When selecting a Microsoft commercial marketplace listing on your private offer form, you see a list of plans associated with the listing. After you select a plan, you’re prompted to set your custom pricing. Pricing for Microsoft private offers is composed of two pricing models, four billing terms, and four payment models.
Pricing models include flat rate (and sometimes flat rate with usage) and per user pricing. Note that a listing can only have one pricing model in all of the associated plans.
About pricing offers and public plans
The only pricing options that can be selected in a private offer are based on the available billing terms and payment models on the chosen public plan to be used as a template to customize.
A public plan consists of up to four billing terms –– 1 month, 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years and for each billing term a plan can have one associated payment model that includes monthly, annually, or one-time upfront. If the billing term is greater than 1 month, a payment schedule will also be available as a payment model in a private offer regardless of the publicly available payment model.
Note
Tackle currently supports creating private offers for flat rate plans only.
Pricing models
Flat rate pricing
This model lets buyers pay a flat rate based on the payment model and billing term selected upon accepting the offer.
Through flat rate pricing, you can:
Set a recurring payment amount that your buyer pays based on the payment model available for the selected billing term
Set a price that your buyer pays through custom payment schedule installments
Per user pricing
This model lets buyers pay based on the number of users, billing term, and payment option selected when creating the offer.
Through per user pricing, you can:
Set a price for each user the buyer will purchase based on the payment model associated with the billing term the buyer selects at the time of offer acceptance
Billing terms
When configuring your listing, you select a billing term to complete pricing configuration for each plan on a listing. A billing term on a plan determines the length that the pricing can be offered for a private offer that uses that plan. For Microsoft commercial marketplace, billing term options include:
1 month
1 year
2 years
3 years
Payment models
When configuring your listing, you select a payment model for each billing term to complete pricing configuration for the listing. A payment model determines how the buyer is billed during the contract period. For Microsoft commercial marketplace, payment model options include:
Per-Month
Per-Year
One-time upfront
Payment Schedules
This specific model is available for any billing term greater than 1 month and is useful for buyers who want to use a flexible payment schedule to pay over the course of their contract. Selecting a payment schedule includes setting a schedule of installments.
Through a payment schedule, you can:
Create from 1 to 70 payments of any value over the course of the billing term selected.
An initial charge must be included that is sent when your buyer subscribes to the private offer. The initial charge can be $0.
Set a payment schedule for a Microsoft private offer
Set a payment schedule for a Microsoft private offer:
Complete the sections in the form, including these specific fields to set up your schedule:
In Product and pricing, select the Microsoft listing and public plan you want to use.
Customize the plan name and plan description for your offer.
For Billing term, select the term you want to offer.
Payment schedules are only supported for terms greater than 1 month.
For Payment model, select Payment schedule.
For Payment schedule, select Add payments or Create payment schedule. If you're selecting to create a payment schedule, you can break down a total contract value (TCV) into many equal parts.
When you're done setting up your schedule and completing the offer form, submit your offer for review.
Create a payment schedule for a Microsoft offer
When creating your offer in Tackle, select Create payment schedule.
Enter the total value of the scheduled payments for this offer, excluding the initial charge. The duration appears based on your Billing term selection and cannot be changed from this section.
Set a payment frequency for your buyer:
Monthly - Recurring payments every month
Quarterly - Recurring payments every three months
Semi-annual - Recurring payments every six months
Annual - Recurring payments every 12 months
Enter the date of the first payment. This determines the date for every subsequent payment. For example, if your first payment is on the 15th, every recurring payment will be on the 15th.
Note: If you select the 31st of a month, recurring payments will fall on the 30th when a month does not have a 31st. For recurring payments in the month of February, Tackle will make the payment on the 28th, unless it’s a leap year in which case Tackle will select the 29th. Here’s an example where the first payment is set on October 31st and goes through a month with only 30 days and February when it’s a leap year.
When you’re done, click Save.
Tip: To ensure your payment schedule is correct, you can preview the full schedule before saving it. Click Preview to view the schedule.