Working with consumer organizations

Note: In the Help page of the API Manager, and API Designer user interfaces, click the Product information tile to find out information about your product and Git package versions. The API Designer product information is based on its associated management server, but the Git information is based on where it was downloaded from.

Application developers in consumer organizations access the Consumer Catalog and sign up to use the Plans in the Products you create in the API Manager. You can create more than one consumer organization and each organization has one owner. Application developers are added through the Consumer Catalog UI.

You can also create groups of consumer organizations. A consumer organization group is an efficient way of grouping application developers together to publish Products to, making it easier to control who has access to the Plans in the Products.

Use the following tasks to administer your consumer organizations and consumer organization groups: