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Submit your solutions to the Office Store

The Office Store provides a convenient location for you to upload new Office Add-ins, SharePoint Add-ins, Power BI custom visuals, and Microsoft Teams apps that provide solutions for both consumers and businesses. To include your solution in the Office Store, you submit it to the Seller Dashboard. You will need to create an individual or company account and, if applicable, add payout information. For details, see:

For information about how to submit Power BI custom visuals to the Office Store, see Publish custom visuals to the Office store.

Approval process

After your account is approved, you can submit your solution to the Seller Dashboard. You can make changes at any point before you submit for approval, but during the approval process, you won't be able to make any changes.

In order for your submission to be approved:

  • It must be free of viruses. If you need virus detection software, see the Microsoft Safety & Security Center.
  • It must not contain inadmissible or offensive material.
  • It must be stable and functional.
  • Any material that you associate with your apps or add-ins, such as descriptions and support documentation, must be accurate. Use correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar in your descriptions and materials.
  • If you want a tailored experience for users in regional store, you can add additional languages so that your add-in appears in another language store with localized metadata. Your service and your add-in manifest must be updated appropriately. You must also provide descriptions for each language you add.

For more details about Office Store requirements, see Validation policies for apps and add-ins submitted to the Office Store.

Validation process

After you submit your app or add-in:

  1. Your submission goes through a series of automated checks to ensure that it complies with the Office Store validation policies.

  2. The Validation team reviews your submission. This can take 3-5 working days, depending on the volume of submissions in the queue.

    Note: The Valdiation team tests Office Add-ins on all the platforms the add-in is required to support. For details about supported platforms, see the Office Add-ins host and platform availability page.

    For a seamless validation experience, provide detailed test notes with your submission, including:

    • Information about any sample data your app or add-in needs
    • Configuration instructions, if required
    • Information about a test or demo account that your app or add-in needs

    Note: Because our team is located in multiple time zones, we request that you do not configure test accounts that require developer interaction before we can test.

  3. When the validation process is complete, you will receive a message to let you know that either your submission is approved, or you need to make changes and resubmit it. You can also follow these steps to check the approval status in the Seller Dashboard:

    1. Sign in to the Seller Dashboard.

    2. On the manage tab, your submission status appears under the submission name.

      • If the status is pending approval, your submission is still being verified. When it is in this state, you can't update or resubmit it.
      • If the status is approved, your submission is approved to be listed in the appropriate marketplaces.

      Note: After your submission is approved in the Seller Dashboard, there might be a delay before it is published to the Store. After approval, a submission typically appears in the Store within 24 hours.

      • If the status is changes requested, your submission needs changes in order to be approved. Choose your submission, and then on the summary page, choose View the add-in report for details about the required changes.

If you make changes after your submission was approved, it must go through the approval process again.

If you have questions about policies or requirements in your report, you can engage with the Office Store Valdidation Team via Stack Overflow. Tag your question with "Office-Store".