The AppExchange Partner Console is Salesforce's central hub where ISV and consulting partners create and manage their AppExchange listings, submit and track security reviews, view listing analytics, and run marketing. It connects to your Partner Business Org and has replaced the older Publishing Console as the single place to manage everything about a listing.

Pro Tip

TL;DR: The AppExchange Partner Console is the management hub where Salesforce partners create listings, run security reviews, and track analytics, connected to your Partner Business Org (Salesforce Trailhead). It superseded the legacy Publishing Console.

The Partner Console is the business-management interface for everything a partner does on the AppExchange. From one place you create and edit listings, kick off and monitor the security review, manage your packages, and see how your listing performs. It is tied to your Partner Business Org, the org Salesforce provisions when you join the Partner Program.

In short, if the Partner Business Org is your back office, the Partner Console is the dashboard you actually work in to get and keep an app listed.

The console centralizes the tasks that used to be scattered across tools:

• Create and manage listings: title, description, screenshots, pricing, demo orgs, and categories.

• Run and track the security review: submit your package and follow its status.

• Manage packages and versions connected to your Partner Business Org.

• View analytics: listing views, leads, and install metrics.

• Coordinate marketing and partner program activities.

Pro Tip

Our finding: Newcomers often look for the "Publishing Console" they read about in older guides. That flow now routes into the Partner Console. If a tutorial references the Publishing Console, it is describing the same job in the older interface.

The Publishing Console was the legacy entry point in the Partner Community for creating and managing listings. Salesforce consolidated those capabilities into the AppExchange Partner Console, which is now the single, modern hub. Functionally they overlap; the Partner Console is simply the current, broader tool that absorbed the Publishing Console's role and added analytics and security-review management.

The console is where steps three and four of the listing journey happen. After you join the Partner Program (step one) and build your managed package (step two), you connect your Partner Business Org to the Partner Console, submit for the security review (step three), and create and publish your listing (step four). For the full journey, see our guide on getting your app on the AppExchange.

It is the hub where Salesforce partners create and manage AppExchange listings, submit and track the security review, manage packages, and view analytics (Salesforce Trailhead). It connects to your Partner Business Org.

The Publishing Console was the older listing-management tool. Salesforce consolidated its capabilities into the AppExchange Partner Console, which is now the single hub for listings, security reviews, and analytics. Older guides referencing the Publishing Console describe the same tasks.

Yes. You create and publish your AppExchange listing through the Partner Console, and you submit and track the security review there. It is connected to the Partner Business Org you receive when you join the Partner Program.

The Partner Business Org (PBO) is the Salesforce org provisioned when you join the Partner Program. It holds your packages and the License Management App, and it connects to the Partner Console where you manage listings.

About the author. Sunny Chauhan is the founder and CEO of Appnigma AI, a no-code platform that generates Salesforce AppExchange-ready managed packages. He helps SaaS teams navigate the partner tooling from build to listing.

The AppExchange Partner Console is Salesforce's central hub where partners create and manage listings, submit and track the security review, manage packages, and view analytics, connected to the Partner Business Org. It replaced the legacy Publishing Console. Partners use it for steps three and four of the listing journey: the security review and publishing the listing.

• How to get your app on the Salesforce AppExchange

• Requirements to publish a paid app on AppExchange

• What is Salesforce AppExchange

• How to build a managed package without a Salesforce developer

1. Salesforce Trailhead, AppExchange Partner Console module

2. Salesforce ISVforce Guide, connect your Partner Business Org to the Partner Console

3. Salesforce Partner News, AppExchange Partner Console announcement