Subscribing to an offer

There are two ways for a user to subscribe to an offer:

• Cloud operators can create a subscription for a user from within the administrator portal. Subscriptions created by the cloud operator can include both public and private offers.
• Tenant users can subscribe to a public offer through the use of the user portal (self-service subscription creation).

We will work through each of these in turn, starting with the cloud operator subscription.

Cloud operator subscription

Cloud operators can use the administration portal to create a subscription to an offer on behalf of a user. Subscriptions can only be created for members of their own directory tenant. If multi-tenancy is enabled, you can also create subscriptions for users in the additional directory tenants.

The approach to creating subscriptions on behalf of tenants is a common approach when integrating Azure Stack Hub with external billing or service catalog systems. After a subscription...