Passport Advantage Online for Business Partners

Passport Advantage Online gives Business Partners secure access to site details, tools, quotes, orders, price files, reports, and contact management

Sign in to PAO now

If you are an authorized Passport Advantage Online Value Added Distributor Reseller, IBM Business Partner sign in now. 

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New to PAO? Take a tour

Take 3 minutes to explore Passport Advantage Online for Business Partners. See the list of all that you can see and do within your Site:

  • Access Online ordering (eorder), Software Quoting, and Proposal Quote and Order.
  • Download price files. You may choose to download: (1) current pricing (2) current and future pricing (3) future pricing.
  • View and generate reports based on your transactional relationships ONLY.
    • End-user Client information and generate reports of Client activity based on your sales relationship. You can search by Agreement or Site number, Client attributes including  name, country/region, enrollment type and anniversary.
    • Active renewal line items by date, agreement number, quote number and by site number.
    • Term License  active renewal line items.
    • End-user Client reports.
    • 365 day reports.
    • Cloud Services fulfillment status.
    • Cloud Services provisions forms / Data elements reporting.
    • Suppressed Overage report.
    • Contract renewal price notifications.
    • Subscription license update.
  • In addition to the tasks and tools listed above, the Site Primary Contact and, in some cases, Secondary Contacts can use Account Management to:
    • add and delete users.
    • approve or reject access requests (self-nominations).
    • update user information.
    • assign roles and grant use and tool privileges for Reporting, Online ordering, and Proposal Quote and Orders.

Request Access

To learn how, watch the 2:44 minute video.

If you prefer, learn how to sign in or request access to a Passport Advantage Online for Business Partners site:

  1. Click the 'Request Access' button to the left.
  2. Enter your IBM ID and PW 
    Note: If you do not yet have an IBM ID and PW, you will be prompt to create one. Once your ID is registered in IBM’s systems, when you click Sign again you will be prompted to complete an Authorization Form or a Self-Nomination Form.
  3. Supply the requested information
    • Enter your Site Number 
      Note: Site Numbers are available in most PA Agreement and transaction documents
    • Check the appropriate box under the ‘I believe I am the Primary Contact for this Site. If you are not the Primary Contact, check NO. Your request for access will be routed to your Site Primary for processing and approval.
  4. When you receive an email letting you know that your Request for Access has been approved, simply Sign again .

If you need assistance, reach out to eCustomer Care team.

Run reports

Learn how you can use your Passport Advantage Online for Business Partners Site to:

  • pull active renewal line-item data
  • generate renewal quotes for your customers
  • download high-level and detailed reports that can help you stay on top of your upcoming renewals

Learn how you can use capabilities within your PAO Site to generate summary and detailed order history reports for all of your Clients by:

  1. Agreement and Site #
  2. Client attributes Notifications’ menu

Data to help you:

  • understand your Clients’ inventory, transaction history
  • prepare and close upcoming renewals
  • discover additional sales opportunities
  • assist your clients with software asset management and deployments