Applies to: Cloud Portal

Summary

This article helps you choose the correct organization type when creating a new organization in Cloud Portal.

Choosing an Organization

When you create a new organization, you select the organization type on the Get Started page.

Customer Organization - Ready Instantly

Create a Customer Organization if you want to manage your own OnCloud, OnCAFE, HealthPro, or BLAZE deployment. This is type is used for schools, retail stores, and multi-site facilities.

With Customer Organization:

• You are required to link BLAZE systems to the cloud.
   
• Your registration email becomes the Organization Administrator.

See Cloud Portal: How to Create a Customer Organization.
 

Partner Organization - Needs Approval

Create a Partner Organization if you are an OnCloud or OnCAFE partner managing multiple customer organizations.

With Partner Organization:

• Partner accounts manage multiple customer organizations.
   
• Partner accounts cannot be used to register or link BLAZE systems.
   
• Partner accounts cannot join customer organizations as members.
   
• Approval from Hanwha is required before the organization is activated.

See Cloud Portal: How to Create a STEP Partner Organization.

NOTE: To join an existing organization instead of creating one,
ask your administrator to send you an invitation.