Mechanisms for sharing user-provided information from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) application and a vendor application are provided, the mechanisms including: receiving the user-provided information at the OEM application; determining a system identifier of a system on which the OEM application is executing at the OEM application using a hardware processor; providing the user-provided information and the system identifier to a vendor cloud server from the OEM application; determining the system identifier at vendor application; providing the system identifier from the vendor application to the vendor cloud server; receiving the user-provided information at the vendor application from the vendor cloud server in response to providing the system identifier to the vendor cloud server; and using the user-provided information to configure the vendor application.