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name: sell-tutorial-publish-svc
title: Publishing your service to the IBM Cloud catalog
description: This tutorial walks you through how to publish your service to IBM Cloud®. By completing this tutorial, you submit your publishing request, respond to any review feedback, and publish the service to the IBM Cloud catalog.
last-updated: 2026-07-07
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# Publishing your service to the IBM Cloud catalog
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This tutorial walks you through how to publish your service to IBM Cloud®. By completing this tutorial, you submit your publishing request, respond to any review feedback, and publish the service to the IBM Cloud catalog.
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This tutorial is one of five in a series that demonstrates how to onboard and publish a service. As you complete the tutorial, adapt each step to fit your product's needs.

## Before you begin
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1. [Register your service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-svc-register&format=markdown).
1. [Define the product details of your service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-svc-define&format=markdown).
1. [Onboard a broker](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-broker-onboard&format=markdown).
1. [Add a pricing plan for your service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-svc-pricing&format=markdown).


## Submit your publishing request
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The details of any third-party service must be reviewed by IBM Cloud before it can be published to the catalog. Complete the following steps to submit a request to publish your service:

1. In the IBM Cloud console, click the **Navigation Menu** icon ![Navigation Menu icon](../icons/icon_hamburger.svg "Menu") > **Partner Center** > **My products**.
1. Select your product.
1. From the Onboarding checklist, click **Request Approval**.
1. Click **Request Approval**.

At this point, your publishing request is reviewed by IBM Cloud to ensure that the required details, such as the product name, catalog entry, product page, pricing model, and support experience are complete and accurate. When your request is approved, you receive an email notifying you that you can publish your product to the catalog.

If updates are required, you'll receive a separate email with details about the required updates. After you address all review feedback, you can submit another publishing request.
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## Publish the service
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1. Navigate to Partner Center in the IBM Cloud console by clicking the link in the email that you received notifying you that your publishing request was approved.
1. Click **Publish to catalog**.

## Next steps
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Verify that your service is officially live in the catalog for all users. Go to the [catalog](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog){: external}, select **Type** > **Service**, and search for the name of your product.