Managing billing settings

The platform provides a set of settings to enable partners to automate provisioning of the services.

Warning

• Billing settings can be set only for partner tenants.

• The settings are not inherited by child tenants and set individually for each tenant.

Available billing settings

Name	API setting name	Description	Permission
Tier level	tier_level_value	The level of minimum commitment i.e. volume discount. See available tier levels.	Read/Write
Licensing mode	licensing_mode	The mode defining how the partner will be charged for the services. See available licensing modes.	Read/Write
Contract type	contract_type	Type of the legal contract.	Read only
Acronis Account Number	acronis_account_number	The identifier of the customer.	Read only
Price list	pricing_info	Pricing information for the provided services.	Read only

Available licensing modes

Licensing mode	Description
per_gb	The partner is charged for storage usage only (Acronis Hosted, Azure Hosted, Google Hosted, Hybrid or local storage).
per_device	The partner is charged for each protected device and additionally for Acronis, Google or Azure Hosted storage. Hybrid Storage and Local Storage are included into the device fee.

Available tier levels

Tier level	Value
No commitment	-1
Tier 1	0
Tier 2	1
Tier 3	2
Tier 4	3
Tier 5	4

When the tier level and licensing mode are set, the administrator of the partner tenant will be able to see it under the Legal section in the management portal.

What you can do with billing settings

Operation	Methods and endpoints used
Setting the tier level and the licensing mode for a partner tenant	PUT /applications/{application_id}/settings/tenants/{tenant_id}/{setting_name}
Switching the tier level of a partner tenant	PUT /applications/{application_id}/settings/tenants/{tenant_id}/{setting_name}
Fetching the pricing information for a tenant	GET /applications/{application_id}/settings/tenants/{tenant_id}/{setting_name}