Pro License email? Guest users to see my PBIs? I'm confused...

[PaulDBrown]

Hi everyone,

I have been polishing my Power Bi skills for some months and I'm now hoping to sell Power BI implementations to clients.

My confusion...

As far as I know, you need a Pro License to share and indeed consume shared apps. So I cannot get a free user (hopefully a client) to check an app I have developed to see the potential PBI can offer.

Furtthermore, according to this page you need a company email to sign up to Power BI. Yet the same page then goes on to state:

"After you sign up, you can invite guest users to see your Power BI content with any email address, including personal accounts." 

This implies two things: 

a) a guest user can be invited without a company email

b) a guest user can get access to see my content without a Pro license (given that they don't need a company email to acess my content and a company email is a requisite to sign up to Power BI).

So the first paragraph sates you need a company email to sign up to Power BI. The next paragraph implies you don't if you are invited as a guest user. (How do you then get a Pro account to see an app you have been invited to check out/see if you have been invited with for example a gmail account.)

So I'm confused.

What do I tell my potential clients with regards checking out a PBI project I've created? Do I invite them as a guest user (without necessarily using a company email) and that let's them see my content (as stated in the quote above)? Do I ask them to sign up WITH a company email (what if they don't have one?), get a Pro account and then I grant them access through my admin portal by adding them as a user? How do they get a Pro account without a company email?

Please help!

Thanks,

Paul.

[v-frfei-msft]

Hi @PaulDBrown ,

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What do I tell my potential clients with regards checking out a PBI project I've created? Do I invite them as a guest user (without necessarily using a company email) and that let's them see my content (as stated in the quote above)? Do I ask them to sign up WITH a company email (what if they don't have one?), get a Pro account and then I grant them access through my admin portal by adding them as a user? How do they get a Pro account without a company email?

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The administrator can assign pro license to guest user in Office admin portal. Based on my test, the users with personal account, they cannot sign in https://app.powerbi.com as normally we do. They can only access the report / dashboard with the sharing link in the notification email.

[PaulDBrown]

@v-frfei-msft 

Thanks for the explanation. A couple more questions if I may. 

When you say:

The administrator can assign pro license to guest user

What exactly are the implications? Who pays for the Pro License? 

I am setting up to sell services on Power BI. So if I assign a pro license, do I pay for it? 

And

They can only access the report / dashboard with the sharing link in the notification email. 

So I can send them a link to the report / dashboard and they get access to it? Is the report / dashboard they access fully functional?

Is there any comprehensive resource I can look up to understand these issues (and the admin portal ect)?

Thanks again,

Paul.