On premise billing compared to Abiquo billing integration

New	Old	Notes
Abiquo usage metering	Abiquo usage metering	Both billing systems use the same Abiquo accounting services integration for usage metering
Integrated	Separate	Documentation is now in Abiquo infrastructure guide under Abiquo billing. No separate install or server is required. The Abiquo API runs billing and stores data in the Abiquo database.
Hourly billed monthly	Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly	Pricing will still support old accounting periods for old billing with existing pricing models.
Bill for all enterprises with pricing model	Map enterprises/VDCs to accounts with SQL	You can enter account IDs using enterprise properties, or tags for VDCs. You can push enterprise properties to VMs as variables.
Pricing with new cost codes to support custom usages and new price factors. The upgrade will convert price factors.	Custom usages were created with custom MySQL and price factors were created with enterprise properties.	After you transition to the on-premise billing, you can remove price factors and custom SQL.
In API or DB. Abiquo will introduce cost usage endpoints with reports in a coming version	Output to CSV, or DBMS with CSV generator.	In Abiquo 6.1, you can install or continue to use the Abiquo CSV generator to obtain a CSV file.
Integrated billing dashboards	Private billing module to populate dashboard was installed separately	Before you enable on-premise billing, stop the abiquo-private-billing cron job
Billing by usage only	Billing by usage or allocation	Billing by allocation was not widely used by customers and will be introduced in a future version
No hypervisor usage	Hypervisor usage	Hypervisor usage is deprecated
Backup GB by backup size as standard usage for billing for Veeam	Backup GB by VM size with custom billing configuration	The platform now stores Backup GB usage with accounting. For billing, enable the Backup GB usage
New cost code types and cost code units. See Manage extra charges with cost codes and Manage enterprise products.	Custom usage with MySQL	Note: in Abiquo 6.1.0 there is a known issue with one-time cost codes.
Billing output is in the API logs	Separate logs for com.abiquo.billing	You can configure the same log levels of "DEBUG", "INFO", "WARN", and "ERROR".
Automatic billing of enterprises with pricing model	You needed to configure a job to maintain account mapping for enterprises or VDCs to bill	After you transition to the new billing, you can stop the abiquo-billing-mapping job
Cron job runs billing nightly. It is the same job as for integrated public billing.	Cron job runs billing each week	To configure the cron job to run on-premise billing use an Abiquo property. When you transition to on-premise billing, you can stop the old abiquo-billing cron job
Regenerate billing for enterprise by clicking button in UI. Abiquo property limits billing generation per enterprise/day	Regenerate billing with a script	The platform generates billing nightly, plus a user can generate once per day by default. You can configure the maximum number of times the user can generate billing with an Abiquo property
Pricing history stores one price per month. The administrator can update the pricing for the month in the UI, which will also regenerate billing. If the administrator does not manually update pricing, new prices will apply in the next month	No pricing history. Billing is regenerated with current prices	In the Pricing view, the button is called Regenerate billing, because it will update prices and regenerate billing for the current month
You can regenerate billing in the user interface for an enterprise or selected reseller enterprises. The process to regenerate billing uses the prices for the month that billing will be regenerated for.	You can regenerate billing manually with a script. The platform regenerates all billing with current prices	You can select an enterprise or a reseller and/ or their customers to regenerate billing as for public cloud. Note: enter the correct period because if you enter a period with no usage, the platform may generate a standing charge and minimum charge.