Publishing your software
As the last step in the onboarding process, you can submit a request to publish your third-party software to the IBM Cloud® catalog. When you publish your software to the catalog, you can choose to publish it to all IBM Cloud users in the catalog or to only specific accounts. If you choose to publish to specific accounts, your product is available only for users in those accounts.
Requesting for approval
Before you can publish your product to the catalog, you must submit your software for approval. To submit a request to publish your product, complete the following steps:
- In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon
> Partner Center > My products. - Select your product.
- Review the details on each page to ensure that everything is accurate.
- From the Onboarding checklist, click Request approval, and select the product version that you want to submit for publishing approval.
- To make a specific product version ready for publishing approval, click Make ready.
- Select I confirm that my company is authorized to use all materials.
- Click Request approval.
Your publishing request is reviewed by IBM to ensure 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 that notifies you that you can publish your product to the catalog.
If updates are required, you receive a separate email with details about the required updates. If you have questions about the feedback, from the My products page click the Help icon 
, and then click Contact us. After you address all review feedback, you can submit another publishing request.
Publishing to the IBM Cloud catalog
To publish your software to the IBM Cloud catalog after you receive approval, complete the following steps:
- In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon > Partner Center > My products.
- Select the product that you want to publish.
- Click Publish.
- Select IBM Cloud catalog.
- Click Publish version.
After you publish your product to the IBM Cloud catalog, it will be publicly available to all IBM Cloud users.
As a third-party provider, you're responsible for maintaining all assets of the published software in the IBM Cloud catalog and deprecating outdated versions. For more information, see Deprecating software from the IBM Cloud catalog.
Publishing to specific accounts or enterprises
If you don't want your product to be publicly available to all users in the IBM Cloud catalog, you can choose to publish it to only the accounts that you specify. To publish your product to specific accounts, complete the following steps:
- In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon > Partner Center > My products.
- Select the product that you want to publish.
- Click Publish.
- Select Accounts, and choose the current account or enterprise that you're logged in to. Click Add accounts to specify other accounts, enterprises, and account groups that you want to publish your product to.
- Click Publish version.
After you publish your product to only the accounts that you specified, your product won't be publicly available to all IBM Cloud users. Users only from the specified accounts are able to find your product in the IBM Cloud catalog.
Managing the visibility of your product
If you published your product to only specific accounts and you want to add other accounts to publish your product to, or make it available to all users in the IBM Cloud catalog, you can change the visibility of your product. To manage the publish visibility of your product, complete the following steps:
- In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon > Partner Center > My products.
- Select your product.
- Click Manage publish visibility.
- Choose from the IBM Cloud catalog or Accounts options based on where you want to publish your product to.
- Click Publish version.