Pricing for resellers

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 extra charges, including VM template prices.

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Display pricing models

Set discounts and markups

To set discounts and markups for providers, create price factors.

Create extra charges

To set prices for enterprise products and services, and VM templates and hardware profiles, create extra charges (cost codes).

To create extra charges:

1. Go to Pricing → Extra charges

2. Click the + add button

3. Complete the General info and Initial prices:

   1. For the Type, select the appropriate type, such as VM template, enterprise product, and so on

   2. For the Unit, select the appropriate unit, such as usage per user licenses, subscription, one-time and so on
      
      

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      Create a new extra charge

4. Edit the base pricing model 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

For full details of extra charges, see Manage extra charges with cost codes.

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.

To set a price for a VM template element:

1. 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 an Extra charge and click Add

   5. Add more extra charges 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 extra charges:

1. In Pricing view, create extra charges. See Create extra charges in Pricing view

   1. For the Type select Hardware profiles or All

2. Set cost code prices. See Create a new pricing model in Pricing view

3. When you create or edit a hardware profile:
   Privileges: Manage hardware profile extra charges

   1. Go to Extra charges

   2. Click the + add button and select one or more cost codes for extra charges

   3. Click Add
      
      

Create customer pricing models

1. Log in to Abiquo as the reseller administrator

2. Go to Pricing view. The reseller pricing model will display. You can edit the pricing model to view the prices but you cannot save changes, unless you have the same scope as the user that created the pricing model

3. To create customer pricing models, click the copy button to clone the reseller pricing model

4. Change the pricing model as required

   1. For Change all resource prices, you can enter a percentage to increase or decrease the base prices, such as reseller markup. For resource prices, the platform applies the percentage change (adding the percentage of the base price the reseller entered to the base price)

   2. Go to Resource prices. Check the new prices or manually enter a new price for any resource. If you enter a price that is lower than the base price, Abiquo will highlight the price with red text.

   3. For Hardware profiles you can override the extra charges with cost codes

   4. Go to Extra charge prices and optionally set prices with cost codes for reseller services

   5. Save the pricing model

Assign pricing models to customers

Display prices for a customer

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, for 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.