App Source Canvas App - how to prevent customers seeing code and functionality
We are a small ISV and have published a PowerPlatform solution with a canvas app. While we published as a managed solution, etc. we are seeing that our customers can edit the app and see all the code and functionality we've built. Our 2025 plan includes ramping up several new App Source offerings with Canvas Apps included, but we won't be doing that if we can't protect our efforts and someone can easily replicate. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated! After a customer purchased this solution, this is what they can see when selecting "App" - clearly you can see they can edit it and did confirm they can go in an navigate through the app in the editor and see al the code, etc. This is the solution view - it is working as expected by preventing the editing. This is the offer. Business Apps – Microsoft AppSource
Mastering the Marketplace: How to Build a Co-Sell Narrative for Azure Marketplace via Salesforce
Are you an ISV looking to amplify your reach and skyrocket sales in Azure Marketplace? Co-selling on Azure Marketplace can be your secret weapon! Join our insightful webinar and discover proven strategies to craft a co-sell narrative within Salesforce and propels your solution to new heights. Our cloud experts will equip you with the knowledge to: Craft a Value-Driven Narrative: Learn how to articulate the unique value proposition of your solution combined with Azure. Automation via Salesforce: Learn how automation via Salesforce helps in creating private offers in Azure Marketplace and how it differs from the manual approach. Success Stories Sell: Explore strategies to develop compelling co-selling case studies on Azure Marketplace. Actionable Co-selling: Learn how to create a co-sell narrative that compels Azure Marketplace sales. This webinar is perfect for you if: You're an ISV with a solution listed on Azure Marketplace. You're looking to leverage Sales force to expand your reach on Azure Marketplace. You want to develop a co-sell narrative that positions your solution on Azure Marketplace. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock the full potential of co-selling in Azure Marketplace. Presented by: Amit Malik- Spektra Systems Register HerePrivate Plan with $0 Price
I have created an offer in the marketplace with two plans: one public with a listed price and one private priced at $0, available only to my tenant. This is mentioned in the FAQ here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/marketplace-offers/marketplace-faq-publisher-guide#how-can-my-own-employees-use-our-offers-from-the-marketplace-without-being-charged- Do my employees still need to provide credit card information to use the private plan?Azure IP Co-sell Eligibility
As per documentation, one of the current requirements is: "At the organization level, generate at least USD100,000 of Azure Consumed Revenue or Marketplace Billed Sales (via the commercial marketplace), over the trailing 12-month period". Our solution naturally has low consumption rates; however, it plays a crucial role in helping end customers migrate and modernize their applications on Azure, thereby significantly driving ACR consumption for those customers. Question: Could our solution still be considered for IP Co-sell based on our customers' ACR increase?Expand your business with ISV to CSP private offers in the marketplace
The insights shared in this webinar ("ISV to CSP private offers - experience walkthrough") shed light on how these resources can significantly contribute to growing your sales with the partnerships between ISVs and partners in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program through the commercial marketplace. According to recent research from Canalys, software sales through hyperscaler cloud marketplaces are predicted to reach US$85 billion by 2028 Most importantly, channel partners are playing an increasingly important role, and Canalys expects more than 50% of marketplace sales to flow through the channel. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and CSP partners have a unique opportunity to collaborate and unlock the potential to sell to small and mid-sized customers. For ISVs, by partnering with the CSP partners, ISVs can scale effectively to sell and reach customers and reach new markets globally based on the CSP partners customer- base. For CSP partners, you can expand your portfolio instantly leveraging our comprehensive marketplace catalog and meet your customers’ needs in an agile way by packaging your solutions and services across the Microsoft first party solutions and the ISV solutions through our marketplace. ISV to CSP private offers empower ISVs the ability to scale and unlock repeatable revenue opportunities with partners in the CSP program via the marketplace. ISVs can collaborate with CSP partners and effectively share margins using CSP private offers through the marketplace. Using ISV to CSP private offers, ISVs can specify the margin and duration to create a wholesale price for your partners enrolled in the Microsoft CSP program as Direct Bill partners or Indirect Providers. When your CSP partner makes a sale to a customer, Microsoft makes its payments to you off the wholesale price after applying the standard commercial marketplace agency fee. As a CSP partner, you can discover all the margins available to you via Partner Center portal or API. For any sales you make through the marketplace, you receive your bill from Microsoft. You can continue to set your customer price and invoice your customer outside of the marketplace. Please see an example flow below and learn more about the CSP partner experience with private offers at Discover margins configured by ISVs. Any partner who meets the following criteria can participate in partner-to-partner selling through our marketplace using CSP private offers. ISV CSP Required Enrolled in the Microsoft commercial marketplace Must have a transactable offer with public plan(s) available to participate in ISV to CSP private offers. (no free/contact me, BYOL, on-prem, HW or professional services offers) Have target CSP partners to sell with Direct Bill or Indirect Provider partners in the CSP program Ability to manage customer pricing, billing, etc., which needs to be handled by the CSP partner outside of the Microsoft commercial marketplace Manage target customer(s)’ Azure Plan and CSP subscription(s) Have target ISVs to sell with and willing to share margins Optional The publicly transactable offers can be opted into CSP to be resold to all or specific CSP partners To get started, ISVs and CSP partners can follow these best practices: define your strategy, identify target partners and offers, develop compelling go-to-market plans, engage with target partners, and continuously monitor and optimize your performance. By doing so, you can effectively scale your business and achieve success in the marketplace. ISV CSP Define strategy and identify target partners/offers Define your channel strategy via marketplace: Transactable public offers Target customers and partners Channel sales GTM and margin strategy Define your marketplace strategy and target ISVs and offers Connect with target ISVs and align on GTM plan, support, etc. Define seller enablement strategy Understand how ISVs selling with CSPs in the marketplace works Reseller your offers though CSP partners Marketplace Insights reporting Payout schedule Understand CSP marketplace overview Get ready for operational process Enable ISV to CSP private offers process and start to sell with margin sharing ISV extends margins to CSP partners using ISV to CSP private offers CSP partners can receive margins from ISVs through the ISV to CSP private offers For the CSP partners, our approach is to provide a consistent experience across Microsoft 1st party solutions and marketplace 3rd party solutions from ISVs, helping simplify your operational processes. CSP partners can leverage APIs or the Partner Center and Azure portal user experiences to streamline operations and enhance efficiency. Each option comes with its own set of benefits and considerations, enabling CSPs to choose the approach that best aligns with their business model, providing flexibility. To access the recent webinar on this topic, please visit this link. For more information or to learn about additional webinars, please visit aka.ms/CSPPO, aka.ms/CSPPO_FAQ, and aka.ms/masteringthemarketplace .
Unable to create support request in Partner Center
Hello, I am unable to create support request in partner center. I am getting the following error message while trying to create a support request. "There was an issue creating your service request. Please wait 10 minutes and try again." Can someone let me know if there is another way to contact support in Partner center.? Thanks, Ari
Microsoft Partner Center Account Verification Issues - Steps Unresponsive
Hello fellow members, I am currently facing an issue with the Microsoft Partner Center's account verification process, and I'm reaching out to see if anyone else has encountered a similar problem or if there's a workaround that I might have missed. I have been trying to verify my account as guided by their official documentation (Verification Responses Guide). Here are the steps I followed: I went to Account Settings and clicked on the Legal Info, then clicked on the "Fix now" button as instructed. The next step mentions "In Account Verification, from Select document type to upload, select the type of document you want to upload for verification". This is where the problem lies. After Step 1, the "Account Verification" tab or option simply doesn't appear for me. It feels as though the process just halts there. I tried to find a way around it, assuming maybe it's a browser issue or some temporary glitch, but multiple attempts yielded the same result. Through different browsers, different computers at different times. I also raised support tickets regarding this matter, but unfortunately, I haven't received any concrete responses yet. They only keep directing me back to the same steps that are unresponsive. And this has been over a month now and I kinda get stuck. Has anyone here faced a similar challenge or has any insights on how I can proceed with this? I appreciate all the help and suggestions I can get. Thanks in advance!
