Display Azure billing data

Abiquo can display billing data for customers and reseller hierarchy customers on the Hybrid dashboards and on the Last bills and Estimated bill widgets for the cloud provider.

You may need to enable programmatic access to billing in your cloud provider account, and you must add a credential with billing access in the provider to Abiquo.

The platform may take up to 2 days to display data in the Estimated bill section.

Users in your reseller customer enterprises can display billing data:

If their enterprise has credentials (compute or billing only)
If their user role has the privilege to View bills
If the dashboards visible to the user include the Hybrid dashboard or the Last bills and Estimated bill widgets for the Azure provider. The Hybrid dashboard is included in the platform’s Default dashboard set.

Remember that each Abiquo enterprise can have credentials for one customer account/subscription only. And that you can use these credentials in one Abiquo enterprise only.

Azure configuration

Abiquo can obtain Azure billing data with the credentials you enter to perform the standard configuration to:

Create a reseller with CSP pricing credentials
Create an enterprise with compute or billing only credentials, with a Contributor role

You also need to set the enterprise properties as described on this page.

For full details of the configuration process for resellers, see Onboard an Azure CSP or AWS organization account.

Abiquo properties for Azure billing data display

In Abiquo, on the Abiquo Server, you can configure the following properties for Azure billing.


abiquo.enterprise.property.billing.monthoffset	By default, the platform will retrieve billing data for the last two months. To change this set the following property to the number of months to retrieve Default: `2`
abiquo.azure.billing.parser.lineitem.publisher.ignore	By default, Abiquo will bill SaaS resources, such as a Twilio subscription, to the enterprise that the subscription is assigned to. This corresponds to the billing scope ID of a billing line item. To exclude products from specific publishers from Azure billing, add the following property, and enter a string of publishers to exclude from billing line items in CSV format. With the public-cloud-billing-check-tool for Azure, use the `--excludedPublishers` option. Default: `Microsoft Office`
abiquo.billing.azure.country_code	For Azure price factors. Two digit ISO code representing the country where you will obtain the product list. Set on Remote Services. Default: `US`

Enterprise properties for Azure billing

In Abiquo, you can use these Azure properties for billing for a CSP account or a standard account.

Property	Description
azurecompute-arm_discount	Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. CSP APIs return prices with a discount applied, which we remove to display for customers. We use the formula: `total = TotalFromCSP/(1 - azurecompute-arm_discount )`
azurecompute-arm_price_factor	Default value for enterprises that do not have this value in their hierarchy. Also used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard. Also used for retrieving hardware profile prices from the provider. The platform will apply changes to the price factor in the next billing period. This property is deprecated in Abiquo 6.1. The upgrade process will migrate the enterprise property to an Abiquo price factor. See Manage price factors
azurecompute-arm_currency_code	Default is `USD`. Three character currency code of the bill. Warning - This is different from `currency_code` used for conversion factor.
billing.azure.country_code	Two digit ISO code representing the country where you purchased the subscription. The default of "US" is set in `abiquo.properties` on Remote Services as `abiquo.billing.azure.country_code`.

Enterprise properties for Azure reseller customers

In Abiquo, you can create these Azure enterprise properties for reseller customers:

Property	Description
azurecompute-arm_discount	Decimal value (with dot separator), used to calculate the user invoice for billing dashboard.
azurecompute-arm_price_factor	The value of the discount or markup applied by the partner to the end user. The default value is `1`. This property is deprecated in Abiquo 6.1. The upgrade process will migrate the enterprise property to an Abiquo price factor. See Manage price factors

Enterprise properties for reseller customers with Azure plans

This table contains a property for reseller customers with Azure plans under “CSP” subscriptions.

Property	Description
azurecompute-arm_only_bill_subscription	For Azure plans under CSP accounts only. If this property is `true`, for an Azure plan, only bill for usage - do not include the customer's products and services in the billing data for this enterprise.