# Overview of Channel Services

You can use Channel Services to manage your relationships with your partners and
your customers. Channel Services include a console and APIs to view and
provision links between distributors and resellers, customers and entitlements.

## Benefits

The benefits of Channel Services are as follows:

- Unifies the Google Cloud partner program across products
- Helps distributors and resellers grow their businesses
- Meets needs of both 1-tier and 2-tier partners

## Capabilities

Channel Services provides:

- A Unified Resale Catalog
- Customer management
- Order management
- Billing management
- Policy and authorization management
- Cost management

## Channel Services APIs

The Cloud Channel API provides:

- Customer Management
- Catalog APIs
- Entitlement Management APIs
- Pubsub Notifications

## Partner Sales Console

The Partner Sales Console is a UI that shows:

- Eligible offers
- Invoices