This article shows the steps needed to transfer billing ownership of an (MOSP) Microsoft Online Services Program, also referred to as pay-as-you-go, Azure subscription to another MOSP account.
Before you transfer billing ownership for a subscription, read Azure subscription and reservation transfer hub to ensure that your transfer type is supported.
If you want to keep your billing ownership but change subscription type, see Switch your Azure subscription to another offer. To control who can access resources in the subscription, see Azure built-in roles.
If you're an Enterprise Agreement (EA) customer, your enterprise administrator can transfer billing ownership of your subscriptions between accounts. For more information, Change Azure subscription or account ownership.
Only the billing administrator of an account can transfer ownership of a subscription.
When you send or accept a transfer request, you agree to terms and conditions. For more information, see Transfer terms and conditions.
Transfer billing ownership of an Azure subscription
Sign in to the Azure portal as an administrator of the billing account that has the subscription that you want to transfer. If you're not sure if you're an administrator, or if you need to determine who is, see Determine account billing administrator.
Navigate to Subscriptions and the select the one that you want to transfer.
At the top of the page, select Transfer billing ownership.
On the Transfer billing ownership page, enter the email address of a user that is a billing administrator of the account that will be the new owner for the subscription.
If you're transferring your subscription to an account in another Azure AD tenant, select Move subscription tenant to move the subscription to the new account's tenant. For more information, see Transferring subscription to an account in another Azure AD tenant.
Important
If you choose to move the subscription to the new account's Azure AD tenant, all Azure role assignments to access resources in the subscription are permanently removed. Only the user in the new account who accepts your transfer request will have access to manage resources in the subscription. Alternatively, you can clear the Move subscription tenant option to transfer billing ownership without moving the subscription to the new account's tenant. If you do so, existing Azure role assignments to access Azure resources will be maintained.
Select Send transfer request.
The user gets an email with instructions to review your transfer request.
To approve the transfer request, the user selects the link in the email and follows the instructions. The user then selects a payment method that will be used to pay for the subscription. If the user doesn't have an Azure account, they have to sign up for a new account.
Success! The subscription is now transferred.
Transfer a subscription to another Azure AD tenant account
An Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant is created for you when you sign up for Azure. The tenant represents your account. You use the tenant to manage access to your subscriptions and resources.
When you create a new subscription, it's hosted in your account's Azure AD tenant. If you want to give others access to your subscription or its resources, you need to invite them to join your tenant. Doing so helps you control access to your subscriptions and resources.
When you transfer billing ownership of your subscription to an account in another Azure AD tenant, you can move the subscription to the new account's tenant. If you do so, all users, groups, or service principals that had Azure role assignments to manage subscriptions and its resources lose their access. Only the user in the new account who accepts your transfer request will have access to manage the resources. The new owner must manually add these users to the subscription to provide access to the user who lost it. For more information, see Transfer an Azure subscription to a different Azure AD directory.
Transfer Visual Studio and Partner Network subscriptions
Visual Studio and Microsoft Cloud Partner Program subscriptions have monthly recurring Azure credit associated with them. When you transfer these subscriptions, your credit isn't available in the destination billing account. The subscription uses the credit in the destination billing account. For example, if Bob transfers a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription to Jane's account on September 9 and Jane accepts the transfer. After the transfer is completed, the subscription starts using credit in Jane's account. The credit will reset every ninth day of the month.
Next steps after accepting billing ownership
If you've accepted the billing ownership of an Azure subscription, we recommend you review these next steps:
Review and update the Service Admin, Co-Admins, and Azure role assignments. To learn more, see Add or change Azure subscription administrators and Assign Azure roles using the Azure portal.
Update credentials associated with this subscription's services including:
Management certificates that grant the user admin rights to subscription resources. For more information, see Create and upload a management certificate for Azure
Access keys for services like Storage. For more information, see About Azure storage accounts
Remote Access credentials for services like Azure Virtual Machines.
If you're working with a partner, consider updating the partner ID on the subscription. You can update the partner ID in the Azure portal. For more information, see Link a partner ID to your Azure accounts
Cancel a transfer request
Only one transfer request is active at a time. A transfer request is valid for 15 days. After the 15 days, the transfer request expires.
Navigate to Subscriptions > Select the subscription that you sent a transfer request for, then select Transfer billing ownership.
At the bottom of the page, select Cancel the transfer request.
Troubleshooting
Use the following troubleshooting information if you're having trouble transferring subscriptions.
Original Azure subscription billing owner leaves your organization
Note
This section specifically applies to a billing account for a Microsoft Customer Agreement. Check if you have access to a Microsoft Customer Agreement.
It's possible that the original billing account owner who created an Azure account and an Azure subscription leaves your organization. If that situation happens, then their user identity is no longer in the organization's Azure Active Directory. Then the Azure subscription doesn't have a billing owner. This situation prevents anyone from performing billing operations to the account, including viewing and paying bills. The subscription could go into a past-due state. Eventually, the subscription could get disabled because of non-payment. Ultimately, the subscription could get deleted, affecting every service that runs on the subscription.
When a subscription no longer has a valid billing account owner, Azure sends an email to other Billing account owners, Service Administrators (if any), Co-Administrators (if any), and Subscription Owners informing them of the situation and provides them with a link to accept billing ownership of the subscription. Any one of the users can select the link to accept billing ownership. For more information about billing roles, see Billing Roles and Classic Roles and Azure RBAC Roles.
Here's an example of what the email looks like.
Additionally, Azure shows a banner in the subscription's details window in the Azure portal to Billing owners, Service Administrators, Co-Administrators, and Subscription Owners. Select the link in the banner to accept billing ownership.
The "Transfer subscription" option is unavailable
The self-service subscription transfer isn't available for your billing account. For more information, see Azure subscription and reservation transfer hub to ensure that your transfer type is supported.
Not all subscription types can transfer
Not all types of subscriptions support billing ownership transfer. To view the list of subscription types that support transfers, see Azure subscription transfer hub.
Access denied error shown when trying to transfer subscription billing ownership
You'll see this error if you're trying to transfer a Microsoft Azure Plan subscription and you don't have the necessary permission. To transfer a Microsoft Azure plan subscription, you need to be an owner or contributor on the invoice section to which the subscription is billed. For more information, see Manage subscriptions for invoice section.
If you have questions or need help, create a support request.
Next steps
Review and update the Service Admin, Co-Admins, and Azure role assignments. To learn more, see Add or change Azure subscription administrators and Assign Azure roles using the Azure portal.
The product transfer requestor must have one of the following permissions: For a Microsoft Customer Agreement, the person must have an owner or contributor role for the billing account or for the relevant billing profile or invoice section. For more information, see Billing roles and tasks.
A subscription owner can manage all resources and permissions within the subscription but cannot transfer ownership of the subscription. You can convert a free trial subscription to Pay-As-You-Go. This is common practice for people who wish to continue using the Azure services when the free trial period expires.
Go to the Resource groups blade in the Azure portal and then navigate to the particular resource group.Step 2 — Click on Move button and then select Move to another subscription option. Step 3 — Next in the resources to move screen, review the resources that are to be moved over which are all automatically selected.
Go to subscriptions and select the subscription you want to move.Select the subscription and press “Change directory” and select the new Tenant.Press “Change” to apply the changes. The change will take some time.
Both the source and destination subscriptions should be under the same tenant then only resources migration will be possible. The subscription which is under a different directory can be brought to the same tenant by changing the directory option, but it supports only for few offers types.
Overview of Azure resource types that can be moved across resource groups, subscriptions, or regions. Use Azure Resource Manager to move classic deployment resources to a new resource group or subscription. Use Azure Resource Manager to move virtual machines to a new resource group or subscription.
Owner - Has full access to all resources including the right to delegate access to others.Contributor - Can create and manage all types of Azure resources but can't grant access to others.
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Select All services > Management groups. Select the management group you're planning that is the current parent. Select the ellipse at the end of the row for the subscription in the list you want to move. Select Move.
When you define your management group hierarchy, first create the root management group.Then move all existing subscriptions in the directory into the root management group. New subscriptions always go into the root management group initially. Later, you can move them to another management group.
You can move a VM and its associated resources to a different subscription by using the Azure portal. Go to the Azure portal to manage the resource group containing the VM to move. Search for and select Resource groups. Choose the resource group containing the VM that you would like to move.
An Azure AD tenant is a specific instance of Azure AD containing accounts and groups. Paid or trial subscriptions of Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365 include a free Azure AD tenant. This Azure AD tenant does not include other Azure services and is not the same as an Azure trial or paid subscription.
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Can I use the same Azure Migrate project to migrate to multiple subscriptions? Yes, you can migrate to multiple subscriptions (same Azure tenant) in the same target region for an Azure Migrate project.
To get an idea of how those savings will impact your company, business owners can use the Microsoft Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) tool to calculate their savings using a cloud-based ERP.
As a security best practice, a maximum number of 3 owners should be designated for a Microsoft Azure subscription. By monitoring the number of subscription owners using Azure Security Center you can enforce these best practices and always maintain a maximum of 3 subscription owners.
Yes, technically with some work around you can merge Azure subscription by shifting the resource group from one subscription to another within the same tenant.
In-order to start the resources movement between accounts, as the first step, link the target subscription to the destination tenant. The source and destination subscriptions must exist within the same Azure Active Directory tenant to support the resource movement.
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Search for Resource groups and select them. Click on the resource group that contains the VM that you want to move. You will see the Move tab at the top of the resource group. Select it, and then click on Move to another subscription.
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