Growth Partner Agreement

This agreement is between you (“the partner”) and Sekhar Mridha, sole proprietor, trading as Pados, which operates Pados. It applies from the moment Pados approves your application as a Growth Partner, and it sits on top of the Terms of Use, which also apply to you.

1. What a Growth Partner is

A Growth Partner brings the shops in an area onto Pados, helps them, and looks after the area locally. You are an independent local partner. You are not an employee, agent or officer of Pados, and nothing here creates a partnership, employment or joint venture. You work when and how you choose, within the rules below.

2. Applying and being approved

• Anyone may apply, from the Work with us page. Applying creates a pending application and nothing more: it earns nothing and gives no access.
• Pados decides whether to approve you, and when it does it decides two things for you: the territory you run, which is a set of pincodes, and your commission rate, between 30% and 50%. Pados may decline an application without giving a reason.
• There is one Growth Partner per territory. A territory is an operating area, not property: you do not own it, and Pados may adjust it, move shops, or end an appointment.
• Your approval gives you a Partner ID. Shops register with it, and it works only for shops whose pincode is inside your territory.

3. What you do

Three of your duties are approvals, and they are the ones to read carefully, because when you perform them you are performing a check Pados has promised to shoppers. They are not formalities.

• You approve shops. Verify that a shop is real, that the person registering runs it, and that its trade matches what it sells. Then approve it, or ask for more. A shop cannot go live until a shop approval is given. Pados may overrule your decision either way.
• You approve new products,where Pados has given you that duty. An item a shop takes from the shared catalogue is already approved and needs nothing from you. An item a shop writes itself is new, and waits for you or a Pados admin. Approve it only if it is a lawful thing to sell, correctly named and priced in a unit that makes sense for the trade. Refuse anything banned, restricted, counterfeit, mislabelled, or outside the shop’s approved trade.
• You verify ridersbefore they can ride, where Pados has given you that duty. This is an identity check: the rider is who they say they are and their details are real. It does not make the rider your worker or Pados’s — the shop adds the rider, assigns the work and pays them.
• Help local shopkeepers register with your code and put their products online.
• Support shopkeepers and customers in your area.

What an approval is not: you are not certifying the goods themselves. Approving that an item may be listed is not an inspection of the stock in the shop, and the shop remains the seller and remains answerable for quality, weight and freshness.

Pados may narrow or add to these duties for you at any time from its admin screen. You may do only what the duties you hold allow. Approving a shop, product or rider you have not actually checked — or approving one for payment, a favour or a relationship — ends your appointment, and Pados may reverse every approval you gave.

4. How you are paid

• You earn your commission rate on the credit purchases Pados actually receivesfrom shops you bring in. Not on a shop’s sales, not on free monthly credits, and not on money Pados has refunded.
• Your rate is the one set when you were approved. Pados may change it for the future with notice; it does not reduce commission already earned.
• You earn nothing from delivery fees. Those go to the shop’s own rider.
• Your dashboard shows each commission, its status and each payout. Pados pays what you are owed against the payout details you give it, after any tax Pados is required to deduct. You are responsible for your own taxes.
• If a shop moves to another partner, or you are suspended, commission stops from then and what is already earned is paid.

5. How you behave

• Tell shopkeepers the truth about Pados, how credits work and what they cost. Do not promise what Pados has not offered.
• Never take money from a shop on Pados’s behalf. A shop buys credits from Pados itself.
• Do not register a shop that is not real, not yours to register, or outside your territory, and do not create orders or accounts to inflate your commission.
• Keep what you learn about shops, customers and riders to what the work needs. Do not share it, and use it only for Pados.
• Follow the law, including consumer-protection and data-protection rules, in what you say and do.

6. Your information

Pados holds your name, phone, email, location and, when you give them, your PAN and payout details, to run this agreement and pay you. See the Privacy Policy. You can see your own details in your profile, and only you and Pados can see your PAN and payout details.

7. Suspension and ending

Pados may suspend or end your appointment immediately if you break this agreement or the law, or put shops or customers at risk, and otherwise on 30 days’ notice. You may end it at any time by writing to Pados. Suspension stops your access and your commission accruing; it does not undo anything lawful you did before.

8. Liability and law

Pados provides the platform as it is and does not guarantee any amount of income. To the extent the law allows, Pados is not liable for loss of expected earnings. This agreement is governed by the laws of India, and the courts at Port Blair have jurisdiction, as set out in the Terms of Use.

9. Changes and reaching us

If this agreement changes you will be told in your dashboard before it takes effect, and the date at the top of this page changes. Write to pados.andaman@gmail.com.