Netgate Partner Program

Partner with Netgate to offer your customers affordable, world-class secure networking solutions

For success in the security market, partner with Netgate

We feel that the best partnerships are based on a strong foundation where both sides see benefits and receive value from the partnership. The Netgate Reseller Program is designed for Value-Added Solution providers: network consultants, network security specialists, and others who sell network security appliances. We want to help your business grow by offering you the products and tools you need to succeed in the IT and MSSP markets. Netgate Partners provide their customer base with consulting, procurement, and installation support.

Our partner program is designed to expand your product offering - enabling you to grow your business with an advantage over your competitors- by providing best-in-class solutions that are easily deployed and supported. We, in turn, benefit from your market insight, enabling us to evolve our product suite to meet your customers' ever changing needs.

Program Goals

  • Provide partners the tooling needed to effectively sell Netgate products and services
  • Enable our partner success by delivering comprehensive support:
    • Sales
    • Marketing
    • Training
    • Product
  • Reward partner results
  • Provide best of breed solutions through product innovation and support

Why Partner with Netgate?

pfSense® Plus is an open source-driven stateful firewall, router, and VPN platform, based on FreeBSD®. We have been providing network security appliances utilizing the pfSense platform since 2006. Now we’ve enhanced pfSense with purpose-built appliances to simplify installation, configuration, and maintenance of firewalls, improve performance and throughput, and serve as a platform to provide our own applications and custom configurations for customers. This hardened platform has all of the tools and technologies you need to keep your customersʼ networks private and secure.

Core Benefits

Competitive Profit Margins: We encourage our partners to deliver their high margin professional services (design, deployment, and support) and we will give you the training, support, cost-competitive appliances, and access to other technologies that help you win business goals.

Partner Support: The pfSense team supports our partners by giving you the business materials you need. We will even meet with you periodically to ensure you are getting the products, support, and attention that you need. We want to understand more about your business so that we can direct our efforts to help meet your business goals.

Tiered Approach: Simply put, the more that you sell the more benefits that you accrue under the Netgate partner program.

Training and Support: As a Select or Premier Netgate partner, you will have available to you more in-depth training at discounted rates. Additionally, your company will have priority in our support queue if help is needed.

Benefits Registered Authorized Select Premier
Partner Support        
Named Account Manager ✔️
Dedicated Support ✔️
Access to Partner Program Hotline ✔️ ✔️
Access to Partner Portal ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Partner Advisory Board Eligibility ✔️
Technical Support        
24/7 Priority Technical Support ✔️
Prioritized 8-5 Technical Support ✔️ ✔️
Online Technical Resources ✔️ ✔️
Sales Enablement        
Product Discounts ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Pre-sales Phone Support ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Early look at new products ✔️
Product Sales Tools ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Training and Education        
Onsite Training ✔️ ✔️
Partner Kits ✔️ ✔️
Requirements Registered Authorized Select Premier
Execute Partner Agreement ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Annual Training ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Minimum Sales Requirements ✔️ ✔️