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 → Extra charges to assign to resources, for example, hardware profiles or templates

Privileges: Access pricing view, Manage prices, View datacenter details, Manage enterprises

To create a pricing model:

Go to Pricing → Pricing models
To create a new pricing model when there is none assigned to your enterprise, click +add; 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 and only users with the same scope can edit the pricing model
Complete the dialog
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 and only users with the same scope can edit the pricing model

If your enterprise already has a pricing model, the platform will base the new model on the existing model and enable you to apply a markup/discount to all prices. And you can set new resource prices using the existing prices as a guide.

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.
Period for prices	Integrated on-premise billing will charge by calendar `MONTH`. The previous Abiquo billing integration supports additional charging periods
Minimum period for prices	`HOUR` is the minimum period of time that a user will be charged for.
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 and it is included in on-premise billing
Minimum charge	Minimum charge per Minimum charging period. You can include this value in the pricing estimate message and it is included in on-premise billing
Show charges before deployment	Select 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

Prices

You can enter general prices for datacenter resources.

Resource prices table

Field	Description
Currency	The currency for this location (datacenter or public cloud region)
Hypervisor Datastores GB	Price of hypervisor datastores per gigabyte. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value
Networks	Price per network. (The platform always creates a private network for each virtual datacenter)
Public IPs	Price per public IP address reserved
NAT IPs	Price per NAT IP address reserved
CPU	Price per virtual CPU core for deployed virtual machines. If the location uses hardware profiles, pricing does not use this value.
CPU on	Price per virtual CPU core when virtual machine is powered ON
CPU off	Price per virtual CPU core when virtual machine is powered OFF
Memory (GB)	Price of virtual memory in GB for deployed virtual machine. If the location uses hardware profiles, pricing does not use this value.
Memory on Memory off (GB)	Price of virtual memory in GB when virtual machine is powered ON or OFF
Virtual machine	Fee per VM in addition to charges for other VM items
Virtual machine on Virtual machine off	Fee per VM in addition to charges for other VM items
Repository (GB)	Price of template repository use in GB for virtual machine templates. The platform does not include conversions. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value
Backup (GB)	Price per gigabyte of backup used. See Backup prices for more details
Anti-Affinity	Price per VM deployed in anti-affinity layer. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value
Firewall	Price per firewall attached to VM
Load balancer	Price per load balancer attached to VM
DR protected VM	Price per VM protected by Disaster Recovery

The provider can configure billing by usage or allocation.

Datastore tiers

You can set prices for datastore tiers.

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

Persistent storage

In private cloud, you can set prices for the persistent storage tiers. In public cloud regions, the platform automatically imports the storage tiers from the providers so you can price them.

Hardware profiles

You can price hardware profiles in public cloud and in private cloud datacenters with hardware profiles, see Hardware profiles.

The platform can retrieve hardware profile costs from AWS and Azure. See Import hardware profile prices from AWS

In private cloud and VCD, you can also use cost codes for hardware profile pricing. Pricing and billing of dynamic hardware profiles also includes the usage cost of CPU and RAM.

Backup prices

In private cloud datacenters and VCD public cloud regions, 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.

The platform bills backups with a monthly fixed cost and/or a separate cost for backup size.

In Abiquo 6.1, the platform accounts for usage of valid (not expired) backups as the summed backup size in GB, and uses the backup price per GB for billing.

In previous versions, the platform does not account for backup usage, only the backup policy. Using the backup price (GB) the platform bills based on the VM disk size in GB in the platform.

For example, if a customer has a VM with 50 GB of hard disk, a summed size of non-expired backups of 42GB. And the customer is using a daily backup policy with the price for the backup policy of $20 and the price per GB of $1 per GB.

In Abiquo 6.1, the customer will pay $20 + ($42 * $1) = $62 per month
In previous versions, the customer will pay $20 + (50 * $1) = $70 per month.

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