Partners and Distribution Tiers
Version:Channel partner and distribution tier functionality is only available to producers who purchase FlexNet Operations with FlexNet Advanced Account Management.
Partner accounts identify accounts in your distribution chain—those accounts that act as distributors of your products and entitlements. Partner accounts exist in a distribution tier between your producer account and your end customers. You can add multiple partner accounts on the Manage Accounts page. These partner accounts all occupy the default distribution tier.
By default, FlexNet Operations provides a Distributor tier and an End Customer tier for entitlements and devices. The distribution chain allows entitlements and devices to move from the producer account to a distributor (partner account) to an end user (customer account). However, you can customize the distribution chain and add multiple tiers.
Unique to partner accounts is their relationship to the parent, producer account. Information about the transactions in the partner accounts flows up through the distribution chain so that these transactions are visible on the Producer Portal.
Some FlexNet Operations features are only available to the producer account and partner accounts. For example, only partner accounts can move a device to other distribution tiers on the End-User Portal site.
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