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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 extra charges with cost codes
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See Create a new pricing model
Display a pricing estimate message
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Display 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".
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Configure the pricing estimate message
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Configure 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%
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Notes about the pricing estimate message:
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The virtual appliance and VM pricing estimates only include the costs that are directly related to VMs.
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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.
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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
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to align the message with your accounting system.
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Table of pricing estimate variables
Variable | Description and example |
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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: |
%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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Assign pricing models to enterprises
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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.
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Assign pricing models to enterprises
After you save a pricing model, to assign it to one or more tenants, do these steps:
Go to Pricing→ Pricing models
Click Enterprise associations
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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
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The enterprise with the pricing model will move to the enterprises With pricing model panel.
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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.
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 extra charges for reseller services
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 Extra charges 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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