Standard/Membership Benefits

In exchange for the annual Reseller Partner membership fee, EPEAT Inc will provide:

• Support with PR outreach to announce your becoming an EPEAT Reseller Partner

• Assistance with website/materials development describing the EPEAT system, what the ratings mean and the benefits to your customers

• Access to EPEAT materials which you can customize with your company name
  

• Posting of your company name on the EPEAT Reseller Partner page, with a click-through to your website

• An EPEAT Partner Reseller logo “bug” to place on your website and collateral materials, to let your customers know you are supported by the organizational resources of EPEAT

• An Introduction to EPEAT webinar for your staff

• Quarterly updates on EPEAT progress, including system expansion to additional product categories and countries

• Prior notification of all EPEAT announcements and press releases

• Possible inclusion in EPEAT case studies and program profiles

• Eligibility for annual EPEAT recognition for outstanding promotional efforts, with a recognition “bug” available for posting on your website

Optional Services (for an additional fee)

• Additional EPEAT presentations for sales force training or customer education, presented in webinar or in-person formats

• Assistance with estimating the annual environmental benefits of your EPEAT product sales to quantify your commitment to environmental improvement in a way that can be credibly publicized

Program Requirements

Eligibility

The EPEAT Partner reseller program is open to any reseller who sells products that are EPEAT registered by their manufacturer. (For a full list of participating manufacturers see www.epeat.net/companies.aspx .) ¹

Commitments

• Pay annual EPEAT Reseller Partner membership fee

• Identify EPEAT registered products in your online catalogs and web commerce portals

• Keep the identification of EPEAT registered products up-to-date , either through internal systems or through an EPEAT-approved datafeed provider (Because the EPEAT registry is a dynamic system that changes frequently, maintaining up-to-date information is the central obligation of an EPEAT Reseller Partner – see the EPEAT Reseller Partner Agreement for details)

• Place the EPEAT Reseller Partner “bug” on your website

• Appoint an EPEAT Reseller Partner Program liaison to receive any communications about the program

• Invite key sales and marketing staff to attend your Introduction to EPEAT webinar to ensure clear messaging around the program

• Offer customers an EPEAT purchase reporting service that provides them with purchase numbers by EPEAT product type and tier upon their request

• Allow EPEAT to conduct occasional Quality Assurance reviews to ensure that products are being correctly identified

• Allow EPEAT to list your company as a participant in the EPEAT Reseller Partner Program on the www.epeat.net website and (with prior notification) in other program materials or in occasional publicity releases.

1. NOTE: If your company brands or relabels product for sale under your own or another name and you wish to register those products in EPEAT you must enroll as an EPEAT Subscribing Manufacturer rather than as a Reseller Partner.