#Invoice and inventory saas software license#
Publishers typically opt to bundle Azure infrastructure usage fees into their software license pricing. Actual infrastructure usage fees are not seen by the customer. The Azure infrastructure usage is managed and billed to the publisher directly. It is represented as a flat fee to the customer. Infrastructure usage fees are priced and presented separately from the software provider's licensing fees on the customer's invoice.įor SaaS Apps, the publisher must account for Azure infrastructure usage fees and software licensing fees as a single cost item. Billing infrastructure costsįor virtual machines and Azure applications, Azure infrastructure usage fees are billed to the customer's Azure subscription. For more information about metered billing for Azure Application offers, see Managed application metered billing. For more information about metered billing for SaaS offers, see Metered billing for SaaS using the commercial marketplace metering service. You can charge usage costs for marketplace metering service dimensions that you specify such as bandwidth, tickets, or emails processed. The Marketplace metering service lets you specify pay-as-you-go (consumption-based) charges in addition to monthly or annual charges included in the contract (entitlement). These plans are billed monthly for hourly use of the subscription based on per core, per core size, or per market and core size usage. * Azure Virtual Machine offers support usage-based billing plans. The transact publishing option is currently supported for the following offer types: Offer type The publisher must consider the billing of infrastructure fees and your own software licensing fees when selecting a pricing model for an offer. When using the transact option, Microsoft enables the sale of third-party software and deployment of some offer types to the customer's Azure subscription. This option will appear only if transact is available for your offer type. You choose the transact option when you create a new offer in Partner Center. Transact offers are billed against an existing Microsoft subscription or credit card, allowing Microsoft to host cloud marketplace transactions on behalf of the publisher. A transactable offer is one in which Microsoft facilitates the exchange of money for a software license on the publisher’s behalf. Transact publishing optionĬhoosing to sell through Microsoft takes advantage of Microsoft commerce capabilities and provides an end-to-end experience from discovery and evaluation to purchase and implementation. For availability and explanations of each publishing option, see Introduction to listing options.
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The listing option you choose for your offer determines who manages the transaction. Transactions by listing optionĮither the publisher or Microsoft is responsible for managing software license transactions for offers in the commercial marketplace. For SaaS offers, see Purchase SaaS apps on Microsoft AppSource. To see the customer's view of purchasing in the commercial marketplace, see Azure Marketplace purchasing.