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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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Introduction to pricing
With Abiquo PricingAbiquo’s pricing feature, 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.
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Go to Pricing → Extra charges with cost codes
Click the + add button
For General information:
Enter a Name to identify the cost code for extra charges.
You can use the Name and Description to identify the cost item to make it easier for your users to understand their cloud billSelect the Type that is the resource type the extra charge will apply to.
To bill an enterprise directly for a service or subscription or product, select Enterprise product.
You can assign this cost code directly to an enterprise, see Manage enterprise productsThe Custom service option is implemented in customer integrations only in this version.
Select the Unit for the extra charge:
Usage CPUs will record the usage and multiply by the number of CPUs in a VM with the extra charge
Usage user licenses for a template will record the usage and multiply by the number of licenses you enter when you add the extra charge to a VM
The Subscription option is available for Enterprise products and custom services in customer integrations
For Initial prices: set them in all of the currencies in your platform. You can later assign different prices in each pricing model
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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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