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Publishing a SaaS offer for PowerApps a canvas app in AppSource
MicrosoftHi C_Carri -
Thanks for your input here. A few questions and comments for you:
Will this app require publishing some binary or the customer deploying some code? If yes, then this likely is not an option for SaaS.
Powerapps is already a natively supported offer type in Appsource:
Thanks for your response.
I don't entirely understand your question but no, I don't think the app requires a customer to deploy any code.
The problem with the natively supported offer type in AppSource is that it only covers model-driven apps, not canvas apps.
We have a managed solution containing several canvas apps, power bi datasets, and dataverse tables. What we are trying to achieve is to have a transactable offer on the marketplace in which we can utilise licensing and also be eligible for Microsoft's co-selling.
What we are told in our technical session was that in order to do this, we needed to create a SaaS offer which is separate from our Dynamics 365 on Dataverse and PowerApps offer, and then utilise APIs to pass the licensing information across to the canvas app in order to regulate whether or not a customer has the required license to use the app.
I have spent the last month working my way through the mountains of documentation we were sent by that consultant, but now that I have hit a brick wall with almost no understanding of what I'm actually doing, I cannot get a response from the consultant, nor from our ISV engagement manager, nor can I find support anywhere else.
Now, if there is another / better way of getting a transactable offer online then I am happy to put my hours of work behind me and go for what is doable. My problem is that I can't find anything or anyone who knows about what we were advised to do. Can you please help point me in the right direction?
- justinroyal
C_Carri have you tried to package your application in a package as described here? Set up Dynamics 365 apps on Dataverse and Power Apps offer technical configuration on Microsoft AppSource - Marketplace publisher | Microsoft Learn
- Hi Justin, is there any more specific support available on this? We have customers waiting for us to have a licensed version of our app available, and I can't get any response from our ISV manager, the consultant we spoke with, nor can I find anything anywhere else.
Surely Microsoft do actually want us to use their marketplace, right?- justinroyal
Hi C_Carri - I was able to connect with your Engagement Manager for ISV Success and got an update that your case is being proactively addressed by this team. Your Engagement Manager will be in touch with you with any relevant updates as the case becomes resolved.
Thank you!
- It is packaged exactly as described in that article, in our Dynamics 365 apps on Dataverse and Powerapps offer, but as I mentioned before that one doesn't allow for a transactable offer.
However in the article you mentioned there, it mentions using S2S authentication and further links to using S2S to build multitenant applications. This sounds like it might be what we need, but I don't understand how this links back to our SaaS offer, or if it doesn't then we are still left with the problem of not having a transactable offer.
If it does connect with the SaaS offer, then we need to find out how to get the SaaS licensing information to the canvas app, which was in my original question.
Apologies, but if I sound confused it's because I am.