How automatic billing works
You can configure automatic billing to enable Kaspersky Security Integration with Tigerpaw to create, and update daily, the Additional Charges for the Agreements associated with Tigerpaw accounts. When automatic billing is configured, information about usage of Kaspersky security applications on managed computers is transferred to Tigerpaw automatically, allowing faster periodic generation of invoices for your customers.
The Tigerpaw account, for which automatic billing is enabled, must be cross-referenced to the External Product associated with the API User credentials that you provided for the integration. For details, see the "Assign External Products to an Account" section in Tigerpaw online Help.
Automatic billing works according to the following rules:
- Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP runs automatic billing daily, so that you have up-to-date usage information in Tigerpaw any time you have to generate an invoice for a client.
- Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP creates additional charges to the agreements only for those Kaspersky security applications that are mapped to Tigerpaw price book items.
- To get usage information for a particular account, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP calculates how many devices managed by the virtual server or connected to the company associated with this account utilize licenses for the Kaspersky security applications. Only unexpired and active commercial keys and subscriptions are counted. Also, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP calculates how many Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes are protected.
- If you enabled the Bill devices by category feature when mapping Kaspersky security applications and Tigerpaw price book items, different types of devices (Windows servers, Windows workstations, non-Windows devices) are counted separately.
In this case, Tigerpaw analyzes the type of client device that uses the Kaspersky license. Data about each Kaspersky security application license used by the device is associated with the Tigerpaw price book item mapped to this Kaspersky security application.
For example, if a client company uses Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business Advanced on 100 devices, where 90 of them are workstations and 10 are servers, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP does the following:
- Creates an Additional Charge on 90 devices for the Tigerpaw price book item for workstations.
- Creates an Additional Charge on 10 devices for the Tigerpaw price book item for servers.