As a web designer, you are often asked to implement advanced custom components by your clients.
When this happens there are two options: 1) you can design the component from scratch or 2) you can purchase the component from a 3rd party vendor.
The first option is often not possible due to time constraints so the second option is often worth looking into.
This roundup is a list of selected web based software programs that you can use to make you look like a superhero to your clients. Additionally, they all pay a commission for referrals, which can help you increase your revenue.
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Administration
Mumboe – Web-Based Contract Management Software
Get Organized. Store agreements in a secure repository. Organize agreements in folders. Access your documents anytime, anywhere.
Shoeboxed – Scan, Email or Mail Receipts
Focus on Business, Not Paperwork! Send in receipts and business cards using pre-paid envelopes, email, or your mobile phone, and Shoeboxed will scan, data enter, and organize them for you. You’ll enjoy new levels of productivity and never lose a deduction or contact again.
Customer Service
Provide Support – Live Chat Software for Live Support and Live Help
Whether your online business is travel, real estate, auto sales, web hosting, web design, education, insurance, our live chat service will improve customers’ trust and loyalty and increase your sales.
eCommerce and Shopping Carts
1ShoppingCart.com – Shopping Cart and Ecommerce Software
1ShoppingCart.com is a shopping cart and ecommerce software solution. Our affordable packages enable you to perform all ecommerce functions in one place.
PinnacleCart – eCommerce Website Solution
Pinnacle Cart is an extremely powerful php shopping cart and web site builder application that allows you to create, manage and effectively market your store online. Get a complete eCommerce solution with customized storefront design.
Shopify – Create Your Online Store
Create your own online store with Shopify and start selling today.
Email Marketing and CRM
MailChimp – Email Marketing and Email List Manager
Featuring integrations with WordPress, Twitter, Salesforce and more, MailChimp is the list manager of choice for an impressive list of heavyweights including Mozilla, Intel, Canon, Fujitsu, Staples and more.
Emailbrain – Smart Email Marketing
Create, Send, and Track. Integrate to Social Networks. Professional Looking Newsletters. Advanced List Manager. Google Analytics Tracker. Text / SMS. Advanced Features.
PlanPlus™ Online – CRM by FranklinCovey, Manage the 7 Habits
For Your Business – Website Lead Capture, Email Campaigns, Project Management, Document Storage
CampaignMonitor – Re-brand, re-sell and profit
Campaign Monitor is built from the ground up for designers to resell as their own product.
AWeber – Email Marketing Software, Email Marketing Newsletters and Autoresponders
Email marketing software that’s easy to use and only $1 to try. Send email newsletters and autoresponders with top notch email deliverability with our tools and free expert support.
GetResponse – Email Marketing Software, Autoresponder
GetResponse is an easy email marketing software that delivers your email campaigns, online surveys, newsletters, follow-ups and autoresponders. Get it FREE!
neteffekt – 100% White label email marketing solutions
We are a digital agency that provides white label email marketing solutions for agencies, list managers, data bureaus, creative agencies, contact centres, corporate clients
Free CRM for sales force automation and customer relationship management
Salesboom – On-demand crm Customer Relationship Management Software
User friendly web based CRM Software Solutions. FREE 30-Day Trial. Our Online CRM Software starts at $20/month. Salesboom’s Web Based CRM Software and ERP software is the industry’s best.
BlinkCampaign – White Label Email Marketing Software for Agencies and Designers
Conduct email marketing campaigns easily for your clients. White label email marketing platform to generate more revenue. No downloads or installations.
ConstantContact – Email Marketing Solutions
Email marketing software that makes it easy to create professional HTML email campaigns with no tech skills. Sign up for a 60-Day FREE trial.
File Management
Nomadesk – Share, sync and backup files online and offline
The easiest and most secure way to share, synchronize and backup files wherever you are, online or offline!
OfficeDrop – Document Scanning Service, Online Document Management
Document Management & Document Scanning Service. Convert paper to digital PDFs scanned to a secure online document management service.
Celum – Digital Media Asset Management
celum IMAGINE is the leading business solution for the Management and Integration of Image and Media files
Job Outsourcing
Talent Maze – Bringing employers and recruiters together
Recruiters – spend more of your time sourcing top talent. Employers – Hire top talent more quickly.
LimeExchange – Outsource to Freelancers, Web Developers, Programmers
Find freelancers, find jobs, post jobs for free, outsource jobs to freelance web designers, web developers, php, .net, java, drupal, joomla programmers, software developers copywriters, writers, graphic designers.
PeoplePerHour – Find Freelancers
Advertise your job to over 53,951 talented freelancers at PeoplePerHour.com where we connect skilled experts with thousands of jobs every month. Find freelancers, freelance work and freelance jobs at PeoplePerHour.com
Elance – Outsource to freelance professionals, experts, and consultants
Outsource to expert programmers, designers, writers, translators, marketers, researchers and admin contractors with tested skills.
oDesk – Changing How the World Works Sign In Create an Account
Outsource to expert programmers, designers, writers, translators, marketers, researchers and admin contractors with tested skills.
Marketing and Promotion
Vontoo Voice – Vontoo Voice Marketing, Collections, and Notifications
Vontoo is a leading provider of voice broadcasting technology. Our permission-based phone calls enable you to connect with your audience. The web-based application means there is nothing to install, no hardware to purchase. You simply log on, record your message from any phone, and send that message out to hundreds or thousands of contacts using the power of the Internet.
With BSA Private Label you can build a vertical ad network with the same software that powers BuySellAds.com. Your competition will lose sleep. Your users will love you. And we’ll make it all, very, very easy.
Inside Sales – Phone Dialer Software, Lead Management Software, Inside Sales Solutions
InsideSales.com is the leading provider of inside sales software and solutions to respond immediately and persistently to leads. Make 350+ calls/day. Free Trial.
Miscellaneous and Other
Buildium – Buildium Property Management Software
Whether you’re a landlord, professional property manager, or member of a self-managed HOA, Buildium has a property management solution for you. Completely online with no software to install, Buildium’s property management software features tenant screening, online payments, complete accounting, and access for tenants, owners, and more.
Appointment-plus – Appointment Scheduler Online Reservation Software System
Appointment scheduler for businesses that need online reservation system software.
Project Management
Easy Projects .NET – Project Management Software Online Collaboration Tool
The easiest all-in-one project management software. Easy Projects .NET is a web-based project management tool, making team collaboration hassle free and straightforward.
Wrike – Project Management Software, Project Planning Software, Time Tracking Software
Help easily manage 50+ projects in one workspace. Solve the email inbox chaos problem. Boost team collaboration. Save managers up to 25 hours a month. Double team productivity.
TaskAnyone – Email a task. We’ll follow up ’till they follow through.
TaskAnyone makes tracking your day-to-day tasks simple. Organise your tasks & subtasks into easy to use checklists. Track personal to do lists, delegate to your team and even send tasks to third parties.
ProjectOffice.net – Online project management software
ProjectOffice.net is a project management tool designed to create and manage: Projects, Tasks, Time, Issues, Wikis
LiquidPlanner – Online project management software: collaborate, schedule, track
Online project management software for scheduling, collaboration, and time-tracking in one easy package. The result for your team: fewer meetings, less e-mail, less re-work and more project wins.
Web Development, Design, and CMS
Envato Marketplace – Refer New Members
Refer new users to any of the Envato Marketplaces and you’ll receive 30% of their first purchase or cash deposit!
LogoNerds – Small Business Logo Design, Cheap logo design, Custom Affordable Logos
Affordable small business logo design service. Professional, custom and always cheap, our logos are perfect for the small business, website or blog owner.
LogoBee – Create Business And Company Logo Designs
Logo Design company over 10 years in business: Get a company logo design from award winning graphic design company.
In-house designers create Logo And stationery designs for all types of Businesses.
Business Catalyst – Complete online business platform
What is Business Catalyst? BC is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.
LightCMS – Web Content Management System for Designers and Ad Agencies
LightCMS is a web based CMS for designers and ad agencies.
CushyCMS – Free and Simple CMS
CushyCMS is a FREE hosted content management system that’s actually easy to use, fast to setup and doesn’t require programming skills.
SurrealCMS – A Free and Simple CMS for Web Designers
Start editing your website in less than 3 minutes. Nothing to install!
PageLime – Simple CMS for Web Designers
PageLime is a simple CMS for web designers. It’s fast, light, and simple to use. Add the CSS class ‘cms-editable’ to any element in a HTML file to make it editable. No database, no coding, no setup download, and no server installation – it takes less than 5 minutes to get started.
Monk Development – Private Label CMS
Private Label Content Management System (CMS) is created for design companies, resellers and ad agencies. Private Label CMS combines a Content Management System (CMS), Event/Calendar management system with an event registration / RSVP module, a site member’s module, blogging engine, social networking, administrative module, syndication, ecommerce and a media module rolled into one web-based application.
Brightegg – Build, Manage and Market a Better Website
Brightegg is a powerful web platform that enables businesses to build, manage and market a feature-rich, highly professional website at a cost-effective price. Joined by a community of talented designers, Brightegg targets small to medium-sized businesses and non-profit organizations that want to grow online without spending thousands of dollars or hiring a full-time programmer, web designer and marketing expert.
Web Hosting
Create your own website in minutes with the page.ly website builder system. With page.ly you get your own domain name, email address, and customizable website, fast! Choose from dozens of professionally designed themes and add more at anytime. No setup fee.
Site5 offers the best customer service along with amazing web hosting! Find out what 30,000 people already know and why they trust us with their web hosting. Try us free for 30 days and see why our customers love us!
midPhase – Web Hosting and Domain Hosting
Web hosting and domain hosting services from Midphase. Established in 2003 Midphase is known for great hosting, great service and great pricing.
Host Gator – Web Hosting Services, Reseller Hosting, and Dedicated Servers
HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers. Over 2,500,000 websites trust HostGator for their web hosting needs.
InMotion – Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Servers
Web Hosting Solutions by InMotion Hosting. Top-rated Business Class Web Hosting solutions for Small and Medium Business. VPS Hosting and Dedicated Server solutions available.
Going the extra mile for your clients
Do you sometimes deny your clients requests for added functionality due to time/cost constraints? Are there any web services featured in this post that you can use to increase your revenue while giving your clients the extra functionality they desire?
Kalim Fleet is a professional web designer and design blog writer with over 6 years experience. The web is his passion as he splits his time between blog writing, software development and social media. He loves using and developing new applications for the web, mobile, and desktop.
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Great post, Some of the sites listed here were unknown to me, Thanks again.
I definitely agree with you, Good post, thanks
I did not know that shopify had a referral program. Neat.
Box.net has a reseller program as well. Thanks for this post.
I also say tomatocart sucks I dont understant why they would not fix its numerous problems before making it available if you have alot of time to waste and dont mind failing go ahead and try to use it. I never will again even if they fix it. From what I got from them they cant even get all its features to work for them. Idiots
I have to FIRMLY disagree with Mitsui. TomatoCart SUCKS! While it has a gorgeous UI, the support for this project is absymal! Both from the developers and the “community”. They prefer to pat themselves on the back and make excuses rather than solve the problems that continue to plague the project. Don’t even THINK about going near TomatoCart for at least a year or two. Otherwise, you’ll be in the exact same boat I was… having spent nearly a hundred hours setting up your parts business and then having to abandon it and go back to eBay… I sincerely doubt… Read more »
Very comprehensive post!!! Thank you.
IMO,
miss TomatoCart(http://www.tomatocart.com),
where webdesigners/webDevelopers can make more extra money.
Well, it’s a great list of affiliate program for web designer, thanks
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Unique post, great topic!
Thank you for this wonderful, helpful post. I give you alot of respect for gathering all these sources!
Wow, this is a very comprehensive post! A lot of these affialite programs I had no idea about, and you made me discover some new design sites!
Wow! This is handy. Most of them I didn’t know.
Thanks for sharing
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no 52: SiteKreator. A complete design and hosting solution, that includes many of the other services mentioned. Learn more about our affiliate program here: http://sitekreator.com/sitekreator/affiliate.html.
Also, our SiteKreator Pro product lets designers create great looking designs, in less time and at a fraction of the costs of other systems. For more, see http://pro.sitekreator.com/start.html
Rene
Community Manager
SiteKreator
Thanks Rene, We will take a look for sure!