AppSource ReadyWill your SaaS offer and its Teams app list cleanly - and which choices lock the moment you publish?

How it works - and what is sourced

The checks follow the skill's facts that break common plans, its commitments you cannot undo, its path menu and its sections on shipping the SaaS offer, passing Teams validation, private offers and co-sell, plus the skill's submission packet. The manifest is read by JSON.parse, and every parse error names its line and column. The plans come from a small line format: one offer line and one line per plan; a line that does not parse is named and skipped, never guessed. Three objects get three reviews - the Teams app, the SaaS offer and the co-sell solution - and the submission packet keeps them apart.

The locked-choice register lists the pricing model (flat rate or per user, the same for every plan), every plan ID, the seat limits of every per-user plan, every metered dimension, every plan's visibility and the contract, each locked once the offer or plan publishes, its owner and date "unassigned" until someone takes them. When the offer is published, the plans as published are compared with the plans pasted: a changed pricing model, a plan ID gone, changed seat limits or dimensions, a public plan made private or a changed contract each needs a new offer or plan. The path ladder starts from transact SaaS with private offers; answer 1 drops the Teams rungs or the Teams link, another cloud deletes IP co-sell and, with no Microsoft integration, the SaaS offer too; a target date promotes the Teams app and private offers; MACC buyers on Azure promote IP co-sell. The starved option, Microsoft 365 Certification, moves up only when regulated buyers' security reviews stall deals.

The fixed manifest never invents an id or a URL and removes nothing it cannot justify; the fixed plans move to per user only when a Teams link needs it and the offer is not published, and never write a seat limit or a price. A saved offer keeps a snapshot of its checks, so reopening it shows what changed since you saved it; mark it resubmitted and the next fixes run carries the previous round's fixes with the plan.

Every Microsoft figure the skill quotes carries a dagger: the 3%† fee; the fee halves† on a renewal private offer and offers created before October 2024† never qualify; $100,000† Azure consumed or billed in the trailing 12 months† and a $1M+† MACC route in pilot; the tax profile in up to 48 h†; the purchase token valid 24 hours†; plan and seat changes answered within 10 seconds†; metering sent hourly† and events older than 24 hours† rejected; refunds within 72 hours†; a validation report in 24 working hours†; Teams validation three to six weeks†; Office add-ins 3-4 business days† per round and four to six weeks† end to end; MACC Enrolled within about a week†; schema 1.25† or later for channel-enabled apps. The timeline takes the upper end of each range and the tax profile's 48 h†, counted from the browser's clock. † verify in Partner Center before quoting it, since Microsoft renames programs and moves criteria yearly.