Pricing Profile
Click on Pricing Profiles.
Click Base Profiles.
Click on the desired pricing profile name.
Specify a name for the pricing profile.
(Optional) Select Yes/No for the ‘SET MONTHLY FEE?’ field.
(Optional) Specify the ‘MONTHLY FEE’ amount.
(Optional) Specify the ‘ONE-TIME FEE’ amount.
(Optional) If the tax rate needs to be included for the tenants who subscribe to the offer associated with this pricing profile, Select Yes/No for the ‘APPLY STANDARD TAX RATE?’ field.
Note: The standard tax rate must be specified under Settings → Invoice PDF Settings → Standard Tax Rate. The ‘Apply Tax?’ must be set to ‘Yes’ for the tax rate to be applied.
(Optional) Specify the ‘MARKUP PERCENT’.
(Optional) Select Yes/No for the ‘APPLY MARKUP ONLY FOR BASE PROFILES? field.
(Optional) Choose a base profile to link the current pricing profile with it.
(Optional) Choose a ‘PROMO TYPE’ and specify the ‘PROMO CREDIT AMOUNT’.
(Optional) To update the credits for existing subscriptions, choose ‘Yes’ in ‘UPDATE PROMOTION CREDITS FOR EXISTING SUBSCRIPTIONS?’ field.
Note: If the promo credit needs to be calculated in percentage, check the ‘SPECIFY PROMORTION IN PERCENTAGE?’ must be set to ‘Yes’.
Specify the ‘REGION’, ‘CURRENCY TEXT’ and ‘CURRENCY SYMBOL’ and click Save button at the top.
Configuring A Fixed Payment Pricing Profile
Click on Pricing Profiles.
Click Base Profiles.
Click on the desired pricing profile name.
Select ‘Yes’ in the ‘SET MONTHLY FEE?’ field.
Specify the ‘MONTHLY FEE’.
Click the ‘Save’ button.
Configuring A Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Profile
The Billing solution comes with a pre-loaded pricing profile called as ‘Azure-Stack-Base’ that contains the meters of different resources providers. To create a new pricing profile, click the pre-loaded profile and click on the clone button.
Configuring Prices for Resource Meters
Click on the desired pricing profile (On the Currency Code).
Click the ‘Open’ button.
Click on the desired resource meter.
It is enough to specify the ‘Monthly Unit Price’ and setting the ‘Enable Meter?’ to ‘Yes’.
Click the ‘Save’ button.
Use of Minimum Monthly Fee
Minimum monthly fee for meter will be applied if the total usage cost for the month is less than the value specified in 'Minimum Monthly Fee'.
Example:
Use of Hourly Unit Credits
The units specified in 'Hourly Unit Credits' will be deducted from the actual usage units before computing the cost.
Example:
Use of Formula
Formula are used to modify the units obtained from the raw usage data of resources before computing the price for the resource. There are two types of formula ‘Unit Formula’ and ‘Custom Formula’.
Unit Formula
It multiplies the units obtained from raw usage with the formula specified.
It supports math expressions and operators such as ‘*’ and ‘/’.
Operators should have space between them.
Operations are executed from Left to Right.
Brackets are not supported.
Example:
Custom Formula
It computes the units based on the formula specified.
It supports math expressions and operators such as ‘*’, ‘/’, ‘+’ and ‘-’.
Operators should have a space around them.
Operations are executed as per Mathematical precedence.
Brackets are supported, but spaces are to be given around them.
Example:
Resource Condition
Resource condition is given to set different prices for the same metered resource based on the volume of raw usage units. This can be done by cloning a configured metered resource and setting a new monthly unit price for it.
Example:
Note: Make sure comparison operator is prefixed and suffixed with space Example: B4438D5D-453B-4EE1-B42A-DC72E377F1E4 < 3 .
Use of Properties
Properties are like resource condition where different prices can be set for the same metered resource based on the property of resource (E.g. VMs, SQL DBs, etc.) which is reported in the raw usage records.
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Configuring A Fixed + Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Profile
To configure a combination of fixed and pay-as-you-go pricing profile, all the steps under Configuring A Fixed Payment Pricing Profile and Configuring A Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Profile sections.
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