Buying Group release notes

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 1 minute to read
  • The ServiceNow® Buying Group application provides information on the key  decision-making stakeholders of a company to whom you are trying to sell a particular product. Buying Group is a new application in the Australia release.

    Buying Group highlights for the Australia release

    Buying Group provides information on the customer stakeholders involved in a purchase decision for a product or solution, supporting multiple roles and persisting before, during, and after an opportunity.

    See Buying Group for more information.

    Important:
    Buying Group is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    Buying Group features

    Create separate buying groups for each product family or solution within an account
    Avoid confusion or overlap and efficiently map the right stakeholders involved in different purchase decision for an account by creating separate buying groups for each product family or solution, which helps account for differing decision‑makers, influencers, and users.
    Add buying group members with different roles
    Enable role‑specific engagement, and improve alignment throughout the buying process by adding buying group members with defined roles.
    Associate multiple buying groups against an opportunity
    Improve stakeholder visibility, support complex deal management, and enable more targeted engagement across solutions by associating multiple buying groups with an opportunity.

    Activation information

    Install Buying Group by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

    Plugin information

    New plugin

    The following plugin is new in Australia:

    Buying Groups (sn_buying_group): Introduces the Buying Group data model, permissions, and supporting framework required to manage buying groups and their lifecycle within the sales process.