Citrix Ready Program
Validate the Citrix compatibility of your product or solution
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What is the Citrix Ready Program?
Citrix Ready is an end-to-end technology partner program that showcases and recommends third party products, solutions and services demonstrating compatibility with Citrix. It allows users to quickly and easily find solutions recommended by Citrix that are trusted to enhance Citrix offerings.
Through the program, your company, products and solutions can gain exposure to over 230,000 Citrix customers and 8,000 Citrix resellers. The Citrix Ready designation enables partners to generate new revenue opportunities, improve customer satisfaction, and also increases mindshare leveraging the Citrix brand.
The Citrix Ready Program is designed for organizations who have demonstrated product and solution compatibility with one or more Citrix products. Software vendors, hardware vendors, and other technology firms can benefit from the program and the visibility the program provides their products.
Why should I join this program?
By verifying the compatibility of product, solution or service you give your customers confidence that your technology will complement their Citrix investment effectively. To help you promote the value you can provide, Citrix Ready provides an innovative collection of sales, technology and marketing programs designed to showcase and recommend your Citrix-compatible products and solutions.
View all the benefits of joining the Citrix Ready Program
Through the program you will receive extensive benefits to help you better serve your customers, strengthen your skills and build your business. The program offers membership at three levels: Access, Plus and Premier.
The matrix features side-by-side comparison of membership benefits for all Citrix Ready Access, Plus, and Premier members.
| Technical Benefits | Citrix Ready Access |
Citrix Ready Plus |
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| Access to Citrix Developer Network |  |
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| Technical Support incidents* | Discounted | 5 | 10 |
| Access to Citrix verification test kits (online) | |
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| Access to Citrix Ready Virtual Lab | |
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| Redistribution of Citrix Receiver | |
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| Access to development tools, documentation, APIs and SDKs | |
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| Early access to binaries, tech preview products and associated dev forums | |
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| Priority support SLA for technical issues | |
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| Product roadmap webinars | |
* Technical Support Incidence Package for Citrix Ready Partners will include technical assistance on Citrix products as part of the Citrix Ready verification testing requirements. This does not include development/ enhancement related technical assistance and may not be used to support end-user customers. Click here to order.
| Demo Licenses (Technical Benefits) | Citrix Ready Access |
Citrix Ready Plus |
Citrix Ready Premier |
| Citrix XenDesktop (with XenApp)* | 100 | 200 | 600 |
| Citrix VDI-in-a-Box | 25 | 50 | 75 |
| Citrix XenServer | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| Citrix Access Gateway VPX | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| Citrix NetScaler VPX | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| Citrix Access Gateway Universal | 100 | 200 | 400 |
| Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V | 5 | 10 | 20 |
* Citrix XenApp is no longer offered as separate Demo license. XenApp is now part of XenDesktop product.
| Sales Benefits | Citrix Ready Access |
Citrix Ready Plus |
Citrix Ready Premier |
| Citrix Ready Xchange Marketplace lead system | |
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| Citrix Ready joint promotional webinar* | |
* Joint promotional webinars which include guaranteed lead generation will include an additional cost for external promotional banners and content syndication. Citrix and partner will equally share the cost of the external promotions for lead guarantee programs. Please contact citrixready@citrix.com for more details and pricing specifications.
| Marketing Benefits | Citrix Ready Access |
Citrix Ready Plus |
Citrix Ready Premier |
| Citrix Ready Xchange Marketplace (24/7 Admin Access) | |
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| Partner Central Portal Access | |
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| Citrix Corporate logo usage | |
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| Postings to Citrix Communities site | |
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| Citrix Ready promotional logo usage | |
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| Citrix Ready product branding | |
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| Citrix Ready Xchange Catalog profile page | |
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| Citrix Ready Xchange Catalog product page(s) | |
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| Press release | |
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| Citrix Ready Newsletter | |
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| Social Media marketing | |
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| Citrix Ready quarterly program webinars | |
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| Joint marketing templates | |
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| Citrix Ready custom branded logo usage | |
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| Access to CitrixTV channel partner training and sales videos | |
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| Citrix Ready technical whitepaper | |
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| Citrix Ready joint solution brief | |
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| Citrix Ready customer success story | |
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| Press release with Citrix quote (Citrix Exec) | |
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| Citrix Ready Xchange Marketplace Featured section* | |
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| Citrix Ready Xchange Marketplace banners* | |
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| Ability to post partner videos to CitrixTV | |
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| Access to key play materials | |
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| Guest blogging on blogs.citrix.com |
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* Available to partners at an additional cost. Please contact citrixready@citrix.com for more details and pricing specifications
| Citrix Ready Membership Fee | Citrix Ready Access |
Citrix Ready Plus |
Citrix Ready Premier |
| Cost per year (USD) | No cost | 5000 | 7500 |
NOTE: Partner Use License allotments in MyCitrix has been discontinued since March 2011. You can however download Partner Demo License for Demo/Testing purpose.
NOTE: Online payment options are available to the partners for making the payment of the membership fee. Partner can choose to pay from different payment methods such as credit card, PO, bank transfer or cheque.
NOTE: Local taxes will be applicable as per country tax regulations
How do I join?
Follow the 3 step process listed below. Begin by registering to be considered for the Citrix Ready Program. Complete your product verification and get approved to be showcased on the Citrix Ready Product Catalog.
| 1. Register Online | Fill out a short profile and select 'validating and testing your hardware or software solution with Citrix products' as the type of partner relationship you are interested in establishing with Citrix. |
| 2. Test Your Product | Test using Verification Test Kits Download the verification test kits and evaluation licenses for testing/development purposes. Complete and submit verification testing of your product, solution or service. - OR - Test using Online Testing For new users email to get access to the Citrix Ready Virtual Lab. |
| 3. Get Listed |
On approval of your product verification, complete your product and profile pages on the Citrix Ready Xchange Marketplace. |
For questions related to joining the program, program benefits, program updates and renewals please email CitrixReady@citrix.com as your main point of contact.
