Private Offers
Create a private offer to sell your SaaS listing to a specific Oracle Cloud customer at negotiated terms.
Prerequisites
- The Oracle Cloud Marketplace integration is connected.
- Your SaaS listing has been synced into Suger as a product.
- You know the buyer’s tenancy OCID (
ocid1.tenancy.oc1..…) — the offer is sent to this tenancy. - Your contract document (EULA) as a PDF file, up to 1 MB.
Pricing Model
Oracle Cloud Marketplace private offers created through Suger are priced as a one-time contract value in USD:
- The buyer commits to a single total contract value in USD (rounded to whole dollars) for the full contract duration.
- Billing cycle is one-time — no installments. The offer price itself is not usage/metered; usage metering is a separate, entitlement-level capability that bills in addition to the contract value, not instead of it.
- Contract duration options in the console: 6 months, 1 year (default), 2 years, or 3 years. Oracle’s maximum total contract length is 375 days, so only 6 months and 1 year fall within Oracle’s range; 2 years and 3 years are rejected at send time.
Create a Private Offer
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On the Offers page in the Suger console, click
Create Private Offerand select your Oracle product. -
Fill in the offer details:
Field Description Offer name Required. A descriptive name for this offer (max 128 characters). Buyer company name Optional. Buyer tenancy OCID Required. The OCID of the buyer’s Oracle Cloud tenancy. Buyer primary contact First/last name and email. The email is required. Offer description Optional (max 512 characters). Service start date Optional. Defaults to tomorrow. Contract duration 6 months / 1 year / 2 years / 3 years. Defaults to 1 year. Oracle’s maximum is 375 days — 2 years and 3 years are rejected at send time. Offer expiration date The date by which the buyer must accept. Defaults to 30 days from creation. Contract document (EULA) Required. A PDF file up to 1 MB. The form takes exactly one document; to attach additional contract documents, create the offer through the Suger API. Total contract value Required. The one-time amount in USD. Suger requires it to be greater than 0; Oracle additionally requires a minimum of 10,000 USD. Seller primary contact First/last name and email. The email is required. -
Submit the offer. Suger creates the offer in Oracle Cloud, attaches the contract document, and sends it to the buyer’s tenancy.
Sending is asynchronous on Oracle’s side: the offer stays in Pending Create while Suger waits (up to ~5 minutes) for Oracle to confirm the send. Once confirmed, the offer moves to Pending Acceptance.
Offer lifecycle
An offer moves from creation to a buyer entitlement like this:
Offer Status
Oracle offer statuses map to Suger offer statuses as follows:
| Oracle offer status | Suger offer status | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
DRAFT | Draft | Created in Oracle but not yet sent. |
PENDING_MARKETPLACE | Pending Marketplace Approval | Waiting on Oracle Marketplace review. |
PENDING_BUYER | Pending Acceptance | Sent; waiting for the buyer to accept. |
ACCEPTED | Accepted | The buyer accepted the offer. |
ACTIVE | Active | The contract is in effect. |
ENDED / EXPIRED | Expired | The contract ended, or the offer expired unaccepted. |
FAILED_SEND / FAILED_ACCEPT | Create Failed | Oracle rejected the send or the acceptance failed. |
Buyers are matched by their Oracle tenancy, so repeat deals with the same buyer are recognized.
Buyer Acceptance
The buyer reviews and accepts the private offer in their Oracle Cloud Console — there is no in-Suger acceptance step. The buyer’s user needs tenancy-scoped IAM permission to accept offers, e.g.:
Allow group PrivateOfferBuyer to manage marketplace-offers in tenancy
See Oracle’s Required IAM Policies for private offers.
Acceptance is reflected back into Suger when the offer status advances — the hourly sync picks it up automatically, or trigger a sync from the Integrations page to pull the latest statuses immediately.
After Acceptance: Entitlement
Suger creates a private entitlement as soon as the offer reaches Accepted — it does not wait for Active. The entitlement’s own status then follows the offer’s service start date:
| Offer status | Service start date | Entitlement status |
|---|---|---|
Accepted or Active | Still in the future | Pending Start |
Accepted or Active | Reached | Active |
This means a deal closed today with a start date next quarter shows up in Suger right away as a Pending Start entitlement, and flips to Active on the start date without anyone touching it.
- Start time comes from the offer’s service start date; end time from the offer end date (or start date + contract duration).
- The entitlement carries the offer’s currency and total contract value as its commit amount.
- When the offer ends in Oracle, the entitlement is closed automatically on the next sync.
Usage metering requires an active entitlement, so a Pending Start entitlement is not yet a metering target.
Cancel a Private Offer
You can cancel (withdraw) a private offer before the buyer accepts it:
- Select the offer on the Offers page.
- Click
Canceland confirm in the popup dialog.
Suger withdraws the offer in Oracle, and the buyer can no longer accept it.
Modify a Private Offer
Oracle private offers cannot be amended after they are sent. To change the terms of an unaccepted offer, cancel it and create a new offer.
If an offer failed to send (Create Failed) or is stuck in Draft, simply re-submit it from Suger: the stale Oracle draft is cleaned up and a fresh offer is created and sent — no duplicates are produced.
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