New extra charges with cost codes

Abiquo 6.1 adds new cost code types and units. This feature enables administrators to use cost codes for custom billing usages. In previous versions, administrators defined queries and names in billing properties.

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.

Create an extra charge for an enterprise product

You can assign and remove enterprise products in the Users view.

Assign and display enterprise products in 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 extra charge type

In Abiquo 6.1, the Custom service extra charge 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.