Getting started with DCN
One path per role, from your first sign-in to your first intro. Then the videos show the rest.
How you join
Brands and partners join DCN by agreement, starting with a pilot. Your company admin adds you, or sends you a sign-in link.
Request a pilotHow it works
Every role has a short checklist in DCN. Each step is a cell: it fills in when you do it, many tick themselves, and the last one is your first intro. Ask a question on any step: Vaz answers right away, and what is still open is kept for your 1:1.
Brand admin or Brand Partner Manager
Set up your company and bring in your accounts
Bring in your accounts and your Account Executives, then watch the first intro arrive.
- 1
Accept the Preview terms
One click-through the first time you sign in.
Where: First sign-in Read the terms →
- 2
Bring in your accounts
Upload a CSV or spreadsheet in any layout: File Doctor reads the first rows and suggests the columns. Include each account's owner, so every account has its Brand Account Executive.
Or connect HubSpot, Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics 365 instead.
Where: Settings → Data Upload accounts →
- 3
Bring in your team
Upload the roster: your Account Executives, their teams and who reports to whom. Then give each partner manager their team.
Where: Settings → Data, then Planning Upload the roster →
- 4
Turn on your Account Executives
Each Brand Account Executive gets an email with a sign-in link. Their login is linked to their place on the roster.
Where: Account Executive Team Open the team →
- 5
Invite your other managers
Invite the other partner managers and admins by email.
Where: Settings → Team Invite a manager →
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See your first intro
Your Account Executives send intros themselves. Each one shows on your Today for information: managers are told, not asked.
Where: Today Open Today →
Partner admin or Partner Alliance Manager
Set up your company and bring in your accounts
Bring in your customers and your Partner Account Executives, mark what must stay private, then watch the first intro go out.
- 1
Accept the Preview terms
One click-through the first time you sign in.
Where: First sign-in Read the terms →
- 2
Bring in your accounts
Upload a CSV or spreadsheet of your customers and opportunities in any layout: File Doctor reads the first rows and suggests the columns. It stays private to your company.
Or connect HubSpot, Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics 365 instead.
Where: Settings → Data Upload accounts →
- 3
Check your Partner Account Executives
Your Partner Account Executives come in with your accounts. Merge duplicate names and link each login to its person.
Where: My team → Manage Open My team →
- 4
Give every account an owner, and mark never-disclose
Every account needs its Partner Account Executive. Mark the customers that must never be disclosed: they never reach a brand.
Where: My team → Manage Open My team →
- 5
Turn on your Partner Account Executives
Each Partner Account Executive gets an email with a sign-in link.
Where: Account Executive Team Open the team →
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See your first intro
Your Partner Account Executives reach out directly. Each intro shows on your Today for information, and you help registration happen.
Where: Today Open Today →
Brand Account Executive
Your first intro to a partner
Find the partner who is worth calling on one of your accounts, and reach out. Your name stays hidden until they accept.
- 1
Open your sign-in link
Your partner manager turns you on in DCN and you get an email with a sign-in link. Open it, accept the Preview terms, and you land on Today.
Where: Sign-in link Open Today →
- 2
Say what you need from partners
Your focus, your methodology and your partner preferences. Partners see what you need, not your name.
Where: Profile Open your profile →
- 3
See which partners have currency on your accounts
Partner Currency is what a partner brings: experts, industry wins, history at the account.
Where: Today → Partners on my accounts Open Today →
- 4
Pick an account and a partner
Read the trust score and its "why": it is earned from evidence, never self-reported. Asking a colleague about the partner is optional.
Where: Matches Open Matches →
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Send your first intro
Reach out: the deal stage, the qualification, what you need and what you give. It goes straight to the Partner Account Executive; both managers are told.
Where: Matches → Reach out Reach out →
Partner Account Executive
Your first intro to a brand
Show a brand where you can help on an account you know. Your Partner Currency stays yours: you choose what to share, and when.
- 1
Open your sign-in link
Your alliance manager turns you on in DCN and you get an email with a sign-in link. Open it, accept the Preview terms, and you land on Today.
Where: Sign-in link Open Today →
- 2
Check your Partner Currency
Your accounts, wins and experts. It is private until you choose to share it.
Where: Our currency Open Our currency →
- 3
Find a brand account where you have history
Matches shows the brand's accounts where you have currency, with the brand's account roles, not names.
Where: Matches Open Matches →
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Send your first intro
Reach out: why buy, why now, the deal stage, and what you give and want. It goes straight to the Brand Account Executive; your name stays hidden until they accept.
Or, if a brand reached out first: accept it from Action required on Today.
Where: Matches → Reach out Reach out →
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Hyvara DCN · 1 November 2026