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Azure Reserved Instances are charged only once or monthly on purchase date. The pricing information we are collecting from Microsoft from the prices importer process is the cost price (i.e what Microsoft charges you as a CSP). For billing your resellers and your customers, you will need to define the margin you want for your RIs by adding in your price lists the "Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances" product. The system will automatically apply the margin you defined in customer’s pricelist every time he purchases a RI.


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  1. You should always sell a reserved instance using a pricelist, otherwise the sell price will be 0. The process for updating the Azure Reservation prices updates the cost price for each reserved instance and the sell price is set to 0.0. Only via a pricelist you will have a non-zero sell price since the system will use pricelist margin for calculating the sell price.
  2. The reserved instances are represented in our system as a single product meaning that the margin you'll define it will be applied to all Reserved Instances offerings. You cannot define different margin for specific Reserved Instances offerings.

Configuring Azure Reservations Pricing for Resellers

If you are an indirect CSP and you want to set discounts for the Reserved Instances to your resellers,  you must add the Reserved Instance product in resellers price lists. The process is the following

  1. Locate your reseller pricelist in Billing > Price Lists

  2. Go to Products tabs and select Quick Add > Products. In the pop-up form search for the Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances product


  3. Select the action Same pricing rule for defining the discount you give for Azure product in the selected price list.

  4. When you add the Reserved Instance product in one of your resellers pricelist, you should select as pricing rule the "Percent Markup - Cost Price" or the "Percent Margin - Cost Price". The markup or margin percentage it must be set to the field next to the pricing rule.

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Your Tenant Resellers can offer Azure Reservation only in the currency you bill them

When you will add the generic Reserved Instance product in a tenant reseller's pricelist, the update tenant process will copy this product in tenant BSS and your reseller will be able to offer Azure Reservations to his customers. But your reseller will be able to offer it only in the currency you bill him. For your tenant resellers, the Import Reserved Instances Product Prices tool is not available and they cannot activate extra currencies.

they can invoice their customer in their local currency using the transaction currency feature, but the base currency for a customer that wants to purchase an Azure Reservation must be the currency you bill the reseller.

The option your tenant resellers to offer the Azure Reservation in more currencies will be supported in our of our next editions.


Configuring Reserved Instances Pricing for Direct Customers

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CSP Direct Partners can opt to to sell to direct customers without price lists. For this reason, you must follow a simple procedure in order to price the Reserved Instances according to the margin you desire.

  1. Add the Reserved Instance product in the pricelist you are using as the default price list for the Azure product.
  2. There, the Reserved Instance product must be assigned with a markup / margin pricing rule, having the appropriate percentage that will augment the price until it reaches ERP price level. 
  3. Now, locate the Reserved Instance product and mark the price list as 'default'.


  4. That's it! All customers will be priced according to the margin you have designated!

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