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 Lab security applications on managed computers is transferred to Tigerpaw automatically, allowing faster periodic generation of invoices for your customers. For information about enabling and configuring automatic billing, refer to Setting up automatic billing.

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 Lab security applications that are mapped to Tigerpaw price book items. For details, refer to Mapping Tigerpaw price book items to security applications.
• 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 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 Tigerpaw price book items are mapped. Also, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP calculates how many Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes are protected.

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 Tigerpaw price book item.
• Associates a single licensed Kaspersky Lab security application with three different Tigerpaw price book items: 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 Tigerpaw price book item only.

  In this case, Tigerpaw 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 Tigerpaw price book item 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 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.

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