Register as a partner

Before you can send messages to users, you need to register as a partner with RCS Business Messaging (RBM). As a partner, you can create agents for brands that you manage and send messages through those agents.

Agent A programmatic entity that sends messages to users on behalf of a brand. The agent includes any interface that users interact with and any code or infrastructure required to power the interaction. Agents can provide a simple one-way experience, like sending a notification, or they can be conversational and react to users' responses in a back-and-forth exchange.

Complete the registration process to sign up for an RBM partner account. With a partner account, your development team can access the RBM API as well as the Management API and the Business Communications Developer Console to create and manage RBM agents.

Important: If you're a carrier who needs to review agents for launch on your network, you need access to the RBM Administration Console. Follow these steps to get access.

RBM partner registration interest form

The first step in the registration process is to fill out the RBM Partner Registration Interest Form. If you qualify to be an RBM partner, Google will contact you with the next steps to complete your registration.

Prerequisites

You'll need the following information to complete the form:

Field	Description
First name	Your first name
Last name	Your last name
Job title	Your job title in your organization
Corporate email ID	Your official email ID using your organization's domain
Google Account email address you want to use for the partner account owner	This must be an individual Google Account, not a group account, and it must be tied to your corporate email account. You can't use a gmail address here. (If your organization doesn't use the Google Suite, please create a Google Account that's tied to your corporate email address by following these instructions.) We will enable this Google Account with access to the Business Communications Developer Console. If this account is used to launch agents, the email address that's tied to it will appear (as the agent_owner field) in the RBM billing reports that carriers receive. It's important that a carrier can identify your organization and point of contact for billing from this email address.
Public name of your company	Your company's public name
Preferred display name for your partner account	This will appear in the RBM billing reports that carriers receive (as the owner_name field). Carriers will use this to identify you as a trusted partner and to ensure they generate the correct invoicing information for your use of RBM to reach their subscribers. The name you provide here should align with the name used in your carrier messaging contracts.
Company website	Your company's website
Company description	A short description of what your organization does
Service category	Choose one from the following options: RCS Solution Provider (if you are an organization who wants to utilize RCS Business Messaging APIs to create, manage, or operate one or more agents) Carrier (if you are a telecommunications provider of services who sells, delivers, and maintains mobile telephony services to an end user) Other
Name of your parent company	If you don't have a parent company, use the public name of your company.
Primary countries of operation	Choose the countries where you currently operate and will be enabling agent launches for brands.
Region associated with your partner account	Possible values are: Americas Asia Pacific Europe, the Middle East & Africa
Technical point of contact's name	This is the person Google will contact if there are any technical issues with your agents. Gather the following information about them: Name Job title Corporate email Phone number (with country code)
How did you hear about RBM?	Choose one of the following options: Google RBM representative (provide the email ID of your contact) Carrier RBM representative (provide the email ID of your contact) Other (please specify)

Submit your information

Fill out this form to express your interest in becoming an RBM partner.

Next steps

After your partner registration is approved, you can access the Business Communications Developer Console using the Google Account that you specified as your partner account owner. Then it's time to set up your partner account and build your first agent.