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Verifying Bill Splitting

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It takes some time for Flexera One to complete the bill-splitting processing. Specifically, depending on the complexity of the job, it can take up to 24 hours before your customers' child organizations receive the cost data from your organization.

Check the bill-splitting results on the Billing Explorer page. Billing Explorer helps the Managed Service Provider (MSP) parent organization understand how cloud costs are passed down to their customers (child organizations). Using Billing Explorer, MSPs get a clear picture of what cloud providers billed the MSP and what the MSP billed their customers, providing visibility into their margins.

Verifying Bill Splitting in the MSP Parent Organization​

To verify that the bill-splitting rules have been applied in your MSP parent organization, sign in to your organization (MSP parent organization) in Flexera One and go to the Billing Explorer page (Customers > Customers > Billing Explorer). Then, apply a Group By tag for the Bill Split Rule-Based Dimension (RBD). With that tag applied, you can see the cloud costs split out to your customers' child organizations.

Verifying Bill Splitting in the Customer's Child Organization​

To verify that the bill-splitting rules have likewise been applied to your customers' child organizations, sign in to one of the child organizations in Flexera One and go to the Billing Explorer page (Customers > Customers > Billing Explorer). Compare the cloud costs shown in the child organization with the costs for that same child organization in your MSP parent organization. The cost data for the child organization should be identical, for that organization, regardless of whether you are looking at its cost data from within the MSP parent organization or the customer's child organization.

To verify bill splitting:

  • Go to the Billing Explorer page (Customers > Customers > Billing Explorer) and apply a Group By filter for the Bill Split RBD.

    The Group By: Bill Split filter on the table view shows the billing for each of the child organizations managed by the rules in your Bill Split RBD. Each child organization appears on its own row.

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    You can also use Group By settings like Bill Source or Category to see the child organization costs split out by the vendor account or the cost category (Compute, Network, Storage).

For more information about Billing Explorer, see Using Billing Explorer to Analyze Cloud Spend.