Dealer Network · Arizona
Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Arizona
Arizona backyards are built for shade products, now they can be built with yours. Sell American-made motorized screens and retractable awnings backed by veteran-owned manufacturing and real dealer support.
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Nobody has to sell an Arizona homeowner on the concept of shade. In the Valley of the Sun, the patio isn’t a seasonal luxury, it’s the second living room, used morning and night for eight or nine months of the year, and the only thing standing between a homeowner and that space is a sun that doesn’t negotiate. Triple-digit heat, blinding glare off the pool deck, and a west-facing patio door that turns the great room into a furnace by late afternoon: this is the daily reality your customers already live with.
AJ Shades is a veteran-owned American manufacturer of premium shade products, headquartered in Southern California and now building a nationwide dealer network. Our Quality Improvement Products line, motorized power screens, open-roll retractable awnings, and full-cassette awnings, was designed in the same kind of punishing sun Arizona deals with every summer, and it shows in the engineering: UV-stable fabrics, powder-coated hardware, and sealed cassette housings that shrug off dust and heat.
The Arizona dealer program is product-only. You don’t need an installation crew, a service department, or any prior experience with awnings. You buy from our wholesale catalog at dealer pricing, you sell to your customers under your own brand, and AJ Shades stands behind every sale with training, technical support, and a 15-year warranty on every retractable awning and motorized screen. It’s a way to add a high-demand product line to your business without adding overhead.
Think about who already has the customer: the pool builder finishing a backyard in Gilbert, the patio furniture showroom in Scottsdale helping a homeowner pick sectionals, the remodeler in Chandler opening up a great room to the patio. Every one of those conversations ends at the same place, “now how do we shade it?”, and right now most of those businesses have no good answer. As an AJ Shades dealer, you become the answer: motorized power screens that drop over the patio at the touch of a button, retractable awnings that turn a blazing slab into usable square footage.
Arizona’s housing patterns do the rest of the selling for you. Master-planned communities across the Phoenix metro, master plans with HOAs that favor clean, professionally finished exteriors, are full of homes with covered patios, extended slabs, and outdoor kitchens that were built for exactly these products. Snowbird and retiree communities in places like Mesa, Sun City, and Green Valley bring homeowners who invest in comfort and stay for the winters. And Tucson’s blend of historic neighborhoods and new subdivisions keeps the renovation market moving year-round.
The product line
What Arizona dealers sell
Engineered for desert sun, monsoon wind, and dust, product-only, no installation required.
Motorized Power Screens
The Arizona workhorse. Zip-track screens drop over patios and west-facing glass to cut heat and glare before it enters the home, block insects on summer nights, and stand up to dust season without a second thought.
Explore motorized screens →Open-Roll Retractable Awnings
Shade on demand for patios, decks, and ramadas. Retracts in seconds when a monsoon cell builds over the McDowells, manually, from a phone app, or automatically with a wind sensor.
Explore retractable awnings →Cassette Retractable Awnings
The premium pick for Arizona’s dust and UV: when retracted, everything seals inside a full cassette housing. A favorite in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and the higher-end master plans.
Explore cassette awnings →Every retractable awning and motorized power screen in the line carries our 15-year warranty, desert-tested confidence you can put in writing for every Arizona customer.
Territory opportunity
The Arizona market, up close
Where the demand lives, and why it keeps growing.
The Phoenix metropolitan area is the engine: Phoenix proper, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Tempe, Peoria, Surprise, and the fast-growing edges like Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, and Maricopa. This is one of the country’s most active new-construction markets, and new homes mean new patios, thousands of blank concrete slabs every year whose owners will spend their first summer realizing they can’t use them after 10 AM. That realization is your sales pipeline.
The resale market is just as strong. The Valley is ringed with established neighborhoods, from Arcadia and Ahwatukee to the master plans of the Southeast Valley, where homeowners are investing in outdoor kitchens, misting systems, and backyard offices. A motorized screen or retractable awning is the natural next purchase in that sequence, and it’s the one that makes all the other investments usable in July.
Tucson brings its own character: a mix of historic adobe neighborhoods, mid-century ranch homes with deep patios, and new subdivisions pushing toward Vail and Marana. Tucson homeowners skew toward long-term ownership and thoughtful renovation, which rewards dealers who can explain the product properly, exactly what our training prepares you to do.
Two Arizona realities shape how you’ll sell. First, HOAs are everywhere in the new-growth corridors, and their architectural committees approve clean, finished shade products while rejecting improvised shade sails and DIY structures. Our products are designed to clear those reviews. Second, energy costs: with AC running most of the year, anything that cuts solar heat gain through west and south glass, like an exterior motorized screen, pays for itself in comfort from the first summer, and homeowners feel the difference immediately.
We’re actively recruiting dealers across Arizona now. If you serve the Phoenix metro, Tucson, or the growth corridors in between, apply today and we’ll talk territory honestly, including where partners are already in place.
How it works
From application to first sale
Tell us about your business
Complete the dealer inquiry form with your business type, your Arizona market, and the products you want to carry. A real person reviews every application.
Learn the line
Dealer training covers the full Quality Improvement Products line, construction, measuring, controls, options, and how to position each product for Arizona homes, from production tracts to custom desert contemporaries.
Stock and sell
Order from the wholesale catalog for your showroom and your customers. Display a working screen or awning if you can, in Arizona, one demonstration on a hot afternoon closes more sales than any brochure.
Grow with factory backup
Technical questions, tricky measurements, warranty service, AJ Shades is behind you. You keep the customer relationship; we keep the product promise, including the 15-year warranty on every awning and screen you sell.
Prefer to refer homeowners for fully installed projects instead? See the contractor program , many Arizona partners run both.
Apply to Become a Dealer →Arizona dealer territories
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Arizona dealer FAQ
Questions Arizona businesses ask us
Do your products actually hold up in 115-degree Arizona summers?
What about monsoon season and dust storms?
I run a pool company / patio furniture store, can I be a dealer?
How does pricing work for dealers?
Which Arizona markets are you recruiting in?
What support do I get after I sign on?
Free estimate • No pressure
Arizona runs on shade. Sell the best of it.
Join the AJ Shades dealer network, American-made products engineered for desert heat, real training, and a 15-year warranty behind every sale.
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