The new types of extra charges with cost codes are Enterprise products and Custom services. The new cost code units are One time charges and Subscriptions.
Enterprise products
Abiquo 6.1 introduces a new type of cost code to enable you to charge for Enterprise products.
There are two new privileges to control the use of this feature.
Privileges: View enterprise products, Manage enterprise products
If you have pricing privileges and the Manage extra charges privilege, you can create these cost codes in Pricing view.
When you create the Extra charge for a cost code, select the Enterprise product type.
You can assign and remove enterprise products in the Users view.
You can also allow administrators to edit the products for their enterprise from the user icon menu option (as for enterprise credentials).
One time charges
Abiquo 6.1 introduces a new one time unit for Extra charges with cost codes. Abiquo billing will charge the full price for this cost code when it applies.
When you add a one-time cost code to an enterprise, the platform will charge the full price.
When you deploy a VM with a one-time cost code for the undeployed VM, its hardware profile, and/or its template, then the platform will charge the full price. Each time you deploy the VM, the cost code applies.
For example, if you deploy a VM, then undeploy it, and then deploy it again, the platform will charge the one-time cost code price for each deploy (in this example 2 times)
Subscription cost code unit
The new subscription unit for VM cost codes will create a monthly charge on the first day of the month.
For on-premise billing, the billing periods always start on the first day and end on the last day of the month using UTC dates and times. So it is important to note that if the user buys a subscription item on day 1, but in a different time zone, then the subscription could start in their previous billing period.
Previously the subscription was available for custom queries only, e.g. a cost code of type custom service for SQL server licenses.
Custom service cost code type
In Abiquo 6.1, the Custom service cost code type will apply to custom queries in the old Abiquo billing integration only. It is not assigned to any entities in Abiquo and it is not billed in on-premise billing.
