of its states and provinces.

There is no reseller type. Partners do not resell School-Core, and they do not bill schools.

Your partnership becomes active only when all of these are done:

1. We have approved your application.
2. You have signed the Partner Agreement, and we have countersigned it.
3. Our checks are complete.
4. For a territory partner, the registration fee is paid or waived.

Until then, your referral link does not credit schools to you, and no commission builds up.

Rates

We place each partner in a tier when we approve them. Each tier has a commission rate:

Some plans may carry their own rate. We may also set a rate of your own when we approve you.

The rate that binds you is the one written into your signed agreement. It is the rate your portal shows.

What commission is paid on

Commission is paid on what the school pays School-Core for the service, after tax, discounts and refunds.

For how long

You earn commission for as long as the school's subscription continues, unless your agreement sets a number of months.

When it becomes payable

Commission becomes payable 30 days after the school's payment.

Refunds and chargebacks

If a school's payment is refunded or charged back within 90 days, the commission on it is reversed. If that commission was already paid out, a negative line appears on your next statement.

Changes never reach a signed agreement

A change to these terms, or to our program settings, never changes a signed agreement. A change reaches you only through an amendment you sign.

• We pay monthly, by bank transfer. Our finance team records each payout; payouts are never automatic.
• The minimum payout is $100. A smaller balance carries over to the next month.
• Our finance team sets the currency you are paid in.

A payout waits until all of these are true:

• You have given your payout details in the portal.
• 7 days have passed since any change to them.
• We have checked that the account holder's name matches the partner. We check it again after every change.
• We have verified your tax form.

We take withholding tax only where the law requires it. Our finance team sets it from your tax form.

You get a statement every month, and a remittance advice when you are paid.

• Describe School-Core accurately. Speak only of the features and prices we have published, and make no promise we have not made.
• Use our name and logo only as we allow in writing.
• Send no spam.
• Obey anti-bribery and sanctions law.
• Keep what you learn about schools confidential.
• Tell us about a new conflict of interest when it arises.
• Keep each account on your partner team for the person it was made for.

What a partner sees of a school

For each school you refer, you see the school's name, its plan and its status, and the commission it earns. You never see the school's pupils, staff or parents, or any record kept in the school. Partners cannot sign in to a school.

Never ask a school for its pupils' or staff's personal data on our behalf.

We may suspend a partnership, and we tell you the reason. While it is suspended, the portal is read-only, new schools are not credited to you, and payouts wait.

Either side may end the partnership with 30 days' notice, or at once for a serious breach, as the agreement says.

On the end date your access to the portal ends, and a final statement follows. No commission builds up after the end date unless the agreement says otherwise.

When we change these terms, we publish the new version here, with a new version number and date. A new version never changes a signed agreement.

Your Partner Agreement names the law that governs it and where disputes are heard.