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Abiquo has a flexible pricing system that is designed to enable cloud providers to supply estimates for and price cloud services. |
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Go to Pricing → Currencies
Click the + add button
Complete the dialog
The currency Code will display in pricing. Download code information from the ISO website or refer to Wikipedia
The Name of the currency must be unique and it can include the currency symbol
For Digits, enter the number of digits after the decimal point. If you change the pricing model from a currency with more digits to one with fewer digits, then the platform will round prices up to the nearest digit.
Click Save
Create a new cost code
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Now assign cost codes to VM templates (see Modify a VM template) and hardware profiles (see Hardware profiles). Then set prices for the cost codes in your pricing models. You can also assign cost codes to VMs, see Administer and troubleshoot VMs.
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Go to Pricing → Pricing models
To create a new pricing model when there is none assigned to your enterprise, click +add; or
To clone a pricing model, click the copy clone button. The platform will name the new model "PricingModelName (c)".
Note: The platform will assign your user scope to the pricing model and only users with the same scope can edit the pricing model
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If your enterprise already has a pricing model, the platform will base the new model on the existing model and enable you to apply a markup/discount to all prices. And you can set new resource prices using the existing prices as a guide. |
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Name | The name of your pricing model. The name can represent a service level agreement |
Description | Description of pricing model |
Change all resource prices | Only displays when the enterprise already has a pricing model assigned to it. Resellers can change all prices by adding this percentage. |
Charging period | Standard period of time by which a user will be charged, such as day, week, etc. Does not have to be equal to the minimum period |
Minimum charging period | Minimum period of time that a user will be charged for. This may be longer or shorter than the charging period. This value is not sent to the billing system. Note that the accounting system records the maximum usage value of a resource during an accounting period. |
Currency | The currency for this pricing model. Enter new currencies in the Currency tab before you create the pricing model |
Standing charge | Standing charge per Charging period. You can include this value in the pricing estimate message but the platform does not send it to the billing system |
Minimum charge | Minimum charge per Minimum charging period. You can include this value in the pricing estimate message but the platform does not send it to the billing system |
Show charges before deployment | Mark this checkbox to show a pricing estimate popup before deployment with the message entered in the box at the bottom of the window. See the explanation below |
Insert variable | Choose a variable from the pull-down list to add to the pricing estimate message. The variables are described in the table below |
Deployment message | Enter the estimate message for VM deployment, including variables. See Create a pricing estimate message |
Prices
You can enter general prices for datacenter resources.
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You can price hardware profiles in public cloud and in private cloud datacenters with hardware profiles, see Hardware profiles.
The platform can retrieve hardware profile costs from AWS and Azure. See Import hardware profile prices from AWS
In private cloud and VCD, you can also use cost codes for hardware profile pricing. Pricing and billing of dynamic hardware profiles also includes the usage cost of CPU and RAM.
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At any time users can click the Estimate button in the virtual appliance view to display a current pricing estimate for a VM.
Screenshot: Pricing estimate button with EUR price code
Screenshot: A sample pricing message
Users with access to the Abiquo API can also request a pricing estimate via the API.
To automatically display a pricing estimate popup when the user deploys a virtual appliance or VM, when creating a pricing model, select the checkbox to "Show charges before deployment".
Configure the pricing estimate message
The default text of the pricing estimate message is as follows.
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Assign pricing models to enterprises
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Go to Pricing→ Pricing models
Click Enterprise associations
In the search boxes at the top of the enterprise lists, enter text from the enterprise name to filter and display the enteprise
Select the pricing model
The enterprise with the pricing model will move to the enterprises With pricing model panel.
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You can also assign a pricing model to an enterprise when you edit the enterprise. See Assign a pricing model to an enterprise
Create reseller pricing models
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Log in as the reseller administrator
Go to Pricing view. The reseller pricing model will display. You can edit the pricing model to view the prices but you cannot save changes, unless you have the same scope as the user that created the pricing model
Optionally create cost codes for reseller services. For more details, see Pricing view
To create customer pricing models, click the copy button to clone the reseller pricing model
Change the pricing model as required
For Change all resource prices, enter a percentatge to increase or decrease the base prices, such as reseller markup. For resource prices, the platform applies the percentage change (adding the percentage of the base price the reseller entered to the base price)
Go to Resource prices. Check the new prices or manually enter a new price for any resource. If you enter a price that is lower than the base price, Abiquo will highlight the price with red text.
For Hardware profiles you can onboard and synchronize the price lists of public cloud providers. See Synchronize public cloud price lists
Go to Cost code prices and optionally set prices for this tenant for reseller services
Save the pricing model
Assign the pricing model to customers. Each customer administrator should only be able to display the pricing model for their own tenant.
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