Create pricing models for your customers

If you already have a pricing model that is assigned to your enterprise, then the platform will use this model as the basis for the new pricing model. You can then enter a percentage markup on the costs for your enterprise.

To create a pricing model:

1. Go to Pricing → Pricing models
2. Click + add and enter details,  including resource prices, and cost code prices.
   

   

   

   
   

   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. See below
   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

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

   
   

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   The price for hypervisor datastores is below the cost price for the reseller.

   

   
   

   

   

   
   

   Field	Description
   Hypervisor Datastores GB	Price of hypervisor datastores per gigabyte. In public cloud regions, the platform does not use this value
   VLANs	Price per VLAN (at least one VLAN is always created for each virtual datacenter)
   Public IPs	Price per public 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 CPU off	Price per virtual CPU core when virtual machine is powered ON or 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
   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 with disaster recovery

   The provider can configure billing by usage or allocation.

   
   

   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 a private cloud datacenter, persistent storage tiers set service levels for storage. See Manage Storage

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   Hardware profiles

   In public cloud and in private cloud datacenters with hardware profiles, see Hardware profiles.

   
   

   Privilege: View datacenter details, Manage enterprises

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   Cost Code Prices

   The cost codes for assigning to templates and hardware profiles, and their prices.