Configure associate access

Learn who can act on behalf of a buyer organization and what they are allowed to do, using Customers, Associates, Associate Roles, permissions, and inheritance.

Learning objectives

After completing this module, you should be able to:

  • Distinguish between the Customer and Associate resources and explain the provisioning sequence.
  • Design Associate Roles with appropriate permissions, including separation of duties between requesters and approvers.
  • Configure inheritance settings and predict their effect across a Business Unit hierarchy.
  • Select the correct API endpoint pattern for a B2B operation and explain the Permission Gate enforced on as-associate calls.
  • Recommend an associate provisioning pattern for a buyer based on scale, compliance, and implementation effort.
  • Apply the Architect's decision framework to model org management and access control.
Prerequisites
Audience
  • Functional Architects and Solution Designers responsible for evaluating platform capabilities and recommending B2B modeling strategies.