In the interworks.cloud platform, since the introduction of the "New Azure Experiece", our customers will be able to order an Azure Plan instead of a legacy Azure product (however, our customers are still able to order legacy Azure products via our BSS and Storefront for a limited amount of time). 
In simple terms, the Azure Plan is an accommodation structure for multiple Azure subscriptions(entitlements) to exist under it, for order and billing simplification reasons. For that purpose, the Azure Plan is defined in our BSS platform as a pay-per-use product with consumption based billing. Additionaly, the Azure Plan billing cycle is now calculated from the beginning of a month until its end and the CSP billing date on the Azure Plan will be usually within the first until the eighth day of each following month.

Definition of the Azure Plan

The Microsoft Azure Plan simplifies the purchase experience since customers can have multiple Azure subscriptions(entitlements) under one Azure Plan. The need to submit a separate order per Azure subscription is now eliminated from our BSS. In this new commerce experience for Azure, Microsoft has aligned to a single global pricing principle enabling CSP partners to offer Azure at the published prices.

• How will the Azure Plan Product Type be Created?
  The Microsoft Azure Plan product type is created automatically when a BSS user initiates the "Get Services Definition" process from within the corresponding "Microsoft Cloud Services" service manager. As a result, you must not create a new Azure product or an Azure Plan manually via our BSS platform.
  
  
• How do I Purchase an Azure subscription?
  In our BSS you can no longer purchase Azure subscriptions, but rather you purchase the Azure Plan and afterwards you can configure within the purchased plan what subscriptions(entitlements) you wish to add via the Azure Portal. Thus, each Azure subscription that you have purchased via the Azure Portal will belong under the "umbrella" of your unique Azure Plan.
      
• Which is the Sell Price of the Azure Plan?
  There isn't a single sell price for an Azure Plan product because what we charge is the consumption of the resources of the combined Azure subscriptions(entitlements) contained within the Plan. Depending on what the customer has deployed in an Azure Plan, tens or hundreds of resources may be charged to the customer. The sell price for these resources is Microsoft's suggested retail price for the MS Tenants with plain user rights and Microsoft's suggested wholesale price for the MS Tenants with Admin user rights on their MS Account. You can find further information regarding the user rights under the Microsoft's (PEC) page.
  
  
• Billing day for your Azure Plan?
  The Azure Plan that will contain all your subscriptions(entitlements) will be billed the day that Microsoft bills the CSP, which ranges from the first until the eighth day of each following month and it cannot be changed since it is determined by Microsoft's single global pricing principle. That means that the prorated billing days (between the twelveth and thirteenth of each following month) of the former Azure are abolished. This new billing procedure will not allow any pending or zeroed invoices to exist, since our goal is to offer you the exact same experience as that of Microsoft. 
  
  
• Which are the Exchange Rates Used?
  Microsoft calculates all costs based on the US Dollar (USD). Therefore, when we invoice a customer with a different base currency, we calculate the difference by utilizing Microsoft's exchange rates in order for us to offer the exact same prices with Microsoft. 
  
  
• What are the Billing Factors?
  The only billing factor that we support is the defined markup or margin over the Microsoft's costs price-list in relation to the margin and markup that you can set, since Microsoft will provide us with all resources prices. Promotions, volume discount, free period, excel pricing and user defined discount are not supported for the Azure Plan product type.