Promoting Hosting Plans

Promotions are discount periods for sale of one or a several Hosting Plans which are periodically announced by Hosting Service Provider or Reseller. Each Promotion has a sales period (between Start date and End date) during which a Hosting Plan being promoted will include a certain discount valid during a certain Discount Period.

You can create promotions that include:

• Just a discount.
• Both a discount and waiving domain registration fee.

It is possible to create both the public promotions and promotions activated by a coupon code. Coupon codes allow your customers to gain additional discount at your HSPstore. A customer will be asked for a coupon code on the order review page at your HSPstore. You can create a coded promotion or add a code to an existing public promotion. Similarly, you can remove a code from the coded promotion to make it public.

In Parallels Business Automation - Standard promotions are being applied not per hosting plan, but from a promotion side, i.e., the list of hosting plans a promotion is applied to is the part of promotion properties. To apply a promotion to a Hosting Plan, go to the Billing Director - Discount Manager - Promotions. Create a promotion or select the existing one. Add hosting plans to the list of promoted plans.

Any hosting plan can have one public promotion and unlimited number of coupon-code promotions applied at the same time.

Allowing or Disallowing Upgrades to a Hosting Plan

Your customers can upgrade their current Hosting Plans to another ones using the Control Panel Upgrade Center. When a customer selects to change the current Hosting Plan, the list of Hosting Plans available is being displayed and he (or she) can select one.

To disallow upgrades to a Hosting Plan:

1. Open the Business Director submenu on the Navigation tree and select the Billing Manager. The Billing Manager dashboard appears on the screen.
2. Click on the Hosting Plans link at the Billing Manager dashboard. The list of all Hosting Plans appears on the screen.
3. Select the needed Hosting Plan by clicking on its ID. The Hosting Plan General Settings appear on the screen.
4. Click the Edit button. The screen reloads with Hosting Plan General Settings for editing.
5. Mark the Do not allow upgrade to this plan from Control Panel checkbox to disallow customers to upgrade for this Hosting Plan. In this case, this Hosting Plan will not be shown for your customers in the Control Panel Upgrade Center. The customers will be able to only buy this Hosting Plan in your online store.
6. Click the Save button.

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