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Cost management for Azure Marketplace purchases

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Microsoft Cost Management + Billing is a suite of tools provided by Microsoft to help analyze, manage, and optimize the costs of Azure workloads. Common tasks include managing billing, access to costs, downloading cost and usage data, proactively apply data analysis to your costs, set spending thresholds, track against budgets, and identify opportunities for workload changes that can optimize your spending.

You can use Microsoft Cost Management + Billing to analyze Azure Marketplace charges alongside your Azure service charges. Access Cost Management + Billing in the Azure portal:

Screenshot of the Welcome to Azure screen, with the Cost management + Billing tab highlighted.

Select the desired billing scope. Scopes are where you manage billing data, including billing from Azure Marketplace, have roles specific to payments, view invoices, and conduct general account management. Billing and account roles are managed separately from roles used for resource management, which use Azure RBAC (Role Based Access Control).

Screenshot of the Billing scopes screen, with a sample billing scope with the name BVT Marketplace VSOID #12345 Customer (1234567) highlighted.

Once you have selected the billing scope, select Cost Analysis to access a summary view of costs for the billing account:

Screenshot of the Cost analysis for a fictional customer, with Cost analysis highlighted.

Select Add filter to add the Publisher Type filter. The options to filter for Azure costs and Marketplace costs are shown:

Screenshot of the Cost analysis for a fictional customer, with Publisher type selected, and the filter drop-down highlighting the options: Azure and Marketplace.

You can group by selecting Publisher Type to filter Azure charges and Azure Marketplace cost information independently:

Screenshot of the Cost analysis for a fictional customer, with Group by: Publisher type selected, and the filter drop-down highlighting the options: Publisher type.

When the publisher type filter is selected for Marketplace, you'll view only Azure Marketplace charges for the selected timespan:

Screenshot of the Cost analysis for a fictional customer, with Publisher type: Marketplace selected, and data showing for only the Marketplace.

You can also select the Usage + charges view to see a breakdown by timespan of Azure Marketplace charges:

Screenshot of the Usage + charges view, with Azure Marketplace highlighted, and a total shown at the bottom.

Download and view your marketplace invoice

Use cost management to view your marketplace invoice under an Enterprise Agreement (EA)

Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers (except customers in Australia, Japan, and Singapore) receive a consolidated invoice including both Azure charges and Azure Marketplace charges. The invoice displays Azure charges followed by Azure Marketplace charges. Learn how to download or view your invoice including Azure Marketplace charges. Customers in Australia, Japan, or Singapore can learn how to review your Azure Marketplace invoice.

Use cost management to view your marketplace invoices under a Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)

For purchases through Azure Marketplace, each invoice contains charges for Azure usage and marketplace purchases. Learn how to download and understand your Azure external services charges. You must be a billing profile Owner, Contributor, Reader, or Invoice manager to view your Azure usage and charges under an MCA.

Download and view your cost details

To find detailed information regarding your marketplace charges, use the cost details file, which you can download from the Azure portal.

  1. Once you’re in the Azure portal, select Cost Management + Billing. You can also find it through search but be sure to look for Cost Management + Billing, rather than just Cost Management.

    Screenshot of the Cost Management + Billing for a customer, with Cost Management + Billing highlighted.

  2. Download the cost details file in Settings -> Exports.

    Screenshot of the Settings -> Exports left menu for a customer to download the cost details file.

In the cost details file, you can track specific marketplace charges by following the steps below.

Track cost details for EA customers

  1. Use the PartNumber column filter to ensure you’re looking at the same charges shown on your invoice.

    Screenshot of the cost details file showing the PartNumber column.

  2. You can use the PublisherName column to filter out marketplace charges and use the PlanName column filter to review the plans purchased.

  3. The ChargeType column can help identify if a marketplace transaction is a purchase, refund, or usage line-item.

Track cost details for MCA customers

  1. Use the InvoiceId column to ensure you are looking at the same charges shown on your invoice.

    Screenshot of the cost details file showing the InvoiceId column.

  2. Set the PublisherName column filter to identify Marketplace transactions.

  3. The ChargeType column can help identify if a marketplace transaction is a purchase, refund, or usage line-item.

For more information, see the cost details documentation.

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