Changes to Public Cloud pricing structure

We’re introducing a new pricing structure for Public Cloud that will significantly reduce invoice calculation times and make billing runs more efficient.

What’s changing

• Currently Pricing Rules generated for cloud vendors use a complex, product‑level logic with multiple rules per product.
• Soon we will use the “Product Application Level” (PAL) feature, allowing a single rule to apply across many Products within a Product Category. This strongly reduces the number of Pricing Rules for Public Cloud vendors and simplifies and standardizes the Pricing Plan across the board.

Benefits

• Faster Invoice calculation: The invoices will calculate multiple times faster than before.
• Faster Transformation calculation: Transformations will also process multiple times faster.
• Simpler pricing structure: The pricing structure will consist of only a few PAL rules rather than millions of Pricing Rules on the product level.
• More pricing flexibility: It is possible and easier now to put custom prices at any level of the summation of the results without having to use overrides.
• Easier price tagging and transformation flexibility: the new PAL Pricing Rules are not connector managed rules. These Pricing Rules allow edits to them and will not be adjusted by the connector, allowing for tags to be present on any chosen level of summation of the results. This allows for more flexibility which level should be printed on PDFs or exports.

This results in a Pricing Plan that is more flexible to adjust to your needs. 

Rollout

• CloudBilling consultants will roll this out per tenant.
• No need to take action right now. CloudBilling will contact you before your migration with details and next steps.

If you have questions please feel free to contact our support team via the customer portal or by email.