Introducing Split Total Cost: Distribute Shared Costs Fairly Across Billing Accounts

First, some context

Many IT costs are hard to pin to a single department or service. Backup, network infrastructure, shared platforms — these are costs consumed by multiple accounts, but they still need to be distributed in a fair and transparent way.

Until now, that usually meant some form of spreadsheet and a fair bit of manual work. With Split Total Cost, vScope can do it for you.

What is Split Total Cost?

Split Total Cost is a new way to create price items in vScope Billing. Instead of calculating costs from assets and configurations, you enter a known total — and choose how it should be distributed across your accounts.

There are two ways to split:

• Per Asset — The cost is distributed proportionally based on each Billing Account’s share of assets, such as number of users.
• Usage-based — The cost is distributed proportionally based on actual consumption, such as database size per Billing Account.

When should you use it?

Split Total Cost is particularly useful when you have a fixed cost shared across multiple accounts — for example:

• Shared backup or storage infrastructure
• A platform subscription used across multiple departments
• Centralized licenses or overhead costs

Get started

1. Open Billing in vScope and go to your price list.
2. Add a new price item and select Split Total Cost as the type.
3. Enter the total cost and choose your split method.
4. Save and you’re done!

vScope Billing will now automatically distribute the cost across the Billing Accounts using the price list.

More details are available in our support article. Want to see it in action? Book a demo and we’ll get you up and running in no time.