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# Introduction to the Partner Ecosystem Management User Guide for Resellers

Partner Ecosystem Management is a network for Resellers (Service Providers) and Merchants. As a Reseller, you have access to a ready-made ecosystem of Merchants in Partner Ecosystem Management. Integration time is cut with Merchants that are already on the platform. You can request partnerships with them and resell their subscription products in your storefront quickly and easily. Alternatively, you can partner with Merchants to provide [statement billing](g_statementBilling) on the Merchant's website as another payment method for customers.

## Who Is Partner Ecosystem Management For?

Partner Ecosystem Management is for Reseller (Service Provider) and Merchant organizations that want to partner to resell or integrate services.

## About This Guide

The Partner Ecosystem Management User Guide for Resellers is intended for Service Providers.

This guide introduces you, the reader, to the capabilities of the interface. It covers the main tasks you can perform. This guide assumes you are not familiar with Partner Ecosystem Management terms and describes them where appropriate.

## Partner Ecosystem Management Features

Partner Ecosystem Management offers the following core features:​​​​

* **Platform-managed and Merchant-managed product lifecycles**: Product lifecycles specifically tailored to Resellers and Merchants and their goals. In the Platform-managed product lifecycle, Resellers resell Merchant services through their own digital store. In the Merchant-managed product lifecycle, Merchants use the Reseller's billing as a payment option.

* **Partnerships**: Resellers (Service Providers) and Merchants can efficiently form partnerships to resell or integrate subscription services.

* **Agreements and settlements**: After forming a partnership, a Reseller and Merchant can establish a business agreement (optionally including a settlement model). Choose from revenue share and flat fee settlement types. Quantity entitlement type is also available for flat fee settlements of licensed products.

* **Dashboard**: High-level activity data and performance KPI results about agreements, partnerships, account performance, Merchant-managed subscriptions, Platform-managed subscriptions, and newly onboarded Merchants.

* **Reports**: Track and resolve differences in subscription data and settle payments. Get insight into subscription results. View daily reports on subscription changes, Partner subscription changes, Merchant-managed transactions, and successful and failed account validations for customer eligibility. See last month's report of active subscriptions and accounts with active subscriptions (by tier).

* **Platform settings**: Easily configure various back-end settings for integration. Create an API key, configure SFTP settings, add a health check endpoint, add gateway adapter endpoints, register for webhook events, configure the short provisioning service, and add activation reminder schedules, among other settings.

* **Spend limit for Merchant-managed transactions**: This built-in function prevents high charges from being accrued by a customer based on either fraudulent activity on their account, or through a high number of Merchant purchases.

* **External user authentication**: Organizations can use their own external identity providers (IdPs) for user authentication. Users can leverage the same credentials that they already use for the external IdP.

## Partner Ecosystem Management Advantages

Partner Ecosystem Management allows you to do the following:

* Increase revenue through partnership in a matter of steps

* Browse a directory of Merchants that have on-boarded and are certified with Partner Ecosystem Management and Merchants that are undergoing certification

* Scale new partnerships quickly and reduce time to market

* Evolve standalone services into must-have bundles that subscribers keep forever, increasing loyalty

* Efficiently create agreements and settlement models

* Give customers the option of paying with another method ([statement billing](g_statementBilling))

* Handle subscription terminations with ease.


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