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Partner groups and partner sites
You likely work with various business partners (such as resellers, distributors, suppliers and so on) when operating a B2B indirect store. In addition, you may work with the partner groups and sites for these business partners. Use the Organization Administration Console to manage partner groups and Web sites.
A partner group is a designation for business partners, which assigns them a set of entitlements and privileges. For example, a manufacturer may assign resellers a designation of Gold, Silver, or Bronze, based on their success in selling the product line, or their volume of sales.
A partner site is a Web site operated by a business partner. If the site is integrated with other partner sites (for instance, the partners provide real-time quotes or order status update information), then the site customers may want to simplify the flow of accessing these integrated partner sites by maintaining authentication and profile information about partner sites on the site. For example, a customer organization may maintain its user ID information that identifies the customer organization to the partner site.
- Select a partner group for a partner site (Channel Manager)
Use the Organization Administration Console to select a reseller's partner group for a distributor.
- Changing a partner group for a partner site (Channel Manager)
Use the Organization Administration Console to change a reseller's partner group for a partner site.
- Changing the organization attributes for partner sites (Channel Manager)
Use the Organization Administration Console to change the organization attributes for partner sites.
- View the partner site list (Channel Manager, Seller Administrator)
Use the Organization Administration Console to view the list of partner sites associated with an organization.
Related concepts
Demand chain and Supply chain view of the Organization Administration Console
Related tasks
Changing a partner group for a partner site (Channel Manager)
Select a partner group for a partner site (Channel Manager)
Changing the organization attributes for partner sites (Channel Manager)
View the partner site list (Channel Manager, Seller Administrator)