Manage NVIDIA Partner Network incentives, competencies and certifications in one dashboard.
NVIDIA reshaped the Partner Network: partner types regrouped into four families, competencies were updated, and each partner’s requirements are set in the Competency Exhibit they sign with NVIDIA. Rebates-On tracks it from your perspective, so you see what you’re owed, exactly what to do to earn more, and where NVIDIA rebate dollars are slipping away.
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What is the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN)?
The NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) is NVIDIA’s enterprise channel program for everyone who sells, integrates, hosts, builds, or advises on NVIDIA products. New partners join at an entry level, and certain program elements, including the **Elite** membership level, are by invitation only and subject to approval. Partner types sit in four families, and the level structure varies by partner type.
The four partner-type families are AI Infrastructure, Cloud, Influencer, and Seller/Builder, reflecting NVIDIA’s shift toward the full AI-factory buildout, not just card resale. NPN is a curated program rather than a self-service one: you apply, and NVIDIA’s partner organization decides which partner type and competency fit you.
What you carry is then gated by competency, and the competency list depends on your partner type. The Solution Provider competencies are Compute, DGX AI Compute Systems, Embedded Compute, Networking, NVIDIA Enterprise Software, and Visualization. The AI Infrastructure programs have a single competency, NVIDIA Technologies.
NVIDIA reshaped NPN - here’s what moves your rebate dollars.
NVIDIA has reshaped NPN: partner types regrouped into AI Infrastructure, Cloud, Influencer and Seller/Builder families; new data-center buildout types arrived; and the competency schedules were updated. The families do not share one economic model, which is the part old assumptions miss. Resale and rebate economics sit with the Solution Provider track.
- Four partner-type families. Types are now grouped as AI Infrastructure (Data Center Partner, Power & Cooling, Architecture/Engineering/Construction), Cloud (NVIDIA Cloud Partner / NCP), Influencer (Advanced Technology Partner, Education Services, ISV, GSI, Solution Advisor, Storage), and Seller/Builder (Solution Provider, OEM, System Partner, Distributor). The Solution Provider remains the core rebate-earning population.
- The AI Infrastructure programs are not resale programs. NVIDIA states plainly that the AI Infrastructure programs do not support partners reselling NVIDIA products. They are measured on referrals, design qualification and competency attainment, and their sales benefit is demo and not-for-resale hardware plus a referral requirement. Reading them as a rebate motion is a category error.
- Competency schedules differ by partner type. The Solution Provider schedule is set competency by competency, each with its own requirements per membership level, rather than as one company-wide bar. The AI Infrastructure programs carry a single competency, NVIDIA Technologies.
- Supply and lead times are outside the program. Lead times on constrained systems can move a booking into a later period. That is a real planning problem, but it is not something NVIDIA’s partner program documents address, so treat it as market conditions rather than as a program rule.
NVIDIA's Competency Exhibit for Solution Providers requires the named number of sales, technical and marketing individuals to complete their training within sixty (60) days of signing the Exhibit. NVIDIA reviews membership levels annually and tracks compliance on an ongoing basis. What NVIDIA does not put in writing is what happens, or when, if a competency slips afterwards.
Where NVIDIA partners leave rebate money on the table.
NVIDIA partners lose rebate dollars in a few predictable places: competency-by-competency fragmentation, two-vendor incentive stacking on OEM AI servers, allocation slips that move deals into a later period, point-of-sale data that lands late or lands wrong, and slipping below the requirements for your level without noticing. Each is a deal that looks profitable on the quote while the money quietly never lands - something software can watch that a spreadsheet cannot.
Competency fragmentation
Two-vendor stacking on OEM systems
Winning the deal is not getting the product
Point-of-sale reporting gaps
Slipping below your level
The whole NPN program logic, maintained for you.
Rebates-On carries your NPN program logic so you don’t have to chase every NVIDIA update. One dashboard shows your incentive position by competency, your open deals and their allocation status, your level and competency progress, certification deadlines, and an order simulator that tells you what one more booking is worth toward the next requirement.
- See your incentive position by competency - Compute, DGX AI Compute Systems, Networking, Visualization and the rest of your schedule - with Rebates-On tracking whichever NVIDIA incentive structures your agreement carries.
- Track every open deal and its approval and allocation status, so a slipped lead time doesn’t quietly move revenue into a later period.
- Watch your level and competency progress against the training and Annual Revenue/POS Range requirements in the Competency Exhibit you signed.
- Catch the deadlines that put benefit eligibility at risk, including the training each signed Competency Exhibit requires, with alerts while you can still act.
- Model the next move with the order simulator: what one more booking is worth toward the next requirement in your competency schedule.
Your standing is earned per competency - not company-wide.
Under NPN, you earn standing per competency, not on one company-wide score, and the level structure varies by partner type. Solution Providers qualify across Registered, Preferred and Elite, per competency, against the schedule in the Competency Exhibit they sign with NVIDIA. The AI Infrastructure programs (Data Center Partner, Power & Cooling, AEC) have two levels, Preferred and Elite, with new partners joining at Preferred. Elite is by invitation and subject to approval.
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The top level: the highest training and revenue requirements per competency, and by invitation only, subject to NVIDIA’s approval. What Elite unlocks is set in your program agreement rather than published.
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A deeper investment: meet the training and revenue requirements set for that competency, at that level, on your country schedule. In the AI Infrastructure programs, Preferred is where new partners join.
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The entry level for many partner types: complete NVIDIA sales and technical training, and gain access to product, sales, and marketing tools.
Competency requirements are defined in the Competency Exhibit each partner signs with NVIDIA. They are set per competency, per membership level, and per country schedule, so your exact schedule depends on the country where your NPN Master Agreement is executed. Enablement runs on the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) and NVIDIA’s expanding certification portfolio, from Associate level (NCA-GENL, NCA-AIIO) through Professional level (NCP-AII, NCP-AIO, NCP-AIN) and beyond. EMEA partners also have the NVIDIA Partner Expert Program.
Because NVIDIA sets each level from the number of trained sales and technical staff you hold per competency, keeping that bench current is one of the most direct ways to protect your benefit eligibility. NVIDIA reviews membership levels annually and tracks compliance on an ongoing basis - exactly what the Rebates-On certifications module is built to watch.
How Rebates-On helps you avoid missed NVIDIA rebates.
NVIDIA incentive structures are set in the agreement you sign, and they differ by partner type, competency and country. Rebates-On tracks whichever structures apply to your agreement and handles the math, so nothing you have earned goes unclaimed.
- No more tracking each competency in isolation. Your position across every competency you carry, held in one place against one calendar, so nothing gets forecast on its own.
- No more manual period math. Rebates-On applies your agreement’s incentive structure to the revenue you have actually booked, so the running total is right at any point in the period, not just after the statement lands.
- No more missed promotions. NVIDIA may make additional benefits and promotions available from time to time beyond the ones named in the program guide. Rebates-On flags the ones you qualify for and tracks them alongside everything else.
- An NVIDIA number finance can rely on. Forecast your NVIDIA incentive income, then reconcile what NVIDIA actually paid against what you earned across each competency - instead of guessing at terms that were never published.
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