Q: I have quarterly payment terms with a customer (on a 2y contract). And now the customer would love to transact this 3 month offer on Azure Marketplace. However, with SaaS offers, only monthly, yearly and lumpsum billing are supported.
Is a support for quarterly billing perhaps on a roadmap or in a private preview?
Is there any workaround to achieve the quarterly billing frequency?
A: You can use custom meters and bill quarterly by sending requests to the marketplace billing api quarterly. You would create a 2year offer with a price=0 and invoicing monthly. Then, create custom metering dimensions (called, say consumption_unit). Consumption_unit=1K. Then, just send a request at the end of the first month, charging the first 600K, thus allowing for a 60 Day Neto payment terms.
