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The pricing tab enables the Cloud Admin cloud admin to assign costs to resources. The Cloud Admin creates Pricing Models cloud admin creates pricing models and assigns them to Enterprisesenterprises.
Screenshot: pricing for datacenter or public cloud region
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The Pricing Model pricing model allows you to associate costs with compute, networking and storage resources. You can also define charging periods and define standing charges and a minimum charge.
And you can associate costs with specific VMs, VM templates, and hardware profiles through extra charges, which are cost codes that are tracked by the Abiquo Accounting service.
Screenshot of Extra charge pricing.
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Hosting providers may need to accounting service. You can also use extra charges to sell managed services as enterprise products. See Manage enterprise products
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With extra charges, hosting providers can track the licenses used by virtual machines (e.g. VMs for products such as Microsoft Windows licensing)licenses, or they may wish to offer cloud services based on a per VM pricing model.
Administrators can assign extra charges to the VM templates in the catalogue Catalogue view, and to hardware profiles, and to VMs.
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The pricing model also allows a charge-forward price to be shown to the cloud user to provide an indication of the potential cost when they deploy a new environment for the first time.
The user can also request a pricing estimate for a group of virtual resources at any time, through the UI or the API.
Screenshot of pricing model creation with charge-forward price message in the box on the lower right-hand side.
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Beyond the pricing model in the UI, Abiquo collects granular accounting data for all resources on the platform.
See Abiquo accounting services integration. You can easily display the accounting data on the dashboard and export the accounting data using the Billing billing system.
Abiquo billing also gathers the pricing information that corresponds to the resource usage information in the accounting system. See On premise billing.
The platform can import price lists and billing data from public cloud providers such as Amazon and Azure.
You can add provider and product markups with price factors and you can also use them to exclude items from billing.
And it can display public cloud billing information as shown on the Hybrid tab of the Home view dashboard.
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