Assign user roles and permissions
Appropriate roles: Owner | Manager
In order to access capabilities related to marketplace or your developer account, you need to have one or more of the following roles assigned to yourself. Each role has a specific set of permissions to perform certain functions within the account.
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Owner | When a publisher account is created, an ownership role is assigned to the partner. Permission details: ✔ Complete ownership of the account. ✔ Add any type of users, including additional account Owners ✔ Create and update payout and tax information ✔ View feedback reports and summaries ✔ Enroll the publisher account into any other developer programs |
| Manager | ✔ Manage publisher account users, roles, and permissions ✔ Manage tenants ✔ View Insights reports like Order, Usage, Revenue etc. ✘ Access tax and payout settings |
| Developer | ✔ Upload package ✔ Submit apps and add-ons ✔ View Insights reports like Order, Usage, Revenue etc. ✘ Access financial information or account settings |
| Business contributor | ✔ Access financial information ✔ Set pricing details ✘ Create or submit new apps and add-ons |
| Financial contributor | ✔ View payout reports ✔ Create and update payout and tax information ✘ Make changes to apps or settings |
| Marketer | ✔ Respond to customer reviews ✔ View non-financial reports ✘ Make changes to apps or settings |
Note
For the commercial marketplace program, the Global admin, Business Contributor, and Marketer roles are not used. Assigning these roles to users has no effect. For the commercial Marketplace, only the Owner role can grant permissions to users and access all reports. As best practice you should make sure you have at least two owners assigned as the owner role on the publisher account. Both the Owner and the Financial Contributor role can create and update Tax and Payout Settings. The Financial Contributor role can also be used to access the Earnings and Insights reports.
For more information about managing roles and permissions in other areas of Partner Center, such as Microsoft Entra ID, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), Control Panel Vendor (CPV), Guest users, or Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, see Assign users roles and permissions in Partner Center.
Note
Any user management, role assignment activities done on these lines will be in context of the account you are viewing in the Account settings workspace. Refer to section on switching between seller if you need to manage a different account.