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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.

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. 

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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To display pricing models, click the pricing button in the main menu. The pricing model of your enterprise has the text "(assigned pricing model)" after the Name.

The platform will list the pricing models that you can display based on your user scope.

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• Default currencies are euros, US dollars, and Japanese yen

• You cannot delete a currency that is in use

• You must always have at least one currency

• Each pricing model uses only one currency

  • Abiquo will apply the currency of the reseller to the reseller’s customers

To add a new currency

1. Go to Pricing → Currencies

2. Click the + add button

3. Complete the dialog

   1. The currency Code will display in pricing. Download code information from the ISO website or refer to Wikipedia

   2. The Name of the currency must be unique and it can include the currency symbol

   3. 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.

4. Click Save
   

   

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1. Go to Pricing → Extra charges with cost codes

2. Click the + add button

3. For General information:

   1. 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 bill

   2. Select the Type that is the resource type the extra charge will apply to.

      1. 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 products

      2. The Custom service option is implemented in customer integrations only in this version.

   3. Select the Unit for the extra charge:

      1. Usage CPUs will record the usage and multiply by the number of CPUs in a VM with the extra charge

      2. 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

      3. The Subscription option is available for Enterprise products and custom services in customer integrations
         

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4. For Initial prices

   The initial prices for a resource are set now

   : set them in all of the currencies in your platform. You can later assign different prices in each pricing model

For full details of working with cost codes for extra charges, see Manage extra charges with cost codes.

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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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Table of pricing estimate variables

Notes about the pricing estimate message:

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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 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 for the platform).
      For more flexible markup and discounts use price factors, which you can change and reapply.

      

   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.

      

   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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• Abiquo accounting services integration

• On premise billing

• Deprecated: Abiquo billing integration /wiki/spaces/doctest/pages/311374547