What's new in the Microsoft commercial marketplace

Learn about important updates in the commercial marketplace program of Partner Center. This page is updated frequently, so be sure to check back often!

New features

Category Description Date
Offers Setup and maintenance of Power BI Visuals is migrating from the Office Store to the commercial marketplace this month. This FAQ provides a summary of improvements to the offer submission process. To start, see Plan a Power BI visual offer. 2021-09-21
Offers While private plans were previously only available on the Azure portal, they are now also available on Microsoft AppSource. 2021-09-10
Analytics Publishers of Azure application offers can view offer deployment health in the Quality of service (QoS) reports. QoS helps publishers understand the reasons for offer deployment failures and provides actionable insights for their remediation. For details, see Quality of service (QoS) dashboard. 2021-09-07
Offers Additional properties at the plan level are now available for Azure Virtual Machine offers. See the virtual machine technical configuration properties article for more information. 2021-07-26
Fees Microsoft has reduced its standard store service fee to 3%. See Commercial marketplace transact capabilities and Common questions about payouts and taxes, "How do I find the current Store Service Fee and the payout rate?". 2021-07-14
Offers Publishers can publish a virtual machine (VM) that they have built on premises. To learn more, see Create a virtual machine using your own image. 2021-06-23
Customer engagement Publishers can now respond to user reviews on Azure Marketplace or AppSource. To learn more, see Ratings & Reviews analytics dashboard in Partner Center. 2021-06-03

Tax updates

Category Description Date
Taxation Nigeria and Thailand are now Microsoft-managed countries in Azure Marketplace. 2021-09-13
Taxation End-customer taxation in Australia is managed by Microsoft, except for customer purchases made through an enterprise agreement, which are managed by the publisher. 2021-07-01
Taxation Updated tax details page country list to include the following:
  • Argentina
  • Bulgaria
  • Hong Kong SAR
  • Korea (South)
  • Pakistan
  • Palestinian Authority
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Senegal
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • Uzbekistan
  • Zimbabwe
 2021-07-01
Taxation Nigeria moved from the "shared publisher/developer-managed countries" list to the “end-customer taxation with differences in Marketplaces". 2021-07-01

Documentation updates

Category Description Date
Policy We’ve created an FAQ topic to answer publisher questions about the Microsoft Publisher Agreement. 2021-09-27
Policy We've updated the Microsoft Publisher Agreement. For change history, see Microsoft Publisher Agreement Version 8.0 – October 2021 Update. 2021-09-14
Policy Updated certification policy for September; see change history. 2021-09-10
Offers New article describes the quality of offer deployments reporting available on the Quality of Service dashboard. 2021-08-27
Offers We moved the list of categories and industries from our Marketing Best Practices topic to their own page. 2021-08-20
Offers The Commercial marketplace transact capabilities topic now includes a flowchart to help you determine the appropriate transactable offer type and pricing plan to sell your software in the commercial marketplace. 2021-08-18
Policy Updated certification policy; see change history. 2021-08-06
Co-sell Information added for the MACC program including, requirements, how often we update MACC status, and definitions for Enrolled, and not Enrolled. To learn more, see Azure Consumption Commitment enrollment, or Co-sell with Microsoft sales teams and partners overview. 2021-06-03
Offers Additional information regarding VM pricing options and descriptions. To learn more see How to plan a SaaS offer for the commercial marketplace. 2021-05-25
API guidance This topic gives publishers a single convenient location to find recent changes to the commercial marketplace, including updates to certification policy, changes to tax rules, and more. To learn more, see Align your business with our e-commerce platform. 2021-05-13
Policy Updated certification policy; see change history. 2021-05-07