About vScope Billing

vScope Billing allows you to assign prices to IT assets and automatically calculate costs or revenue based on your asset inventory.

By linking assets to billing accounts and applying pricing rules, vScope Billing provides a structured and repeatable way to understand what IT assets cost, how they are used, and how pricing changes over time.

This section gives a high-level overview of the main concepts used in vScope Billing. Detailed setup and configuration are covered in the following articles.

What you can do with vScope Billing

With vScope Billing, you can:

• Assign prices to IT assets such as machines, users, licenses, and configurations
• Group assets into billing accounts representing customers, departments, or cost centers
• Generate recurring billing reports based on current and historical asset data
• Track pricing changes over time using versioned price lists
• Use asset history to support forecasting and retrospective analysis

Requirements

To use vScope Billing, you need:

• An active vScope Billing subscription
• Administrator permissions to configure billing accounts and pricing

Core concepts

vScope Billing is built around a small number of core concepts. Understanding these will make setup and configuration significantly easier.

Billing Account

A Billing Account represents the owner of a set of assets. This can be a customer, department, internal service, or other billable entity.

Assets assigned to the same Billing Account are priced together.

Price Lists

A Price List defines how assets are priced.

Each price list contains one or more Price Items and can be versioned to support pricing changes over time. Multiple price lists can be used to support different customers, currencies, or pricing models.

Agreements

An Agreement connects a Billing Account with a Price List.

Agreements are where pricing is calculated. A single Billing Account can have multiple agreements, for example to support different service tiers or parallel pricing models.

Price Items

A Price Item defines a single pricing rule.

Examples include:

• Price per CPU core
• Price per Windows Server
• Price per user account

Price items can include filters to ensure pricing only applies to relevant assets, such as:

• Only running machines
• Only Windows-based systems

Price Groups

A Price Group combines multiple price items into a single logical offering.

This is commonly used for packaged services, such as:

• Standard / Silver / Gold servers
• Fixed infrastructure bundles

A price group may also include bundled quantities (for example, including a fixed amount of RAM), ensuring that pricing is applied consistently and transparently.

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Next steps

To start using vScope Billing:

1. Assign assets to Billing Accounts
2. Generate Billing Accounts and Agreements
3. Review and customize Price Lists

These steps are covered in the following sections:

• Getting Started
• Price Lists