The pricing information comes automatically from Microsoft and contains both the cost price (i.e., what Microsoft charges you as a CSP) and the retail prices that match the country of the end customer. This means that you have the flexibility to bill your reseller and your customer either by setting a margin above your cost or by defining a discount for Microsoft's retail price, exactly as you do for the Office 365 plans.

Configuring Software Subscriptions Pricing for Resellers

If you are an indirect CSP and you want to set discounts for the Software subscriptions to your resellers, you must add the Software subscription products to the resellers' price lists. The process is the following:

1. Locate your reseller price list under Billing > Price Lists.
   
   
2. Go to Products tabs and select Quick Add > Products. In the pop-up form, you should search for the Microsoft subscription products. An easy way to do this is to use the advanced search and search for the product with product type = Microsoft Software subscriptions. Then, select all of them.
   
   
   
3. Select the action Same pricing rule for defining your pricing rule for all the Software subscription products. 
   
   
4. Define your pricing rule by setting either a margin or markup above your cost or a discount from Microsoft's retail price.
   
   
   

Configuring Software Subscriptions Pricing for Direct Customers

CSP Direct Partners can opt to sell to direct customers without price lists. For this reason, you must follow a simple procedure to price the Software subscriptions according to the margin or discount you desire.

1. Add all Microsoft subscription products to a price list following the steps described in the previous paragraph.
2. Define your pricing rule as described above.
3. Go to each Software subscription product view page and under the section Price Lists define this pricelist as the default pricelist.
   
   
   
4. That's it! All customers will be priced according to the rule you have designated!

Country Tenants & Tenant Resellers

Concerning the automatically retrieved and applied pricing for Software subscription products, the tenant reseller organizations, as well as the country tenants, inherit the configuration of the automatic pricing of those products from their Parent organization. Therefore, the automatically applied prices to tenant organizations that are also based on the applied price lists (root price list & tenant price list) allow them to order Software subscription products, for their end customers, as well as invoice them.

Backordering

Backordering is available for country tenants and tenant reseller organizations and the billing for the subscriptions created in the root organization is based on the pricing rules we use for all Software subscription products.