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# Creating a Microsoft seller account
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- Add your onboarding team to the DL
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- DL must be live to receive confirmation email
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- This needs to be completed in your internal systems. For e.g. [email protected]
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> [AZURE.WARNING] Words like "Azure", "Microsoft" are not supported for MSA account registration. Avoid using these words to complete the account creation and registration process.
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2. Open a new Chrome Incognito or IE InPrivate browsing session to ensure that you’re not logged into an existing account
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6. You’re now ready to use the new MSA in the Seller Dashboard.
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> [AZURE.IMPORTANT] Using the DL allows multiple people to receive email notifications that are important reporting of payout information, and also insures that ownership of the MSA can be transferred and isn’t tied to a single individual.
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## 2. Create your Seller Dashboard account
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8. Enter your tax details, and then click **NEXT**.
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> [AZURE.NOTE] If you are not ready to submit your tax information for validation yet, you can click **Save** or **Save and Exit**. It takes some time to validate the tax information, so we recommend that you submit it for validation as soon as possible.
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If you are not ready to submit your tax information for validation yet, you can click **Save** or **Save and Exit**. It takes some time to validate the tax information, so we recommend that you submit it for validation as soon as possible.
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> [AZURE.WARNING] You will not be able to push to production your commercial offers without completing the tax and bank account information in your Seller Dashboard account.
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> [AZURE.IMPORTANT] The participation policies are mentioned [here](http://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/marketplace/participation-policies/).
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**"Sell-from" Countries**
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> [AZURE.WARNING]
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In order to sell your services on Microsoft Azure Marketplace, your registered entity needs to be from one of the approved “sell from” countries. This restriction is for payout and taxation reasons. We are actively looking to expand this list of countries in the near future, so please stay tuned. For the complete list, please see section 1b of the document at link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=526833&clcid=0x409.
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## Ensure you are registered as a seller with Microsoft
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For detailed instructions on registering a seller account with Microsoft, go to [Account Creation & Registration](marketplace-publishing-accounts-creation-registration.md).
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- If you are **already registered**, find out who in your company owns it or which credentials were used to register
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- If you are **not the owner of the publishing account**, you can have the account owner add your Microsoft Account as a co-admin to the [Publishing portal](https://publish.windowsazure.com) -> **Publishers** tab -> **Administrators** link
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- Ensure that stakeholders in the Azure publishing process receive the email that goes to this address. It must be monitored and responded to in order to complete the publishing process.
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- Avoid having the account associated with a single person. If that person leaves your company, they could impact your ability to access information about and publish your SKUs.
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> [AZURE.TIP]The company registration must be completed to get started. However, while your company works on the tax and bank information in the Seller Dashboard account, the developers can start working on creating the virtual machine image in the [Publishing Portal](https://publish.windowsazure.com), getting them certified and testing them in Azure Staging Environment. You will need the complete seller account approval only for the final step of publishing your offer to the Marketplace.
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> The company registration must be completed to get started. However, while your company works on the tax and bank information in the Seller Dashboard account, the developers can start working on creating the virtual machine image in the [Publishing Portal](https://publish.windowsazure.com), getting them certified and testing them in Azure Staging Environment. You will need the complete seller account approval only for the final step of publishing your offer to the Marketplace.
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# Deploying your offer to the Azure Marketplace
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> [AZURE.IMPORTANT] You can always delete the offer while it is in a **"draft"** status (i.e. never **push to staging**, **push to production**). In the **History** tab, click **Discard draft** button at the bottom of the page to delete a draft.
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> For **Virtual Machine Images,** the replication across the data centers takes up to 24-48hours. Once the replication is complete, your offer will be listed in the [Azure Marketplace](http://azure.microsoft.com/marketplace).
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3. If your SKU is BYOL, select the checkbox for ‘Externally-licensed (BYOL) SKU availability.
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5. A pricing wizard will open; proceed through this to complete your pricing, including pricing for other countries, if you choose to allow purchases from outside your specified market.
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6. Some countries are ISV Remit countries. To sell in an ISV Remit country, you must be able to charge and collect tax on your SKUs, and should calculate and pay tax to the government of the country. Microsoft is not in a position to provide legal or tax guidance. See section ““Sell-to” countries of the Offer” under Introduction of this document for more information on “Sell To Countries”.
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# Technical Pre-requisites for creating a Solution Template for the Azure Marketplace
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The building blocks for any virtual machine are VM Images. VM Images are the complete storage profile of a virtual machine, containing one operating system VHD and zero or more data disks. You can create a VM Image to package your software application with the operating system bits, in addition to any additional data needed. For example, today in the Azure marketplace, there are a handful of VM Images for SQL Server, which package the Windows operating system, with the SQL Server application. While this document will not go into the details of creating and onboarding VM Images into the Azure Marketplace, it is important to understand what a VM image is, since it will likely be the building block to your application solution. Please refer to steps for [Creating a VM Image for the Marketplace](marketplace-publishing-vm-image-creation.md).
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