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How to Automate Your Microsoft Billing

Before we dive into the cool stuff about automating Microsoft billing, let's take a look at what's at stake. And why is Microsoft billing such a headache to MSPs? 

Anybody remotely familiar with the nitty-gritty of monthly Microsoft billing knows this: 

It's a CFO stack overflow waiting to happen. 

From crafting those invoices to chasing payments, creating 100% accurate billing on Microsoft subscriptions - and most other cloud licenses - is no small feat. 

MSPs have to handle a lot of complexity in the billing process:

• Multiple clients with a unique set of cloud subscriptions.
• Constant changes in subscriptions: additions, cancellations, up- and downgrades.
• 30 days of anxiety before getting billing data to confirm if invoices were correct.

But wait, it gets worse ... 

The devil is in the details

Take the example of a typical Microsoft partner with a lot of customer subscription changes each month:

• One customer adds five M365 Business Premium subscriptions. 
• Another customer adds a couple of M365 E3s.
• Someone downgrades three Office 365 E3s.
• To be continued ...

In total, you get a complicated mess of hundreds, or even thousands, of changes for Microsoft customers and users.

Every MSP knows that accurate Microsoft invoicing for customers is key to ensure they don't lose out on hard-earned revenue.

However, this is hard to achieve when you need to detect all subscription changes every month and create new invoices for each customer with the right amounts.  

The MSP billing dilemma

The billing chaos creates a difficult situation, leaving most MSPs to pick their poison.  

Bad billing option #1
You may decide to invoice your Microsoft customers the same amount as last month. Just to get your money and complete the billing work.

But how much will the lost revenue cost you? And how many customers will complain about faulty invoicing? 

Bad billing option #2
You could also do the monthly grind to get your billing correct.

But how long will you delay invoicing – days or even months? How many hours will this tedious work require of your organization, and is this even profitable? 

Luckily, there's also a third option ... 

Microsoft automated billing

Automated Microsoft billing allows you to consolidate and automate billing, invoicing, and payment processes. 

With automated billing, updated invoicing data is pulled from multiple systems and sources to aggregate the data into one platform.

Now, you can generate accurate invoices without errors by handling them manually. 

The primary value of automated billing is straightforward – you save time and money. 

A billing solution designed for Microsoft partners

Using our automated billing, you will save money and time right away. 

1. Direct ERP integration to your favorite system, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, e-conomic, Fortnox, Tripletex, and others. 
2. Track every subscription change in your customers' subscriptions - additions, cancellations, upgrades, or downgrades. 
3.  Fast and easy set up.  Set up automated billing once, and get easy billing – automatically and consolidated.