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You can create define a price pack that can be used for a customer or a group of customersRate pack to provide a monthly (bulk) rate for a list of related resources. You can define a price pack for one or more resource. You can set item specific rates and set any resource as primary resource.To create a Price relationship that can be primary, secondary or a flat list. You can set the primary secondary relationship of resources to offer the secondary resources at a discounted price based on the primary resource. For instance, you can define a VM with 4 CPU, 16 GB RAM treated as the primary resource valued at a monthly price of 100 USD and offer discount on 100 GB of storage of a certain type with 300 IOPS as the secondary resource.

Alternately, you can set a flat list to bundle up a collection of resources at specified rates.

This topic explains you to:

Create a Rate Pack:

1. On the side navigation bar, select the Product Catalog PRODUCT CATALOG tab, and click Rate Packs.
   Alternately to view the

   Rate Packs page

   rate packs, on the side navigation bar, select the CSP Billing tab > Overview and for the required customer click in the Overview column, click Go To Bill > Product Catalog (on the top right corner) and select Rate Packs.
   Aquila Clouds displays the

   Rate Packs

   available rate packs on the Product Catalog page.

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2. In the ACTION list, select Item > Add.
   Aquila Clouds displays the Add

   Price

   Rate Pack page.

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3. Enter the following details.

   • Pack Name: Enter the name for the price rate pack.

   • Environment Type: Select the required environment type from the list.

   • Currency: Select the required currency from the list.

   • Comment: Enter comments if any for this price rate pack.

   • 1: For the first resource set the following values.

     • Primary: Toggle this field to On if this resource is the primary resource in the price rate pack. The total price rate of the price rate pack is mainly based on Primary resource.

     • Category: Select the required category of the cloud resources being used by the end-customers. This makes it possible to use this price rate pack for all customers using the selected category of resources.

     • SubCategory: Select the required sub-category of the cloud resource being used by the end-customers. Options in this list are displayed according to the option selected in the Category list.

     • Name: Select the type or name of the required resource being used by the end-customer. Options in this list are displayed according to the option selected in the SubCategory list.

     • Unit: Select the unit from the list for which the billing rate is applicable. For instance, if you want to specify hourly billing rate for a Standard Node of Advanced Data Security > SQL Database, select Hourly from the list.

     • Included Quantity: Specify the quantity of the resource selected for pack item for which no rate is appliedselected resource by default included in the rate pack without any additional rate.

     • Pricing Model: Select the required pricing model from the list i.e. Amount or Slab. You can use Amount to define uniform rate for any quantity of the resource utilized in the pack item. You can use Slab to define different rates for different slabs for instance for virtual machines you can set a different slab rate for 0 - 10 virtual machines and different slab rate for 10 - 50 virtual machines.

     • Slab 1: Define the quantity of resources for which this slab is applicable+ Add: Click to add/modify slab rates. You can add one or more slabs or delete an existing slab. This option is available only if Slab is selected as the Pricing Model.

       • Slab 1: Modify the quantity of resources for the slab.

       • Rate:

       Define

       • Modify the rate for the selected slab

       if the Pricing Model is set to Slab. If the Pricing Model is set to Amount, set the rate that is applicable to the pack item

       • .

   • +: Click to add more pack items to the rate pack. You can use this option to add more than one resource in the pack.

   • x: Click to delete the required resource set.

4. Click Apply.

Aquila Clouds creates the rate pack with the required details.

Edit a Rate Pack:

1. On the side navigation bar, select the PRODUCT CATALOG tab, and click Rate Packs.
   Alternately to view the rate packs, on the side navigation bar, select the CSP Billing tab > Overview and for the required customer click in the Overview column, click Go To Bill > Product Catalog (on the top right corner) and select Rate Packs.
   Aquila Clouds displays the available rate packs on the Product Catalog page.

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2. For the required rate pack, click the following icon and select Edit.

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3. Edit the following details on the Edit Rate Pack page.

   • Environment Type: Select from the list required environment type modify the environment type.

   • Currency: Select from the list required currency to modify the currency.

   • Comment: Edit or enter comments if any for this rate pack.

     • 1: For the first resource set modify the following values.

       • Primary: Toggle this field to modify the primary resource in the rate pack.

       • Category: Select from the list required category to modify the category of cloud resources being used by the end-customers.

       • SubCategory: Select from the list required sub-category to modify the sub-category of cloud resources being used by the end-customers. Options in this list are displayed according to the option selected in the Category list.

       • Name: Select from the list name of the required resource to modify the resource being used by the end-customer. Options in this list are displayed according to the option selected in the SubCategory list.

       • Unit: Select the unit from the list for which the billing rate is applicable.

       • Included Quantity: Modify the quantity of the selected resource by default included in the rate pack without any additional rate.

       • Pricing Model: Select the required pricing model from the list to modify the pricing model.

       • + Add: Click to add/modify slab rates. You can add one or more slabs or delete an existing slab. This option is available only if Slab is selected as the Pricing Model.

         • Slab 1: Modify the quantity of resources for the slab.

         • Rate: Modify the rate for the selected slab.

     • +: Click to add more pack items to the

     price

     • rate pack. You can use this option to add more than one resource in the pack.

     • x: Click to delete the required resource set.

4. Click Apply.

Aquila Clouds creates the price rate pack with the required details.

Delete a Rate Pack:

1. On the side navigation bar, select the PRODUCT CATALOG tab, and click Rate Packs.
   Alternately to view the rate packs, on the side navigation bar, select the CSP Billing tab > Overview and for the required customer click in the Overview column, click Go To Bill > Product Catalog (on the top right corner) and select Rate Packs.
   Aquila Clouds displays the available rate packs on the Product Catalog page.

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2. For the required rate pack, click the following icon and select Delete.

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   Alternately, select the required rate pack and in the ACTION list, select Item > Delete.

3. Click I understand, Delete.

Aquila Clouds deletes the selected rate pack.