BillOps: Unlocking True Cost Visibility

Solving Cloud Billing Complexity with BillOps
— By Parthu Kishen & Connor Schmidt, Product Management, CoreStack

Cloud billing is often one of the most misunderstood and under-leveraged aspects of cloud financial management. In large organizations, billing data is fragmented, pricing models are complex, and visibility into actual spend is limited. Finance teams struggle to reconcile costs, business units lack transparency, and cloud governance leaders are left navigating spreadsheets and assumptions.

CoreStack’s BillOps capability solves this by introducing a rerating engine that recalculates cloud costs based on real-world pricing models—markups, discounts, contracts, and multi-year views. It supports both retroactive and forward-looking billing scenarios, enabling organizations to reflect true cost across departments, projects, and services.

Whether you're implementing multi-tier chargeback, analyzing margins, or aligning billing with business context, BillOps transforms billing from a reactive report into a proactive financial tool.

What Is BillOps?
BillOps is CoreStack’s advanced billing operations engine designed to deliver true cost visibility and financial control across cloud environments. It enables organizations to:

• Recalculate cloud costs using custom pricing logic (e.g., markups, discounts, contracts)
• Support multi-tier chargeback workflows that mirror internal financial structures
• Analyze margins across services, departments, or tenants for profitability insights
• Publish cost views based on roles and hierarchy, ensuring secure, relevant access

BillOps turns cloud billing into a strategic advantage by aligning financial operations with business reality.

Key Capabilities That Solve Real Problems
Here are some of the common billing and cost management pain points organizations deal with—and how a BillOps solution can help solve them:

True Cost Visibility
Organizations often rely on list prices or blended rates that don’t reflect actual spend, leading to budgeting inaccuracies and poor financial accountability.

BillOps recalculates cloud costs using real-world pricing models—markups, discounts, contracts, and multi-year views—so finance teams and business units can see what they’re truly spending and plan accordingly.

Multi-Tier Chargeback
Large organizations struggle to allocate cloud costs across departments, projects, and teams—especially when shared accounts or environments are involved.

BillOps supports multi-tier chargeback models that mirror your financial structure, enabling precise cost allocation from central teams (like a CCoE) down to individual projects.

Margin Intelligence
Internal business units and partners often lack visibility into profitability across services or tenants, making it hard to optimize pricing or service delivery.

BillOps surfaces provider costs, markups, and pricing logic to enable margin analysis—helping both enterprises and partners make smarter, more profitable decisions.

Flexible Rerating
Static billing models don’t account for evolving contracts, negotiated discounts, or custom pricing agreements.

BillOps allows organizations to apply custom rerating logic that reflects internal agreements or tenant-specific pricing—ensuring billing reflects reality, not just provider defaults.

Why It Matters: Business Outcomes That Drive Impact
BillOps helps organizations move from reactive cost reporting to intelligent financial governance:

• Faster Budgeting Cycles: Accurate cost data enables proactive planning.
• Improved Financial Accountability: Stakeholders see what they’re responsible for.
• Reduced Revenue Leakage: Ensure all markups and discounts are applied correctly.
• Strategic Pricing Power: Transparently show value-added insights without exposing upstream costs.
• Accelerated Time-to-Value: Organizations onboard faster, with billing aligned to their structure from day one.

See BillOps in Action
Ready to see what you really pay—and why it matters? Explore BillOps in action and discover how CoreStack can transform your cloud billing strategy. Experience BillOps in action at corestack.io/billops.