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name: sell-da-get-start
title: Getting set up to sell deployable architectures
description: 'Welcome to IBM Cloud®! To start onboarding your deployable architecture to our cloud platform, first complete a few tasks: provide your company and product details, create a test environment, set up access for your team to help with the onboarding process, and confirm your legal agreement with IBM.'
last-updated: 2026-04-15
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> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Getting set up to sell deployable architectures
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Welcome to IBM Cloud®! To start onboarding your deployable architecture to our cloud platform, first complete a few tasks: provide your company and product details, create a test environment, set up access for your team to help with the onboarding process, and confirm your legal agreement with IBM.
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## Before you begin
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* Verify that you're using a Pay-As-You-Go or Subscription account. To check which type of account you're using, go to **Manage > Account > Account settings** in the IBM Cloud console.

   It's recommended that you use an account that was created with a [functional ID](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/iam?topic=iam-identity-overview&format=markdown#functionalid-bestpract) to ensure your continued access to the products that are onboarded in the account.
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* Verify that you're assigned the administrator role on all account management services and all IAM-enabled services. See [Assigning access to account management services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/iam?topic=iam-account-services&interface=ui&format=markdown) and [Managing access to resources](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/iam?topic=iam-assign-access-resources&interface=ui&format=markdown).

* The only supported deployable architecture type is Terraform.

## Provide your company name
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1. In the IBM Cloud console, click the **Navigation Menu** icon ![Navigation Menu icon](../icons/icon_hamburger.svg "Menu") > **Partner Center > Overview > Get started**.
1. Enter the name of your company as you want it to be displayed in the IBM Cloud catalog.

    The company name doesn't need to be finalized. You can update it later from the My company page in Partner Center if necessary.
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## Create a test environment
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You, or a member of your team, uses the test environment to onboard your product, and validate that it's ready to be published in the IBM Cloud catalog. Your test environment is a private catalog in which you import your product from an external repository.

1. Click **Create** in the Create your test environment section on the Get started page.
1. Enter the name of your private catalog, and click **Create**. The private catalog and its contents are visible only to the users that you choose.

## Set up access for your team
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If you want to enlist team members to help with the onboarding process, you need to assign them specific levels of IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) access. To streamline the process, you can organize your team members into a single entity by adding them to an access group.

1. Click **Assign** in the Assign access section on the Get started page.
1. Enter the name of the access group, and click **Create**.
1. Click **Let's go**.

To review the list of permissions granted to this access group, see the [Giving team members access in Partner Center](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-iam-access-pc-sell&format=markdown#give-access-pc) documentation section.

## Invite team members to your account
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After you create your access group, you can add team members to the group by inviting them to your account.

1. Go to **Partner Center > My team**.
1. Click **Invite users**.
1. Enter the email address of the user that you want to invite.
1. Click the checkbox if the user that you invite is a technical team member who will be doing technical tasks.
1. Click **Invite**.

## Review and submit the digital platform reseller agreement
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You are required to review and submit the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement, which sets the terms and conditions under which providers can onboard and sell products in IBM Cloud. Or, you can upload a custom digital provider agreement in `.pdf`, `.doc`, or `.docx` file format.

Custom digital provider agreements must be reviewed and approved by IBM, which increases the time it takes for you to complete the onboarding process. The uploaded files are scanned for viruses, which might take a few minutes to complete. If a virus is detected, it is recommended to run another virus scan on your file, and then try uploading it again.
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Complete the following steps to review and submit the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement:

1. Go to **Partner Center > My company**.
1. Click **Edit**.
1. Choose **I plan to offer usage-based pricing plans** from the Agreements section.
1. Click the **IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement** link to review the agreement.
1. Select **I read and agree to the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement**, and click **Save**.

## Next steps
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Now that you completed the getting started tasks, you're ready to [continue with the onboarding process](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-create-da-product&interface=ui&format=markdown).

To get an overview of all the tasks involved in the process, see the [checklist for selling deployable architectures on IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-checklist-da&interface=ui&format=markdown).
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