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Pre-Authorized Auto-Renewal

Let an AWS agreement renew on terms the buyer already agreed to, instead of negotiating a new private offer each cycle.


Overview

Pre-authorized auto-renewal (PAR) is a renewal term carried on the private offer itself. The buyer accepts the renewal rules once, when they accept the offer; AWS then renews the agreement on those rules without a new offer, a new acceptance, or a new signature.

There are two halves, and they live in different places:

WhereWho
Configure the termsThe offer form, before the buyer accepts. Terms are fixed at acceptance.Seller
Manage the renewalThe Renewal section on the entitlement, after the buyer accepts.Seller

Renewal terms can be configured from the Suger Console and from the Suger Salesforce app.

Which offers can carry renewal terms

The Configure renewal terms section appears only on an eligible offer. It is not a setting you can switch on — eligibility is decided by the offer itself:

RequirementDetail
Offer typeCONTRACT, PROFESSIONAL_SERVICES, CONTAINER, or AMI.
Has commitsThe offer must carry at least one committed dimension.
No usage dimensionsThe offer must have zero usage/metered dimensions.
Not a resale authorizationCPPO offers are excluded.
Not agreement-basedAn offer created from an existing agreement is excluded.

Configure renewal terms

Renewal option

Pick one:

OptionWhat it means
No price upliftRenew at the same price each cycle.
Price upliftIncrease pricing by a fixed percentage, or within a pre-negotiated range, each cycle.
No renewalDo not include auto-renewal terms with this offer.

Price uplift type

Price uplift asks for one of two shapes:

Uplift typeFieldsRules
Fixed percentagePrice increase percentage0–100, at most two decimal places.
Percentage rangeMinimum, Maximum and Default uplift percentageEach 0–100. Minimum must be less than Maximum, and Default must fall inside the range.

A percentage range is what makes the renewal adjustable later: it is the pre-negotiated band the seller may move the final figure within before each renewal. A fixed percentage has nothing to adjust.

Lockout period and adjustment deadline

Both are stated as durations measured back from the agreement’s end date, and both bound when the seller may still act:

FieldWhat it boundsConstraint
Lockout periodAfter this point the renewal is locked — the seller can no longer opt out.Must be greater than zero and shorter than the contract duration.
Adjustment deadlineAfter this point the uplift percentage can no longer be changed.Required for a percentage range, and must be greater than the lockout period.

The deadline being later than the lockout is the point of the pair: pricing stays adjustable for a while after the decision to renew has been sealed.

Renewal count

Renewal count is either Definite — a specific number of renewals, at least 1 — or Indefinite, which renews until someone stops it.

Renewal payment schedule

An offer with installments can carry a renewal payment schedule, so each renewed term is invoiced on the same rhythm as the first:

  • At most 48 installment entries across the offer.
  • Each entry’s % of total is between 0.01 and 100, with at most two decimal places.
  • The entries must total exactly 100%. A schedule that totals 99.99% is rejected rather than rounded.

The section opens only when the offer actually has installments; a single-payment offer has no schedule to renew.

Manage the renewal after acceptance

Once the buyer accepts, the terms are on the agreement and the entitlement grows a Renewal section with two tabs.

Renewal details

FieldWhat it tells you
Renewal statusWhether the agreement is set to renew.
Renewal pricingThe uplift shape that was agreed — none, fixed, or a range.
Price uplift rangeThe pre-negotiated minimum and maximum, on a range term.
Default uplift percentageWhere inside the range the uplift sits if nobody adjusts it.
Final uplift valueThe figure that will actually be applied.
Renewal countDefinite (with the number) or Indefinite.
Lockout dateThe date after which opting out is no longer possible.
Adjustment deadlineThe date after which the uplift can no longer be changed.
Next renewal dateWhen the next term begins.
Renewal disabled reasonShown only when the agreement will not renew, and says why.

When the offer carried one, a Renewal payment schedule table follows: contract duration, number of installments, and a row per installment with its payment timing and % of total.

Renewal history

The Renewal history tab lists the chain of agreements — each renewal produced its own agreement ID, and the previous agreement is named. When Suger has not yet read a predecessor in the chain, the tab says Predecessor pending rather than showing a broken chain.

Adjust uplift %

Moves the final uplift inside the pre-negotiated range.

Offered only when all of these hold:

  • the term is a percentage range — a no-uplift or fixed-percentage term has nothing to adjust;
  • the agreement has not yet passed its adjustment deadline;
  • the entitlement is live and has no pending cancellation.

Opt out of auto-renewal

Stops the agreement renewing. Unlike the uplift adjustment this applies to any renewal term — stopping a renewal is independent of how it was priced — but it must happen before the lockout date.

Both take effect asynchronously

AWS propagates a renewal change on its own schedule, so neither action is reflected the moment you confirm it. Give it a few minutes and refresh the entitlement; the Renewal details tab shows the state AWS has actually recorded, not what was requested.

What the buyer sees

The renewal produces a new agreement, not an extension of the old one. The buyer’s original agreement ends on its end date and the renewed agreement starts alongside it — which is why a renewed customer has more than one agreement in their AWS console, and why the entitlement list shows a new entitlement rather than a moved end date. See Accept Private Offer.

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