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# Design Guidelines for the Merchant-Managed Flow

## Introduction

These guidelines provide technical design and development recommendations for Partner Ecosystem Management onboarding. These recommendations are for Merchants using the [Merchant-Managed flow](subscriptionFlows).

The Design Guidelines for the Merchant-Managed Flow contain the following sections:

* [Merchant-Managed Use Cases](dgPartnerUseCases)

* [Merchant-Managed APIs](dgPartnerAPIs)

* [Idempotency in a Merchant-Managed Flow](dgPartnerIdempotency)

* [Health Check API Response](partnerHealthCheck)

* **[Merchant-Managed Use Cases](dgPartnerUseCases)**

* **[Merchant-Managed APIs](dgPartnerAPIs)**

* **[Idempotency in a Merchant-Managed Flow](dgPartnerIdempotency)**

**Parent topic:**[Step 3: Design and Develop](designAndDevelop)


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