The Azure Plan Reservations are represented in our system as assets. The assets are part of our Billing module and when your resellers or your customers place an order for an Azure Plan Reservation, a new asset record is created in our platform for managing and invoicing purposes.
In this page, we explain what information we keep in the asset record for each Azure Plan Reservation, what actions you can do for your Azure Plan Reservations and how you or your customers can manage them.
The Azure Plan Reservation Asset Record
For every Azure Plan Reservation purchased by a customer, our system creates an asset record. This record is the trigger for the provisioning mechanism and it is related with the Microsoft Azure Plan Reservation that is created in Microsoft systems.
This record is accessible through the Billing > Assets module. The information we keep for each Azure Plan Reservation is the following:
- General Information
- Name: By default it's Azure Plan Reservation SKU title.
- Status: The status of an Azure Plan Reservation can be active, expired or cancelled. It will become automatically expired on asset's expiration date.
- Provisioning Sync Status: It can be synchronized or failed analogous with the status we are keeping for the Office 365 subscriptions. Note: If the status is failed, you need to edit and save the asset record for our platform to retry to provision the asset record.
- Purchase Date: The date the asset record was created and the provisioning was executed.
- Product Section: Each asset record is related with the generic Reserved Instance product we are having for the Azure Plan Reservations. The rest fields of this section are asset's pricing details.
- Microsoft Azure Plan Reservation Details:
- Expiration Date: When the Azure Plan Reservation will expire.
- Reservation ID: The Microsoft ID.
- Reservation Order ID: The Microsoft Order ID.
- Reservation Status: The status of the Azure Plan Reservation in Microsoft systems.
- Product ID: Microsoft product ID.
- Product Title and Details: The Microsoft SKU title and description.
- Scope: The scope of the Azure Plan Reservation.
- Subscription: The id of the BSS Azure Plan subscription in our system. It is the ID of the Azure Plan subscription from which the purchase process was initiated.
- Purchase Date (UTC): The date the asset record was created and the provisioning was executed under the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
- Billing Frequency: The billing frequency of an Azure Plan Reservation can be only "One-Time".
Understanding the Asset View
The Billing Frequency field is added within the Asset View and for the Azure Plan Reserved Instances the value of the field will always be "One-Time". Additionally, the Asset Amount is renamed to "Asset Total Amount". 
- Asset Total Amount: The field depicts the Final Unit Price which essentially is the total amount to be paid as one-off.
- Billing Frequency: The field depicts the One-Time choice of billing frequency, indicating that the "Asset Total Amount" is paid in its entirety.
Managing the Azure Plan Reservations from the Storefront
Your resellers and your customers can access the Azure Plan Reservations they have purchased from the Assets section that is in the Billing area of your Storefront.
Understanding the Reservations' List
By clicking on the "active reservations" link, your reseller or customer will be redirected to the list of the Azure reservations he has purchased.
He is able to view his Reservations' List along with the "Billing Frequency" of each reservation.
- Reservations: The exact name of each reservation is depicted under this column. Please note that each reservation name is a link and upon clicking it you will be redirected to the Reservation View, analyzed on the following section of this page.
- Customer (appears only to resellers): This column depicts only the names of the reseller's end-customer that the reservation is for.
- Unit Price: This column depicts the unit price with or without VAT, depending on whether you have chosen to show the VAT or not, via the Marketplace options. The unit price will show the full charge since the "Billing Frequency" is One-Time.
- Billing Frequency: This column depicts the set billing frequency of each instance, namely "One-Time".
- Discount: This column depicts the discount percentage that each reservation may or may not receive.
- Total Amount: The Total Amount is calculated based on the quantity of instances, the unit price of each instance as well as the discount that can be applied. If the Billing Frequency of the Instance is set to "One-Time" then the Total Amount field will display the full amount. Also, the Total Amount field can be depicted with or without VAT, depending on whether you have chosen to show the VAT or not, via the Marketplace options.
Understanding the Reservation View
The details page of an Azure Plan Reservation in Storefront includes all the information our system keeps as explained in paragraph Azure Plan Reservation Asset Record.
Managing the Azure Plan Reservations in BSS
The Azure Plan Reservations are stored in our system as asset records. You can find them if you navigate to BSS > Billing > Assets module or from the assets section that is available in account details page.
Assets as Subsection in Other Objects
Account View - Shortcut "Assets"
Assets are displayed in Account's Shortcut menu. On mouse-over the Asset module shortcut, we display an "abstract" view of the Account's assets. The Amount column in that view for Reservations is "One-Time" reservations and display the full RIs One-Time amount.
Account View Assets Section
Asset section is displayed also in Account View when scrolling down. In that section, all Reservations with "One-Time" billing frequency display the full RIs One-Time amount.
Provisioning of failed Azure Plan Reservation Assets
The Azure Plan Reservation assets have a "Provisioning Sync Status" field for understanding if the Azure Plan Reservation has been provisioned successfully in Microsoft systems. If the sync status is failed, you can try to re-provision the Azure Plan Reservation asset by editing and saving the record.