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Creating a Market Development Fund


Market development funds (MDFs) are created for a variety of reasons. For example, an alliance partner may agree to a fixed MDF as part of its alliance agreement, or you can do joint marketing with a partner and create an accrual MDF to which you will contribute one percent of the partner's sales.

When you create a new MDF, you must specify which partners are participants in the fund and you must specify the fund type.

There are three types of MDFs:

You must specify the fund type when you create the Fund record. Then, the funding that you add to the fund depends on the fund type that you specified.

To create a new MDF, you go through the following stages:


 Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003