Setting Prices

Prices for the services you sell in your online store can mostly be set using the Business Director - Billing Manager. The only thing to do outside the Billing Manager is setting the original retail prices for domain registration (you can do this in the Service Director - Domain Manager). Domain registration retail prices should be first updated dynamically via domain plug-ins and and after this, you can set your own retail price for each top-level domain. And in hosting plans you can set the surcharge rate that is added to your own retail price.

Thus, after you have updated the domain registration prices, you can proceed with pricing:

• To create a Hosting Plan, go to the Business Director - Billing Manager - Hosting Plans. Setup and recurring fees for Container hosting plans are being set per plan individually (the Billing Rates tab in a hosting plan properties). And resource usage rates (for additional domain registration, IP address, disk space usage, etc) can be set as a system-wide values in the Billing Manager - Settings - Default Prices and adjusted per hosting plan (the Billable Resources tab in a hosting plan properties).
• You can add a custom sellable services (custom attributes to a hosting plan) in the Billing Manager - Settings - Custom Attributes. Custom attributes can be attached to hosting plans during creation or later.

The Parallels Business Automation - Standard provides the discounts management tools:

• Discounts that can be attached to accounts:
  • Discount categories. This is just the discount percent attached to a customer account.
• Promotions. The discount periods for sale of one or a several hosting plans. Each promotion has a sales period during which a hosting plan being promoted will include a certain discount valid during a certain discount period. To promote hosting plans, you can create different promotions in the Billing Manager - Promotions and define per promotion the list of hosting plan to be promoted. You can create both public promotions and promotions activated by a coupon code. If a coded promotion is applied to a hosting plan, a customer will be asked for a coupon code on the order review page at your online store.

Finally, if taxation is enabled, the total price for services you offer in your online store is calculated in accordance with the corresponding tax zone and if you use the EU tax exemption, with the personal customer's tax exemption code. For more details on taxation, see earlier in this guide.

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