Verify promotion eligibility

Applies To

• Partner Center

Appropriate roles

• Admin agent

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.

Parters can verify whether a customer transaction is eligible for a given promotion. This method returns True if the customer transaction is eligible for a given promotion. Partners can verify eligibility before submitting a transaction to ensure the promotion will be applied.

Prerequisites

• Credentials as described in Partner Center authentication. This scenario supports authentication with both standalone App and App+User credentials.
• Eligibility includes the product sku availability purchased, the promotion ID being evaluated, the quantity, term duration, and billing cycle of the transaction.
• The throttling rate for this API a maximum of 625 requests per minute (RPM) per partner tenant. Calls that exceed the limit will result in the http response of 429. See throttling guidance for information on throttling.

REST request

Request syntax

Method	Request URI
POST	{baseURL}/v1/customers/{customerId}/promotionEligibilities HTTP/1.1

URI parameter

Use the following query parameters to return available promotions.

Name	Type	Required	Description
customerId	string	Y	The value is a GUID-formatted customer-tenant-id, which is an identifier that allows you to specify a customer.

Request headers

For more information, see Partner Center REST headers.

Request body

Body includes a collection of PromotionEligibilitiesRequestItems. This table describes the properties for a PromotionEligibilitiesRequestItem.

Property	Type	Required	Description
catalogItemId	string	Yes	The catalog item identifier.
quantity	int	Yes	The number of licenses or instances.
termDuration	DateTime	Yes	An ISO 8601 representation of the term's duration. The current supported values are P1M (one month), P1Y (one year) and P3Y (three years).
billingCycle	string	Yes	The value that indicates the type of billing cycle.
promotionId	string	No	The promotion item identifier.

Request example

POST https://api.partnercenter.microsoft.com/v1/customers/46632f71-f052-4384-8f84-4cdb6c12c2a1/promotionEligibilities HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Accept: application/json
MS-RequestId: 18752a69-1aa1-4ef7-8f9d-eb3681b2d70a
MS-CorrelationId: aaaa0000-bb11-2222-33cc-444444dddddd
X-Locale: en-US

 // Request example with promotion ID input
{
    "items": [
        {
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LH2Z:0002:CFQ7TTC0HRVK",
            "quantity": 2400,
            "termDuration": "P1Y",
            "billingCycle": "Monthly",
            "promotionId": "39NFJQT1PM6C:0005:39NFJQT1Q5L7"
        }
    ]
}

POST https://api.partnercenter.microsoft.com/v1/customers/46632f71-f052-4384-8f84-4cdb6c12c2a1/promotionEligibilities HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Accept: application/json
MS-RequestId: 18752a69-1aa1-4ef7-8f9d-eb3681b2d70b
MS-CorrelationId: bbbb1111-cc22-3333-44dd-555555eeeeee
X-Locale: en-US

 // Request example with no promotion ID input
{
    "items": [
        {
            "id": "0",
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0HBSJ:0001:CFQ7TTC0JQH3",
            "quantity": 300,
            "termDuration": "P1M",
            "billingCycle": "monthly"
        }
    ]
}

REST response

If a promotionId is provided and the request is successful, this method returns a collection of eligibility results. If promotionId isn't provided and the request is successful, this method returns all promotions available for the offer specified and the corresponding customer eligibility for each promotion.

Response success and error codes

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

Eligibility error types and descriptions

Eligibility will return false if the eligibility checks determine the product SKU being evaluated against the promotion ID don't align. Various conditions and constraints are evaluated and return error types to describe the conditions not met for the eligibility.

Eligibility error type	Eligibility error description
InvalidCatalogItemId	The provided CatalogItemId is invalid.
InvalidPromotion	The provided promotion is invalid.
PrerequisiteProductOwnership	The customer doesn't meet the prerequisite product ownership requirements to be eligible for this promotion.
RedemptionLimit	The redemption limit for this promotion has been met.
SeatCount	The provided quantity doesn't satisfy the minimum or maximum seat requirements for the promotion.
OfferPurchasedPreviously	This offer has been purchased previously for this customer.
Term	The provided term isn't applicable for the promotion.
NoPromotionsAvailable	There are no promotions available at this time.

Response example

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 138
Content-Type: application/json
MS-CorrelationId: aaaa0000-bb11-2222-33cc-444444dddddd
MS-RequestId: 18752a69-1aa1-4ef7-8f9d-eb3681b2d70a
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:42:26 GMT

// Response example with promotion ID provided in the request
{
    "totalCount": 1,
    "items": [
        {
            "id": 0,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0LH2Z:0002:CFQ7TTC0HRVK",
            "quantity": 2400,
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1Y",
            "eligibilities": [
                {
                    "promotionId": "39NFJQT1PM6C:0005:39NFJQT1Q5L7",
                    "isEligible": false,
                    "errors": [
                        {
                            "minimumRequiredSeats": 1,
                            "maximumRequiredSeats": 2400,
                            "availableSeats": 500,
                            "type": "SeatCount",
                            "description": "The provided quantity does not satisfy the minimum or maximum seat requirements for the promotion."
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "attributes": {
                "objectType": "PromotionEligibilities"
            }
        }
    ],
    "attributes": {
        "objectType": "Collection"
    }
}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 138
Content-Type: application/json
MS-CorrelationId: bbbb1111-cc22-3333-44dd-555555eeeeee
MS-RequestId: 18752a69-1aa1-4ef7-8f9d-eb3681b2d70b
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:42:26 GMT

// Response example with no promotion ID provided in the request
{
    "totalCount": 1,
    "items": [
        {
            "id": 0,
            "catalogItemId": "CFQ7TTC0HBSJ:0001:CFQ7TTC0JQH3",
            "quantity": 300,
            "billingCycle": "monthly",
            "termDuration": "P1M",
            "eligibilities": [
                {
                    "promotionId": "39NFJQT1XK5L:000J:39NFJQT1Q5D8",
                    "isEligible": true
                },
                {
                    "promotionId": "39NFJQT1XG89:0002:39NFJQT1Q5L2",
                    "isEligible": true
                }
            ],
            "attributes": {
                "objectType": "PromotionEligibilities"
            }
        }
    ],
    "attributes": {
        "objectType": "Collection"
    }
}