Create an extra charge

This section describes how to create an extra charge, which is a cost code that you can use for FinOps. You can use extra charges to sell managed services, licenses, installations and so on. You can set prices for extra charges and apply them to hardware profiles, VM templates, VMs, and enterprises (cloud tenants).

To create an extra charge with a cost code:

Enter a Name and Description that will identify the extra charge with a cost code for other administrators and users.
The Type is the entity where you will use the extra charge, such as Template, Hardware profile, Virtual machine, or All. The platform does not support the Custom service type yet
The Unit specifies how to calculate the cost using the extra charge with a cost code:
1. Usage period is for usage x time
2. Usage CPUs is for usage x number of CPUs
3. Usage user licenses is for usage x number of users that you enter in the VM
4. Subscription is only for Custom service types and it is not supported yet
5. One-timeis to apply an instant charge for a product or service to a VM or an enterprise. Note that you can apply this extra charge more than once to the same entity

Create an extra charge with a cost code

As usual, you can enter the initial prices for an extra charge with a cost code

Add initial prices for VM extra charges

And you can update these prices in a pricing model.

You can assign the extra charges to compatible entities, which may include:

VM templates
Hardware profiles
VMs
Enterprise products