How do users get access get app catalog from outside their organization?

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We have an office add-in manifest which we published to our organization app catalog. We have external users who can use these apps and our SharePoint is configured to authenticate these users (No Single Sign On). We also don't want to publish these manifests to Microsoft store also.

On the Excel, if the user tries to access the app catalog manifests from the Trusted Catalog location configured it shows access denied and there are no login page being displayed. The same behavior can be observed if the user is signed out of Excel and tries to access a manifest from office 365.

As we work with multiple organization, how can we support login to our catalog from different users?

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To clarify, is this the scenario: User from Org-A wants to access an add-in hosted in Org-B's SharePoint app catalog. User has an account with Org-B's SharePoint site? Ideally, what should the experience be? Do you want to show sign-in page in the Org-B's add-in when user tries to access it? - Sudhi Ramamurthy
Yes, that scenario is correct. We were expecting the users will be presented with login mechanism (Forms, STS based) configured in SharePoint in this case. - renil
Thanks. I'm not sure if this cross org access scenario is supported without the store front. Will confirm... - Sudhi Ramamurthy

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The cross organization add-in/catalog access doesn't seem to be supported. Office store is meant to address this exact scenario where add-ins need to be distributed across organizations with the right level of authorization. So, that may be something you want to consider.