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description: An automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) can create a partner portal using Experience Cloud and collaborate with dealers on agreements, vehicles, forecasts, and rebate programs. Partners can manage assets, visits, action plans, warranties, financial information, work orders, leads and opportunities. They can use the portal to manage the sales and service lifecycle of vehicles and parts that they sell. Dealers can also schedule test drive and vehicle service appointments on behalf of prospects and customers.
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# Create a Partner User Profile for Automotive

An automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) can create a partner portal using Experience Cloud and collaborate with dealers on agreements, vehicles, forecasts, and rebate programs. Partners can manage assets, visits, action plans, warranties, financial information, work orders, leads and opportunities. They can use the portal to manage the sales and service lifecycle of vehicles and parts that they sell. Dealers can also schedule test drive and vehicle service appointments on behalf of prospects and customers.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d123075e63 ">Manage External Users, and Manage Profiles and Permission Sets</td>

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Make sure that you have the Partner Community license for Experience Cloud added to your org. See [Partner Portal User Licenses](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_license_types_partnerportal.htm&type=5&language=en_US).

1. Create a user profile.
    1. From Setup, enter Profiles in the Quick Find box, and select **User Profiles**.
    2. Clone the Partner Community User profile.
    3. Enter a name and save your changes.
    4. Change the user permissions, tab settings, and object permissions as needed.
2. Add a partner account.
    1. Select the account that you want to enable as a partner.
    2. Click ![Quick Actions](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-automotive-264-0-0-production-enus/55098325-b838-4fed-9e79-8cfa2d7b33a3/automotive/images/auto_dropdown.png), and select **Enable as Partner**.
    3. Select the contact that you want to enable as a partner user.
    4. Click ![Quick Actions](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-automotive-264-0-0-production-enus/55098325-b838-4fed-9e79-8cfa2d7b33a3/automotive/images/auto_dropdown.png), and select **Enable Partner User.**
3. Add user details.
    
    1. On the New User page in Setup, provide the user information.
    
    - Email—The email address to send the welcome email with login credentials.
    - Role—Some community licenses, such as Customer Community Plus and Partner Community, require assigning a role to external users.
    - User License—Partner Community.
    - Profile—Enter the name of the cloned user profile
    
    1. Select **Active**.
    2. Select **Generate new password and notify user immediately**.
    3. Save your changes.
4. Add permissions.
    1. On the User page of the new user, go to Permission Set License Assignments, and click **Edit Assignments**.
    2. For the required permission set licenses, select **Enabled**, and click **Save**.
        
        See [Experience Cloud Permission Set Licenses for Automotive](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.auto_experience_cloud_psl.htm&type=5&language=en_US) to understand what each permission set license offers.
    3. For Permission Set Assignments, click **Edit Assignments**.
    4. Move the required permission sets to the Selected list, and click **Save**.
5. Create a Digital experience site and assign the partner user profile as a member.
    
    For detailed steps, see [Create an Experience Cloud Site for Automotive](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.auto_experience_cloud_create_site.htm&type=5&language=en_US).
6. Create a sharing set to control record access for objects that are related with an account or contact that matches the user’s account or contact.
    
    For example, to let partners work on cases assigned to them, you can set up the access as User = Account, Target Case = Related Account, and Access Level = Read/Write.

When the partner user logs in to the Experience Cloud site, they can see the objects and records that you’ve provided them access to.