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 products 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 products that are mapped to Autotask Services. For details, refer to Mapping Autotask services to products.
For each account with a specified Contract that is mapped to a virtual server or a workspace, Kaspersky Security Integration Service for MSP calculates how many devices managed by this virtual server or belonging to this workspace utilize licenses for Kaspersky Lab products. Only unexpired and active commercial keys and subscriptions are counted. Servers and workstations are counted separately if the Bill devices by categories option is selected when Kaspersky Lab products and Autotask services are mapped.
Every time the number of devices that utilize licenses for Kaspersky Lab products 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 products 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 product with a single Autotask service.
Associates a single licensed Kaspersky Lab product with three different Autotask services: one for servers, a second for workstations, and a third for non-Windows devices.
In this case, Autotask analyzes the type of client device (server or workstation) that uses the Kaspersky Lab license. Data about each Kaspersky Lab product license used by the device is associated with the Autotask service mapped to this Kaspersky Lab product.
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.