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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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  •  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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    The platform displays the pricing estimate in a separate popup

    Deploy charges

  • 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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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

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  1. At the top right, click Enterprise associations

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

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  1. enterprise

  2. 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.

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See “Set a pricing model for a

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tenant” in Manage enterprises.

Create reseller pricing models

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  1. Log in as the reseller administrator

  2. 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

  3. Optionally create extra charges for reseller services

  4. To create customer pricing models, click the copy button to clone the reseller pricing model

  5. Change the pricing model as required

    1. For Change all resource prices, enter a percentatge 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)

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    2. 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.

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    3. For Hardware profiles you can onboard and synchronize the price lists of public cloud providers. See Synchronize public cloud price lists

    4. Go to Extra charges and optionally set prices for this tenant for reseller services

    5. Save the pricing model

    6. 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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