Publishing an App on Atlassian Marketplace

Siddhant Gupta
VectoScalar
Published in
4 min readFeb 3, 2023

Publishing an app on Atlassian marketplace plays a vital role in distribution and sale of app, one can get hassle-free access to Atlassian’s large customer base and sell apps to people who are already using products like Jira and Confluence like Jira Software , Jira Service Management , Trello, Confluence etc.

Atlassian marketplace provides public visibility of your app at every JIRA account and any person can use your app across all over the world.

How to see your app on Atlassian Marketplace:
Go to your Jira account
Apps -> Explore more apps -> Find new apps
you can find listing of your apps.

Steps to make an app publicly available on Atlassian products:

  1. Install and prepare forge environment using below documentation

you can create your app using below link

You can test your app in development phase also using forge commands as mentioned in above documentation.

Do not forget to deploy app on production level using

1. forge register
2. forge deploy -e production
3. forge deploy -e install

2. Change permissions for your app to make it publicly visible.

To change permission Atlassian provides a developer console where we can have various options available to create an app like Forge and OAuth 2.0,as we have already created and deployed our app using step 1,our app should be available inside developer console ,and we can make our app publicly available as

Go to Distribution -> change distribution status to sharing

As in step 1 we have already deployed our application on production ,now we can see our app status as below.

3. Go to Atlassian Marketplace and create a vendor for your Organization.

Check below documentation to fill details according to this criteria

1. Log in to https://marketplace.atlassian.com/ with your partner account.

2. Click Manage vendor account from the profile menu in the upper right.

3. Register your organization and contact details.

4. Click Create vendor.

5. Create vendor and create your app, while creating app it asks for app key of deployed app.

6.After submitting app ,it goes to Atlassian marketplace for approval, which usually takes around 1 month.

7.In case of any issue you can reach to support team as guided below.

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For reaching Atlassian support team-

  1. Login to Atlassian Ecosystem with your account.
  2. Choose App listing in Contact us about.
  3. Provide details of your app.

This will make a ticket related to your app and you can submit your queries.

Few add on pointers :

  1. Atlassian Marketplace normally reject an application automatically inside 10 days or 20 days if details are not matched according to their criteria. Check this documentation while filling app details.

2. Atlassian Marketplace usually takes around one month to approve app and make it publicly available and if you want to contact with them, You need to create a new ticket from Atlassian Ecosystem as mentioned in above step 5.

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