Multiple price factors

Abiquo 6.1 introduces multiple price factors with a new tab in the Pricing view of the UI for Price factors, which you can assign by enterprise, by reseller and customers, or by provider. In general, price factors will apply to providers. For Azure and Amazon you can also create more specific price factors.

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Manage price factors in Pricing view

The new price factors feature will replace the enterprise properties to create price factors. The upgrade process will create new price factors from the previous enterprise properties.

There are two new privileges for this feature, and by default the CLOUD_ADMIN has these privileges.

Access to price factors is also by scope. As for pricing templates, when you create a price factor, Abiquo will assign your user scope to the price factor. Only users with the same scope will be able to view and manage the price factor.

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Create a price factor for a provider

When you create a price factor, you select a type of Reseller, Key node, or Enterprise. For resellers and key nodes, the price factor will apply to a selected enterprise and any enterprises that are below it in the scope hierarchy.

The price factor priority order will be (from highest to lowest): Enterprise, Key node, Reseller. Enterprise types with higher priority will override the price factors of enterprises with lower priority, even if the enterprises with lower priority have a more specific price factor.

Now, when you create price factors you can assign them to enterprises. And you can assign the same price factor to different enterprises and set different price factor values. To do this, in the Enterprise associations panel, click the Edit enterprise associations button. You can also edit the existing price factor values.

Price factor history is the same as pricing history. When regenerating the billing for an already existing billing period, Abiquo will use the same price factors for that period.

This feature will add a new entry in Cost usage detail for the “Managed” cost.

Azure price factors

For Azure, you can create more specific price factors with different bill types and product IDs.

Abiquo will define the managed cost using the price factor of bill type “Managed” to give a percent of the total cost of resources with bill type “Azure plan”. So the price factor for the managed entry will be the same as the Azure plan ones.

For Azure bill types and products, see Manage price factors.

AWS price factors

In Abiquo 6.1.1+, for Amazon, you can create more specific price factors with different bill types and product IDs.

Usually, Abiquo will display the costs of the Anniversary bill type, which is regular monthly billing, and the Purchase type, to represent one-time charges. And, typically, you will want to exclude items of type Refund, which you can do using a CSV file with a list of products to exclude.

For more details see Manage price factors.