Manage Cisco 360 rebates, incentives, MDF and certifications in one dashboard.
Cisco has rebuilt its entire partner program: VIP and CSPP were retired into the unified Cisco Partner Incentive (CPI) at the Q3FY26 launch, with the former Lifecycle Incentives now a core part of CPI as the new Adopt Rebate track. Eligibility is governed by a per-portfolio Partner Value Index, locked each fiscal half-year on monthly performance. Rebates-On tracks all of it from your perspective, so you see what you’re owed, what to do to earn more, and where Cisco rebate dollars are slipping away.
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What is the Cisco 360 Partner Program?
The Cisco 360 Partner Program is Cisco’s complete channel redesign - its biggest in decades. It retired the Gold/Premier/Select tiers and folded the old VIP, CSPP and Lifecycle Incentives programs into one back-end rebate, the Cisco Partner Incentive (CPI), gated by a per-portfolio Partner Value Index (PVI).
Two concepts drive the program. First, Cisco now pays partners for lifecycle outcomes - landing, adopting, expanding and renewing - rather than one-time transactions. Second, what you earn is gated by your Partner Value Index: a score Cisco calculates separately for each portfolio. Clear the qualifying line and hold the Cisco [Portfolio] Partner designation for that portfolio, and you unlock CPI rebates in it; clear the higher Preferred line and you become a Cisco Preferred [Portfolio] Partner, which can qualify you for higher rebate rates and unlocks the Specialization Bonus. Rates vary by SKU and offer.
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Land
A CPI rebate on total contract value, including renewals.
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Adopt
Fixed-dollar payouts for hitting software-adoption milestones.
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Expand
A Growth rebate on year-over-year ACV growth.
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Renew
Protects the Land rebate and next year’s growth baseline.
Cisco rewrote the rules - here’s what moves your rebate dollars.
Cisco retired VIP, CSPP and Lifecycle Incentives, along with the Gold/Premier/Select tiers, and replaced them with the Cisco Partner Incentive, which pays four ways - Land, Adopt, Growth and Bonuses - all gated by your PVI. The basis changed completely, so old VIP accruals no longer reconcile line-by-line to CPI payouts.
- CPI pays four ways. Land (a rebate on total contract value, including renewals), Adopt (fixed-dollar software-adoption milestones), Growth (a rebate on year-over-year ACV growth), and stackable Bonuses.
- Recognition is now per-portfolio. Customer-facing recognition follows the per-portfolio designations: Cisco Partner, Cisco [Portfolio] Partner, and Cisco Preferred [Portfolio] Partner. You can hold a different standing in each portfolio you sell.
- The eligible-offers list keeps moving. Cisco reserves the right to change the eligible-offers list, which products qualify and at what rate, throughout the incentive period. Changes are posted monthly, each carrying its own effective date. A quote built on a superseded mapping can mis-forecast what you’ll earn.
- Seven indexes, not one score. Seven portfolio indexes exist today: Collaboration, Networking, Security, Services, Cloud and AI Infrastructure, Mass-Scale Infrastructure, and Splunk. Mass-Scale Infrastructure is still in its qualification period, where holding the Internet Infrastructure competencies or the Advanced Service Provider Architecture specialization grants interim rebate eligibility until its index launches.
Cisco’s H2FY26 Accelerators run through July 25, 2026, the last day of its fiscal Q4. Deals priced today on accelerator-inclusive economics earn less if they book after that date - the single most time-sensitive date in the program.
For the full breakdown of the VIP-to-CPI transition and the accelerator cliff, read our Vendor Program Watch: what changed in the Cisco 360 Partner Program
Where Cisco partners leave rebate money on the table.
Cisco partners most often lose rebate revenue at the per-portfolio scoring cliffs, on unclaimed Adopt milestones, through certification lapses that drop their Value Index, and via administrative deadlines that quietly forfeit payouts. Each is a place a quote looks profitable but the rebate never fully lands - and each is something software can watch that a spreadsheet cannot.
The scoring cliffs, per portfolio
Certification decay
Adopt payouts left unclaimed
Renewal leakage that hits twice
Administrative forfeiture
Pricing on Land alone
Split shipments that pay out short
The whole Cisco 360 program logic, maintained for you.
Rebates-On maintains the full Cisco 360 program logic so you don’t have to read every Cisco update email. In one dashboard you see your CPI position across Land, Adopt and Growth per portfolio, every PVI score, every certification deadline, your Co-Sell MDF, and the order simulator that shows what one more booking is worth toward a threshold or designation.
- See your CPI position across Land, Adopt and Growth, per portfolio, with your estimated rebate this quarter and growth versus last year.
- Watch all PVI scores in one place - which portfolios clear the qualifying line and which are near the next threshold, before a deal’s rate is set.
- Track every Specialization, Competency, and Designation that feeds your Partner Value Index and unlocks your Specialization Bonus rebates, with each employee’s credentials and renewals flagged before they lapse.
- Manage Cisco Co-Sell MDF activities and claims before funds expire.
- Catch the deadlines that forfeit rebate dollars - the Adopt claim clocks, the CPI claim windows, and the accelerator cliff - with alerts while you can still act.
- Model the next move with the order simulator: what one more booking is worth toward crossing a threshold or a designation line.
Your standing is earned per portfolio - not company-wide.
Under Cisco 360, you start as a Cisco Partner, reach Cisco [Portfolio] Partner once you clear the qualifying PVI line and hold that portfolio’s designation, and Cisco Preferred [Portfolio] Partner once you clear the higher Preferred line. Your PVI is built from four categories of outcome-based metrics: foundational, capabilities, performance and engagement. Capabilities covers certifications, training and skills.
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Can qualify for higher rebate rates, plus specialization eligibility and the Specialization Bonus.
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Earned per portfolio - the gate to CPI rebates in it.
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The baseline for any registered partner.
How your PVI is built (per portfolio)
How Rebates-On helps you avoid missed Cisco rebates.
Rebates-On turns the things that leak Cisco rebate revenue into things you can see and act on: it surfaces every PVI score before a deal books at the wrong rate, tracks every Adopt opt-in and claim deadline, flags expiring certifications before they drop your band, and reconciles what Cisco actually paid against what you earned.
- No more silent cliffs. Every PVI score in one place, with alerts when a portfolio drifts toward a qualifying or Preferred line.
- No more forfeited Adopt payouts. Every Adopt opt-in, milestone and claim deadline tracked, so the payouts you’ve earned get claimed.
- No more certification surprises. Expiring certs and competencies flagged before they drop your Value Index.
- A Cisco number finance can rely on. Forecast CPI income, then reconcile what Cisco actually paid against what you earned across Land, Adopt and Growth.
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