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MicrosoftFAQ: Quarterly billing of a SaaS fixed price offering (private offer)
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.
波洛杰克makeiteasy There are a few different APIs for marketplace summarized here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/marketplace/marketplace-apis-guide
- This approach works really well. We have a similar approach for billing of one of our Marketplace offers.
- Is there any website link to the marketplace billing api?
波洛杰克makeiteasy There are a few different APIs for marketplace summarized here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/marketplace/marketplace-apis-guide
