Price Management

From January 2023, partners will continue to receive the Azure incentive but will no longer receive margin pricing. This will only affect new reservation purchases, while reservations purchased prior to January 2023 will have the margin honored through the balance of the term. For the connector to support this change, it is necessary to create a rating attribute named v.ri_margin and set the value of attribute to 0. This way, no margins will be applied following Microsoft's applicable policy for 2023.

Required Configuration of Margins for New Resources in PLM-based Deployments

In PLM-based deployments there are additional resources that require the configuration of margins. The names of these resources have the following format: "(Product Name) - Dynamic Usage". For example: “ Microsoft Azure RI - Dynamic Usage”. Please make sure to configure margins for these resources if you use PLM to avoid revenue impact to your resellers.

Configuring the Rating Attribute as a Provider (L0)

To configure the margins as a provider (L0), it is necessary to ensure that UX1 control panel is enabled for the provider. To do this, complete the following steps:

1. Go to Operations > Settings > Control panels > Enable / Disable UX1 for the provider.
2. Click Edit, enable the UX1 and Classic panels, but leave PCP as the default control panel.
3. Click Submit.
4. Log out of the control panel and log back in. Now you will see the New Control Panel option at the top of the window.
5. Click Price Management and follow the instructions provided in the following section from step 2.

Configuring the Rating Attribute as a Reseller (L1)

As an L1 reseller, you must manage margins by completing the following steps:

1. Log in to the Reseller Control Panel and click Price Management.

   

    

2. Select the Azure NCE plan for which you would like to configure margins.
3. Select the Price Rated Model and click Save.

4. In the RatingAttribute tile, click Create to add a rating attribute.

5. Enter the following attribute name: v.ri_margin and the following attribute value: 0

6. Click Save.