Invoice with marketplaces
The three major cloud providers, Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, all offer digital marketplaces where customers can purchase access to software products. For Metronome clients, selling their products on these marketplaces increases their potential market size, lowers the barrier to entry for their customers, and often leads to increased overall deal size.
To help you take advantage of this opportunity, Metronome offers native AWS and Azure integrations to make it easy to use Metronome’s usage aggregation and pricing capabilities while still invoicing customers through marketplaces.
How Metronome works with marketplaces
Pricing and packaging for each of your customers transacting through marketplaces gets configured in Metronome. Metronome then computes invoice totals to report back to the marketplace in the form of a usage-based charge at a cost of $0.01 per unit. Every hour, Metronome calculates the customer's total bill, subtracts the amount they've already been billed, and sends the difference to the marketplace in a metering request. For example, if a customer has a total bill of $100 so far this month, $75 of which was already metered to the marketplace through previous requests, Metronome sends an additional $25 in the next hourly metering request.
Invoice through a marketplace
Follow these guides to ensure that you set up marketplace listings correctly and that you give Metronome the appropriate permissions to start metering on your customers’ behalf: