Column dictionary

PricingQuantity

Pricing Quantity · Cost and Usage dataset

Feature level
Mandatory
Data type
Decimal
Allows nulls
Yes
Column type
Metric

What it is

The Pricing Quantity represents the volume of a given SKU associated with a resource or service used or purchased, based on the Pricing Unit. Distinct from Consumed Quantity (complementary to Consumed Unit), it focuses on pricing and cost, not resource and service consumption.

Requirements (8)

Verbatim from the specification. These are the statements the validator checks against.

  • PricingQuantity MUST be of type Decimal.
  • PricingQuantity MUST conform to NumericFormat requirements.
  • PricingQuantity MUST adhere to the following nullability requirements:
  • PricingQuantity MUST be null when SkuPriceId is null.
  • PricingQuantity MUST be null when ChargeCategory is "Tax".
  • PricingQuantity MUST NOT be null when ChargeCategory is "Usage" or "Purchase" and ChargeClass is not "Correction".
  • PricingQuantity MAY be null in all other cases.
  • Cost metric (e.g., ContractedCost) MUST equal the product of the corresponding unit price (e.g., ContractedUnitPrice) and PricingQuantity when the unit price is not null and PricingQuantity is not null.

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Definition taken from the FOCUS 1.4 specification. FOCUS is published by the FinOps Foundation under CC BY 4.0.

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