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This feature is especially useful for private cloud pricing estimates and you can use it with private cloud usage data to display billing dashboards. For public cloud reseller accounts, you can import price lists for hardware profiles into pricing models. Administrators can display the pricing model to view public cloud price lists. |
To implement pricing for a reseller pricing:
The reseller scope cannot be the unlimited global scope
Create pricing models with the base prices that resellers the reseller will pay for virtual resources
Assign a pricing model to each the reseller enterprise
For details of how to create pricing models and assign them to customersenterprises, see Create a new pricing model and Pricing view.
To use reseller pricing:
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 extra charges with cost codes for reseller services. For more details, see Pricing view Manage extra charges with cost codes
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 percentage 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. You can also set prices with extra charges for cost codes. See Reseller pricing
Go to Cost code Extra charge prices and optionally set prices for this tenant with cost codes for reseller services
Save the pricing model
Assign the pricing model to customers. Each customer administrator with pricing view access should only be able to display the pricing model for their own tenant.