Manage private offer plans & private offers

In the Partner Sales Console, you can manage private offer plans from build partners of Google Cloud Marketplace apps. With a private offer plan, a build partner offers a discount as an incentive to partners who resell their products. You can then create a private offer for your customer to give discounts on the build partner's products.

Review & accept private offer plan from build partner

Requires having the Google Cloud Reseller Administrator or the Marketplace Order Specialist role. For details, go to Assign Google Cloud reseller roles & permissions .

When a build partner creates a private offer plan, you are notified in the Partner Sales Console.

1. Sign in to the Partner Sales Console .
2. Click Private offer plans.

   Tip: To view pending offers, you can also click Alert .

3. For Pending acceptance, click a private offer plan to review the details.

   For details, go to Information in private offer plan (later on this page).

4. Choose an option:
   • To accept the plan, at the top, click Accept Confirm acceptance.
   • To reject the plan, at the top, click Reject, select a reason for the rejection, and then click Confirm rejection.
5. (Optional) To view the history of a plan, click the name of a private offer plan, then scroll down to review the information in Key events.
6. (Optional) To view the history of a plan, click the name of a private offer plan, then scroll down to review the information in Key events.

Information in private offer plan

The information you get in your Partner Sales Console about the private offer plan depends on the pricing model selected by your build partner.

Create private offer for customer

After you review the private offer plan from the build partner, you can create a private offer for your customer.

Requires having the Google Cloud Reseller Administrator or the Marketplace Order Specialist role. For details, go to Assign Google Cloud reseller roles & permissions .

1. Sign in to the Partner Sales Console .
2. Click Customers, then click the customer that you want to create the offer for.
3. Click Private offers Create private offer.
4. Next to the product that you want to choose, click View optionsor Select.
5. Next to the plan that you want to use, click Use this plan.

   Tip: To get more information on a plan, click  View plan.

6. Complete the following information:
   • Offer title
   • Customer
   • Seller
   • Product configuration and pricing
7. Click Continue.
8. Review the offer and click Create private offer.
9. Copy the offer URL, email it to the customer, and then click View offer.

The status of the private offer in the Partner Sales Console changes to Pending acceptance. Your customer can review the offer using the URL.

Extend the deadline or cancel an offer

If you want to give your customer more time to accept an offer and you don't need to modify other parts of the offer, you can extend the acceptance deadline. You can also withdraw a pending offer that you have already sent to a customer.

1. Sign in to the Partner Sales Console .
2. Click Customersselect the customer and click Private offers.
3. Click Moreand choose an option:
   • To change the acceptance deadline, click Extend acceptance due dateand select a new date. The date must be within the validity period of the private offer plan.
   • To withdraw an offer, click Cancel offerand optionally add a reason for canceling the offer (the reason is displayed only to your team and isn’t visible to the customer).
4. Click Save.

Review a private offer

You are notified in the Partner Sales Console when a customer accepts a private offer. To review, click Alert .

To review the status of a private offer:

1. Sign in to the Partner Sales Console .
2. Click Customers Private offers.
3. Review the status. Offers can be:
   • Published—You published the offer but the customer has not accepted.
   • Accepted—The offer has been accepted but hasn’t started.
   • Active—Offer has started.
   • Expired—The specified due date for acceptance has passed without the customer accepting the offer.
   • Ended—Offer was accepted, became active, and passed its end date.
   • Canceled—You withdrew the offer.

Archive a private offer

You can move active, expired, canceled, ended, or unavailable private offers from the Mainview to the Archivedtab. Even after archiving, you can access and manage your private offers in the Archivedtab.

1. Sign in to the Partner Sales Console .
2. Click Customersselect the customer and click Private offers. 
3. Click More Archive.
4. (Optional) To remove the offer plan from the archive, click More Unarchive.

Related topics

• Resell Cloud Marketplace products from ISVs
• Google Cloud Marketplace: Manage your accepted offers