Introduction

TL;DR

FounderPass is a whitelabel perks marketplace. You bring the audience; we bring 400+ curated SaaS deals worth up to $4m per member: AWS, Slack, Perplexity, Notion, Hubspot, Github, and many more. Three API calls, sync users, list deals, track events, wire it into your product. Most teams ship to production inside their first sprint.

Two ways to interact with the platform:

Mode	Auth	Used for
Partner API	JWT from API key pair	Server-to-server, programmatic integrations
Portal API	Firebase ID token or Partner JWT	Admin tooling, the hosted partner portal

This guide focuses on the Partner API. The Portal API is covered in the API Reference.

Who it’s for

• VCs & investors: give every portfolio company access to perks. A recurring, measurable value-add.
• Accelerators & incubators: differentiate your program; founders see your perks marketplace on day one of the cohort.
• Universities & communities: verify membership once, tier members (students vs. alumni vs. faculty), deliver the right perks.
• B2B SaaS platforms: embed perks as a tab inside your existing product to lift engagement and retention.

What you get

• A whitelabel marketplace on your subdomain: your logo, colors, subdomain. Hosted by us at <your-slug>.perks.founderpass.com (the production ingress serves wildcard subdomains on *.perks.founderpass.com), routed to your account by slug.
• Two delivery options today: a hosted full-page app on your subdomain, or the raw API if you want to build your own UI. An embeddable iframe widget is coming soon.
• Fine-grained gating: tier (free / premium), region, user type, and partner type. Show the right deal to the right member, evaluated server-side via visibility rules.
• Engagement analytics: deal views, clicks, and redemptions aggregated per partner. Pulled back through GET /v1/analytics.
• Continuously growing catalog: our deals team negotiates new offers every week; you inherit them automatically.

How the integration works

Four steps. Most partners are live in under a week.

1. Get an API key pair: generate your own public/private key pair in the Partner Portal under API Keys (test keys for sandbox, live keys for production). See Getting started.
2. Mirror your community: one idempotent POST /v1/users per member. Run from a webhook, a nightly job, or a one-shot backfill. See Syncing users.
3. Surface the deals: use our hosted marketplace at your subdomain, or query the API and build your own UI (an embeddable iframe widget is coming soon). See Listing deals.
4. Track engagement: fire one event per impression, view, and claim. See Tracking events.

Read the rest of these docs in the order they appear in the sidebar to go end-to-end, or jump straight to the API Reference if you’d rather learn by endpoint.