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A Complete E2E Metered Billing for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Cloud Assert Billing for Azure Stack Hub enables billing and chargeback within Azure Stack portal. It allows you as an administrator to track the resource consumption across Azure Stack and custom services, compare usage vs quota, configure pricing for Azure Stack resources based on usage meters, integrate with external billing systems, and generate invoices automatically based on real-time usages.

Cloud Assert is the only provider of Billing and Commerce platform for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub that has native integration inside Azure Stack Portal UI and Azure Resource Manager API as a Resource Provider. It allows Enterprises, Service Providers, Re-sellers and End Users to view, track and manage their resource consumption and billing from the same single portal with one-pane glass experience.


Cloud Assert Usage and Billing platform is a matured, battle proven solution with many flexible options to customize and suite diverse marketing and sales needs. It provides you the quickest way to offer rich billing solution on top of the Microsoft Azure Stack Hub portal for all your Charge-back, Show-back, Billing and Reporting needs.

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Administrator Portal

Usage and Billing solution enables you as a service administrator to define multiple pricing models within Azure Stack Hub for all the available services, resource meters, plans and offers.

  • Set different Pricing Profiles for all the Azure Stack Hub Meters
  • Visibility across Resource Usages and its Costs per subscription
  • Run Promotional Credits in a percentage or a monetary value
  • Extensibility and Flexibility to charge customers based on their specifc needs
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Customer/ Tenant Portal

Just like Azure public cloud, Tenants can get to see their ongoing usages, pricing and billing information including invoices right within their Azure Stack customer portal at a quick glance.

  • Ability to see their ongoing usages and its associated costs
  • Automatic invoice generation at the end of the billing cycle
  • Pay your bills within the Azure Stack Hub portal
  • Native billing experience just like Azure
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Essential Features of the Billing Solution

Custom Pricing Profiles

  • Ability to configure different pricing for the usage meters emitted by the Azure Stack services
  • Bill-back customers in the following models: Fixed Fee, Pay-as-you-go and Combinations of both models with compatible rates

Offer Promotional Credits

  • Run various types of promotional credits to your customers like One-time, Recurring, Individual User Credits, etc., for increasing their life time value and stickiness
  • Credits can be given in a percentage or a monetary value to customers

Usage Histories & Invoices

  • Ability for the admin and tenant to see the historic and current month usage details and its associated costs
  • Cost comparison with previous months and provide cost trend analysis report along with the Invoices

Custom Collector

  • It is a wonderful mechanism that augments collecting more usage data that are not available in the usage collection mechanism of Azure Stack Hub provided by Microsoft
  • On top of this you can bill your customers based on their specific billing needs

Quota vs Usage Consumption

  • A quick comparison view of the allocated Azure Stack Quota vs Usage Consumption for all the registered Tenant users
  • Powerful trend chart view across the consumed Azure Stack resources and the monthly summary report can be downloaded as a CSV file

CSP Reseller Billing

  • Profit visibility for selling license, usage and service based subscriptions
  • System generated invoices supports multi-currency and multi-languages
  • Invoice can be segregated based on licenses, usages, etc.,

Azure Stack Hub Billing Resources

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Customer case studies on leveraging Cloud Assert Usage and Billing Resource Provider in their Azure Stack Hub journey

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