Managing Prices
Prices for services you sell in your online store are set using the Billing Director - Product Manager, per hosting plan. Retail prices for domain registration are also set per hosting plan. Original registrar prices can be set per domain registration plug-in, per TLD using Service Director - Domain Manager. Setting registrar prices is not necessary, but it may facilitate specifying retail prices since registrar fees pre-fill the domain registration pricing form when you set retail price for a hosting plan.
- To create a Hosting Plan, go to the Billing Director -Product Manager - Hosting Plans. Setup and recurring fees for Container hosting plans are set per plan individually (the Billing Rates tab in a hosting plan properties).
- Retail prices for domains registration are set per hosting plan. Registrar prices are entered per domain registration plug-in, Service Director > Domain Manager > Plug-Ins, select a plug-in and then select the TLDs tab, chose a TLD and specify prices. Several domain plug-ins support the online prices update, and the most of them do not. Registrar prices are entered for reference only, they pre-fill the price-related fields in a hosting plan creation form, to facilitate retail prices setup.
- You can add a custom sellable services (custom attributes to a hosting plan) in the Billing Director -Product Manager - 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 or a reseller account and applied to purchases made for an account.
- Partner discount specially attached to a reseller account. One of a pre-set discount categories mentioned earlier can be assigned to a reseller account as a partner discount. This discount is applied to amounts a reseller owed provider for re-sold services.
- 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 Director - Discount 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 tax exemption , with the personal customer's VAT number. For more details on taxation, see earlier in this guide.
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