Purchase orders for AWS Marketplace transactions

When you use purchase orders in AWS Marketplace and the AWS Billing console, you receive invoices from AWS that include the customer-defined purchase order number. This approach simplifies payment processing and cost allocation. In AWS Marketplace, out-of-cycle invoices include purchases that are billed either immediately or according to a defined payment scheduled in a private offer. Generally, pay-as-you-go charges appear on a consolidated AWS Marketplace monthly usage invoice.

Using purchase orders for AWS Marketplace transactions

You can add a purchase order at the time of transaction, which will apply to all subsequent out-of-cycle invoices related to that transaction.

The following products support purchase orders:

• Software as a service (SaaS) contracts

• Professional service products

• Server products (including AMI instances, containers, AWS CloudFormation templates, and Helm charts with an annual or contract pricing model

• AWS Data Exchange contracts (supported for contract private offers)

  Note

  Purchase order support for the annual pricing model is only available for private offers with a flexible payment schedule.

Purchase orders for the annual pricing model are only supported for private offers with a flexible payment schedule. The purchase order that you specify doesn't apply to consolidated AWS Marketplace monthly invoices for pay-as-you-go charges.

Note

To use purchase orders in AWS Marketplace, the management account in your AWS organization must enable the AWS Billing integration. This one-time setup task creates a service-linked role, which allows accounts in your organization with permission to subscribe to use purchase orders. If you don't enable the integration, accounts in your organization can't add a purchase order during procurement. For more information about the integration, see Creating a service-linked role for AWS Marketplace.

To specify a purchase order in AWS Marketplace

1. Find and prepare to purchase a supported product from AWS Marketplace.

2. During the purchase process, on the Configure your software subscription page (for SaaS), for Purchase order, choose Add purchase order number.

3. Enter your purchase order number in the Purchase order number field.

   Your purchase order number is the number or text that you use to track your purchase order in your system. It's usually issued by an internal system or process. It can be up to 200 characters in length.

For details about a purchase order, including purchase orders provided during AWS Marketplace transactions, view your purchase orders in the AWS Billing console.

Using blanket usage purchase orders

To separate AWS Marketplace charges from other purchase orders, you can create a purchase order with an AWS Marketplace blanket usage line item in the AWS Billing console. AWS Marketplace invoice transactions will include the blanket usage purchase order that you specify if certain criteria and parameters match (for example, billing entities). An exception is out-of-cycle bills that have specified an AWS Marketplace transaction purchase order. For more information, see Managing your purchase orders in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.