Create a new pricing model

To assign prices to resources for enterprises, create pricing models with prices for VM elements.

Before you begin

Add your currencies at Pricing → Currencies
Pre-create cost codes at Pricing → Cost codes to assign to resources, for example, hardware profiles or templates

To create a pricing model:

Go to Pricing → Pricing models

To base the pricing model on your enterprise's current model, click the + add button, or
To clone a pricing model, click the copy clone button. The platform will name the new model "PricingModelName (c)".
Note: The platform will assign your user scope to the pricing model

Click here to display details of create a new pricing model general information

Field	Description
Name	The name of your pricing model. The name can represent a service level agreement
Description	Description of pricing model
Change all resource prices	Only displays when the enterprise already has a pricing model assigned to it. Resellers can change all prices by adding this percentage.
Charging period	Standard period of time by which a user will be charged, such as day, week, etc. Does not have to be equal to the minimum period
Minimum charging period	Minimum period of time that a user will be charged for. This may be longer or shorter than the charging period. This value is not sent to the billing system. Note that the accounting system records the maximum usage value of a resource during an accounting period.
Currency	The currency for this pricing model. Enter new currencies in the Currency tab before you create the pricing model
Standing charge	Standing charge per Charging period. You can include this value in the pricing estimate message but the platform does not send it to the billing system
Minimum charge	Minimum charge per Minimum charging period. You can include this value in the pricing estimate message but the platform does not send it to the billing system
Show charges before deployment	Mark this checkbox to show a pricing estimate popup before deployment with the message entered in the box at the bottom of the window. See the explanation below
Insert variable	Choose a variable from the pull-down list to add to the pricing estimate message. The variables are described in the table below
Deployment message	Enter the estimate message for VM deployment, including variables. See Create a pricing estimate message

Modify prices

The platform uses the first pricing model for a location in a currency as the set of base prices for the location. If your enterprise has a pricing model, when you create a new pricing model, you can enter a percentage to modify prices, for example, to add a reseller markup. If you then enter a resource price that is lower than the base price, the platform will highlight the price.

Prices

For more details see GUI Create a new pricing model Resource prices Prices

Datastore tiers

In a private cloud datacenter, datastore tiers set service levels for storage. See Manage datastore service levels with datastore tiers.

Persistent storage

For more details see GUI Create a new pricing model Resource prices Persistent storage

Hardware profiles

For more details see GUI Create a new pricing model Resource prices Hardware profiles

Backup prices

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Click here to display details of create a new pricing model resource prices backup policies

In private cloud datacenters, you can set prices for backup policies.

When users request a pricing estimate for their virtual appliance, the platform will include the price of the backup policies of each VM.

The platform will also include the price of backup services in the VM_PRICES list.

Privilege: View datacenter details, Manage enterprises

The platform bills backups with a monthly fixed cost and/or a separate cost for VM disk size in GB (in the platform). For example, if a customer has a VM with 50 GB of hard disk and is using a daily backup policy. If the price for the backup policy is $20 and the price per GB is $1 per GB, the customer will pay $20 + (50 * $1) = $70 per month.

Cost code prices

This tab displays resources and cost codes with their initial prices. You can modify these prices in this new pricing model. The platform will display a warning symbol if you enter a discount of the price in the current pricing model.

Troubleshooting

Access to pricing models

When you create a pricing model, Abiquo automatically assigns the same scope as your user. The Abiquo UI does not display the scope of the pricing model
Users with pricing privileges can always display the pricing model of their own enterprise. Administrators who can switch to another enterprise can display the current pricing model of the enterprise, even if the pricing model has a different scope
To display or manage the pricing model of another enterprise in Pricing view, you must have the same scope as the creator of the pricing model