--- title: Introducing Consumption Billing description: Consumption billing is now supported for any service in Cloudmore.  Adding a consumption service in Cloudmore offers the same benefits as loading your subscription with fixed pricing, including price management, subscription management, billing aggregation, and customer self-service. image: https://cloudmore.com/hubfs/dollards%20in%20the%20clouds%201000x500.png --- [Cloud billing](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/topic/cloud-billing) # Introducing Consumption Billing [![Mark Adams](https://cloudmore.com/hs-fs/hubfs/mark-adams.png?width=40&height=40&name=mark-adams.png)](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/author/mark-adams) by [Mark Adams](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/author/mark-adams) 1 min read 18 June 2020 Consumption billing is the concept of only charging your customer for what they use. Consumption-based services allow an organization to adopt new technology with zero upfront cost. According to Gartner, [cloud waste](https://dzone.com/articles/why-is-cloud-waste-so-huge) is estimated to total 14.1 Billion in 2019 and rising due to the lack of transparency and mismanagement. With this said, many companies like Microsoft and AWS have created metered-based services to offer the flexibility and agility that modern companies demand.          Cloudmore already helps customers solve the transparency challenge for some services such as Microsoft Azure by automating subscription management and reporting processes for metered-based services. A new consumption billing feature has now been added, enhancing visibility and managing billing in a secure, controlled environment, saving your company money, increasing customer satisfaction, and enabling you to grow your business faster. The new feature enhances the powerful and flexible service loading capability that enables you to load your services catalog into Cloudmore and gain all the usual benefits of Price Management, Subscription Management, Billing Aggregation and, Customer self-service. To achieve full automation, you can optionally add synchronization of consumption billing feeds via APIs from SaaS, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud environments, and licensing systems. All the existing Cloudmore service loading, such as provisioning type, renewals rules and notifications, and custom properties, apply in the same way for consumption services.  Once a new consumption service and associated products have been added to Cloudmore, the service will appear in the organization E-store and can be added by you or your customers in the usual way. Cloudmore has introduced this functionality in its [Digital Commerce](https://cloudmore.com/digital-commerce) Platform to ensure that all customers can automate the management and billing  for more types for services without the need for a complex technical integration, to reduce the total cost of ownership, and bring the benefits of digitization of processes, billing accuracy and higher levels of customer self-service to your business.    Watch or [Consumption Billing Video](https://youtu.be/x-CB_nvU5N0) to learn more or contact sales@cloudmore.com     #### Share this [Share on Twitter ](https://twitter.com/share?url=https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/introducing-consumption-billing&text=Introducing%20Consumption%20Billing) [Share on Facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/introducing-consumption-billing&t=Introducing%20Consumption%20Billing) [Share on LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/introducing-consumption-billing&t=Introducing%20Consumption%20Billing) Previous story [← Is Your Billing Wrong Despite Using a CSP Automation Platform?](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/is-your-billing-still-wrong-despite-using-a-csp-automation-platform) Next story [MSPs: Are You Clear on Your Cloud Costs and Margins? →](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/msps-are-you-clear-on-your-cloud-costs-and-margins-1) ### You May Also Like These Related Stories [The Big Cost of SaaS and IaaS Billing Mistakes](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/the-big-cost-of-saas-and-iaas-billing-mistakes) ![The Big Cost of SaaS and IaaS Billing Mistakes](https://cloudmore.com/hubfs/SAAS%20-%20Software-as-a-Service%20-%20Written%20on%20Blue%20Puzzle%20Pieces%201000x500.png) [Cloud billing](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/topic/cloud-billing) #### The Big Cost of SaaS and IaaS Billing Mistakes 05 December 2018 4 min read [Enhanced Subscription Management](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/enhanced-subscription-management) ![Enhanced Subscription Management](https://cloudmore.com/hubfs/Business%20man%20pointing%20the%20text%20Add%20Value%201000x500.png) [Subscription management](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/topic/subscription-management) #### Enhanced Subscription Management 06 April 2018 1 min read [Remove Azure Plan Billing Complexities With Cloudmore](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/remove-azure-plan-complexities-with-cloudmore-billing) ![Remove Azure Plan Billing Complexities With Cloudmore](https://cloudmore.com/hubfs/remove-azure-plan-complexities-with-cloudmore-billing-featured%201000x500.png) [Microsoft CSP](https://cloudmore.com/content-hub/topic/microsoft-csp) #### Remove Azure Plan Billing Complexities With Cloudmore 03 June 2021 2 min read ### Get Email Notifications