I'm trying to find a way to report on our licensing costs for our M365 tenant over the year. The costs fluctuate each month because of our ongoing onboarding and offboarding of employees. Currently, I'm only able to find around 6-8 invoices coming in each month, and they're all scattered across multiple billing accounts. Is there a way to get a comprehensive report on these costs, or am I stuck manually downloading and sorting through 80 PDFs to input everything into Excel?
3 Answers
Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't make it easy to track costs directly. You'll get separate invoices for each subscription and they can have different billing terms which makes it messy. If you switch to a CSP, you can consolidate the renewal dates which can simplify things a lot.
If you're not using a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) or Value-Added Reseller (VAR), you might be missing out on some potential savings—about 5-10%. Going through a CSP can also give you more straightforward access to the data you need, plus combined billing makes it a lot easier to manage.
Honestly, this seems like an area that should really fall under accounting. Just verifying the number of licenses you have should be your main focus. But I totally get wanting to explore other features that might exist—there could be something useful you're missing!
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