SaaS offer general topics
Publisher experience#
SaaS Offer Overview#
This module offers a technical overview of Microsoft Azure Marketplace SaaS Offers, including the following topics.
- The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace Ecosystem
- SaaS Offer Creation Process
- Pricing Models for SaaS Offers
- SaaS Solution Architectures
Publishing a SaaS Offer#
This detailed video presents the concepts of publishing a SaaS offer and then walks through the steps of doing so in Partner Center. This module goes all the way from creating an offer, to adding and plan, and finally publishing the offer live. It also speaks to the need of developers to have a sandbox environment in which they can test and development the landing page and webhook.
Publishing a Private SaaS Plan#
This brief video builds upon what you learned in, “Publishing a SaaS Offer.” It presents the concepts of using private plans and then shows how to do so inside Partner Center.
SaaS Pricing in Partner Center Publisher Overview#
Pricing and billing options for SaaS offers are very flexible and give publishers many options for how to bill and get paid for their solutions. This video walks through the SaaS pricing models and gives real-world examples of using them effectively.
SaaS Pricing in Partner Center Publisher Demo#
Pricing and billing options for SaaS offers are very flexible and give publishers many options for how to bill and get paid for their solutions. This video demonstrates how to use Partner Center to create and price a plan from start to finish, including using metered billing options.
Reporting and Insights for Multi-year SaaS Offers#
This module walks through reporting for multi-year SaaS and the reporting widgets available that display information about subscriptions, orders and pricing models including growth trends over time.
Additionally, various downloadable formats including CSV and PDFs for detailed reporting are explained in detail.
Customer experience#
Purchasing a SaaS offer from the Azure Marketplace#
This video demonstrates the customer purchasing process when subscribing to a SaaS offer from within the Azure Marketplace.
Purchasing a SaaS offer from AppSource#
This video demonstrates the customer purchasing process when subscribing to a SaaS offer from within the AppSource storefront.
Purchasing a Private SaaS Plan#
This video shows how to subscribe to private SaaS plans in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Topics include the following.
- About Private Plans
- Purchasing a SaaS Private Offer demo
Purchasing a Public SaaS Offer with Different Pricing Models#
Customers may have many choices about what billing and pricing options they would like to subscribe to for a SaaS offer. This video walks through the purchase process from the customer’s point of view showing how to use purchasing tools to simplify the purchase experience.
Navigate admin consent on a SaaS offer landing page#
When purchasing a SaaS product, the customer is required to visit the publisher’s landing page. Because the landing page uses Azure Entra single sign on, the customer must log in to the page. In some cases, customer accounts may not have the right to do this without their Azure admin’s consent.
This video guide helps customers navigate user consent and admin consent settings of enterprise apps on the Azure portal. The video provides an overview of the flow of consent on the landing page as well as how apps are configured for that design, along with demonstrations.
- 00:00 – Overview
- 00:39 – SSO and app consent for the landing page
- 03:23 – Configure enterprise app consent
- 06:20 – Summary