This article describes the steps required to manage cost centres in Buttonwood Central, including managing budgets and viewing charges.

Cost centres provide a way for cloud costs to be tracked against budgets.

Charges are assigned to cost centres by:

• Configuring Central to ingest billing data directly from service providers;
• Users deploying workloads using Buttonwood Automate; or
• In the case of SaaS charges, via subscription properties of each configured application.

Prerequisites

• Administrative access to Buttonwood Central
  or
• User access to Buttonwood Central with a cost centre delegation

Adding Cost Centres

This section describes the steps required to add cost centres to Buttonwood Central.

Procedure Steps

1. Login to the Exchange UI as an administrative user
2. Navigate to Govern > Cost Centres
   
3. Click Add
4. In the Add Cost Centre screen, enter the following information:
   • Name: A unique name for this Cost Centre
   • Code: A code for the Cost Centre which may be used by organisational departments to identify the Cost Centre
   • Description: A description for the Cost Centre
   • Owner: A nominated Cost Centre Delegate - the owner is responsible for managing the Cost Centre and its budgets 
     Note: If a user does not appear in the drop down list to select as a Cost Centre owner, ensure that they have been configured as a Cost Centre Delegate
     
5. Click Create
6. A status message indicates the status of the request
   

Removing Cost Centres

This section describes the steps required to delete Cost Centres from Buttonwood Exchange.

Cost Centres cannot be deleted if they have Budgets or Charges associated to them. Additionally, the following system generated Cost Centres cannot be deleted, but can be edited:

• IaaS Cost Centre
• SaaS Cost Centre

Procedure Steps

1. Login to the Exchange UI as an administrative user
2. Navigate to Govern > Cost Centres
   
3. Select the Cost Centre(s) and click Deleted Selected
   
4. Click Delete
   
5. A status message indicates the status of the request
   
   

Managing Cost Centres

This section describes the steps required to manage Cost Centres which have been created in Buttonwood Exchange.

Procedure Steps

1. Login to the Exchange UI as an administrative user
2. Navigate to Govern > Cost Centres
   
3. Click the View or the Cost Centre name to manage

Cost Centre Details

The Details screen displays the basic details for the select Cost Centre.

Click Edit to edit Cost Centre details.

Cost Centre Budgets

The Budgets screen lists the budgets which have been created under the select Cost Centre.

The article Managing Budgets provides further details for tasks associated with Budgets.

Cost Centre Charges

The Charges screen lists all charges which have been allocated against the selected Cost Centre.