Company Specific Vocabulary
"Give me the numbs"
Buying from Pax8
Industry Acronyms
Misc
200

Pax8's term for ads that appear on the Pax8 Marketplace

Autopilots

200

The number of markets Pax8 is in

3

NA, EMEA, APAC

200

Location within the Pax9 Platform where partners buy products

Catalog

200

SaaS

Software as a Service
This is software that is sold as a subscription

200

The name of Pax8's Design System

Propulsion

400

Pax8's vendor tier like Microsoft, Amazon, and Adobe

Hyperscaler

400

Average vendor margin Pax8 receives

30% 

400

Best selling vendor on the Pax8 Marketplace

Microsoft

400

MSP

Managed Services Provider
This a third party company that offers IT support often to SMBs

400

Pax8's twice annual conference for partner networking and product education

Beyond

600

Pax8's partner tiering program 

Voyager Alliance

600

Number of active partners in the Pax8 Marketplace (avg Sept–Nov '24)

20,304

600

Describes the process of delivering purchased software from the vendor to the buyer

Provisioning

600

ISV

Independent Software Vendors
Makers of software that Pax8 contracts with to resell their software

600

Shorthand for Pax8's program that enables external users to leverage Pax8 endpoints to send and receive data from our platform

Self Service API Program

800

Customers who purchase software from Pax8 without working through an MSP

Untethered clients

800

Median number of vendors utilized by A4 Partner Segment (Largest partner segment)

3 vendors

800

Most commonly purchased product at Pax8 (by number of subscriptions)

Microsoft 365 Business Standard (New Commerce Experience)

800
CAM

Channel Account Manager
A Pax8 Sales rep who works with mid-high selling partners to sell more and new products

800

The platform location where partners can find monthly costs for usage products

One Time Charges

1000

Core Services, Commerce, Data, User Enablement, Platform Enablement are examples of this organization within Product & Engineering

Affinity groups

1000

The date each month on which we send partners their invoices

5th of each month

1000

The average number of subscriptions procured for each client at Pax8

3

1000

CoC

Change of Channel
The transfer of subscription licenses from another distributor to be licensed through Pax8

1000

This Pax8 sales team works to sell Pax8 products directly to telecommunication clients  

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