Activate partner benefit - Azure credits

[Peteris]

Hello, 

We want to activate partner benefit Azure credits. There is a guide how to assign these credits to a user 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4515206/azure-cloud-products-benefits-tab-for-mpn-partners-in-partner-center

The question is what should we do next after assining credits to user, what is the procedure to activate credits to a Azure Subscrition?

Thanks,

Pēteris

[Marian1991]

After you activate azure credits for the customer would it interest you to collaborate on a domain search engine ?

Sincerely

[JanoschUlmer · Accepted solution]

The user logs on to the Azure Portal, goes to the Subscription management. Then user needs to  click on "+ Add" to add a new subscription - if this is the user which has the benefit assigned in Partner Center, the user will see an additional offering in the dialog called "Azure Sponsorship" - this offering is not visible to other users.

There should also be a link in Partner Center that will direct the user directly to the dialog to claim the sponsorship subscription, at least it was there at some point in time.

[Peteris]

Thanks for quick reply.

Can we use the benefit with existing subscriptions or just for new ones?

Can we add it in Payment Mehtods for existing subscription? I don't see the options there as I am not he account admin,

Regards,

Pēteris

[JanoschUlmer]

No, it will be a new subscription, you can not add the credit to an existing subscription.

[Peteris]

Ok, clear, but then the last question - if we create such subscription and then in a year we receive additional 12k USD Azure Credits, then we again need to create new subscription or we can add these credits to existing subscription?

Thanks, 

Pēteris

[JanoschUlmer]

@Peteris Unless something was changed, if the user account is not changed, the new 12k benefit in next year will be available in the same subscription (the same sponsorship account, applicable to subscription created by this user). So no need to set up a new subscription.

[Peteris]

Thanks 👍, we can close the topic now.