Automatically billing customers after they purchase our SaaS application

Sanim Pokhrel 0

Hello everyone, I have a managed application listed in Azure. I am able to register the application via the App Registration process and make successful API calls to metered billing. However, I am unsure how to obtain customer purchase information after deploying the managed application. What is the process to automatically bill customers? Below is an example of the postman call I have been using:

{
   "resourceId": <guid>, 
   "quantity": 5.0, 
   "dimension": "dim1",   
   "effectiveStartTime": "2018-12-01T08:30:14",  
   "planId": "plan1"
}

Monalla-MSFT 11,801 Reputation points

2024-02-01T13:56:11.7533333+00:00

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2024-02-29T13:55:32.0733333+00:00

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Sam Cogan 10,157 Reputation points MVP

2024-01-17T08:57:02.8433333+00:00

If you are sending billing metrics to the managed app endpoint, and they are successfully received, then Microsoft will bill the customer on your behalf for this usage, and then pass the payment on to you (less their cut).
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Sanim Pokhrel 0 Reputation points

2024-01-17T20:58:33.1333333+00:00

Hi Sam, My issue is more on the side of how do i get the resourceUsageId, planId and dimensions from the customer's purchase and bill them. For test purpose I am simply using PostMan to send out the API call. How can i automate this process and where do i automate it such that when someone buys the application from marketplace, the customer is billed automatically. Also, how can i get the necessary information from the customere's tenant.

Sam Cogan 10,157 Reputation points MVP

2024-01-29T09:04:27.6866667+00:00

You will need to track your customers when they sign up and then send metrics based on their usage to the billing API. Take a look at this MS produced accelerator that can help you build this https://github.com/microsoft/metered-billing-accelerator

Sanim Pokhrel 0 Reputation points

2024-01-30T19:55:12.5166667+00:00

Thanks @Sam Cogan for your reply, I have done all of that in my code, i would like to know how can i get the customer's billing details. Like their subscriptionId, tenantId etc. to bill them?

Sam Cogan 10,157 Reputation points MVP

2024-02-01T11:22:16.6+00:00

When the customer signed up for your application these details are provided if you configure the webhook to call your code. Alternatively it will show in the managed applications center in the portal
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