we are using a subscription bought from an CSP. and we want to know daily billing and consumption . But CSP vendor says that we have to buy a 3rd party application to get daily billing consumption. Is there any way by which we can get daily billing consumption without 3rd party tool.?
It depends on your partner, is it a "Direct" or "Indirect".
If it is a direct partner then it has access to Azure Cost Management as explained here, and the can enable you to see retail price consumption here.
If it is an indirect partner then they should provide you a way to follow your consumption (through an in-house app, through a consumption export Excel file or any other communication you have agreed and signed with them as a customer).
Just as a reminder in CSP the Partner is responsible to bill accordingly and to explain your consumption, not Microsoft.
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I'm using the PayPal subscription feature I read in the documentation of PayPal. I've created multiple plans for which users can subscribe.
In my application flow, I provide the ability for a user to create their own plans but I'm a little confused about PayPal's limitations.
Does PayPal allow me to create unlimited billing plans on a single Developer Account?
If by billing plans you mean the setup of cycles and frequency of charging for a product: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/subscriptions/integrate/#3-create-a-plan
Then yes that is correct. There is no set limit to how many different plans you can create.
Plans can't be deleted, they can only be deactivated, so don't go to crazy with plans you aren't going to be needing.
We have applied for Microsoft Non For Profit program and we received credits.
How to apply the credits to Azure?
I have a new account with access to a fresh portal.azure.com. I haven't created any subscription yet because I don't want to cause any confusion nor use a credit card if unnecessary.
We had the same issue. We were given non-profit status, but when I logged in to the non-profit portal (https://nonprofit.microsoft.com/), Azure offer was not available among other offerings (Office365, Linkedin for nonprofits, Github for nonprofits, Training for nonprofits). I contacted Microsoft support and they sent me this link that I used to create a free Azure subscription:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0036p/
I'm trying to create an Azure policy which would deny creation of any resource that's not covered by my MSDN subscription 130€ monthly quota. What happens is that I inadvertently create a resource which is not covered by MSDN subscription monthly quota, which leads to my Azure subscription being disabled the next day, and it remains disabled until the end of the monthly billing cycle. I raised a support issue with Microsoft, but they refused to help (because they are tring to get customers credit card data, which would remove the spending limit, and that's something I don't want to do).
Azure policy is not design to enforce billing quotas billing, it more for setting guidelines/policies about what can be deployed in subscriptions in your tenant.
MSDN account will cap at a certain amount, you can keep use the 'budgets' option on the subscription to keep track of how much you are spending.
Most 'enterprise' cloud providers are Pay-As-You-Go so no one is going to guarantee you a fixed price. You can also use the Azure Calculator to get an idea of what setup and consumption will let you stay under the MSDN quota.
I just activated my Visual Studio Professional with MSDN and it is telling me now that I have $200 to spend,
my question is:
is this will take $200 from my credit card after the month is over, or this is an offer, and can I use and rely on windows azure using these $200 monthly or this is a limited time offer and will expire after few months? if it is limited so I can't transfer my live websites on azure.
The information provided by #hhaggan is off a bit. If you read this page containing the benefits details for Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, you'll see the following:
For the first month after activation of your benefit, you receive $200
of Windows Azure credits. After the first month, you receive $50 of
Windows Azure credits every month
So it's not a continued $200 monthly.
I couldn't tell if you're intending to use your MSDN Azure benefit for dev/test or production. These Azure credits are for dev/test purposes, and not for production, as documented on the abovementioned web page. Under Use Rights:
Windows Azure MSDN benefit is intended for development and test
purposes. We reserve the right to suspend any instance (VM or cloud
service) that runs continuously for more than 120 hours or if we
determine that the instance is being used for production. Production
workloads must be run on regular subscriptions.
The MSDN Subscriber will have free of charge Windows Azure account that worth 200$ per month. it all depends on your usage, you can use all the resources in one day, one week or even with the best consumption use your resources for the whole month, however if you exceed the limit it will not charge you. the Credit card used here is mainly to provide a guaranteed identity. the offer should be for the whole year of subscription.
I hope this helps you let me know if you need anything else.
I've been looking around for a simple ondemand billing solution.
My scenario is the following:
My customers use virtual credits on my website.
Payment option 1)
Customers can buy virtual credits buy suppliying a credit card.
Payment option 2)
Customers can register their credit card for automatically getting billed when credits are running low.
I know google does this for their API usages. Any one have a good idea of a provider that can achieve this in a simple way? I want to outsource the whole process to not run into any PCI compliance issues. Also I would like the hosted solution to be wihtin our site (ifram in a popup). The majority of our customers are companies.
If you are in the US you can use Authorize.Net's Customer Information Manager (CIM) API to create payment profiles for your customers. Then you can charge against those profiles at any time to add credits when they are running low. They offer a hosted CIM option which greatly reduces your PCI compliance issues.
I've been looking at Stripe.com lately. They offer a very simple to use API which seems to be very well thought out. They offer on-demand and subscription billing, good documentation, and their costs are not out of line (2.9% + $.30 per txn) considering you don't have to get a merchant account. They are US-based.