Free tool
Revenue Share Calculator for SaaS Partnerships and Widgets
Short answer: A revenue share calculator splits each sale between the people who earn from it. Enter the price, the partner's share and the fees, and it shows what the partner, the platform, the payment processor and you get from one sale and from a month of sales. The second tab does the same for a widget sold on Ordana, with the same arithmetic Ordana's checkout uses to pay the host and the owner.
Example price — use yours
Off the top; 0 for a direct deal
| Party | Per sale |
|---|---|
| Sale price | $20.00 |
| Processing fee | $0.88 |
| Partner | $3.82 |
| You keep | $15.30 |
Of every $20.00 sale, the partner gets $3.82 (19.1% of the price), the processor $0.88, and you keep $15.30.
This calculator does arithmetic on the numbers you enter. It is not an estimate of what you will earn.
How to use it
- 1
Pick the kind of deal
Partnership split for any revenue share between two companies. Ordana widget sale for a widget sold inside another product through Ordana.
- 2
Enter the price and the shares
The price of one sale and the partner's (or host's) share. Sales per month is optional: leave it empty to look at a single sale.
- 3
Set the fees to match your processor
The processing fee starts at a common card rate. Edit the percentage and the fixed fee per charge to what your processor actually charges.
- 4
Read the split
Each party's amount per sale and per month, and one plain sentence describing the split that you can paste into a proposal or an agreement draft.
How the numbers work
- Whole cents, one sale at a time
- Every amount is computed in integer cents, so the parts always add up to the price. A month is the per-sale split times the number of sales, because each charge is split on its own.
- Processing comes off first
- The processing fee is the price times its percentage plus the fixed fee per charge. It is taken before anything is shared in both tabs: nobody shares money the processor kept.
- Platform fee
- An optional percentage of the full price taken off the top, for a marketplace or any platform that takes a cut of each sale. Leave it at 0 for a direct deal between two companies.
- Share of net, or of the full price
- Most revenue shares are a percentage of what is left after fees (net). Some are a percentage of the full price (gross); then every fee comes out of your side, and a high share can leave you with less than nothing on each sale. The calculator shows that rather than hiding it.
- Value-added: only above a baseline
- The partner earns only on the month's revenue above a baseline: (monthly revenue − baseline) × the partner's share. On a net share, the fees on the revenue above the baseline come off first, in proportion. Ordana's own value-added mode works on the same idea, with the baseline captured from your recent Stripe revenue.
- An Ordana widget sale
- The buyer pays the widget's price with VAT included. VAT and the processing fee come off first; what is left is the base. The host gets its share of the base, Ordana 10% of the base, and the owner the rest, so Ordana's fee comes out of the owner's side, never the host's. The tab runs the same split function Ordana's checkout pays every widget sale with.
- VAT on a widget sale
- On Ordana, Ordana is the seller and the VAT depends on the buyer: none for a buyer outside the EU or an EU business with a VAT number, VAT for an EU consumer. Set VAT to 0 for the first case, or enter the rate to see what it takes out of the price.
- Other ways a widget sells
- The tab shows a sale through a host's product. A sale in Ordana's own app, or seats a host buys for users it bills itself, pay no host share: the base is divided between the owner and Ordana instead, so the owner gets what a sale through a host pays.
When this isn't the right tool
- Creator revenue sharing on a social platform, or a brokerage's commission split. The platform sets that rate and pays it, so its own dashboard is the number that counts.
- Profit sharing or equity. A profit share is computed on profit after all costs, not on each sale, and a share of the company is a cap-table question.
- Forecasting what a partnership will bring in. It does arithmetic on the numbers you type and knows nothing about how many sales you will make.
- Tax advice. VAT here is a percentage you enter; which VAT applies depends on the buyer and the seller, so ask an accountant.
- Tiered or capped deals, such as a share that drops after the first year or a ceiling on payouts. Run each tier separately.
Frequently asked questions
How do you calculate a revenue share?
Take the price of a sale, subtract what the payment processor and any platform keep, and multiply what is left by the partner's percentage. A 20% share of a 20.00 sale with a 2.9% + 0.30 card fee: the fee is 0.88, 20.00 − 0.88 = 19.12 is left, and 20% of 19.12 is 3.82 for the partner. You keep 15.30. Multiply by the number of sales for a month.
What is a fair revenue share percentage for a SaaS partnership?
There is no single standard. Published partner benchmarks cluster around 10–20% of first-year revenue for referral partners, 15–25% for integration partners on accounts they activate, and 20–40% of ongoing revenue for resellers, and most integration partners are paid nothing at all. What matters as much as the number is the base it applies to: 20% of the add-on the integration created is a very different deal from 20% of everything.
Should a revenue share be calculated on gross or net revenue?
Usually on net: the processing fee and any platform cut come off first, then the share is applied, so the partner isn't paid on money nobody received. A share of gross is simpler to check but puts every fee on the seller. The calculator does both, and shows when a share of gross leaves the seller with a loss on each sale.
What is a value-added revenue share?
A share paid only on revenue above a baseline, usually your monthly revenue before the partnership started: (monthly revenue − baseline) × share. The partner earns on the growth the partnership adds, not on customers you already had. Switch it on in the Partnership split tab and enter the baseline.
How is a widget sale split on Ordana?
The buyer pays the widget's price, VAT included. VAT and the processing fee come off first; the host gets its share of what is left, Ordana takes 10% of it, and the owner keeps the rest. On a 20.00 sale with no VAT, a 30% host share and a 2.9% + 0.25 card fee: 0.83 processing, 5.75 to the host, 1.92 to Ordana and 11.50 to the owner.
Does this calculator estimate what I will earn?
No. It does arithmetic on the numbers you enter: a price, a share, fees and a number of sales. It doesn't know how many sales you will make, and nothing on this page is a forecast.
Related guides
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