Prerequisites for Private Offers

Review the prerequisites for creating and managing private offers as a publisher.

1. Enable your company as an OCI Marketplace publisher.
   • Your company must be registered as an OCI Marketplace publisher with a valid, active Oracle Partner Network (OPN) membership. For more information, see Registering as a Marketplace Publisher.
   • You have OCI application listings that you want to make available for purchase through private offers.
2. Enable your publisher account for private offers.

   You must be qualified by the Marketplace and Strategic Partnerships team for the private offers program.

   To request that your Partner Portal account be enabled for private offers, send an email containing your OPN membership number or OPN company ID and tenancy ID to ocmpartnerships_ww@oracle.com.

   The Oracle team typically acknowledges the request within 48 hours on U.S. business days. Qualification review and account enablement generally take two to three weeks, depending on the completeness of the information provided and whether additional review is required. Plan accordingly before creating a time-sensitive private offer.
3. Enable your listings for private offers.
   • After your Partner Portal account has been enabled for private offers, you must enable OCI application listings that you want to make available for purchase using private offers. OCI application listings require an artifact. For information about artifacts, see OCI Application Listings, Artifacts, and Private Offer Entitlements for SaaS and PaaS.
   • Enable the additional set of attributes for your listing to make it available for private offers when you publish a new listing. You can enable an existing listing for private offers by publishing a new version.
   • If your solution is delivered through SaaS, see OCI Application Listings, Artifacts, and Private Offer Entitlements for SaaS and PaaS.
   • When the publisher attaches listings to the private offer, they must identify a unit of measure and quantity for the listings. The unit of measure is defined when the publisher enables the listing for private offers. The quantity in the unit of measure for the listings defines the entitlement under the private offer. Monitoring the consumption of the entitlement is the responsibility of the publisher.
4. Identify the tenancy to use to create and manage private offers.
   • Identify the tenancy of your artifacts and use that tenancy to create and manage private offers.
   • We recommend that you don't use a tenancy that is used for operating your service on OCI.
   • Publishers can create a child tenancy under an existing Universal Credits subscription to manage artifacts for their OCI Marketplace listings and to manage private offers. For more information, see Creating a New Child Tenancy.
5. Set user policies to create and manage private offers.
   • Provide access and set policies for the users of the tenancy that your company will use to create and manage private offers.
   • For more information, see Required IAM Policies.

Review the prerequisites for accepting a private offer as a customer.

1. Qualify the customer for a private offer purchase.
   • The customer must have an active Universal Credits commit subscription within one of the countries approved for paid listings and private offers. The private offer currency must match the customer's subscription currency. See Oracle Cloud Marketplace Paid Listings: Tax Policy.
   • The customer's Universal Credits commit credit spending for Marketplace partner products, including the prospective private offer, must be less than 25% of the customer's active Universal Credits commit credits.
   • If the customer doesn't have a subscription that meets these criteria, the publisher and the customer should engage with the primary Oracle Technical Sales person for the customer's account to determine what actions to take to qualify the customer's tenancy for the private offer purchase.

   For more information, see Information Required for the Private Offer.

2. Identify the customer tenancy for private offer acceptance.

   Identify the tenancy where the customer wants to accept the private offer. The tenancy must be associated with an Oracle Universal Credits subscription that meets the qualification criteria.

   For more information, see Information Required for the Private Offer.

3. Enable the customer to accept the private offer.

   The customer contact who accepts the private offer must have access to the tenancy where the private offer is accepted. Ensure that the policies are set for the customer to access the private offer details and accept it.