Charges for CSP annual billing type

Billing type is defined by the Plan Class (see Managing Plan Classes) and applies to all Account types (see Account Types), which are included in the Plan class. An Account may use the Prepay or the Postpay payment model (see Creating an Account Class). This article covers only the cases of Charges generation when an Account use Prepay payment model.

CSP annual billing type applies to the Subscriptions that are provided within the Microsoft CSP program. Microsoft CSP Subscription is an agreement between the Operator and the Customer, on the basis of which the Operator provides the Customer with the Microsoft cloud services, and the Customer uses these services and pays for them. Terms of provisioning and pricing model for the Service are established in the Plan and the Plan class in accordance with the Microsoft billing rules (see https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/Solutions/cloud-reseller-overview).

General rules for CSP annual billing type

The CSP annual billing type supposes that the whole price of the ordered Subscription and it's Resources for a period of one year is paid before the Subscription provisioning.

All Charges for the CSP annual billing type are created at the moment of the Order creation with the New status and receive the Blocked status when the Order is paid.

In the majority of cases, all Charges for the Subscriptions with the CSP annual billing type are closed manually using the Close Charges button (see Closing Subscription charges manually). The generation and changing of the Charges, in that case are described in Manual closing of the Subscription Charges.

Setup fee, Renewal fee and Transfer fee Charges for CSP annual billing type

There are no Setup fee, Renewal fee, and Transfer fee Charges for Microsoft CSP Subscriptions because corresponding fees are not applicable.

Recurring fee Charges for CSP annual billing type

Recurring fee Charges are generated when an Order is created, and have the following default attributes:

  • Status: New;
  • Created at: Order creation date;
  • Close date: Order creation date;
  • Period: one of 13 Subscription Billing periods;

For the CSP annual billing type, 13 Recurring fee Charges for each Resource type usage are generated. The Charges are generated at the moment of the paid Subscription ordering or at the start of the Subscription paid period. The amounts of the Charges No. 2-12 are fixed and are equal to the monthly price of the Subscription. Charges No. 1 and 13 are generated as it is described in Default Charges attributes.

When the Order is paid, Charges No. 1-13 receive the Blocked status and block the funds at the Account balance. At the nearest Billing day, the Charge No. 1 receive the Closed status, and its amount is debited from the Account balance. At the next Billing day, the Charge No. 2 receive the Closed status, and its amount is debited from the Account balance etc.

Subscription Order

When the Subscription is ordered, Recurring fee Charges for the additional Resources purchase are generated.

The example of the Microsoft CSP Subscription with the CSP annual billing type is given below:

  1. An annual Subscription is ordered and paid on 10.11.2017. At that moment, the following occurs:

    The case when an Order was paid after the date of its creation is described in the Charges article.

    1. Charges No. 1-13 for each Billing period during the whole period of the Subscription are generated.

      If the Order for the Subscription purchase was submitted in the Billing day then only 12 Charges will be generated.

    2. Charges amounts are calculated using a standard formula (see Charges).
    3. Charges No. 1-13 receive the Blocked status.
    4. The sum of the Charges No. 1 — 13 amounts is blocked at the Account balance.
  2. At the nearest Billing day (in this example it is 01.12.2017), the following occurs:
    1. Charge No. 1 receives the Closed status.
    2. The amount of the Charge No. 1 is debited from the Account balance.
  3. At each next Billing day up to the 12th inclusive, the next Charge receives the Closed status, and the corresponding amount is debited from the Account balance.
  4. At the end date of the Subscription period, which is equal to the date of the Subscription purchase + one year — one day (09.11.2018 in the example):
    1. Charge No. 13 receives the Closed status.
    2. The amount of the Charge No. 13 is debited from the Account balance.



Order for Resource amount increasing

When additional Resources are ordered, the following Charges are generated:

  • Recurring fee Charges: Separate Charges are generated for each Resource type. Generation and changing of attributes of these Charges are similar to the generation and changing of attributes of Charges for Subscription purchasing.

Order for Resource amount reducing

When the Order for the additional Resource amount reducing is submitted, the Recurring fee Charges split (see Splitting of Charges when an amount of Subscription Resources is reduced).

Subscription stop and activation

When the Subscription is stopped, the typical Charges splitting occurs, which is described in the Splitting of Charges when a Subscription is stopped article.

When the Subscription is activated the following happens:

  1. The period of a Charge for the current Billing period changes: the start date of the Charge period becomes equal to the Subscription activation date.
  2. The amount of a Charge for the current Billing period changes: it becomes equal to the product of the Recurring fee for the Resource (Subscription) per month by the number of days in the Charge period divided by the number of days in the month.
  3. The discount of a Charge for the current Billing period changes: it becomes proportional to the new amount of the Charge.
  4. The difference between the initial amount of the Charge and the current one is released at the Account balance.

Subscription Renewal

When the Subscription renewal Order is submitted, Recurring fee Charges for the additional Resources renewal are generated.

Generation and changing of attributes of these Charges are similar to the generation and changing of attributes of Recurring fee Charges for additional Resources purchase.

Subscription deleting

When the Subscription is deleted, the Charges splitting occurs, which is described in the Splitting of Charges when a Subscription is deleted article.