Daily PEC check: Ensuring Microsoft Azure Plan profitability with automation

Maintaining Partner Earned Credit (PEC) is crucial for profitability for Microsoft partners reselling Azure services. However, managing PEC manually can be challenging, especially when customers unknowingly revoke admin access, leading to unexpected revenue losses. ActivePlatform now offers a daily PEC check feature in the Operator Control Panel, enabling automated monitoring of PEC status, coverage, and margins.

Partner Earned Credit (PEC) is a financial incentive that Microsoft provides to partners who maintain admin access to their customers’ Azure subscriptions. It reduces the partner’s cost of Azure services, improving margins and ensuring profitability.
Losing PEC means partners pay full price for Azure services, significantly reducing their earnings. The primary reason for losing PEC is the loss of admin access, often caused by customers who:

• Revoke access for security reasons, leading to automatic PEC removal.
• Unintentionally remove admin privileges without understanding the financial impact.

Without automation, tracking PEC status across multiple Azure Plan subscriptions is complex and time-consuming. The operations team must manually check consumption reports and compare data, increasing the risk of missed changes. If PEC is lost and not quickly restored, it results in unrecoverable financial losses.

The daily PEC check feature in ActivePlatform’s Operator Control Panel automates PEC tracking, allowing the operations team to:
✅ Monitor PEC status for the previous day to ensure compliance.
✅ Analyze PEC coverage percentage and margin for a billing period to assess financial impact.
✅ Receive instant notifications on PEC status changes to take corrective action immediately.

To prevent financial losses, ActivePlatform allows partners to configure notifications for PEC status changes in any direction:
📢 Loss alerts – Immediate notifications when PEC is lost, prompting the team to restore admin access.
📢 Recovery alerts – Confirmation messages when PEC is regained, ensuring full credit coverage.

With the daily PEC check, ActivePlatform eliminates manual effort, reduces financial risks, and ensures that partners maximize their Microsoft Azure Plan margins. By automating PEC tracking, resellers can focus on growing their business while maintaining full control over their profitability.

Ready to see how it works? Book a demo today and discover how ActivePlatform can help you streamline PEC monitoring and optimize your cloud business.

ActivePlatform is a full-service automated cloud brokering solution for cloud service providers and internal IT hubs that makes it easier to manage and control the cloud delivery and profitability. ActivePlatform unites vendors, providers, developers, and resellers into a single ecosystem for buying, selling, and managing cloud services. With its open vendor integration framework, ActivePlatform creates a vibrant catalog of cloud services ultimately helping businesses gain access to the services they need to thrive.

ActivePlatform enables SaaS, PaaS, IaaS aggregation, delivery, and monetization, provides simplified administration through central management, and enables critical visibility into resellers and cloud services consumption and usage. The platform has implementations with distributors, cloud solution providers, and telecom operators. ActivePlatform is headquartered in Europe.