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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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With Abiquo Pricing, you can create pricing models to match service level agreements and assign them to your tenants and resellers. You can also onboard price lists from public cloud providers with pricing credentials and incorporate them into pricing models.
You can add markups or discounts using price factors, which you can also use to exclude items from customers' bills.
Customers can obtain estimates for their virtual appliances from the pricing system. The platform's accounting system meters the resource usage amount of resources that each tenant uses.
The platform's billing system enables you to charge customers for all their cloud usage with one bill based on pricing and accounting. The platform also enables reseller pricing within a tenant hierarchy.
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Privileges: Access Pricing view, Manage pricing |
For each datacenter, you can set separate prices, and use different currencies, and you can add extra charges for resources, such as VM image templates.
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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.
The platform displays the pricing estimate in a separate popup
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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