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### To update the Azure services purchase order number:
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1. From the Azure Enterprise portal, select **Report** > **Usage Summary**.
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1. Select **Edit PO Numbers** in the upper right corner.
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1. Select **Edit PO Numbers** in the upper-right corner.
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1. Select the **Azure Services** radio button.
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1. Select an **Invoice Period** from the date ranges drop-down menu.
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You can edit a PO number during a seven-day period after you get an invoice notification, but before you've paid the invoice.
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1. Enter a new PO number in the **PO Number** field.
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1. Select **Save** to submit your change.
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### To update Azure Marketplace purchase order number:
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### To update the Azure Marketplace purchase order number:
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1. From the Azure Enterprise portal, select **Report** > **Usage Summary**.
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1. Select **Edit PO Numbers** in the upper right corner.
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1. Select **Edit PO Numbers** in the upper-right corner.
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1. Select the **Marketplace** radio button.
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1. Select an **Invoice Period** from the date ranges drop-down menu.
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Effective from the April 2019 billing cycle, customers started to receive a single Azure invoice that combines all Azure and Azure Marketplace charges into a single invoice instead of two separate invoices. This change doesn't affect customers in Australia, Japan, or Singapore.
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During the transition to a combined invoice, you'll receive a partial Marketplace invoice. This final separate invoice will show Marketplace charges incurred before the date of your billing update. Marketplace charges incurred after that date will appear on your Azure invoice. After the transition period, you'll see all Azure and Marketplace charges on the combined invoice.
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During the transition to a combined invoice, you'll receive a partial Azure Marketplace invoice. This final separate invoice will show Azure Marketplace charges incurred before the date of your billing update. Azure Marketplace charges incurred after that date will appear on your Azure invoice. After the transition period, you'll see all Azure and Azure Marketplace charges on the combined invoice.
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## Adjust billing frequency
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A customer's billing frequency is annual, quarterly, or monthly. The billing cycle is determined when a customer signs their agreement. Monthly billing is smallest billing interval.
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- **Approval** from an enterprise administrator is required to change a billing cycle from annual to quarterly for direct enrollments. Approval from a partner administrator is required for indirect enrollments. The change becomes effective at the end of the current billing quarter.
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- **An amendment** to the agreement is required to change a billing cycle from annual or quarterly to monthly. Any change to the existing enrollment billing cycle requires approval of an enterprise administrator or from your "Bill to Contact".
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- **Submit** your approval to [Azure Enterprise portal support](https://support.microsoft.com/supportrequestform/cf791efa-485b-95a3-6fad-3daf9cd4027c). Select the Issue Category: **Billing and Invoicing**.
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- **Submit** your approval to [Azure Enterprise portal support](https://support.microsoft.com/supportrequestform/cf791efa-485b-95a3-6fad-3daf9cd4027c). Select the issue category: **Billing and Invoicing**.
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The change becomes effective at the end of the current billing quarter.
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- Your available monetary commitment amount covers the full number of incurred charges, including all past unpaid Azure invoices.
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- The billing term that you want to complete must be fully closed. Billing fully closes after the fifth day of each month.
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- The billing period that you want to offset must be fully closed.
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- Your Azure Commitment Discount (ACD) is based on the actual new commitment minus any funds planned for the previous consumption. This requirement applies only to overage charges incurred. It's only valid for services that consume monetary commitment, so doesn't apply to Azure Marketplace charges. Marketplace charges are billed separately.
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- Your Azure Commitment Discount (ACD) is based on the actual new commitment minus any funds planned for the previous consumption. This requirement applies only to overage charges incurred. It's only valid for services that consume monetary commitment, so doesn't apply to Azure Marketplace charges. Azure Marketplace charges are billed separately.
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To complete an overage offset, you or the account team can open a support request. An emailed approval from your enterprise administrator or Bill to Contact is required.
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- Service usage report
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- Azure Marketplace charges report
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1. On this tab, you can:
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- View a graph of month-over-month usage with a breakdown of usage, service overcharge, charges billed separately, and Azure Marketplace charges.
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- Toggle between **Charge-by-Services** breakdown and **Charge-by-Hierarchy** breakdown.
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> [!TIP]
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> If you have set CSV files to automatically open in Excel, you must use the 'Open' function in Excel instead. In Excel, go to **File** > **Open**.
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> If you have set CSV files to automatically open in Excel, you must use the **Open** function in Excel instead. In Excel, go to **File** > **Open**.
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## Marketplace charges in Azure Enterprise portal reports
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## Azure Marketplace charges in Azure Enterprise portal reports
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For more information on Marketplace charges, see the [Marketplace FAQs](https://azure.microsoft.com/marketplace/faq/).
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For more information on Azure Marketplace charges, see the [Azure Marketplace FAQs](https://azure.microsoft.com/marketplace/faq/).
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- **Marketplace charges report**: Shows **only** the usage-based Azure Marketplace charges. One-time fees aren't shown.
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## Reporting for non-enterprise administrators
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As services move from Preview to General Availability (GA), prices might increase as full performance and reliability SLAs are applied. Such an increase isn't limited by normal baseline price protection. Usage of those services is charged at the increased rate. To avoid charges related to these new services, you'll have to opt out of using them.
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As services move from preview to general availability (GA), prices might increase as full performance and reliability SLAs are applied. Such an increase isn't limited by normal baseline price protection. Usage of those services is charged at the increased rate. To avoid charges related to these new services, you'll have to opt out of using them.
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Before January 28, 2016, usage for A0, A2, A3, and A4 Standard and Basic Virtual Machines and Cloud Services was emitted as A1 Virtual Machine meter minutes. A0 VMs counted as fractions of A1 VM minutes while A2s, A3s,and A4s were converted to multiples. Because this policy caused some confusion for our customers, we implemented a change to assign per-minute usage to dedicated A0, A2, A3, and A4 meters.
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Azure monetary commitment is an amount paid up front for Azure services. The monetary commitment is consumed as services are used. First-party Azure services are billed against the monetary commitment. However, some charges are billed separately, and Marketplace services don't consume monetary commitment.
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Azure monetary commitment is an amount paid up front for Azure services. The monetary commitment is consumed as services are used. First-party Azure services are billed against the monetary commitment. However, some charges are billed separately, and Azure Marketplace services don't consume monetary commitment.
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