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name: sell-tutorial-register-svc
title: Registering your service in Partner Center
description: This tutorial walks you through how to register a service in IBM Cloud® Partner Center. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to provide your company details, create a test environment, and grant team members access to help with the onboarding process
last-updated: 2026-07-07
---

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# Registering your service in Partner Center
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This tutorial walks you through how to register a service in IBM Cloud® Partner Center. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to provide your company details, create a test environment, and grant team members access to help with the onboarding process
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This tutorial is one of five in a series that demonstrates how to onboard and publish a service to the IBM Cloud catalog. It uses a fictitious company that's called *Example Corp*. As you complete the tutorial, adapt each step to fit your needs.

## Before you begin
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1. Verify that you're using a Pay-As-You-Go or Subscription account by going to **Manage** > **Account** > **Account settings** in the IBM Cloud console.
1. Verify that you're assigned the administrator role on all account management services and all IAM-enabled services. For more information, 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).

## 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 catalog, and click **Save**. For the purpose of this tutorial, enter `Example Corp` as the company name.

## Create your test environment
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A test environment is not needed for onboarding services but is needed for any software that you might onboard in the future. You, or a member of your team, uses the test environment to validate that your software is ready for use.

1. Click **Create** in the Create your test environment section.
1. Enter `Example Corp Catalog` as the name of the private catalog, and click **Create**.

## Set up access for your team
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You can enlist team members to help with the onboarding process by assigning them specific levels of IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) access. To streamline the process of assigning access, complete the following steps to create your access group:

1. Click **Assign** in the Assign access section.
1. Enter `Example Corp Service` as the name of the access group, and click **Create**.

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.

## Next steps
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You're now ready to [define your service details](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-svc-define&format=markdown). Click **Let's go** to continue.