How to view pricing for an Azure Application offer?

[clarkd]

When a user choose an Azure Application offer (not managed) in the marketplace, they can walk through the deployment blades but pricing information is not shown - unlike a VM offer.

They can also click through to the Marketplace web site (i.e. https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us) and view the plans available but no pricing is shown here either.

The Azure Application offer utilises a VM Offer SKU that has pricing set per hour etc.

Please advise! 🙂

[vivekkumac]

Citrix provides a number of solution template based offers to its customer and we are suffering from same problem. Having no pricing details populated to Customer seems wrong while putting hardcoded values to description has limitations (like currency specific to country or dynamic pricing as per choosen deployments) and lowers user experience. 

It would be great if there can be an option for solution template developers to choose whether to display pricing information or not. Additionally these pricing can be generated by new dedicated UI element which can take inputs like number of VMs/Apps, offer Id and sku details in case of VMs. In case there is no mean to generate price, let developer hard code the pricing value for Customer information. I see this can be achieved if prioritized.

[brian_levenson]

Great feedback and suggestion! In this concept, would you input the informatoin and the system could localize it for currency?

[PatrickBM]

Hi Clarkd, 

Good question. Azure Apps - Solution Templates only supports Bring your own license billing.  If you need to have Pay as you Go billing, then the trick is to bring a VM Offer as part of the solution template.  Please submit a support ticket with the Onboarding team, and we can walk you through the process. 

Support ticket: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=844975

Problem Type:  Marketplace Onboarding

Category: Technical Marketplace Query

When you create the ticket, please reference this post and explain that you need help building a Solution Template offer with hidden VM Offer SKUs. The team will schedule time with the Technical onboarding team to help you out. 

Thanks, 

Patrick 

[clarkd]

Hi Patrick,

What if the solution does not require a VM but uses, for example Azure App Service resources?

Is there no way to attach a cost to this?

Thanks,

Dave

[dscott]

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@clarkd wrote:

Hi Patrick,

What if the solution does not require a VM but uses, for example Azure App Service resources?

Is there no way to attach a cost to this?

Thanks,

Dave

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@PatrickBM I am also very interested in the point @clarkd raises.  We have a use case we would love to run by you or a coworker if you have some bandwidth.  Just reached out to nunoc@microsoft.com.

[clarkd]

@dscott Did you manage to find out any more regarding this? Anything you can share would certainly be appreciated.

[brian_levenson]

This is very helpful feedback and a scenario that we're actively evaluating.

Currently, there is no mechanism to monetize solution templates (apps deployed in a customer's tenant) other than creating a custom VM that has a consumption price. This means that there is a gap in monetizing customer-side deployed apps that run serverless, for example.

I would love your recommendations, business requirements, and use cases so that we can determine the appropriate model for the future. If you can reply in this thread, please do, and if you would prefer to share privately, please send me a direct message. Thanks!

[brian_levenson]

And for anyone who has an offering that uses a solution template to deploy a paid VM, other publishers have chosen to put that price information in the offer description field of the Azure app offering.

[MarcelM]

Hi,

I thinks that's an important point. I'm also looking for a solution to offer a web app running in the customers subscription and can charge for the application itself (e.g. a fix price per month for this application and support).

Thanks for any advice

Marcel

PS: I don't need a VM as well #serverless 😉