1. Private: Published to be shared privately with other users or within an organization.
   

Example: An organization uses Zoho Books to manage its financial activities, and its employees need customizations to meet their specific demands. In this scenario, extensions would be useful so the customizations could be shared with other users in the organization.

1. Public: Published in Zoho Marketplace and made accessible to Zoho users.

Example: A developer creates an extension with some common or general use cases that would help most business categories, e.g., a payment gateway integration, a message integration app, or an extended feature for a Zoho Finance application. In this scenario, the developer could list the extension publicly for a larger audience.

1. Enter the developer portal of the Zoho Finance extension you want to publish. For our demo, we're using a Zoho Books extension.
   

1. Navigate to the Publish section and click Publish.
   

1. A pop-up displays the list of components you've added to your extension. Check and validate these components.
   

1. Choose either major or minor versioning. Major rounds off and increments your version number to the next integer (version 1, version 2, etc.), while minor increments the version by 0.1 (version 1.1, version 1.2, etc.).
   

1. Enter the release notes in the Release Notes section. Click Publish.
   

1. The extension is successfully published, and a private installation URL is created.
   

1. As a developer, you can use the private installation URL to test the extension in your Zoho Books organization.
   

Note: In order to install and test the extension privately in Zoho Books, your Zoho Books account should be the same as the one you used to develop the extension.

1. In order to share the extension with other users, it will have to be reviewed internally by the Zoho Finance team. To do this, click the Submit for Private Review button that appears after publishing the extension. Read the Zoho Finance extension review guidelines for more information.
   

1. A pop-up displays the auto-populated details on a mail that will be sent to the Zoho Finance review team. Verify the details and click the Send Mail button.
   
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3. The extension is successfully submitted for private review and is under the status "Submitted For Review."
   

Note: If you want to make changes to the submitted version, you have to deprecate the version submitted for review. Once deprecated, the Finance team can't approve the version you originally submitted.

1. As the developer, you'll also receive a copy of your submission email.
   

1. The Zoho Finance team will review the extension and, once successfully validated, approve it, changing the private review status from "Submitted For Review" to "Approved."
   

1. Now that the extension has been privately approved, you can share it with other users. Go to the Shared List option in the left panel, and click the Share Privately button.
   

1. Enter the organization ID and email ID of the user you want to share the private extension with. Click Share.
   

1. The extension is successfully shared.
   

1. The user will get an email about the shared extension, along with the installation URL. They can simply click the link to install the extension.
   
2. To publish and list the extension publicly in Zoho Marketplace, it'll have to be reviewed and approved by the Zoho Marketplace team as well.
   
3. To publish publicly, follow the above steps, then submit your extension for Zoho Marketplace review using the Submit for Marketplace Review button.
   

1. You'll be redirected to the extension details page, where you can view a Submit to Marketplace button beside the extension version. Click Submit to Marketplace.
   

1. A pop-up appears with extension details that will be listed in Zoho Marketplace. Fill in the details to complete the submission process.