Pricing for resellers

1 Introduction to reseller pricing
2 Set prices for VM templates
3 Set prices for hardware profiles
4 Display a pricing estimate message
5 Configure the pricing estimate message
6 Assign pricing models to tenants
7 Display prices for your tenant
8 Edit a pricing model

Introduction to reseller pricing

As a cloud platform reseller, you can create pricing models for your customers.
This will enable them to obtain pricing estimates for their virtual appliances before they deploy or at any time by clicking the pricing button, and also by using the API if they have access.

To get started, go to Pricing in the main menu.

The platform will display the pricing model that is assigned to your enterprise.
You may open this pricing model in Edit mode to view the prices, but you cannot save changes.
This pricing model should contain the base prices that you will pay the provider for virtual resources.
You can use this pricing model to create your own pricing models for your customers. But before you create pricing models, you should configure VM template prices.

Set prices for VM templates

Your platform provider may have already created cost codes for extra charges for you.
You can create additional cost codes for extra charges using these steps.

Privileges: Access pricing view, Manage pricing, Manage virtual machine template extra charges

To set a price for a VM template element:

Create a cost code for extra charges:
Privileges: Access pricing view, Manage pricing
1. Go to Pricing → Extra charges
2. Click the + add button
3. Complete the General info and Initial prices:
  1. For the Type, select All or Template
Edit pricing models for your customers, and update the prices of the cost codes for Extra charges as required.
You must add a pricing model to use extra charges for billing.
See Pricing view
Assign extra charges to VM templates
Privileges: Manage VM templates from the Catalogue, Manage virtual machine template extra charges
1. Open the Catalogue and edit a template
2. Go to Extra charges
3. Click + add
4. Select a cost code for Extra charges and click Add
5. Add more cost codes as required
6. After you finish editing the template, click Save

For more details see Multiple cost codes.

Set prices for hardware profiles

To set prices for hardware profiles using cost codes:

Create cost codes for extra charges. See Create a cost code for extra charges in Pricing view
1. For the Type select Hardware profiles or All
Set cost code prices. See Create a new pricing model in Pricing view
When you create or edit a hardware profile:
Privileges: Manage hardware profile extra charges
1. Go to Extra charges
2. Click +add and select one or more cost codes for extra charges
3. Click Add

For dynamic hardware profiles, the platform will also use the prices for CPU and RAM.
You can set prices in a pricing model for individual hardware profiles in each datacenter.
To onboard and synchronize prices from public cloud, see Synchronize public cloud price lists.

Display a pricing estimate message

Configure the pricing estimate message

Assign pricing models to tenants

Display prices for your tenant

A tenant administrator with pricing access can display the pricing model for the tenant.

To display the prices for your tenant:

Go to Pricing view
Select and edit the pricing model
Go to Resource prices and select the cloud locations
Click Cancel to close the pricing model

Edit a pricing model

When you edit a pricing model, the access will depend on your user privileges and scope.

If your user is not the pricing administrator, the pricing model will be grayed out and you can edit the pricing model of your enterprise to view the prices only.

You can then compare the price lists for different providers, for example, by hardware profiles.

If you can manage a pricing model, when you edit it, the current price for each resource will be shown to the right of the price field. The platform does not highlight discounted prices.