Partner Billing Rules and Custom Price Book used together

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

Yes, Partner Billing Rules and Customer Price Books can be used together.

A Partner can create both Partner Billing Rules and Custom Price Book and apply it to manipulate the pricing that a Customer sees within their tenant.

Resolution

The order of processing is as follows:

• CloudHealth processes the AWS CUR and strips out tax and credits
• CloudHealth applies any Partner Billing Rules
• CloudHealth applies any Custom Price Book

As Custom Price Books are applied after Partner Billing Rules, it is possible to create a Custom Line Item Billing Rule and use the Custom Price Book to manipulate that Billing Rule entry.

Example:

Partner Billing Rule - Custom Line Item:

Custom Price Book:

<RuleGroup startDate=\"2022-01-01\" endDate=\"2022-12-31\" payerAccounts=\"xxxxxx\">
  <BillingRule name=\"Change General Credit Billing Rule\" includeDataTransfer=\"true\">
  <BasicBillingRule billingAdjustment=\"-10000.00\" billingRuleType=\"fixedRate\"/>
    <Product productName=\"Customer General Credits\">
      <LineItemDescription contains=\"Customer General Credits\"/>
    </Product>
  </BillingRule>
</RuleGroup>

In this example, a Custom Line Item called 'Customer General Credits' is created by the Partner Billing Rule with a value of $0.01. Custom Price Book is then used to change this value to -$10,000.