Generating Usage Data for Billing

Introduction

Viewing the Usage Summaries Page

Scheduling a Usage Report Generation

Introduction

This page provides the ability to generate usage reports for tenant billing purposes. Each report contains a breakdown, per tenant, of the user counts in each service a tenant is entitled to use, calculated at the time the report is generated. You can generate a report immediately, set up a repeating schedule, or delete unneeded reports.

Viewing the Usage Summaries Page

To access the usage summaries page:

1. Log into MSP portal as an MSP Admin, see Logging into the MSP Portal.

2. From the main menu, select Tenants > Usage Summary.

   The Usage Summaries page appears:

   

   From this page, you can:

   •View previously generated reports, and download each report as a CSV text file to your local workstation.

   •To download a report, select the download icon adjacent to the report entry:

   

   •Schedule a regular report generation, see Scheduling a Usage Report Generation.

   •Generate a usage summary report immediately by selecting Generate Now.

   •Delete one or more usage summary reports by selecting the check box adjacent to each applicable report entry, then selecting Delete.

Scheduling a Usage Report Generation

To set up a usage report schedule, or to cancel an existing schedule, select Schedule.

In this dialog, you can:

• Switch on or off scheduled reporting.
• Set a schedule duration based on a frequency of Daily, Weekly (with a selected day of the week), or Monthly (with a selected date in each month).

To apply your changes, select SAVE.