Pricing View

For each datacenter, you can set separate prices, and use different currencies, and you can set cost codes for resources, such as VM image templates. Create your pricing models in Pricing view, after you create and assign any supporting currencies and cost codes. Abiquo controls pricing with scopes as well as privileges to enable reseller pricing.

Click the  icon to access Pricing view. The workflow to create a new pricing model is as follows:

1. Enter currencies
2. Create cost codes
3. Create the pricing model
4. Assign the model to an enterprise

• Default currencies are euros, US dollars, and Japanese yen
• You cannot delete a currency that is in use
• You must always have at least one currency
• Each pricing model uses only one currency
  
  

To add a new currency

1. Go to Pricing → Currencies 

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2. Complete the dialog and click Save

To create a cost code for resource pricing

1. Go to Pricing → Cost codes

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2. Complete the dialog and initial prices

Now assign cost codes to VM templates (see Modify a VM Template) and hardware profiles (see Hardware profiles). Then set prices for the cost codes in your pricing models. Note that you can override cost code prices by setting prices for specific hardware profiles. Pricing and billing for dynamic hardware profiles will also use prices for CPU and RAM for the datacenter.

Before you begin

• To use a new currency, add it at Pricing → Currencies
• To use cost codes for resources, create them at Pricing → Cost codes, and when convenient, assign them to resources, for example, templates in the Apps library view.

To create a pricing model: 

1. Go to Pricing → Pricing models

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2. To clone a pricing model, click the  clone button. The platform will name the new model "PricingModelName (c)".

Modify prices

The platform uses the first pricing model for a location in a currency as the set of base prices for the location. When you create a new pricing model, you can enter a percentage to modify prices. If you then enter a resource price that is lower than the base price, the platform will highlight the price.

Prices

Datastore tiers

Persistent storage

Hardware profiles

Backup prices

Cost code prices

This tab displays resources and cost codes with their prices. 

Troubleshooting

Access to pricing models

• When you create a pricing model, Abiquo automatically assigns the same scope as your user. The Abiquo UI does not display the scope of the pricing model
• Users with pricing privileges can always display the pricing model of their own enterprise. Administrators who can switch to another enterprise can display the current pricing model of the enterprise, even if the pricing model has a different scope
• To display or manage the pricing model of another enterprise in Pricing view, you must have the same scope as the creator of the pricing model

To customize the pricing estimate message:

1. Edit the message, change the text and use the standard cut and paste keys to change the location of the variables. 
2. You can also select variables to add to this message from the pull-down list. Align the message with your accounting system.

1. Go to Pricing → Enterprise associations
2. In the Pricing models column, select the pricing model
3. In the Enterprises without pricing model column, beside the name of each Enterprise to assign to, select the Pricing model from the pull-down list
   

After the screen updates, the Enterprise name moves to the Enterprises with a pricing model column.  

You can also assign or remove a pricing model from an enterprise when you create or edit the enterprise. See Manage Enterprises

To implement reseller pricing:

1. Create a scope for each reseller that is not the unlimited global scope
2. Create pricing models with the base prices that resellers will pay for virtual resources. See Pricing View
3. Assign a pricing model to each reseller

When the reseller first opens the Pricing view, their pricing model will display. The administrator can edit this pricing model to view prices but they cannot save changes, unless they have the same scope as the user that assigned the pricing model to the enterprise.

The reseller can then create their own pricing models:

• They can enter a percentage to increase or decrease the base prices.

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• For resource prices, the platform applies the percentage change (adding the percentage of the base price the reseller entered to the base price). 
• The reseller can accept the new prices or manually enter a new price for any resource. If they enter a price that is lower than the base price, Abiquo will highlight the price with red text. 

After an administrator saves the pricing model they can then assign it to their customers. Each customer administrator should only be able to display the pricing model for their own tenant.
For a guide to pricing for resellers, see Pricing for Resellers. See also Synchronize public cloud price lists