Self-service & Trial Purchases

The question it answers: Which subscriptions did users buy themselves, and which trials were started?

Subscriptions a user bought with their own credit card (self-service purchase) and trials someone started. Both are spend and data processing outside central IT - and self-service purchases can be taken over or disabled in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

At a glance

Where in the app	Licensing › Self-service Purchases
Workload	Licensing
Kind	Table
Data	Built from the tenant data IntensiveReports keeps in memory and refreshes in the background, so it opens at once.
Licence	No extra licence needed.
Report id (API and MCP)	entra.licensing.self-service-purchases

Columns

Column	Key	Type
Product	ProductName	Text
Type	IsSelfServicePurchase	Status
Bought by	OwnerDisplayName	Link
Status	Status	Text
Licences	TotalLicenses	Text
Created	CreatedDateTime	Date
Next event	NextLifecycleDateTime	Date

Filters

Filter	Key (API)	On when the page opens
Only self-service purchases (hide trials)	self-service	No

What it needs

Licence: No extra licence needed.

Application permissions on the IntensiveReports app registration (all permissions):

Permission	API	What it allows	Note
Organization.Read.All	Microsoft Graph	Read organization information
User.Read.All	Microsoft Graph	Read all users’ full profiles
User-LifeCycleInfo.Read.All	Microsoft Graph	Read all users’ lifecycle information

Data sources it reads

• GET /v1.0/directory/subscriptions

Through the API and MCP

GET /ir-api/v1/reports/entra.licensing.self-service-purchases?size=100
GET /ir-api/v1/reports/entra.licensing.self-service-purchases?filter=self-service

An AI assistant reads it with the MCP tool get_report and the id entra.licensing.self-service-purchases. The client needs the Read grant for Licensing. See Using the API.