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Create a cart with a customer order

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Applies to: Partner Center | Partner Center operated by 21Vianet | Partner Center for Microsoft Cloud for US Government

You can add an order for a customer in a cart. For more information about what is currently available to sell, see Partner offers in the Cloud Solution Provider program.

Note

Carts expire 7 days from the initial creation.

Prerequisites

  • Credentials as described in Partner Center authentication. This scenario supports authentication with both standalone App and App+User credentials.

  • A customer ID (customer-tenant-id). If you don't know the customer's ID, you can look it up in Partner Center by selecting the Customers workspace, then the customer from the customer list, then Account. On the customer’s Account page, look for the Microsoft ID in the Customer Account Info section. The Microsoft ID is the same as the customer ID (customer-tenant-id).

C#

To create an order for a customer:

  1. Instantiate a Cart object.

  2. Create a list of CartLineItem objects, and assign the list to the cart's LineItems property. Each cart line item contains the purchase information for one product. You must have at least one cart line item.

  3. Obtain an interface to cart operations by calling the IAggregatePartner.Customers.ById method with the customer ID to identify the customer, and then retrieving the interface from the Cart property.

  4. Call the Create or CreateAsync method to create the cart.

  5. To complete attestation and include other resellers, see the following sample Request and Response Samples:

Request sample


{
    "PartnerOnRecordAttestationAccepted":true,     "lineItems": [
        {
            "id": 0,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LH0Z:0001:CFQ7TTC0K18P",
            "quantity": 1,
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1M",
            "renewsTo": null,
            "provisioningContext": {},
            "customTermEndDate": "2022-02-19T00:00:00Z"
        },
        {
            "id": 1,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LFLS:0002:CFQ7TTC0KDLJ",
            "quantity": 2,
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1Y",
            "participants": [
                {
                    "key": "transaction_reseller",
                    "value": "5357564"
                },
                 {
                    "key": "additional_transaction_reseller",                     
                    "value": "517285"
                },
                 {
                    "key": "additional_transaction_reseller", 
                    "value": "5357563"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Response sample


{
    "id": "3e22b548-647d-4223-9675-1fcb6cb57665",
    "creationTimestamp": "2021-08-18T17:29:52.3517492Z",
    "lastModifiedTimestamp": "2021-08-18T17:29:52.3517553Z",
    "expirationTimestamp": "2021-08-25T17:30:11.2406416Z",
    "lastModifiedUser": "da62a0dc-35e9-4601-b48e-a047bd3ec7c1",
    "status": "Active",
    "lineItems": [
        {
            "id": 0,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LH0Z:0001:CFQ7TTC0K18P",
            "quantity": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1M",
	    "customTermEndDate": "2022-02-19T00:00:00Z";
            "provisioningContext": {},
            "orderGroup": "0"
        },
        {
            "id": 1,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LFLS:0002:CFQ7TTC0KDLJ",
            "quantity": 2,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1Y",
            "participants": [
                {
                    "key": "transaction_reseller",
                    "value": "5357564"
                },
                {
                    "key": "additional_transaction_reseller", 
                    "value": "517285"
                },
                {
                    "key": "additional_transaction_reseller", 
                    "value": "5357563"
                }
            ],
            "provisioningContext": {},
            "orderGroup": "0"
        }
    ],
    "links": {
        "self": {
            "uri": "/customers/f81d98dd-c2f4-499e-a194-5619e260344e/carts/3e22b548-647d-4223-9675-1fcb6cb57665",
            "method": "GET",
            "headers": []
        }
    },
    "attributes": {
        "objectType": "Cart"
    }
}

C# example

// IAggregatePartner partnerOperations;
// string customerId;
// string subscriptionId;

var cart = new Cart()
{
    LineItems = new List<CartLineItem>()
    {
        new CartLineItem()
        {
      /* Microsoft Azure Subscription */
            Id = 0,
            CatalogItemId = "MS-AZR-0145P",
            Quantity = 1,
            BillingCycle = BillingCycleType.Monthly,
            TermDuration = "P1Y"
        },
        new CartLineItem()
        {
      /* Azure Reserved Instance */
            Id = 1,
            CatalogItemId = "DZH318Z0BQ36:004G:DZH318Z08C0S",
            Quantity = 1,
            BillingCycle = BillingCycleType.OneTime,
            TermDuration = "P1Y",
            ProvisioningContext = new Dictionary<string, string>
            {
                { "subscriptionId", subscriptionId },
                { "scope", "shared" }
            }
        },
        new CartLineItem()
        {
      /* Azure Reserved Instance */
            Id = 2,
            CatalogItemId = "DZH318Z0BQ36:004J:DZH318Z08B8X",
            Quantity = 1,
            BillingCycle = BillingCycleType.OneTime,
            TermDuration = "P3Y",
            ProvisioningContext = new Dictionary<string, string>
            {
                { "subscriptionId", subscriptionId },
                { "scope", "shared" }
            }
        },
        new CartLineItem()
        {
      /* Perpetual Software */
            Id = 3,
            CatalogItemId = "DG7GMGF0DWM3:0002:DG7GMGF0DT1M",
            Quantity = 1,
            BillingCycle = BillingCycleType.OneTime
        },
        new CartLineItem()
        {
      /* SaaS */
            Id = 4,
            CatalogItemId = "DZH318Z0BXWC:0002:DZH318Z0BMRV",
            Quantity = 1,
            BillingCycle = BillingCycleType.Monthly,
            TermDuration = "P1M"
        },
        new CartLineItem()
        {
      /* SaaS Free Trial */
            Id = 5,
            CatalogItemId = "DZH318Z0C0WF:0001:DZH318Z0BP69",
            Quantity = 10,
            BillingCycle = BillingCycleType.None,
            TermDuration = "P1M",
            RenewsTo = new RenewsTo
            {
                TermDuration = "P1Y"
            }
        }
    }
};

cart = partnerOperations.Customers.ById(customerId).Carts.Create(cart);

Java

The Partner Center Java SDK can be used to manage Partner Center resources. It's an open-source project maintained by the partner community and not officially supported by Microsoft. You can get help from the community or open an issue on GitHub if you experience a problem.

To create an order for a customer:

  1. Instantiate a Cart object.

  2. Create a list of CartLineItem objects, and assign the list to the cart's line items. Each cart line item contains the purchase information for one product. You must have at least one cart line item.

  3. Obtain an interface to cart operations by calling the IAggregatePartner.getCustomers().byId function with the customer ID to identify the customer, and then retrieving the interface from the getCart function.

  4. Call the create function to create the cart.

Java example

// IAggregatePartner partnerOperations;
// String customerId;
// String subscriptionId;
// String catalogItemId;

CartLineItem lineItem = new CartLineItem();

lineItem.setBillingCycle(BillingCycleType.OneTime);
lineItem.setCatalogItemId(catalogItemId);
lineItem.setFriendlyName("Sample RI Purchase");
lineItem.setQuantity(1);

Map<String, String> provisioningContext = new HashMap<String,String>();

provisioningContext.put("duration", "3Years");
provisioningContext.put("scope", "shared");
provisioningContext.put("subscriptionId", subscriptionId);

lineItem.setProvisioningContext(provisioningContext);

List<CartLineItem> lineItemList = new ArrayList<CartLineItem>();
lineItemList.add(lineItem);

Cart cart = new Cart();
cart.setLineItems(lineItemList);

Cart cartCreated = partnerOperations.getCustomers().byId(customerId).getCarts().create(cart);

PowerShell

The Partner Center PowerShell module can be used to manage Partner Center resources. It's an open-source project maintained by the partner community and not officially supported by Microsoft. You can get help from the community or open an issue on GitHub if you experience a problem.

To create an order for a customer:

  1. Instantiate a Cart object.

  2. Create a list of CartLineItem objects, and assign the list to the cart's line items. Each cart line item contains the purchase information for one product. You must have at least one cart line item.

  3. Execute the New-PartnerCustomerCart command to create the cart.

# $customerId
# $subscriptionId
# $catalogItemId

$lineItem = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Store.PartnerCenter.PowerShell.Models.Carts.PSCartLineItem

$lineItem.BillingCycle = 'OneTime'
$lineItem.CatalogItemId = $catalogItemId
$lineItem.FriendlyName = 'Sample RI Purchase'
$lineItem.ProvisioningContext.Add('duration', '1Year')
$lineItem.ProvisioningContext.Add('scope', 'shared')
$lineItem.ProvisioningContext.Add('subscriptionId', $subsciptionId)
$lineItem.Quantity = 10

New-PartnerCustomerCart -CustomerId $customerId -LineItems $lineItem

REST request

Request syntax

Method Request URI
POST {baseURL}/v1/customers/{customer-id}/carts HTTP/1.1

URI parameter

Use the following path parameter to identify the customer.

Name Type Required Description
customer-id string Yes A GUID formatted customer-id that identifies the customer.

Request headers

For more information, see Partner Center REST headers.

Request body

This table describes the Cart properties in the request body.

Property Type Required Description
id string No A cart identifier that is supplied upon successful creation of the cart.
creationTimeStamp DateTime No The date the cart was created, in date-time format. Applied upon successful creation of the cart.
lastModifiedTimeStamp DateTime No The date the cart was last updated, in date-time format. Applied upon successful creation of the cart.
expirationTimeStamp DateTime No The date the cart expires, in date-time format. Applied upon successful creation of cart.
lastModifiedUser string No The user who last updated the cart. Applied upon successful creation of cart.
lineItems Array of objects Yes An Array of CartLineItem resources.
PartnerOnRecordAttestationAccepted Boolean Yes Confirms Attestation completion

This table describes the CartLineItem properties in the request body.

Property Type Required Description
id string No A unique identifier for a cart line item. Applied upon successful creation of cart.
catalogId string Yes The catalog item identifier. Ensure availability of the catalog item is for the correct segment.
friendlyName string No Optional. The friendly name for the item defined by the partner to help disambiguate.
promotionId string No Optional. Most NCE promotions will auto-apply, however for optional promotions (such as Bridge to the Cloud 2) to apply to a cart line item, partners must include the promotion ID in the add to cart request.
quantity int Yes The number of licenses or instances.
currencyCode string No The currency code.
billingCycle Object Yes The type of billing cycle set for the current period.
customTermEndDate DateTime No The end date of an existing subscription to which you want to coterminate the new subscription.
participants List of Object String pairs No A collection of PartnerId on Record (PartnerID) on the purchase.
provisioningContext Dictionary<string, string> No Information required for provisioning for some items in the catalog. The provisioningVariables property in a SKU indicates which properties are required for specific items in the catalog.
orderGroup string No A group to indicate which items can be placed together.
error Object No Applied after cart is created if there's an error.
renewsTo Array of objects No An array of RenewsTo resources.
AttestationAccepted Boolean No Indicates agreement to offer or sku conditions. Required only for offers or skus where SkuAttestationProperties or OfferAttestationProperties enforceAttestation is True.
transaction_reseller String No When an indirect provider places an order on behalf of an indirect reseller, populate this field with the PartnerID of the indirect reseller only (never the ID of the indirect provider). This ensures proper accounting for incentives.
additional_transaction_reseller String No When an indirect provider places an order on behalf of an indirect reseller, populate this field with the PartnerID of the Additional indirect reseller only (never the ID of the indirect provider). Incentives aren't applicable for these additional resellers. Only a maximum of 5 Indirect Resellers can be entered. This is only applicable partners transacting within EU / EFTA countries/regions.

This table describes the RenewsTo properties in the request body.

Property Type Required Description
termDuration string No An ISO 8601 representation of the renewal term's duration. The current supported values are P1M (1 month) and P1Y (1 year).

Request example

POST /v1/customers/d6bf25b7-e0a8-4f2d-a31b-97b55cfc774d/carts HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Accept: application/json
MS-RequestId: 4fa6dad6-a89f-4875-8247-8294a10ae1cf
MS-CorrelationId: aaaa0000-bb11-2222-33cc-444444dddddd
X-Locale: en-US
MS-PartnerCenter-Client: Partner Center .NET SDK
Content-Type: application/json
Host: api.partnercenter.microsoft.com
Content-Length: 496
Expect: 100-continue

{
  "lineItems": [
    {
    /* Microsoft Azure Subscription */
      "id": 0,
      "catalogItemId": "MS-AZR-0145P",
      "quantity": 1,
      "billingCycle": "monthly",
      "termDuration": "P1Y"
    },
    {
    /* Azure Reserved Instance */
      "id": 1,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0BQ36:004G:DZH318Z08C0S",
      "quantity": 1,
      "billingCycle": "one_time",
      "termDuration": "P1Y",
      "provisioningContext": {
        "subscriptionId": "aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e",
        "scope": "shared"
      }
    },
    {
    /* Azure Reserved Instance */
      "id": 2,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0BQ36:004J:DZH318Z08B8X",
      "quantity": 1,
      "billingCycle": "one_time",
      "termDuration": "P3Y",
      "provisioningContext": {
        "subscriptionId": "aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e",
        "scope": "single"
      }
    },
    {
    /* Perpetual Software */
      "id": 3,
      "catalogItemId": "DG7GMGF0DWTL:0001:DG7GMGF0DSFM",
      "quantity": 1,
      "billingCycle": "one_time"
    },
    {
    /* SaaS */
      "id": 4,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0BXWC:0002:DZH318Z0BMRV",
      "quantity": 1,
      "billingCycle": "monthly",
      "termDuration": "P1M"
    },
  {
    /* SaaS Free Trial */
       "id": 5,
       "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0C0WF:0001:DZH318Z0BP69",
       "quantity": 10,
       "billingCycle": "none",
       "termDuration": "P1M",
       "renewsTo": {
         "termDuration": "P1Y"
       }
    }
  ]
}

Important

As of June 2023, the latest Partner Center .NET SDK release 3.4.0 is now archived. You can download the SDK release from GitHub, along with a readme file that contains useful information.

Partners are encouraged to continue to use the Partner Center REST APIs.

REST response

If successful, this method returns the populated Cart resource in the response body.

Response success and error codes

Each response comes with an HTTP status code that indicates success or failure and debugging information. Use a network trace tool to read this code, error type, and other parameters. For the full list, see Error Codes.

Response example

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Length: 764
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
MS-CorrelationId: aaaa0000-bb11-2222-33cc-444444dddddd
MS-RequestId: 4fa6dad6-a89f-4875-8247-8294a10ae1cf
X-Locale: en-US,en-US
MS-CV: sF/wRa2ih0CzbABc.0
MS-ServerId: 000001
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:15:01 GMT
{
  "id": "3655b1a0-b1c9-4268-9824-577fdbc4d0be",
  "creationTimestamp": "2019-01-16T00:45:41.6062996Z",
  "lastModifiedTimestamp": "2019-01-16T00:45:41.6062996Z",
  "expirationTimestamp": "2019-01-16T01:00:54.4188497Z",
  "lastModifiedUser": "1824b7fc-2fac-4478-b177-66823c40ab75",
  "status": "Active",
  "lineItems": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "catalogItemId": "MS-AZR-0145P",
      "quantity": 1,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "billingCycle": "monthly",
      "termDuration": "P1Y",
      "orderGroup": "OMS-0"
    },
    {
      "id": 1,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0BQ36:004G:DZH318Z08C0S",
      "quantity": 1,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "billingCycle": "one_time",
      "termDuration": "P1Y",
      "provisioningContext": {
        "subscriptionId": "aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e",
        "scope": "shared"
      },
      "orderGroup": "0"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0BQ36:004J:DZH318Z08B8X",
      "quantity": 1,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "billingCycle": "one_time",
      "termDuration": "P3Y",
      "provisioningContext": {
        "subscriptionId": "aaaa0a0a-bb1b-cc2c-dd3d-eeeeee4e4e4e",
        "scope": "shared"
      },
      "orderGroup": "0"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "catalogItemId": "DG7GMGF0DWM3:0002:DG7GMGF0DT1M",
      "quantity": 1,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "billingCycle": "one_time",
      "orderGroup": "0"
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0BXWC:0002:DZH318Z0BMRV",
      "quantity": 1,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "billingCycle": "monthly",
      "termDuration": "P1M",
      "orderGroup": "1"
    },
  {
      "id": 5,
      "catalogItemId": "DZH318Z0C0WF:0001:DZH318Z0BP69",
      "quantity": 10,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "billingCycle": "none",
      "termDuration": "P1M",
      "renewsTo": {
  "termDuration": "P1Y"
      },
    "orderGroup": "2"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "self": {
      "uri": "/customers/28045616-f6b9-462f-9701-0d89b5e65c44/carts/3655b1a0-b1c9-4268-9824-577fdbc4d0be",
      "method": "GET",
      "headers": []
    }
  },
  "attributes": {
    "objectType": "Cart"
  }
}

Example for new commerce license-based services

Note

The new commerce experiences for license-based services include many new capabilities and are available to all Cloud Solution Provider (CSPs). For more information, see new commerce experiences overview.

Request example

POST /v1/customers/932c4101-dc08-461b-b4c1-75d80e905775/carts HTTP/1.1
Host: api.partnercenter.microsoft.com
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 165

{
	"LineItems": [
		{
			"CatalogItemId":"CFQ7TTC0LFLZ:0002:CFQ7TTC0K4TS",
			"Quantity": 1,
			"TermDuration": "P1M",
			"BillingCycle": "Monthly"
		}
	]
}

Important

Azure plan and perpetual software line items do not support the termDuration property. Avoid including this while acuiring these types of items.

REST response

If successful, this method returns the populated Cart resource in the response body.

Response success and error codes

Each response comes with an HTTP status code that indicates success or failure and other debugging information. Use a network trace tool to read this code, error type, and other parameters. For the full list, see Error Codes.

Response example


{
    "id": "2517c51b-58cd-4abe-87ed-3ab812401ab4",
    "creationTimestamp": "2023-07-11T21:16:11.55149Z",
    "lastModifiedTimestamp": "2023-07-11T21:16:11.5515713Z",
    "expirationTimestamp": "2023-07-18T21:16:17.2480482Z",
    "lastModifiedUser": "9db12087-fbc3-481c-8965-73d44ff88e27",
    "status": "Active",
    "lineItems": [
        {
            "id": 0,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LF8S:0001:CFQ7TTC0VZW5",
            "quantity": 1,
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1Y",
            "provisioningContext": {},
            "orderGroup": "0",
            "pricing": {
                "listPrice": 30.4,
                "discountedPrice": 30.4,
                "proratedPrice": 30.4,
                "price": 30.4,
                "extendedPrice": 364.8
            }
        }
    ],
    "links": {
        "self": {
            "uri": "/customers/ebd8b4c2-4069-46a8-bd70-123d6dec3e39/carts/2517c51b-58cd-4abe-87ed-3ab812401ab4",
            "method": "GET",
            "headers": []
        }
    },
    "attributes": {
        "objectType": "Cart"
    }
}