Scan your prospect’s store before you pitch them

Yes. The scan runs against the public storefront and needs nothing from the merchant: no install, no access, no permission to grant. One free scan per store, per email address, every 30 days. We cap how often any one storefront is scanned in a day, counted across everyone who asks rather than per person. The default is 12 retrieval checks and 3 full agent journeys, and only a contract with that merchant raises it.

No. Our agents carry a published user agent, leave from static addresses, visit at low volume and stop at the payment step. No card details are entered and no order is placed. Any merchant who would rather not be visited can opt out, and the opt-out sits on our agent disclosure page.

Yes. Create a workspace, add your client stores to it, and the workspace rolls them up: worst score first, each with its verdict, its open findings, the date of its last scan, and whether it is subscribed. One bill for the whole book is a separate thing and is not built. Each store is still subscribed on its own, by whoever pays for it.

Your client does. Adding a storefront sends a one time approval link to an address on that store’s own domain, and the store joins your workspace only when somebody there follows it. Until then you have a pending request and no access at all: their findings, evidence and history stay locked to you exactly as they would to a stranger. You cannot nominate your own address as the approver, and a shared platform domain such as myshopify.com is refused, because a mailbox there says nothing about who runs the shop. Two other ways to prove it: publish a TXT record we give you on their domain, or, if the store has our Shopify app installed, use the contact address Shopify holds for it.

Whatever that store is already entitled to, and nothing more. Being in a workspace is not a plan. A client on the free tier shows you the free score and nothing behind it; a client who pays for Monitor shows you what Monitor opens. Somebody you remove from the workspace loses all of it the same minute.

20% of what that client actually pays Ottom before tax, for 3 years from their first payment that settles. Commission accrues on subscription payments that settle. It does not accrue on the $9 one-off report, and it does not accrue on a store you pay for yourself, because there you are the customer. A refund or a lost chargeback writes a reversal at the rate the original entry carried, in the same proportion as the payment it takes back.

The first partner link a visitor clicks wins, for 90 days, and only for an account that link created. A later link never displaces the first. Somebody who already had an Ottom account before clicking your link is not a referral. Every click is logged either way, so a question about attribution has an answer months later.

Yes, today, and there is nothing to sign up for. Add your client stores to your workspace, pay our list price for each one, and charge your client whatever you charge. You hold the account, you get the bill, and the margin is yours. There is no wholesale rate and there will not be one: our price is the same whoever is paying it. Those stores earn no referral commission, because on them you are the customer.

Whoever pays decides it, and one store is only ever one or the other. If your client created their own Ottom account through your link and pays us directly, that is a referral and you earn on it. If you added their store to your workspace and pay for it yourself, that is reselling and you earn your own margin instead. Nothing has to be declared: we record which account paid for each subscription, and the commission follows that.

Create a workspace, then join from the partner page. It is live straight away, with no application and no waiting: an owner or an admin of the workspace accepts the terms, and you get a link the same minute. Nobody earns anything until a client they referred signs up and pays, so there is nothing to gate.