This article answers questions about the try and buy feature in Microsoft Marketplace.
What is Microsoft Marketplace?
Microsoft Marketplace is a single web destination for customers to find, try, and buy cloud solutions and AI agents. It brings together business and industry solutions (for example, apps that integrate with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform) and infrastructure and developer solutions built on Azure into one unified catalog.
What is required to purchase solutions from Microsoft Marketplace?
Microsoft Marketplace requires that customers have a Microsoft Entra ID for purchases. Offers that provision resources in Azure (for example, virtual machines or managed applications) also require an active Azure subscription. If required accounts or subscriptions aren't in place, the purchase flow prompts the customer to create them.
What payment methods are supported in Microsoft Marketplace?
Microsoft Marketplace supports credit card payments or invoicing. Offers that bill through an Azure subscription are added to the customer's Azure bill and are charged according to the payment method associated with that subscription. Marketplace purchases are not covered by (paid for from) Azure Sponsorship funds.
What is the difference between a free trial and a demo?
Both are great ways to make sure that a solution is the right choice for your organization before you commit to a purchase.
- Free Trial: Access the full solution for a limited time. A free trial can be useful when you want to evaluate a solution's capabilities within your exact business scenarios.
- Demo: Watch a short explanatory video that highlights the top features and capabilities of an application.
What offer types can be purchased through Microsoft Marketplace?
Customers can purchase the following offer types through Microsoft Marketplace:
- Azure Application (Managed application)
- Azure Container
- Azure Virtual Machine
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Dynamics 365 apps on Dataverse and Power Apps
- Power BI visual
What can block a purchase in Microsoft Marketplace?
Requirements vary by offer in Microsoft Marketplace. For offers that require identity and billing, the customer must have a credit card with a billing address in the same country/region as their Microsoft Entra ID, and the Microsoft Entra admin must ensure that authentication to Marketplace isn't blocked by organizational settings. For offers that provision resources in Azure, the customer must have an active Azure subscription and a user account with Owner or Contributor permissions on that subscription. The Azure administrator must ensure that Azure Policy doesn't conflict with the offer and that Marketplace access within the subscription isn't disabled.
What does "image doesn't require plan information" mean?
In instances where a customer is in the process of deploying a first-party VM offer and encounters an issue, it is often due to the inclusion of a planObject within the ARM template. To resolve this complication, the recommended course of action is to remove the plan information from the ARM template and try deploying the VM again.