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Mastering Partner Center

Partner Center is the portal for publishing commercial marketplace offers. These modules help you use Partner Center to create, publish, and operate commercial marketplace offers.

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This hub covers Partner Center topics for publishers working in the Microsoft Marketplace, including private offer models and flexible billing.

Creating a SaaS offer in the Microsoft Marketplace

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This quick video shows how to create commercial marketplace offers in Partner Center.

Setting up a payout profile in Partner Center

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How to setup a payout profile in Partner Center for the Commercial Marketplace program and discuss how to resolve common issues that may arise.

Setting up a tax profile in Partner Center

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How to setup a tax profile in Partner Center for the Commercial Marketplace program and discuss how to resolve common issues that may arise.

How publisher-to-customer Private Offers work

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This video presents the nomenclature and behavior of a Private Offer from the publisher’s point of view. Learn what publishers need to know to be successful with this commonly used feature of the Microsoft Marketplace. This is not a click-through demo. That is presented in another module, Creating a Private Offer.

Resale Enabled Offers (REO)

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If you're an ISV or channel partner working with Microsoft Marketplace, Resale Enabled Offers (REOs) open up a powerful indirect selling model, but the mechanics aren't obvious. This video breaks down how REOs work, how they play out across different partner relationship structures, and the key things to consider when using them.

  • About Cloud Solution Providers
  • Resale Enabled Offers
  • The REO value proposition and key considerations

Handling multiple currencies in Partner Center

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Plans have specific pricing and may be offered in many regions, many with different currencies. This video walks though how to customize pricing in local currencies per selling region. For example, you may set the price in the US at one rate and the price in other regions for different amounts based on local currencies.

Flexible billing for private offers overview

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Learn about the Flexible Billing feature for Private Offers in the Microsoft Marketplace. This video explains what Flexible Billing is, how the feature works, and covers details of capabilities and restrictions.

  • Feature overview, capabilities, and availability
  • Flexible billing for private offers scenarios and examples

Configure flexible billing on customer private offers

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This demo-heavy video shows ISVs how to create a direct Customer Private Offer with a Flexible Billing schedule.

  • Flexible billing on Customer Private Offer
  • Example billing scenario
  • Creating a Customer Private offer with Flexible billing

Configure flexible billing for multiparty private offers

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This demo video shows how to create Multi-party Private Offers with Flexible Billing. This topic is valuable for ISVs and Channel Partners.

  • Demo: Partner Flexible Billing MPO experience
  • Demo: Channel partner Flexible Billing MPO experience

The Private Offer flexible billing customer experience

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This demo-only video shows the Customer purchase experience for a Marketplace Private offer which has a Flexible billing setup. This video is valuable to ISVs and Customers.

  • Demo of the customer experience

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