You can configure automatic billing to enable Kaspersky Security Integration with ConnectWise Manage to create, and update daily, the ConnectWise Manage Agreement Additions for Kaspersky security applications. When automatic billing is configured, information about usage of Kaspersky security applications on managed computers is transferred to ConnectWise Manage automatically, allowing faster periodic generation of invoices for your customers. For 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 automated billing daily, so that you have up-to-date usage information in ConnectWise Manage any time you have to generate an invoice for a client.
Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP creates Agreement Additions for Kaspersky security applications only if these security applications are mapped to the ConnectWise Manage products. For details, refer to Mapping ConnectWise Manage products to security applications.
To get usage information for a particular company, Kaspersky Security Integration Tool for MSP calculates how many of the company's devices use the licenses that are added to the Kaspersky Security Center virtual server / Kaspersky Business Hub company associated with the ConnectWise Manage company. 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 security applications and ConnectWise Manage products 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 security application with a single ConnectWise Manage product.
Associates a single licensed Kaspersky security application with three different ConnectWise Manage products: one for servers, a second for workstations, and a third for non-Windows devices.
Some Kaspersky 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 ConnectWise Manage product only.
In this case, ConnectWise Manage analyzes the type of client device (server or workstation) that uses the Kaspersky license. Data about each Kaspersky security application license used by the device is associated with the ConnectWise Manage product 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 Agreement Addition on 90 devices for the ConnectWise Manage product for workstations.
Creates an Agreement Addition on 10 devices for the ConnectWise Manage product for servers.