You can configure automatic billing to enable Kaspersky Security Integration with Autotask to create, and update daily, the Contract Service Adjustments for accounts in Autotask. When automatic billing is configured, information about usage of Kaspersky Lab security applications on managed computers is transferred to Autotask automatically, allowing faster periodic generation of invoices for your customers. For the information about enabling and configuring automatic billing, refer to Setting up automatic billing.
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 Autotask any time you have to generate an invoice for a client.
Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP creates Service Adjustments to Autotask Contracts only for those Kaspersky Lab security applications that are mapped to Autotask Services. For details, refer to Mapping Autotask services to security applications.
For each account with a specified Contract that is mapped to a virtual server or a company, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP calculates how many devices managed by this virtual server or belonging to this company utilize licenses for Kaspersky Lab security applications. Only unexpired and active commercial keys and subscriptions are counted. Servers and workstations are counted separately if the Bill devices by category option is selected when Kaspersky Lab security applications and Autotask services are mapped. Also, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP calculates how many Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes are protected.
Every time the number of devices that utilize licenses for Kaspersky Lab security applications or the number of protected mailboxes changes, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP generates a Service Adjustment for the Contract associated with the account. This Service Adjustment contains information on how usage of the Kaspersky Lab security applications changed.
To differentiate the pricing policy for two types of devices (servers and workstations), a separate billing feature is available. Kaspersky Security Integration Tool for MSP supports two billing configurations:
Associates a single licensed Kaspersky Lab security application with a single Autotask service.
Associates a single licensed Kaspersky Lab security application with three different Autotask services: one for servers, a second for workstations, and a third for non-Windows devices.
Some Kaspersky Lab applications, for example, Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud Plus, use the per-user licensing model and do not support separate billing for servers and workstations. Such applications can be associated with a single Autotask service only.
In this case, Autotask analyzes the type of client device (server or workstation) that uses the Kaspersky Lab license. Data about each Kaspersky Lab security application license used by the device is associated with the Autotask service mapped to this Kaspersky Lab 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 a Contract Service Adjustment on 90 devices for the Autotask service for workstations.
Creates a Contract Service Adjustment on 10 devices for the Autotask service for servers.