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Managing Your Salesforce Organizations

Decide how you want to structure your Salesforce organizations. All your app and service listings must be published under a single organization, known as your master AppExchange Publishing Organization (APO). The APO, which in most cases is the same organization you use to manage your licenses, is where you'll manage all your AppExchange publishing. It provides the profile details that customers see when browsing your listings. The Developer Edition (DE) organizations where you create and upload your app should be linked to the APO as child organizations, also known as Contributing Publishing Organizations (CPOs). This lets you log in to the APO to manage all the packages (apps) and trial templates (sample versions of your app) that your listings provide, regardless of which organization you used to create the apps.

As a Salesforce partner, you can have one APO and as many linked organizations (CPOs) as you need. We recommend using the same organization as your APO and your License Management Organization (LMO). This consolidation lets you keep track of the leads your listing generates as well as the customers who install your app in one place.

Anyone with access to your APO will have access to your publishing console. Users who have access to any CPO linked to the APO will also have access to the publishing console, but they will only see the packages uploaded from that CPO.

Note

To manage your organizations, click the Publishing tab on the AppExchange and log in. Follow the Your Organizations link. On this page you can:
  • Click Change My AppExchange Publishing Organization and enter the credentials for the organization you want to designate as your APO. If you already have an APO designated, this moves that organization and all its linked organizations to the new APO. You can only change your APO if you don't have any public listings on the AppExchange. If you've already published a listing, you must log a case with Salesforce Customer Support to change the APO. Note that the DE organization where you create apps should not be your APO; it should be linked to your APO
  • View a list of your linked organizations if you are logged in to your APO.
  • View your APO information if you are logged in to a linked organization.
  • Click Link New Organization if you are logged in to your APO and enter the credentials for the organization you'd like to add.

The linked organization list provides the following information.

Field Description
Organization The linked organization's name
ID The linked organization's ID
Salesforce Edition The linked organization's edition
Packages The number of packages uploaded from the linked organization
Trial Templates The number of trial templates uploaded from the linked organization
Linked On The date the organization was linked to the APO.