1. Purchase a Microsoft Support plan
2. Provide at least one managed service, IP service, or customer solution application
3. Enable billing and provisioning infrastructure

Keeping in view of the above mentioned Microsoft CSP Direct Billing requirements, the Microsoft Direct Partners need to scale their infrastructure in order to retain their status as Tier 1 CSP and continue to work directly with Microsoft. Failing to abide by these Microsoft CSP Billing conditions will lead the CSP Tier 1 partners to the level of Indirect Cloud Service Providers. The time limit for the fulfillment of these criterions is August 31^st, 2018. After that, subscription of CSPs shall not be renewed with Tier 1 status.

Time is ticking. Get your Microsoft CSP Billing requirements fulfilled by 31^st August.

It is highly recommended that if you want to keep the Microsoft CSP Direct Partner status, you need to take steps soon as not much time is left. In order to proceed, it is necessary to go for a service that makes you able to fulfill most of these Microsoft CSP Billing requirements. There are many providers who claim to help CSPs in this regard by providing customer management solutions, but fail to do so. So, it’s best to choose the ones which are the most promising in the market for the solution of Microsoft CSP Direct Billing.

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The MachSol way

MachSol has helped many of its customers to fulfill requirements and is still working on keeping more and more CSPs to retain the status of CSP Tier 1 Providers. MachSol can make it possible for the Partners to meet the above mentioned eligibility requirements. Apart from that, many of the customer management solutions that have been productive, MachSol provides the solutions with the following services:

1. End-to-end complete business automation with Microsoft O365 and Azure
2. Fully automated billing & customer management for Microsoft Office365, Azure and Dynamics
3. Showcase, bundle and sell Microsoft CSP Offerings, hybrid & your own value added services
4. Provision tenants and manage them seamlessly

Are you in search for a provider who could help you retain your Microsoft Direct Partner status on time? MachPanel is the answer to that.

MachPanel is the best choice in order to achieve compliance with the Microsoft requirements. We help you improve your business and also make sure the business grows in smooth manner. MachPanel makes business automation a hassle-free process. For CSPs, the management of their business becomes easy as MachPanel enables the provisioning of all major Microsoft Services like Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office 365.

So hurry up, kick off with MachSol and retain your Microsoft CSP Tier 1 Status with MachPanel.

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With increasing updates from big names like Microsoft coming up every now and then, it is necessary for Control Panels to catch up on the trendy updates in time. For example, quite recently Microsoft has updated its CSP Direct billing requirements. Under this requirement, Microsoft tier 1 partners need to purchase a Microsoft support plan and they also need to demonstrate key capabilities that includes providing customer solution application and enable billing and provisioning infrastructure. If a partner is unable to meet these requirements they will have to switch to a reseller model that is selling through an indirect provider. With this in sight, automation platforms will have to make sure that their solutions enable partners to fulfill these requirements.

Being in the era of Cloud Automation, the basic need of Hosting Service Providers is to be able to transfer the services in a way that is hassle free and complete. Hosting control Panels, nowadays, come in a variety of interfaces and with competitive features. It’s important to know the trendy features of 2018 that make any control panel a considerable option. Let’s have a look

On Premises/ Hybrid Marketplace

In the current era, a lot more customers would want to showcase their products and apps so that they can be sold from a platform. A good Hosting Panel would always give you an option of creating a marketplace for your customers.

E-commerce flows

Giving the option to resellers about their ecommerce flows and making the sales productive, is the current need of Cloud Hosting Control Panels.

Accounts management

Tier based account management is the trend of today. A good Hosting Panel offers 3 tier accounts management, that is account management for Providers, resellers and customers. In this way, the hosting providers know which accounts to give more personalization to.

Branding and customizations

Hosting Panels of today need to cater the need of customization and branding in case of resellers and offer them more flexible options to tailor things according to their business needs.

R&D team: Rapid and fast development life cycle

With this option, the Hosting Service Providers are able to experience fast and Rapid development life cycle experience. A Good Hosting panel is able to give you the opportunity to keep ahead of the competition.

Support (Product and enterprise level)

An ideal Panel is able to provide you a good after sale support. This includes the Product support and support at enterprise level after the deployment of a turnkey solution.

Self-service portals

It is necessary to enable or disable services for consumers so that they can take advantage of those services in a self-service manner giving them independence and control over services like billing, invoicing etc.

Role-based Delegation

A complete Hosting Control Panel provides role-based delegation. This feature is necessary as it gives the option to assign and control different privileges of  features by administrative or non-administrative user according to their role to the related operation or management related task.

Audit and control

In order to stand out from the current market Hosting Control Panels, it is necessary to provide a robust auditing system in which there is more control and transparency of the internal system making the reviewing and inspection processes easier. It should also provide the monitoring support in order to make monitoring clean and transparent.

Anytime, Anywhere

The ability to be accessible from any device and location is the need of current business. Accessibility is the main factor in today’s Control Panels. The support shall be given cross platform and across all devices.

Save time, minimize efforts

A clutter-free control Panel saves you a good amount of time and money. With options of bulk operations and group tasks, it is easier to do more work in just a few clicks and hence save time and efforts.

Billing and Reporting

A seamless way of providing billing and analytics to consumers can make the Hosting Control Panel the best in the market. Giving the feature of decent reporting with few clicks can make things manageable and easy for businesses.

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Configuration management with third party plugins

Businesses grow and as a result, they find a need to include third party plugins. A good Hosting Control panel must always have room for third party integrations and should provide help and support for such integrations as well.

Easy-to-use

The most important feature of a Hosting Control panel is its interface. There is no alternate to a clean and neat interface where it is easy for the consumers to get their hands on the features to use. Users are not able to use half the features of a complicated, yet robust interface. In order to deliver features efficiently, the interface needs to be hassle free.

MachPanel – where you find all the answers

MachPanel is one solution that inhibits the trendy features of 2018 for a successful Cloud Hosting Control Panel. It has room for third parties with third party plugins. With MachPanel, there is a lot more to offer than just audit and control. Consumers can showcase their products and sell them effectively with integrated eCommerce flow. Not only that but billing and reporting made easier as it is just a few clicks work. Its neat interface makes it user-friendly. It manages businesses with end-to-end automation making it the best Cloud Hosting Control Panel choice of this era.

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The two plans

In general, there are two types of plans in order to facilitate the CSPs to meet their customers’ support needs.

1. Microsoft Advanced Support for Partners
2. Microsoft Premier Support for Partners

In the case of Microsoft Advanced Support for Partners, Microsoft provides support for fixing issues, resolving problems. In case of Microsoft Premier Support for Partners, Microsoft provides you with an ability to identify new areas of growth in the existing cloud-enabled services. In this way, new areas of revenue can be opened up in your business.

Keeping “billing” in the limelight

In order to be successful, CSPs need to focus on four major points: Support, service based model, scalability and billing. Out of these four, billing is the most important aspect of a successful CSP Tier 1 partner. CSPs need to directly monitor and provision the subscriptions and manage the customer’s queries related to billing and management. To be a winner in this era, it is important to focus on Direct Billing methods and increase profitability. The billing module must have recurring billing options with proper payment processing.

In order to stay on track on as a Microsoft Tier 1 CSP, you need to show two main key capabilities. First, either you need to provide your customers with an IP service, a solution application or provide a managed service. And secondly, you need to be equipped with a decent infrastructure and enable billing within your systems. In case, either of these capabilities is not fulfilled, the CSPs can continue to provide services as indirect providers.

MachPanel: Keeping you on the CSP track

If you are still wondering where to start from, MachPanel can help you with it. It provides a platform that empowers Microsoft CSPs through end-to-end business management. MachPanel gives you an option to own and control your billing. With an ability of Direct Billing, it automates all major aspects related to business financial operations. It manages unified and consolidated invoices that help simplify the billing processes. This is available for Microsoft Office365 and Azure CSP Billing structures.

MachPanel also offers you the option of recurring billing and automatic subscriptions so that consumers do not have to go for subscriptions every month.  Apart from that, it also enables you to showcase your products in a customized storefront, gives an option of extensive reporting with a few clicks, gives a complete bird’s eye view of the usage calculations and much more. Through the bill and support system, along with complete business automation solutions, the success of your business is accelerated. MachPanel is a reliable partner that provides Profit management for Microsoft Distributors.

MachPanel the Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) is an ideal solution that fits for your need, supporting feature that no one else can provide.

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