New settings for Microsoft Azure cost management and purchases

We are introducing two new company-level settings for marketplace Azure administrators to monitor Azure consumption costs and manage purchase permissions.

To access these new settings:

1. Go to Manage > Marketplace > Companies.
2. Select a company and click the Vendor Information tab.
3. Enable these settings to unlock new capabilities on the Azure portal:
   • Microsoft Purchase Permissions - enable this setting to allow the purchase of Azure reservations. For more information on reservations, see related documentation from Microsoft.
   • Microsoft Cost Management - enable this setting to unlock the cost management view for users with a proper role and access to the subscription. This allows visibility into consumption data and the associated retail pay-as-you-go rates in the Azure portal. For more information about Cost Management capabilities, refer to Microsoft's documentation.

Both of these settings are not enabled by default. Changes made to the settings are logged in the Activities tab.

📝 Note: These settings are only available for Microsoft reseller-enabled marketplaces. Enabling or disabling them will result in an error if the marketplace is not properly authorized or linked to an active Microsoft account or ID.

Feature enablement

The feature is not enabled by default. Contact your AppDirect technical representative to request it.

Setting enablement

No additional setting enablement is required.

Documentation

Refer to Configure settings for Azure purchases and cost management.