email invoices

Since you don't have a separate role to access invoices without providing privileges to mess up the rest of the system, I suggest you let us define an email address to send invoices to. I need to send invoices to our accounting department. I don't want to provide them access to Azure where they could shut off services accidentally. This would violate my security commitments to our corporate customers.

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Doug Marinaro shared this idea · November 21, 2012 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · May 05, 2017

Here are detailed instructions on how to access this feature.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-download-azure-invoice-daily-usage-date

Thanks,

-Adam

Azure Billing Team

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · January 23, 2017

Hi Folks,

Very happy to announce that this feature is generally available starting today. To opt-in, navigate as the account admin to your subscription at portal.azure.com and select “Send my Invoice” on the left navigation bar. From here accept the opt-in agreement and you’re all set! Optionally you can configure additional recipients for this email.

I also want to apologize for how the communications about this feature release went. I honestly thought each time-frame I communicated was accurate, only for something to go wrong as I slowly got my naïve optimism beaten out of me. Thank you for the patience that I didn’t deserve, and I hope this feature makes all your lives easier and more productive.

Regards,

Adam

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · January 23, 2017

Hi Folks,

Very happy to announce that this feature is generally available starting today. To opt-in, navigate to your subscription at http://portal.azure.com and select “Send my Invoice” on the left navigation bar. From here accept the opt-in agreement and you’re all set! Optionally you can configure additional recipients for this email.

Regards,

Adam

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · November 17, 2016

Hi All,

Sorry to say that we ran into a few bumps during testing, and are delayed a couple of weeks.

We’re very close here.

Thanks

-Adam (Azure Billing team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · September 19, 2016

Hi all,

Happy to announce that this feature will be live November 17th.

I know it has been a long journey but I appreciate everyone’s patience and hope folks are excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

-Adam (Azure billing team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · July 29, 2016

Hi all,

Thanks for the additional feedback in the comments. Definitely not password encrypting the pdf! (and if we do make that optional we will add it later)

In the next week or two I’m hoping to have a firm date for when this is done, but with nearly half a dozen teams coordinating delivery, there is significant uncertainty.

Thanks again for all of your patience. Wanting to make this happen for all of you ASAP.

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · June 20, 2016

Hi all,

Still working hard on getting this functionality delivered, wanted to drop an update and respond to some of the comments.

I agree that doing this shouldn’t be this hard, unfortunately we’ve got to extricate some functionality from a legacy stack we still have kicking around, and that is often laborious.

Current plans include:
– An opt-in experience in the portal
– The ability to construct a list of recipients for this email
– CC the account owner by default (though this can also be reconfigured)

Please let me know in the comments if you have any feedback on the above plan. Also how do people feel about password locking the pdf?

Thanks,

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · April 26, 2016

Hi all,

I’ll start by apologizing for how long it has been since the last update. I will make sure to post updates here more often moving forward.

The good news is that we have actively started working on this feature, we unfortunately had some debt in the email space we needed to pay off before being able to invest directly in this.

There are still a few pre-requisites that need to fall into place, but if all goes well we are targeting launch of this feature within the next 3-5 months.

I’ll post back here once we’ve closed on a basic design so that you can all provide feedback in the comments.

Thanks,

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · June 19, 2015

Hello,

I’ll start by apologizing for how long this post has gone unanswered. The Azure billing team has undergone a transformation to ship features faster and improve our responsiveness to our customers. The new team is excited to re-engage with the community and deliver the features you need for a consistent and reliable cloud billing experience.

We are working on integrating a feature which will allow non-administrative access to certain elements of the portal such as billing, though this is in the planning stages.

In the meantime, we are overhauling many of the notification emails that we send out here in billing, and the feedback on an improved invoice notification experience is heard loud and clear.

To help direct that action, would a link to the invoice in the email be at all helpful towards resolving this issue? Please let me know if this is a worthwhile solution.

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

Update:

Glad to see the community so engaged on this issue, and this clearly suggests that this is an important feature for our customers.

We are looking into the potential security and compliance concerns that are raised by attaching invoices to emails. Once that is finished, I will come back with an update on the plan to address this concern moving forward.

@Simon Ashby

Would you mind submitting your comment as a separate feature suggestion?

Thanks,

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · June 19, 2015

Update:

Glad to see the community so engaged on this issue, and this clearly suggests that this is an important feature for our customers.

@Simon Ashby

Would you mind submitting your comment as a separate feature suggestion?

Thanks,

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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AdminAzure Billing Team (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded · June 11, 2015

Hello,

We are working on integrating a feature which will allow non-administrative access to certain elements of the portal such as billing, though this is in the planning stages.

In the meantime, we are overhauling many of the notification emails that we send out here in billing, and the feedback on an improved invoice notification experience is heard loud and clear.

To help direct that action, would a link to the invoice in the email be at all helpful towards resolving this issue? Please let me know if this is a worthwhile solution.

-Adam (Azure Billing Team)

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Asim Mitra responded · December 09, 2013

Thanks for your feedback. We are looking into this

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Woter324 commented · November 06, 2018 18:02 · Flag as inappropriate

Can you change the name of the invoice attachment from yyyyMM.pdf to $invoiceNumber.pdf. This makes it much easier for your tools like Flow to process and route correctly, when one has multiple subscriptions. Yes, I know I could set up individual email addresses for each subscription, but why! Just put a little thought into what you are doing please.

Allow the amalgamation of ALL MS cloud products (in my tenant) into a single invoice / bill with a single bank transaction. Now there's an idea!!!

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Anonymous commented · May 19, 2018 13:06 · Flag as inappropriate

I have cancelled this service due to an unexpected and drastic hike in charges, which are currently and totally unexplained!

I have also instructed my bank to refuse any further charges, from this service, which are issued against my credit card.

I would also appreciate it if you would cancel all credit card details that I have submitted to this service.

Regards!

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Fuck Microsoft commented · March 20, 2018 12:01 · Flag as inappropriate

How can we trust Microsoft services like Flow and another automation service where we cant have support plan to be sent as an email . each month I have to go to my subscription download the invoice and send it.

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Chris Visscher commented · October 16, 2017 05:57 · Flag as inappropriate

Dear Microsoft,

Please come up with a solid solution that allows all Azure, Office 365 and other Microsoft Subscription Invoices to be e-mailed, with the option to select specific/limit the recipients (not all Global Admins need to receive it) and the option to add a custom e-mail addres (e.g. a Shared Mailbox) like accounts@company.com.

What's been created so far is a start (after 4 years), but this needs improvement.

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JB commented · June 01, 2017 08:28 · Flag as inappropriate

HALF A JOB MICROSOFT STRIKES AGAIN

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Andreas Breitschopp commented · May 10, 2017 01:23 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello Adam,

why this was marked as "COMPLETED"!?

We have two subscriptions in Azure with one of them being a "Developer Support" subscription and i still DO NOT see any way to get an invoice via e-mail for this subscription which the Azure support just confirmed!

That's absolutely unbelievable!

It does not help AT ALL that accounting gets the invoice via e-mail for the other subscription as I still have to personally login each month to download the second invoice!

So again:
Why this is marked as "COMPLETED" as it is obviously not completed till now?

Best regards
Andreas

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James Harling commented · April 25, 2017 02:20 · Flag as inappropriate

A step in the right direction, but this doesn't apply to all subscriptions - for example, my Developer Support subscription isn't listed.

The absence of this completed feature is pretty laughable now, this is a fundamental part of online services!

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JB commented · April 03, 2017 08:49 · Flag as inappropriate

this idea is listed as completed. it's not. half a job has been completed. without being applicable to all subscriptions the problem is still there,

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Michael Dieckmann commented · February 13, 2017 08:50 · Flag as inappropriate

Super!! Long awaited for this feature!

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Jacques Bosch commented · January 31, 2017 14:43 · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you, Adam.
Now to ********* other subscriptions also, such as support and MSDN / Bisspark.

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Chil commented · January 30, 2017 17:03 · Flag as inappropriate

I am getting error messages of 'failed to save - Your updated recipient settings were not saved because there was a problem. We are looking into this, please try again later'

I am also getting error messages 'To manage your subscription in the Azure portal, have yourself added as a Subscription Owner', when I am the subscription owner.

I am also getting error messages 'You have not created any subscriptions yet' in the new portal, and yet I can see them in the old portal.

I can't log support incidents online for some of these issues. I attempted to log via phone, but got the message 'The party did not answer - Goodbye'.

The Azure platform seems very flaky and the support non-existent.

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Doug Killmer commented · January 30, 2017 08:25 · Flag as inappropriate

It would be nice if this was available for support subscriptions as well.

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JB commented · January 30, 2017 00:31 · Flag as inappropriate

This only works on a standard subscription. if you pay for support or anything else you still have to login to get invoices. Azure support have informed me there is no ETA. The wait continues.

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Brian Wright commented · January 25, 2017 08:43 · Flag as inappropriate

Woohoo! Thanks for getting this done.

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JB commented · January 25, 2017 03:45 · Flag as inappropriate

IT'S NOT THERE...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rory commented · January 25, 2017 03:34 · Flag as inappropriate

Great, thanks!

How do I set this up for a Developer Support subscription? It doesn't show up in the portal.azure.com list of subscriptions and I don't see the Send By Email option within account.windowsazure.com.

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Timothy Lee Russell commented · January 24, 2017 10:17 · Flag as inappropriate

Thanks -- this is very helpful.

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Ashley commented · January 24, 2017 06:34 · Flag as inappropriate

I also cannot see this option, though the steps Sam noted do seem to be correct, the option is grayed out. I am a subscription admin but cannot use this functionality. Is there / will there be some documentation around this feature?

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Ammar Qasmi commented · January 24, 2017 03:49 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi Adam,

I'm the Account admin yet the option is greyed out and I'm unable to select

Please advise

Thanks,
Ammar

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Ulti001 commented · January 24, 2017 03:21 · Flag as inappropriate

I have opt-in. Hopefully this works. Nice implemented.

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