Share your Apple Business access with a third-party partner
You may want to delegate management of your brands, brand features, and locations to a third-party partner in Apple Business. This allows you to focus on your organization and lets the third-party partner manage your content.
If you do choose to allow a third-party partner to manage your content, that content is subject to the same policies as if you had created it.
The third-party partner needs to have an Apple Business account and be verified by Apple. To get a third-party partner started, send them this link: Register your third-party partner or agency.
There are two methods to share your content with a third-party partner:
OAuth
Organization ID
Both methods give you control over which brand features and brands you delegate to third-party partners. Not all third-party partners support OAuth delegation.
The brand features that can be delegated are shown in following table.
Feature | Dependent feature | Brand selection options | Third-party partner brand permissions | Third-party partner feature permission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brand profiles | None | All current and future brands | Create and edit a brand | None |
Brand profiles | None | Specific brands | Edit a brand | None |
Locations | Brand profiles | All current and future brands | Create and edit a brand | Manage locations |
Locations | None | Specific brands | Edit a brand | Manage locations |
Note: Brand features that aren’t listed are unable to be delegated at this time.
Use OAuth to share your content with a third-party partner
Each third-party partner may have different steps to complete the process. Contact your third-party partner for additional information. Follow these steps on your third-party partner website to allow access to Apple Business content.
Note: Your organization needs to be verified by Apple before you can complete this task.
Sign in to your third-party partner website.
Navigate to the page containing the Apple Business account connection.
Initiate the connection between your third-party partner website and Apple Business.
In the Feature and brand access dialog, enter the following:
Select features: Select which features you want the third-party partner to manage on your behalf.
Choose brands: Choose which brands you want the third-party partner to manage the selected features for.
Optional: Select Add More to select additional features and brands.
If you agree to the terms and conditions, select Allow for your third-party partner to manage your organization’s content in Apple Business.
Use an Organization ID to share your content with a third-party partner
Note: Your organization needs to be verified by Apple before you can complete this task.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role is an Organization Administrator or Marketing Administrator.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Integrations > Partner Access.
Select Share Access.
In the Share Access dialog, enter the following:
The third-party partner’s Organization ID: Contact the third-party partner for their Organization ID.
Select features: Select which features you want the third-party partner to manage on your behalf.
Choose brands: Choose which brands you want the third-party partner to manage the selected features for.
Optional: Select Add More to select additional features and brands.
Select Invite to send the invitation to the third-party partner.
Notify the third-party partner to expect an email.
Important: Make sure that any filters allow mail from all apple.com domains.
Use the Organization page to edit or remove a third-party partner’s access
You may want to remove a third-party partner from managing your organization’s content.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role is an Organization Administrator or Marketing Administrator.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Integrations > Partner Access.
In the Share access section, select
next to the third-party partner to edit or remove access.To edit or remove feature access, choose any of following:
Edit feature or brand selections to edit existing delegated features.
Select Add More to delegate additional features to the third-party partner.
Select Remove under a Feature or Brand selection to remove the third-party partner’s access for that feature.
Select Save.
To remove all access for the third-party partner, select Remove, then select Remove Access.
Confirm you want to remove access, then select Remove.
Use the Brand page to remove a third-party partner’s access
You may want to remove a third-party partner from managing your organization’s content.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role is an Organization Administrator or Marketing Administrator.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Brands > Brand Profiles.
Sort or search for the brand that you shared access to. See How to search.
Select the brand, then select Partner Access.
Find the third-party partner you want to remove in the list, then select Update.
To edit or remove feature access, choose any of following:
Edit feature or brand selections to edit existing delegated features.
Select Add More to delegate additional features to the third-party partner.
Select Remove under a Feature or Brand selection to remove the third-party partner’s access for that feature.
Select Save.
To remove all access for the third-party partner, select Remove, then select Remove Access.
Confirm you want to remove access, then select Remove.
Remove OAuth access from a third-party partner
You may want to remove OAuth access from a third-party partner.
In Apple Business, sign in with a user whose role is an Organization Administrator or Marketing Administrator.
To view roles and permissions, see Intro to roles and permissions.
In your browser, choose Settings > Integrations > Partner Access.
In the Connected Apps and Websites section, select
next to the third-party partner to remove access.Select Remove > Remove Access.
Confirm you want to remove access, then select Remove.
Edit OAuth access from a third-party partner
To edit OAuth access for third-party partner, you need to sign in to your third-party partner website and make edits on the page containing the Apple Business account connection. You may have to remove the existing connection and initiate a new connection with updated access for them.