---
title: "Ship through the official channel"
description: "Move from a test install to shipping your application to customers: becoming an ARDGE partner, submitting your template for release, and maintaining it afterwards"
canonical_url: "https://developer.ardge.com/en/guide/isv/shipping-channel"
---
# Ship through the official channel

> Move from a test install to shipping your application to customers: becoming an ARDGE partner, submitting your template for release, and maintaining it afterwards

## Overview

The official channel is the maintained release channel for ARX applications. Once you have verified a build, you publish it here instead of side-loading it onto each system: customer devices in the field are notified that an update is available, and the customer applies it from there.

The same partnership covers a second arrangement: a dedicated appliance built around your application, where the system ships configured for your software alone and users see only it and the models it needs.

Applications shipped either way are encrypted. The image is decrypted only on an ARX platform, at run time, so making your application remotely updatable does not mean handing it out in the clear.

## Becoming a partner

Once your application is integrated and running on an ARX system, contact ARDGE to discuss shipping it. Two arrangements are open to you:

- **Publish to the official channel** — your application is released through the maintained channel, and customer devices are notified when a new version is available.
- **A dedicated appliance for your application** — the system ships configured around your software, so users see only your application and the models it needs

ARDGE provides the encryption method your images are packaged with — contact the ARDGE team to obtain it, so that your application can be published.

<note>

**A licensing mechanism is on the way:** you will be able to license your application through ARDGE and charge for its use.

</note>

## Submitting your template for release

Send your app template details to your ARDGE contact, and we complete the listing for you.

<note>

**A developer platform is on the way:** it will let you publish new versions of your application yourself, whenever you're ready.

</note>

## Contact

Reach the ARDGE team at [support@ardge.com](mailto:support@ardge.com).


## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://developer.ardge.com/sitemap.md) for all pages.