Why the marketplace is a conversation and not a button

The marketplace's seller terms state that a seller is not permitted to collect customer payment information at any time. {{claim:marketplace-no-customer-payment}}

A checkout button beside a marketplace button, on one page, for one transaction, is a design that walks straight into that. So the marketplace is not a second payment option here. It is a different route with a different threshold, and you reach it by talking to somebody, not by clicking something.

The pitch is procurement, not discount. A buyer who already has the marketplace's legal terms does not need a master agreement, a vendor onboarding round, or a new purchase order. That is worth more than a percentage to the person who has to get the purchase through, and it is the actual reason to use the rail. The fee is 0.5 per cent, and falls to zero inside a qualifying multi-product solution. {{claim:marketplace-fee}}

Registration is the long pole: four to eight weeks. The listing is a November surface. Nothing on this site depends on it. {{claim:marketplace-registration}}

One correction, carried here rather than dropped

Professional services listings do not draw down committed spend on the cloud provider. Three independent sources state the exclusion.

An earlier version of the marketplace argument said the opposite. That version is on no page of this site, and this paragraph exists so that if somebody repeats the old claim in a room, the correction is findable rather than remembered. {{claim:no-committed-spend}}