Sophos Central customers

The Sophos Central Customers page contains the list of your Sophos Central Admin customers and shows the status of their licenses.

Click Show my protection only to view the active license categories.

To search for a customer, enter the customer’s name. To display all the records again, clear the search field.

Selecting a customer’s name opens the customer’s contact info pop-up.

Create Monthly Account

You can create managed customer accounts, click Create Monthly Account.

You must be a Managed Service Provider (MSP) Flex partner to create a monthly usage account.

Note Partners using flex licensing may not be able to enroll their customers into early access programs. This is because of licensing limitations. Flex licenses are monthly licenses that aren't compatible with most early access programs.

Launch Sophos Central Admin

Choose a customer and click Launch Sophos Central Admin. This opens your customer's Sophos Central Admin account.

You can do this if Partner Assistance is turned on. Partner Assistance is turned on automatically in the following circumstances:

  • If you create a trial for a customer.

    If a customer creates a trial themselves, they have to turn it on in their Sophos Central Admin account.

  • For Monthly Usage accounts. You must be a Managed Service Provider (MSP) Flex partner to create a monthly usage account.
  • For Managed Customer Orders (Sophos MSP Flex Connect Orders). You must be a MSP Flex Connect partner to manage these accounts.

Your customer’s Sophos Central administrator can turn on Partner Assistance, if required.

They do this in Sophos Central Admin by clicking Account Details > Sophos Support > Partner Assistance.

Change customer account name

If the account name for a customer that is shown in Sophos Central Admin is incorrect, in Sophos Central Partner change it as follows:

  1. Select the customer's name to open Contact Info.
  2. Next to Name shown as, click Edit.
  3. Change the name.
  4. Click Save.

The new name is shown in Sophos Central Admin and in your Cloud Service Account in Salesforce.

Managed customer order subscriptions

If you can create Sophos MSP Flex Connect Orders, you can also see these subscriptions and their associated licenses on this page. They're tagged with a dollar icon. You can see the status of their licenses and open their Sophos Central Admin account. You can also see their contact details.

Managed Customers and Managed Customer Orders