How To: Configure a Mark-up for the Azure Marketplace Offer?

Through the Microsoft CSP sales motion, it is possible to purchase different offers provided by vendors other than Microsoft. In the Microsoft Azure marketplace, there are over 18,000 offers available.

These offers can have different costs and cancellation policies, and thus are not enabled in the product catalogue on the AppXite platform.

Limitations:

• The "Azure Marketplace" offer is not visible on the UI and cannot be configured in the "Customer Prices" section at the moment.
• In order to configure the price for the "Azure Marketplace" offer, you need to import the price configuration as described here.

For users to be able to configure generic mark-up for Azure marketplace offers, the AppXite platform supports the ability to specify mark-up on “Azure Marketplace Offer”. This Azure Marketplace Offer is linked with all marketplace offers, and thus, when such an offer is purchased, it will automatically get a mark-up configuration assigned.

Azure marketplace offers have the same InPrice and Retail Price and thus require careful consideration when configuring mark-up. Thus, in a situation where the distributor has configured in Seller Segments to use InPrice +5% as a selling price, whilst the seller has configured in Customer Prices to use Retail price as a selling price, then the seller will be selling at a 5% loss. To avoid such scenarios in the AppXite platform, by default, Azure Marketplace Offers are configured to be sold at InPrice by the distributor and seller. Thus, in a similar case to the above, the seller would invoice the customer already with 5% added on top and can opt to adjust the price even more based on their preference.