About listing providers¶
Becoming a listing provider allows you to offer listings to consumers privately or on the Snowflake Marketplace. Being a Snowflake listing provider makes it easier to manage sharing from your account to other Snowflake accounts.
When you share data as a provider, you can do the following:
Monitor usage of the listings and associated data shares and products. See Monitor listing use.
Create one or more provider profiles to manage your professional presence with consumers. See Set up a provider profile.
Charge consumers for access to listings within Snowflake. See Set up Stripe to get paid for listings.
Requirements to become a provider¶
To offer listings to consumers privately or on the Snowflake Marketplace, you must meet the following requirements:
You must use a full Snowflake account. Trial accounts can share data with specified consumers, but not on the Snowflake Marketplace.
You must not be using a Reader Account.
You must have the ACCOUNTADMIN role or be assigned a role with provider privileges. See Privileges required for working with listings.
You must meet the Legal requirements for providers and consumers of listings. See Review and accept the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms for instructions.
If your account is in a U.S. government region, you must also accept the cross-region disclaimer. See Prepare to provide listings from accounts in U.S. government regions.
To offer specific types of listings, you must also do the following:
To offer paid listings or any listings on the Snowflake Marketplace, you must create a provider profile. See Set up a provider profile.
To offer paid listings, you must set up configure your account to get paid for listings. See Set up Stripe to get paid for listings on this page.
Privileges required for working with listings¶
When you create a listing, you create it from the account that has the data or application package in it. The role that attaches a data product to a listing and publishes the listing must be the same role that created, and therefore owns, the application package or share. You cannot transfer the OWNERSHIP privilege for a share.
If you use a different role to create and manage the listing, grant the MODIFY privilege on the listing to the role that owns the application package or share. For example:
- Share or application package owner role:
OWNERSHIP privilege on the share or application package. MODIFY privilege on the listing.
- Listing owner role:
OWNERSHIP privilege on the listing.
Global CREATE DATA EXCHANGE LISTING privilege.
Within the provider account, you can use one of the following to create and manage listings:
- ACCOUNTADMIN:
If you use the ACCOUNTADMIN role to create and manage listings, the ORGADMIN role must first delegate privileges to set up auto-fulfillment.
- Custom role:
If you use a custom role, the ORGADMIN role must first delegate privileges to set up auto-fulfillment to the ACCOUNTADMIN role, which can then be used to grant the relevant privileges to the custom role.
For more information about granting sharing privileges, see Granting Privileges to Other Roles.
Review and accept the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms¶
Before you can become a Snowflake Marketplace provider, an organization administrator (ORGADMIN) needs to review and accept the combined Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms.
Note
You do not need to accept the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms if you’re only creating free private listings and you’ve accepted the Snowflake Customer-Controlled Data Sharing Functionality Terms.
Sign in to Snowsight.
Select Admin » Terms.
In the Snowflake Marketplace section, review the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms of service.
If you agree to the terms, select Accept Terms & Conditions.
Note
If you see an error, your user profile might be missing some contact information. If you have an administrator role, see Add user details to your user profile to update your profile using Snowsight. Otherwise, contact an account administrator to update your user details.
See Legal requirements for providers and consumers of listings for more details.
Set up a provider profile¶
To offer listings to consumers privately, or on the Snowflake Marketplace, set up a provider profile in Provider Studio. You do not need a provider profile to offer free private listings.
You only need to create a provider profile one time. You can create multiple provider profiles for one account.
Before you can create a provider profile, someone in your Snowflake account must review and accept the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms. Acceptance of the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms is not required when creating free private listings if you’ve accepted the Snowflake Customer-Controlled Data Sharing Functionality Terms. For more information about the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms, see Review and accept the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms.
Note
You must use the ACCOUNTADMIN role or a role granted the CREATE DATA EXCHANGE LISTING privilege to set up a provider profile.
Sign in to Snowsight.
In the navigation menu, select Data Products » Provider Studio.
In Provider Studio, select Profiles.
Select + Create profile to create a profile. A dialog box appears.
In the Create Profiles dialog box, complete the fields. All fields are required. For a description of the fields, see Provider profile fields.
Select Next, then verify that your profile details are correct.
Select Submit for Approval, or click Save Draft if you want to review your profile details before submitting it for approval.
Your provider profile must be approved before you can offer paid listings or marketplace listings. For your profile to be approved, Snowflake verifies the following:
You have reviewed and accepted the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms. Acceptance of the Snowflake Provider and Consumer Terms is not required when creating free private listings, but you must review and accept the Snowflake Customer-Controlled Data Sharing Functionality Terms.
Your profile abides by the Snowflake Provider Policies.
See Legal requirements for providers and consumers of listings.
Prepare to provide listings from accounts in U.S. government regions¶
If your account is in a U.S. government region and you want to install data products offered privately or on the Snowflake Marketplace, or offer listings either privately or on the Snowflake Marketplace, you must review and acknowledge the following cross-region disclaimer for your organization.
Important
To get data products and share listings with Snowflake customers outside your region, Snowflake shares organization and account metadata and usage analytics with the customers you collaborate with outside of your region.
Compliance standards, such as FedRAMP, and support for different regulated workloads, such as ITAR, might be different or unavailable outside of your U.S. Government Region. Consider your compliance requirements before choosing to move or share data between Snowflake regions.
Note
Providers can enable Egress Cost Optimizer (ECO) in a primary account in any commercial region and create listings targeted to any other region, including government regions.
By default, ECO is unavailable to customers on a government cloud. If you’re a Gov customer, you can reach out to your Snowflake account executive for more information about ECO enablement.
You must use the ORGADMIN role and you only need to complete this step once for your organization:
Sign in to Snowsight.
In the navigation menu, select Admin » Terms.
In the Snowflake Marketplace section, for Sharing & Collaboration, select Review & Enable.
Review the cross-region disclaimer and select Acknowledge & Continue.
Select Done.
Note
If you see an error, your user profile might be missing some contact information. If you have an administrator role, see Add user details to your user profile to update your profile using Snowsight. Otherwise, contact an account administrator to update your user details.
Stop sharing and collaboration from an account in a US government region¶
If you no longer want to offer or access listings from your account in a US government region, do the following:
Delete all of your listings shared from your account, consistent with the applicable requirements in the Provider and Consumer Terms.
Stop consuming listings by dropping the databases imported when you accessed listings.
Contact Snowflake Support to have data sharing and collaboration disabled for your organization.
Limitations for providing listings from accounts in U.S. government regions¶
If you provide listings from an account in a U.S. government region, the following limitations apply:
You cannot offer paid or personalized listings.
You must use Cross-Cloud Auto-Fulfillment, and your data product can only contain objects supported by auto-fulfillment.
Additional considerations apply to providers in non-US-government regions who want to offer listings to accounts in US government regions. See Considerations for sharing listings to accounts in US government regions.
Provide paid listings¶
To publish paid listings to consumers privately or on the Snowflake Marketplace, do the following:
Make sure that your account is eligible to provide paid listings. See Who can provide paid listings.
Before creating a paid listing that you want to publish on the Snowflake Marketplace, contact your business development partner at Snowflake. If you do not have a business development partner, submit a case with Marketplace Operations. This step is required for listing approval.
Set up a payout method to get paid for listings. See Set up Stripe to get paid for listings.
Note
If you are a commercial reseller (VAR) that wants to offer paid listings, use this form to submit a case with Marketplace Operations. You only need to file one case to cover both purchasing and offering listings.
Who can provide paid listings¶
As a provider, you can create paid listings if the billing address on your account is in one of the following countries:
Australia
Canada (Private Preview)
Colombia
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Singapore
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
See Supported consumer locations for information on region availability for consumers.
Set up Stripe to get paid for listings¶
To receive payments for your listings, you must set up a Stripe Express account associated with Snowflake. You cannot use an existing Stripe account.
Stripe is the online payment processing system used by Snowflake to process payments from consumers who purchase your paid listings. Payments collected from consumers are disbursed to your Stripe account for Snowflake Marketplace following Stripe receiving payment from the consumer.
When you set up a Stripe Express account, you need to provide information about your business so that Stripe can verify your business details. The person that sets up the Stripe account must also set up multi-factor authentication to set up and manage the Stripe account.
Sign in to Snowsight.
Select Admin » Billing.
Click the Marketplace billing tab.
Click Provider billing tab.
Click Activate account.
In the Provider payouts section, click Activate.
Complete the required information to create and set up your Stripe account. You get payouts in the official currency of the country as specified in your Snowflake billing entity. To get payouts in USD, your Snowflake billing address must be in the United States. For more information, see Supported accounts and settlement currencies in the Stripe documentation.
After you set up your Stripe account and provide a payout method, the Provider payouts section of the Marketplace billing page reports the current status of the method. The following table describes the different statuses:
Status |
Description |
|---|---|
Pending verification |
Stripe is in the process of verifying your payout method. |
Completed & verified |
Your payout method has been verified by Stripe. If you have already accepted the Marketplace terms, you are ready to sell products and collect payments. |
Manage Payout account |
There is an issue with your Stripe account. The Snowsight interface provides additional details about the exact issue and how to resolve the problem. |
Rejected |
Stripe has rejected your payout method. A valid payout method must be provided. |
If you encounter issues with setting up Stripe or receiving payments, contact Snowflake Support.
Respond to access requests as an administrator¶
If you’re an account administrator or a database owner, you can provide access to requesting roles. You receive an email about the type of request, whether it’s an installation or usage request. For each request, you receive specific instructions on how to proceed and fulfill the access request effectively. See About listing consumers for more information.
The Snowflake Marketplace Capacity Drawdown program¶
The Snowflake Marketplace Capacity Drawdown (MCD) program allows Snowflake consumers to use up to 5% (up to a maximum of $50,000) of their Snowflake Capacity commitment as a additional payment method for Snowflake Marketplace paid listings.
The MCD program is now generally available to all US-based consumers purchasing from US-based providers (excluding Florida for both providers and consumers). The MCD program is also available as Private Preview in the United Kingdom.
Eligible providers using on-platform monetization, such as paid listings, who are not outside the US or who are using a Florida address for billing or shipping can accept MCD program payments. For more information about paid listings, see Paid listings pricing models. See Pay for listings to learn more about how consumers pay for listings.
The following consumers are excluded from enrollment in the MCD Program:
PubSec consumers
Consumers purchasing Snowflake through a reseller
Priority Support consumers
To enroll in the MCD program, consumers can opt-in by submitting an MCD program order form at the start of a new contract, when they renew a contract, or when they amend an existing MCD program contract. To enroll in the MCD program, consumers must agree to the Marketplace Capacity Drawdown Program Terms and the Provider and Consumer Terms.
A consumer can apply an unused MCD program balance to their service consumption payment. Any invoice that exceeds the consumer’s MCD program balance must be paid in full using other payment methods such as a credit card, ACH transfer, wire transfer or a SWIFT transfer. The consumer’s MCD program balance is applied first and then one of their alternate listed payment methods is used to pay any remaining balance.
Stripe is used to send payments to providers for Snowflake Marketplace purchases. As defined in the Provider and Consumer Terms, providers appoint Snowflake as their agent for receiving consumer payments.
To request an exception to the 5% or $50,000 maximum Snowflake Capacity commitment, consumers must speak to their Snowflake account executive. Exceptions are determined on a case-by-case basis. Snowflake wants to avoid penalizing consumers for overages. To determine consumer MCD program options and amounts, providers need to speak to their consumers directly or their Snowflake account executive.
Every private paid listing can have a price per consumer. If the trial and purchase price for a listing differ, Snowflake recommends changing the price of the existing listing so the consumer doesn’t need to reinstall the listing. To learn more about listing monetization, see Paid listings pricing models.