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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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  1. Go to Pricing → Currencies

  2. Click the + add button

  3. Complete the dialog

    1. The currency Code will display in pricing. Download code information from the ISO website or refer to Wikipedia

    2. The Name of the currency must be unique and it can include the currency symbol

    3. 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.

  4. Click Save

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Create a new cost code

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nameDisplay a pricing estimate message

To display pricing estimates, assign a pricing model to the enterprise. The platform will display the estimates as follows:

  •  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

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    Screenshot: A sample pricing message

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  • 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

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nameConfigure the pricing estimate message

The default text of the pricing estimate message is as follows.

The charge for this Virtual Appliance will be %CHARGE_FORMATTED% per %CHARGEPERIOD%, charged per %MINPERIOD%, subject to a minimum charge of %MINCHARGE_FORMATTED%. Backup service charge: %BACKUP_PRICE%. VMs in this Virtual Appliance will be:
%VM_PRICES%
Resources defined in the Virtual Datacenter total %VDC_TOTAL_CHARGE% per %CHARGEPERIOD%:
%VDC_PRICES%

Notes about the pricing estimate message:

  • The virtual appliance and VM pricing estimates only include the costs that are directly related to VMs. 

  • The virtual datacenters resources estimate includes other costs such as the network cost, backup costs, and the cost of datastore disks without a datastore tier, such as a cloud-init ISO. 

  • The VDC resources cost also includes public IP addresses because they are billed for the time of reservation, which may be longer than the time they are attached to a VM.

To customize the pricing estimate message:

  1. Edit the message, change the text and use the standard cut and paste keys to change the location of the variables. 

  2. You can also select variables to add to this message from the pull-down list. Align the message with your accounting system.

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Variable

Description and example

%CHARGEPERIOD%

Charging period, for example "month".

%MINCHARGE_FORMATTED%

Minimum charge, for example 2.25 USD.

%MINPERIOD%

Minimum charging period, for example "week"

%BACKUP_PRICE

%CHARGE_FORMATTED%

Charge for the virtual machine, for example "22.50 USD"

%VM_PRICES%

List of charges per virtual machine. for example:
VM1 1.25 USD
VM2 1.00 USD 

%VDC_PRICES%

List of charges per virtual datacenter resource

%VDC_TOTAL_CHARGE

Total charge for virtual datacenter resources, not including VMs

Assign pricing models to enterprises

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nameAssign pricing models to enterprises

After you save a pricing model, to assign it to one or more tenants, do these steps:

  1. Go to Pricing→ Pricing models

  2. Click Enterprise associations

    Pricing models in pricing view

  3. In the search boxes at the top of the enterprise lists, enter text from the enterprise name to filter and display the enteprise

  4. Select the pricing model

    Enterprise associations

The enterprise with the pricing model will move to the enterprises With pricing model panel.

Enterprise associations

Troubleshooting: If an expected pricing model does not display in the list, check that you are logged in with a user with the same scope as the user that created the pricing model.

You can also assign a pricing model to an enterprise when you edit the enterprise. See Set a pricing model for a tenant in Manage enterprises.

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