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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
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Create a new cost code
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See Create a new pricing model
Display a pricing estimate message
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To display pricing estimates, assign a pricing model to the enterprise. The platform will display the estimates as follows: |
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Configure the pricing estimate message
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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: Edit the message, change the text and use the standard cut and paste keys to change the location of the variables. 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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%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 |
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Go to Pricing→ Pricing models
Click Enterprise associations
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Select the pricing model
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The enterprise with the pricing model will move to the enterprises With pricing model panel.
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