Introduction to listing options

When you create an offer type, you choose one or more listing options. These options determine the buttons that customers see on the offer listing page in the online stores. The listing options include Free Trial, Test Drive, Contact Me, and Get It Now.

This table shows which listing options are available for each offer type:

Offer type	Free Trial	Test Drive	Contact Me	Get It Now *
Azure Application (Managed app)	вњ”	вњ”
Azure Application (Solution template)	вњ”
Consulting service	вњ”
Azure Container	вњ”
Dynamics 365 business central	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”
Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement & PowerApps	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”
Dynamics 365 for operations	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”
IoT Edge module	вњ”
Managed Service	вњ”
Power BI App	вњ”
Azure Virtual Machine	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”
Software as a service	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”

* The Get It Now listing option includes Get It Now (Free), bring your own license (BYOL), Subscription, and Usage-based pricing. For more information, see Get It Now.

Change the offer type

Changing your offer type may require a simple edit and republish, or it may require you to create a new offer, as listed here.

To change from	To	Do this
Contact Me	Trial	Republish the offer
Contact Me	Transact	Create a new offer
Trial	Transact	Create a new offer

To add Test Drive to any offer, republish the offer.

Free Trial

Use the commercial marketplace to enhance discoverability and automate provisioning of your solution’s trial experience. This enables prospective customers to use your software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), or Microsoft in-app experience at no cost from 30 days to six months, depending on the offer type.

Customers use the Free Trial button on your offer’s listing page to try your offer. If you provide a free trial on multiple plans within the same offer, customers can switch to a free trial on another plan, but the trial period doesn’t restart.

For virtual machine offers, customers are charged Azure infrastructure costs for using the offer during a trial period. Upon expiration of the trial period, customers are automatically charged for the last plan they tried based on standard rates unless they cancel before the end of the trial period.

Test Drive

Customers use the Test Drive button on your offer’s listing page to get access to a preconfigured environment for a fixed number of hours. To learn more about test drives, see What is a test drive?.

The Test Drive option is different from the Free Trial. You can offer Test Drive, Free Trial, or both. They both provide your customers with your solution for a fixed time period. However, the Test Drive also includes a hands-on, self-guided tour of your product’s key features and benefits being demonstrated in a real-world implementation scenario.

Contact Me

This option is a simple listing of your application or service. Customers use the Contact Me button on your offer’s listing page to request that you connect with them about your offer.

Get It Now

This listing option includes transactable offers (subscriptions or user-based pricing), bring your own license (BYOL) offers, and Get It Now (Free). Transactable offers are sold through the commercial marketplace. Microsoft is responsible for billing and collections. Customers use the Get It Now button to get the offer.

This table shows which offer types support the pricing options that are included with the Get It Now listing option.

Offer type	Get It Now (Free)	BYOL	Subscription	Usage-based pricing
Azure Application (Managed app)	вњ”	вњ”
Azure Application (Solution template)	вњ”
Consulting service
Azure Container	вњ” 1	вњ” 1
Dynamics 365 business central	вњ”
Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement & PowerApps	вњ”
Dynamics 365 for operations	вњ”
IoT Edge module	вњ” 1	вњ” 1
Managed Service	вњ”
Power BI App	вњ”
Azure Virtual Machine	вњ”	вњ” 2
Software as a service	вњ”	вњ”	вњ”

1 The Pricing model column of the Plan overview tab shows Free or BYOL, but it’s not selectable.

2 Priced per hour and billed monthly.

Get It Now (Free)

Use this listing option to offer your application for free. Customers use the Get It Now button to get your free offer.

Get It Now (Free) offers aren’t eligible for Marketplace Rewards benefits for transactable offers. Because there’s no transaction through the storefront, these are categorized as Trial. See Marketplace Rewards.

Bring Your Own License (BYOL)

Use this listing option to let customers deploy your offer using a license purchased outside the commercial marketplace. This option is ideal for on-premises-to-cloud migrations. Customers use the Get It Now button to purchase your offer using a license they pre-purchased from you.

BYOL offers aren’t eligible for Marketplace Rewards benefits for transactable offers. Because these require a customer to acquire the license from the partner and there’s no transaction through the commercial marketplace storefront, these are categorized as List. See Marketplace Rewards.

Subscription

You can charge a flat fee for these offer types:

• Azure Application (Managed app) offers support for monthly subscriptions.
• SaaS offers support for both monthly and annual subscriptions.

Usage-based pricing

The following offer types support usage-based pricing:

• Azure Application (Managed app) offer support for metered billing. For more information, see Managed application metered billing.
• SaaS offers support for Metered billing and per user (per seat) pricing. For more information about metered billing, see Metered billing for SaaS using the commercial marketplace metering service.
• Azure virtual machine offers support for Per core, Per core size, and Per market and core size pricing. These options are priced per hour and billed monthly.

When you create a transactable offer, it’s important to understand the pricing, billing, invoicing, and payout considerations before you select an offer type and create your offer. To learn more, see Commercial marketplace online stores.

Sample offer

After your offer is published, the listing options you chose appear as buttons in the upper-left corner of the listing page in the online store. For example, the following image shows an offer listing page in the Microsoft AppSource online store with the Get It Now and Test Drive buttons:

Listing and pricing options by online store

Based on various criteria, we determine whether your offer is listed on Azure Marketplace, Microsoft AppSource, or both online stores. For more information about the differences between the two online stores, see Commercial marketplace online stores.

The following table shows the options that are available for different offer types and add-ins, and which online stores your offer can be listed on.

Offer types and add-ins	Contact Me	Free Trial	Get It Now (Free)	BYOL	Get It Now (Transact)
Azure Virtual Machine	Azure Marketplace	Azure Marketplace
Azure Application	Azure Marketplace	Azure Marketplace	Azure Marketplace
Azure Container	Azure Marketplace	Azure Marketplace
IoT Edge module	Azure Marketplace	Azure Marketplace
Managed service	Azure Marketplace
Consulting service	Both online stores
SaaS	Both online stores	Both online stores	Both online stores	Both online stores *
Microsoft 365 App	AppSource	AppSource	AppSource **
Dynamics 365 Business Central	AppSource	AppSource
Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagements & PowerApps	AppSource	AppSource
Dynamics 365 Operations	AppSource	AppSource
Power BI App	AppSource

* SaaS transactable offers in AppSource only accept credit cards at this time.

** Microsoft 365 add-ins are free to install and can be monetized using an SaaS offer. For more information, see Monetize your app through the commercial marketplace.

Marketplace Rewards

Your Marketplace Rewards benefits depend on the listing option you choose. To learn more, see Your commercial marketplace benefits.

If your offer is transactable, you will earn benefits as you increase your billed sales.

Non-transactable offers earn benefits based on whether or not a free trial is attached.

Next steps

To choose an offer type to create, see Publishing guide by offer type.

Windows Compatible Products List

The Windows Compatible Products List is a comprehensive list of certified devices and systems. The Windows Compatible Products list has the following features and restrictions:

• You can find devices and systems by filtering the list or by running a search for a specific product name.
• You can search across all certified devices and systems for the entire catalog.
• If you need an OEM system report for RFPs, you can search for the product/marketing name and receive a verification report, which you can download.
• The Compatible Products List displays Declarative & Universal status for all Device Classes.

System search does not support the D & U status field. Therefore, you must set the D & U Status search field dropdown to All to see system results.

Searching for Marketing and Product names for systems or devices

If you search using the Marketing/Product Name box, the Compatible Products List returns matches in the product name, submission name, and marketing name fields. Consider these:

• Limit your search to plain text, without quotes or wildcards.
• Any spaces between words are treated as AND expressions.
• Do not use any special characters or search-limiting terms. For example, do not use (OR, AND, ””, *, ?, etc.).

Searching for a Company Name

Limit your searches to plain text, without quotes or wildcards. For example, do not use (OR, AND, ””, *, ?, etc.).

The search function will auto-complete results after you type five letters.

You may find that some companies are listed twice. This is a result of merging the previous database with Hardware Dev Center. Each entry is different, so it’s best to search using the Marketing/Product Name field.

Product Terms site

The Product Terms site details the availability, use terms, and privacy/security commitments for Microsoft Products and Services acquired through Microsoft Commercial Volume Licensing Programs. The Product Terms site replaces the Product Terms and Online Services Terms documents. All references to the Product Terms and/or Online Services Terms in the Customer’s licensing agreements refer to the applicable sections of the Product Terms site.

These Product Terms cover all products no matter when the acquisition was made under Commercial Licensing. Historic terms granted at the time of purchase will be honored by Microsoft. Earlier versions of Terms are available here.

Get Started

To find your terms, simply start at Product Offerings. From here you can navigate to the Product or Online Service of your choosing and view all terms that apply to your use of the software or Online Service.

How to Use This Site

This site is designed to bring together the terms for all Products and Services offered in our Commercial Licensing Programs and provide the ability to view only the terms relevant to your Product(s) and Program(s). This allows for detailed, specific information on the Product and Program of interest.

Select a Program

To see the applicable terms, you will first need to determine the Commercial Licensing Program you are using or interested in. Learn more about volume license programs.

Once a Program is selected, you can navigate to the Product Offerings page and select the desired Product or Service to view the applicable terms. When viewing a specific Product or Service, the terms will be grouped into the following sections:

Navigation

The left-hand side of the site offers the top level navigation for the user to search for specific details on Product Offerings, including software and, online-services. Additionally, or detailed licensing information is provided below Product Offerings.

If a customer wants to know about how to purchase Exchange Server and what the terms are, they would:

1. Click on Product Offerings
2. Under the category — Software — Search for and click on Exchange Server
3. You will see the following in the top/breadcrumb nav:

This indicates you are viewing the information about Exchange Server in the licensing program you have selected.

If a customer wants to know about how to purchase Microsoft 365 Business and what the terms are, they would:

1. Click on Product Offerings
2. Under the category — Software — Search for and click on Microsoft 365 Business
3. You will see the following in the top/breadcrumb nav:

This indicates you are viewing the information about Microsoft 365 Business.