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Getting Started With Agents: Billing Agents in Business Central - Configure "Pay as You Go" (2025)

Configuring pay-as-you-go billing for Business Central agents: create an Azure resource group, set up a billing plan in Power Platform admin center, create a Dataverse environment and link it to Business Central, then monitor consumption and set Azure budgets.

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  1. 0:00 Introduction and billing problem
  2. 0:14 Creating an Azure resource group
  3. 0:41 Setting up billing plan in Power Platform admin center
  4. 1:16 Creating a new Dataverse environment
  5. 1:51 Linking Dataverse to Business Central
  6. 2:11 Verifying setup and monitoring consumption
  7. 2:42 Tracking costs and setting budgets
video Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) · 2025-08-18Watch on YouTube

Overview

The video shows how to keep agents running after the evaluation capacity is used up. Agent consumption is charged to an Azure subscription through a billing plan set up in Power Platform admin center.

It walks through the setup in order: Azure resource group, billing plan, new Dataverse environment, and the link to Business Central. It then shows how to verify the setup, monitor message consumption, and track costs and set budgets in Azure. Consumption data can take up to 24 hours to appear on the monitoring pages.

Key points

  • After some time a banner may say the evaluation capacity has been used up; pay-as-you-go billing enables more agent usage.
  • Agent consumption is charged to your Azure subscription.
  • The billing plan is configured in Power Platform admin center; select the pay as you go with Azure option and pick the billing policy or plan you created.
  • Setup steps shown: Azure resource group, billing plan, new Dataverse environment, link Dataverse to Business Central.
  • Monitor agent message consumption in Power Platform admin center under Copilot Studio environments.
  • Consumption data may take up to 24 hours to propagate to the monitoring pages.
  • Track costs with cost analysis on the Azure resource group, and create a budget with optional email alerts for pay-as-you-go messages.

Features

Every feature below: status not stated, demoed.

Feature At
Pay-as-you-go billing for agents 0:14
Agent consumption monitoring 2:19
Azure budget creation for agent spending 3:09

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

  • other “Copilot pane” at 0:03
  • other “Microsoft 365 admin center” at 0:14
  • other “Power Platform admin center” at 0:41
  • other “Copilot Studio” at 1:16
  • other “Dataverse environment” at 1:29

Quotes

  • 0:03 “After some time, a banner may appear explaining that the evaluation capacity has been used up.”
  • 0:14 “You can enable more usage by setting up pay as you go billing for the agents consumption.”
  • 0:26 “Agent consumption will be charged to your Azure subscription.”
  • 1:38 “Select the pay as you go with Azure option. Pick the billing policy or plan you have just created.”
  • 2:42 “Please note that while consumption is reported regularly by Business Central, it may take up to 24 hours for this data to propagate to”
  • 3:09 “Here you can create a budget to ensure you control how much you want to spend on pay as you go messages during a”

Disclaimers in the video

  • 2:42 subject-to-change: Consumption data may take up to 24 hours for this data to propagate to these pages