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# Connect to a Vendor Org with Legacy Partner Connect

After receiving an email from Salesforce, you have the details that are required to establish a connection with your vendor.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d5430e27 ">To turn on Partner Connect in the partner org: </td>
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              <p>Customize Application (in the partner org) </p>
              <p>AND</p>
              <p>Set Up Partner Connect
                for a Partner Org (in the partner org)</p>
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              <p> Establish an Approved PRM
                External Integration (in the vendor org)</p>
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                vendor org)</p>
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Before completing your vendor’s connection request, make sure that you review the partner org settings for Partner Connect and configure what’s necessary.

1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Integrations, and then select **Partner Connect**.
2. Under Connect, from the Connect with a Vendor section, click **Add Vendor**.
3. Provide the account for the company you’re working with, and then click **Done**.
    
    The account can be an [account](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.basics_creating_records_on_tabs.htm&type=5&language=en_US) or a [partner account](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_partner_community_create_account.htm&type=5&language=en_US). Partner Connect adds the vendor account name to the external client app created for this connection. That way, you and other admins at your company can see which external client app connects you to each vendor org.
4. Enter the connection details provided in the email that you received from Salesforce. If you don’t recall your partner site password, you can set it from the partner site with your username.

This vendor is added to the Vendors list. After the vendor and partner orgs are connected, you see a connection status banner on this vendor that shows as Connected. But partner users can’t export records from the vendor’s Experience Cloud site until all vendor and partner setup steps are complete.

The next setup step for partner admins is to select the objects and fields to integrate with the vendor’s org. Partner admins can proceed to that step after the vendor admin selects their own objects and fields for mapping. When your vendor is done with that step, Salesforce sends you an email with instructions on how to proceed.

#### See Also

- [Give Partners Permission to Establish a Connection with the Vendor Org](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=slack.prm_pc_setup_vendor_assign_partner_admin_perm_set.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Before Partner Connect allows a partner admin to establish a connection with a vendor org, the vendor admin must first acknowledge the partner admin as a trusted contact. To do so, the vendor admin must assign the Partner Admin Approved for Vendor Org Connection permission set to the partner admin. Vendor admins must repeat this task each time they want to connect with a new partner Salesforce org.")
- [Creating Records That Establish the Vendor-Partner Relationship](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=slack.prm_pc_setup_prereq_establish_relationship.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce admins at both companies must create records that establish the vendor-partner relationship in Salesforce. Admins provide these records during Partner Connect setup.")
- [Legacy Partner Connect Security and Design](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=slack.prm_pc_security.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "External Client Apps allow Partner Connect to establish a secure connection between a vendor and partner Salesforce org using APIs and security protocols. As vendor and partner admins work through Partner Connect setup, Partner Connect deploys a dedicated app to each org that uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials to securely integrate the two orgs. After a secure connection is established, partners can export approved records from the vendor’s Experience Cloud site to their own partner org. Both vendors and partners get a view of how progress is going in the opposite system from a read-only child record that Partner Connect creates automatically.")
- [Select a Partner to Connect With](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=slack.prm_pc_setup_vendor_add_partner.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "After giving partner admins permission to connect to the vendor’s Salesforce org, vendor admins kick off the Partner Connect setup process by selecting a partner company to connect with. After a vendor admin selects a partner, Salesforce sends an email to the partner admin with instructions on how to complete the connection request.")