What you’ll achieve
A reusable journey whose tasks, order behavior, assignees, due dates, visibility, and auto-complete actions all match how you actually onboard or activate partners. Once built, you apply it to a cohort and each partner gets their own copy of the tasks to work through.Before you start
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Steps
Create the journey
Create the journey
On Journeys, choose Add, then Journey, and pick create from scratch. Give it a Name that says what stage it covers, like onboarding or activation, since that name identifies it to your team and in the list.

Choose the task execution order
Set how partners move through the tasks:
- Flexible - partners can complete tasks in any order. Use it when the steps are independent.
- Sequential - a task only unlocks once the previous one is done. Use it when later steps genuinely depend on earlier ones, such as signing an agreement before accessing deal registration.

Build the tasks
Add a task
Add a task and give it a clear name. Open the task to set its details. Every task you add walks the same set of inputs below.
Set the task details
For each task, set:
- Due date - on a journey task this is an offset, a number of days after the journey is applied to the partner, rather than a fixed date. Set it so each step has a realistic deadline relative to when onboarding starts; leave it empty for no due date.
- Assignee - who is responsible for completing the task. Choose your team (anyone on your side), Partner (anyone on the partner’s team), Role (anyone on the partner’s team with a specific role), or Individual (a named person; you can dynamically assign it to the partner’s assigned partner manager). Pick the level of accountability the step needs.
- Visibility - who can see the task: Public (your team and the partner), Internal (your team only), or Assignee (your team plus the assignee). A task assigned to a partner must stay visible to them, so it cannot be Internal.
- Description - the instructions the partner reads. Write enough that they know exactly what to do without asking.
- Attachment - an optional file to attach to the task for reference.
Add an auto-complete action
To let a task complete itself when the partner does something in the portal, use Add action on the task and pick the Action type:
- Watch asset - completes when the partner views a chosen asset. Select the asset.
- Upload - completes when the partner uploads a file.
- Submit form - completes when the partner submits a chosen form. Select the form.
- Go to link - completes when the partner opens a link. Enter the URL.
- Complete course - completes when the partner finishes a chosen course. Select the course.
- Obtain certificate - completes when the partner earns a chosen certificate. Select the certificate.
Verify it worked
The journey appears on Journeys with your tasks, the order behavior you chose, and each task’s assignee, due-date offset, visibility, and any action. It is ready to apply to partners.Related
Create a journey from a template
Start from a built-in playbook instead.
Assign a journey and track progress
Apply the journey and follow partners through it.
Auto-apply a journey from the experience
Enroll partners automatically from the portal.
Implementation reference
Full configuration options for journeys.