Adding Hosting Plans

When you create a hosting plan, you can either copy one of the hosting plans owned by HSP or create a new one.

The set of Hosting Plans available for copying should be agreed with Hosting Service Provider HSP). In this case, HSP either grants to a Reseller the right to sell one or more pre-configured Hosting plans, or creates one or more customized Hosting Plans that suit Reseller's needs in the best way.

Hosting plans creation in Parallels Business Automation - Standard is rather simple: select the hosting type and follow the corresponding wizard.

To create a hosting plan, go to the Billing Director - Product Manager - Hosting Plans and click the New Hosting Plan button.

Several steps (1st,2nd, and the two final ones) are common for all types of hosting plans. Namely:

• The first step. Hosting plan type selection. Select the option:
  • Create a copy of existing Provider's hosting plan to take one of HSPs plans. Please note that if HSP did not have plans available for Resellers, then this option will be not shown on the screen. If HSP offers some plans for copying, after you select this option, the list of HSP hosting plans available for copying appears on the screen. Set the option button to one or more hosting plane and click the Copy button. The new hosting plans will appear in your list.
  • Create own hosting plan to create new hosting plan. In this case, please select the hosting plan type and click the Next button.
• The second step. General settings (on this stage you define the hosting plan general attributes and availability for sale):
  • Title - Convenient alphanumeric identifier to refer to a Hosting Plan in common lists, Subscriptions, and documents (Orders and Invoices);
  • Activating a Hosting Plan. This is the most general setting. Please, pay attention to the Active checkbox at the upper part of the form. This checkbox overrides absolutely all other availability settings. If the Active box remains unchecked, then nobody (including Provider) can provide services on the basis of the Hosting Plan (despite a certain availability permissions set). If you uncheck the Active box, this Hosting Plan will be immediately removed both from online store. Thus, you can easily and quickly suspend existing Hosting Plan or set availability permissions on creation stage and activate a Hosting Plan at any moment you consider reasonable.
  • Setting sales permissions To sell this hosting plan in your online store, check the Sell this hosting plan in my HSPstore box.
  • Trial settings. If you want to provide a certain period for customers to try a hosting plan for free, check the Customers can try this hosting plan box and indicate the duration of trial period.
  • Define, whether the hosting plan will be available from the Control Panel Upgrade Center, for customers to upgrade their subscriptions to this hosting plan. If you check the Do not allow upgrade to this plan from the Control Panel box, this hosting plan will not be shown in the list of available upgrade offerings.
  • Descriptions of a Hosting Plan that can be used in the HSPstore.
• Optionally: Attaching custom attributes:

  If at least one group of custom attributes was created and enabled for the selected type of hosting, you can optionally attach some additional services (custom attributes) to a hosting plan:

  Custom attributes are shown by groups. The group name comes first and the group type (exclusive or selectable) is shown in brackets directly after the group name:

  • Selectable group. When subscribing to a Hosting Plan a customer can select one or more (or all) additional services from the set available.
  • Exclusive group. When subscribing to a Hosting Plan a customer can select only one additional service from the set available.

    Note: You can change the group type from selectable into exclusive and conversely in the Billing Manager - Settings - Custom Attributes.

    Check the boxes next to the custom attributes names to add the custom services provided to customers within the Hosting Plan.

    You can specify whether the price for a custom service will be included in the Hosting Plan fee or will be offered at the special rate:

  • To set both the setup and monthly fee for a custom service check the box only in the Enabled column next to the custom attribute name.
  • To include the custom service in the Hosting Plan price check both the Enabled and Included boxes next to the custom attribute name.
• Optionally: Adding custom questions to be asked at the HSPstore when a customer subscribes for a hosting plan. Please, select the number of questions from the Create drop-down menu and click the Display button. The specified number of fields appear. Type questions into the relevant fields and click the Next button.

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