Daily consumption sync
Azure usage is processed daily and rolled into the right billing cycle automatically. Each customer's spend breaks down by resource group, service and tag.
Automate Azure Billing and Cost Management for CSP
Reconcile raw Azure consumption into accurate, marked-up invoices, with daily cost visibility down to the resource group, service, and tag.
Azure billing built on the numbers Microsoft actually gives you
Pricing by entitlement
Set pricing, generate invoices and audit every change down to each entitlement. Bulk-create entitlements from a naming format and a quantity that you define.
PEC accurately reconciled
Partner Earned Credit is reconciled against partner cost rather than estimated. Customer price, partner cost, PEC and retained margin sit on every invoice, every cycle.
Customer usage visibility
Extend Azure estimates, usage reports and budget alerts to customers directly. Budgets at Azure Plan or entitlement level fire alerts before spend reaches an invoice.
Every Azure invoice, resolved to a number you control
Four values decide whether an Azure account is profitable. C3 makes all four visible on every invoice, every cycle.
Customer price
$11,940
What you bill, with your markup rule applied
Partner cost
$9,950
What Microsoft bills you for consumption this cycle
Partner Earned Credit
$1,493
Reconciled against partner cost, not estimated
Retained margin
$3,483
What you actually keep, on every account
Illustrative figures. In C3 these are your real numbers, recalculated daily and shown per customer, per subscription and per entitlement.
Control the Azure margin equation
Choose how Azure is priced for each customer or plan, and keep sale price and underlying cost visible side by side.
Markup on customer cost
Apply a markup using customer cost as the base, so your margin is explicit and controllable.
Percentage on List Price
Price Azure Plans as a percentage of Microsoft's list price instead of a cost-plus markup.
Negative markups
Set a negative markup where you intend to pass a discount on to the customer.
Cost beside sale price
Whatever the model, the sale price and the underlying cost stay visible side by side.
Illustrative markups: +18% on customer cost, 95% on list price, −5% passed on.
Edit, reset and export
Change entitlement pricing, reset it back to plan defaults, and export the current state.
Bulk entitlement creation
Create entitlements in bulk from a naming format and a quantity.
Full audit logging
Every pricing change is logged, so you can show exactly what changed and when.
Entitlement-level invoices
Invoice at entitlement granularity where the customer's internal cost allocation requires it.
Illustrative entitlements: Prod +15%, Dev +10%, Shared Services at list price.
Azure Reservations
Reservation costs and savings are reflected accurately in invoices and usage reports.
Savings Plan for Compute
Committed-spend discounts align to billing, so they reach the right customer on time.
Consumption discount slabs
Azure Plan coupons support tiered promotions that reward higher usage.
No manual discount math
Tiered promotions calculate themselves instead of being worked out by hand each cycle.
Illustrative figures: Reservations −$412.00, Savings Plan −$268.40, consumption slab −3%.
Complete visibility into Azure costs and consumption
Daily breakdowns your finance team can reconcile and your customers can read for themselves.
Resource group, service and tag breakdown
Azure Estimates break each customer's consumption down by resource group, service and Azure tag, updated daily with associated costs. Filter by customer, tenant, tag, group, subscription and month, and drill from a resource-group summary down to individual line items.
Finance-ready export detail
Export a detailed usage report with or without tags, covering entitlements, regions, meters, quantities and costs, ready for finance review, customer conversation, or upload into your own analysis.
Budgets and threshold alerts
Create budgets at the Azure Plan or entitlement level with multiple thresholds, and trigger notifications when consumption crosses them. Customers get early warning before spend runs away; you get control over your own cost exposure.
Split invoicing across sites and departments
Allocate Azure Plan and entitlement charges across a customer's sites and departments using percentage-based allocation, so one Azure environment bills the way the customer's internal cost centres are structured.
Clean, accurate reconciliation reporting
Reconciliation reports exclude inactive, transferred and irrelevant Azure subscriptions and filter by status, provider and category, so month-end review is a check, not an investigation.
Give customers complete Azure cost visibility
Self-service usage reports
Extend Azure usage and estimates to customers so they track their own consumption, which measurably reduces billing questions to your team.
Budget alerts customers control
Thresholds that notify the customer directly, turning cost management into a service you deliver rather than a complaint you field.
Power BI reporting
Enable C3's Power BI-based Azure usage report for granular, on-demand analysis, and extend it to selected customers.
PSA push
Usage-based Azure billing pushes into ConnectWise alongside your other agreement billing, including reserved instances.
The margin chain
From Azure cost to a number you can defend
Azure margin is made in four places: how you price it, what savings you apply, how early you catch overspend, and how cleanly it reconciles at month end. Each one is a step you control.
- 01
Choose how the sell price is built
Start from the Microsoft cost and pick the billing model that fits the customer: cost plus markup, a percentage on list price, a negative markup that passes a discount through, or a fixed sale price. The margin is visible while you set it, not discovered afterwards.
- Cost plus markup, percentage on list, negative markup or fixed price
- Cost visibility while the price is being set
- Margin shown against the total sale price
- 02
Push every saving through to the invoice
Azure reservations, savings plans for compute and consumption-based coupon slabs are applied against actual usage per service, then carried into the invoice and the report. The customer sees the discounted number and you keep the benefit you negotiated.
- Reservations, savings plans and consumption-based coupons
- Discounts applied per service against real usage
- Carried through to invoices and reports automatically
- 03
Catch overspend while it is still cheap to fix
Set a budget at Azure plan or entitlement level, give it up to three thresholds, and route the alerts where people will actually see them. The point is early warning: a threshold crossed on day nine is a conversation, the same overspend found at month end is a write-off.
- Budgets at Azure plan or entitlement level
- Up to three thresholds per budget
- Email, in-app, SMS and webhook notifications
- 04
Close the month on numbers that reconcile
Exclude the rows that should not count — inactive, transferred, irrelevant — then filter what remains by status, provider and category to produce the reconciliation report. Month end becomes a check rather than an investigation.
- Exclude inactive, transferred and irrelevant records
- Filter by status, provider and category
- Accurate, relevant reconciliation reporting
Outcomes
What changes when Azure billing is automated
A faster close, measurable margin on your fastest-growing revenue line, and fewer cost conversations in your inbox.
| Cost & margin | Manual process | With CSP Control Center |
|---|---|---|
| Usage reconciliation | Monthly Partner Center export and spreadsheet | Daily automated sync into the billing cycle |
| Markup | Applied per customer by hand | Applied by rule, on the correct cost base |
| Partner Earned Credit | Estimated or overlooked | Reconciled against partner cost |
| Visibility & questions | Manual process | With CSP Control Center |
|---|---|---|
| Cost breakdown | One aggregate Azure line | Resource group, service, meter and tag |
| Spend surprises | Discovered on the invoice | Budget thresholds trigger alerts in advance |
| Customer questions | Handled by your team | Answered in the customer's own portal |
Manual process A monthly Partner Center export reconciled in a spreadsheet, markup applied customer by customer, Partner Earned Credit estimated rather than proven, and a single aggregate Azure line on the invoice that neither your team nor your customer can break down. | CSP Control Center Azure consumption synced daily and rolled into the billing cycle, markup applied by rule on the reconciled cost base with PEC accounted for, and every charge broken out by resource group, service, meter and tag — in your invoice and in the customer's own portal. |
Value by role
Finance & Billing Manager
Azure stops delaying the close
Reconciliation is automated, exports are audit-ready, and every charge traces back to a meter.
CSP Business Owner
Margin you can measure
Margin on your fastest-growing revenue line becomes measurable and controllable, including the PEC you were previously estimating.
Operations Manager
Cost conversations move out of your inbox
Budget alerts and customer-facing reports put Azure spend questions in the customer's portal instead of your support queue.
With C3 as our CSP management platform, we've been able to grow and expand our cloud business efficiently.
How does CSP Control Center handle Azure consumption billing?
CSP Control Center ingests Azure consumption daily from Partner Center, attributes it by resource group, service, meter and tag, applies your pricing rule with Partner Earned Credit reconciled, and rolls the result into the billing cycle as itemized, marked-up invoice line items, with no manual spreadsheet step.
Can I see Azure costs broken down by resource group, service, and tag?
Yes. Azure Estimates show consumption by resource group, service and Azure tag, updated daily, with filtering by customer, tenant, subscription, group and month, and drill-down to individual line items and entitlements.
Does CSP Control Center support Azure Plan and Partner Earned Credit?
Yes. CSP Control Center has extensive Azure Plan support, uses customer cost as the markup base, and reconciles partner cost against customer price with PEC accounted for.
Can I set different Azure pricing for different customers?
Yes. Apply a percentage markup on customer cost, use a Percentage on List Price billing type, or configure pricing at the individual entitlement level, with edit, reset, export and audit capability on entitlement pricing.
Can I set Azure spending limits and threshold alerts?
Yes. Define budgets at the Azure Plan or entitlement level with multiple thresholds that trigger notifications when consumption crosses them, for your team and for the customer.
How does CSP Control Center handle Azure reservations and Savings Plans?
Azure reservations and Azure Savings Plan for Compute are reflected in invoices and usage reports with savings calculations aligned to billing, so committed-spend discounts are billed accurately.
Can I split one Azure environment across a customer's departments?
Yes. Azure Plan and entitlement charges can be allocated across sites and departments using percentage-based allocation, producing split invoices that match internal cost centres.
Can my customers view their own Azure usage?
Yes. Extend Azure usage reports, estimates and the Power BI usage report to customers through their portal for self-service cost visibility.
