Here is the dilemma every agent recognises. Your client trusts you. They ask you to sort out — or at least point them towards — their conveyancing. You are not a solicitor, so the work has to go to someone else. And the moment it does, you risk two things: losing control of the client experience your name is attached to, and handing your client to a business that will market mortgages, insurance and next year's services to them forever.
The industry's usual answer is "white label" — arrangements that promise the client will never know a third party exists. We want to make a careful, slightly contrarian argument: the invisible version of white label is neither achievable nor desirable in conveyancing, and the version that actually protects your client relationship looks different.
Why "they'll never know" is the wrong promise
Conveyancing is regulated legal work. Your client will sign a client care letter with a named, regulated law firm. They will correspond with that firm for ten to fourteen weeks. And if a referral fee changes hands, the regulators' transparency rules require it to be disclosed to the client. A provider promising true invisibility is either misunderstanding the rules or ignoring them — and either way, the reputational risk lands on the person who made the introduction: you.
More to the point, invisibility solves the wrong problem. Your client does not mind that specialists exist. What they mind is being handed off — passed to a stranger, marketed at, and left wondering whether you are still looking after them.
What referrer-branded actually means
The version that works keeps you as the named, visible introducer while the plumbing happens behind you:
- Your name travels with the quote. On ConveyQuote, your personal note is attached to the quote your client receives — "Priya asked us to prepare this for you after your offer was accepted" — so the experience reads as your service, extended, rather than a cold email from a stranger.
- You keep the visibility. Your portal shows the live status of every matter — client care sent, searches ordered, enquiries raised, exchanged, completed — so when your client rings you for an update, you genuinely know.
- Your client is not farmed. No marketing to the people you refer, no data resale, no cross-selling. The client's details exist to progress their matter, full stop.
- The fee is disclosed, properly. The referral fee is paid by the panel firm, disclosed to the client, and never loaded onto the client's price.
What stays visibly ConveyQuote? The quote email itself and the platform that produces it — because the client deserves to know who is processing their information, and because the regulated structure behind the quote is precisely what makes your introduction safe to make.
Why the honest version converts better
Counter-intuitively, disclosed referral arrangements convert better than hidden ones. Clients in 2026 are not naive: they expect their agent to have a conveyancing arrangement, and what they are scanning for is whether it feels like a service or a sale. A fixed, itemised quote that arrives within a working day, introduced by name, with the relationship openly explained, reads as competence. A mystery recommendation with no paper trail reads as a kickback — even when it is not.
There is also a hard commercial edge: a client who gets a trustworthy quote through you stops shopping around. The alternative is your client typing "conveyancing quotes" into Google and disappearing into a remarketing funnel owned by someone else.
The regulatory position, in plain English
As the introducer you are not practising law — you are making a referral, which is lawful and commonplace, provided the arrangement is transparent. The legal work is done by a regulated firm with professional indemnity insurance and the Legal Ombudsman behind it. The fee disclosure obligation sits with the firm, and a good platform handles it on every matter as a matter of course. Your obligations are the ones you would want anyway: introduce honestly, do not pressure, and work with providers who do things properly.
Where ConveyQuote fits
ConveyQuote runs a transparent conveyancing referral programme for agents, brokers and introducers: two-minute portal referrals, reviewed fixed quotes, regulated panel solicitors, and commission agreed individually with you up front, fixed per case type, no clawback surprises. Start at the referral programme overview or read the partner FAQ.
Related reading: the revenue maths for agents · the agent partnership page · the partner FAQ.