Aquila Clouds BillOps User Guide V1.0_revised

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Content
About this Guide
Purpose of this Guide
Who should read this Guide?
Typographical Conventions
1 About Aquila Clouds for BillOps
1.1 Introduction
1.2 User roles
2 Setting up Aquila Clouds BillOps
2.1 Adding and managing users
2.2 Adding and managing cloud service provider environment
2.3 Managing thresholds for generating alerts for customers
2.4 Managing login authentication
3 Viewing and managing BillOps Admin Dashboard
3.1 View and manage customers
3.1.1 Adding a BillOps customer
3.1.2 Editing a BillOps customer profile
3.1.3 Defining contact details of a BillOps customer's contact person
3.1.4 Creating a user account for customer's contact person
3.1.5 Adding a purchase order
3.2 Viewing bills
3.3 Viewing analytics
3.4 Viewing alerts
4 Managing usage bills for customers
4.1 About managing usage bills
4.2 Workflow for generating usage bill
4.3 Viewing customer details
4.4 Defining a rate card
4.5 Defining a rate pack
4.6 Importing a rate pack
4.7 Defining bill rate for a subscription
4.8 Defining a managed service
4.9 Defining a managed discount
4.10 Generating a usage bill
4.11 Viewing daily lines for a customer
4.12 Viewing resource lifecycle details for a customer
5 Viewing analytics and bill versions for a customer
5.1 Viewing analytics
5.2 Viewing bill version for a customer
About this Guide
Purpose of this Guide
The Aquila Clouds BillOps User's Guide provides detailed instructions for performing day-to-day operational tasks associated with Aquila Clouds BillOps. onboarding with Aquila Clouds, configuring resource details of your customers and generating itemized bills for customers on a periodic basis.
Who should read this Guide?
This guide helps Administrator, billing account manager, billing operator and billing reviewer to account for all the cloud resources used by the customers, apply region or customer specific discounts and generate an itemized bill for customers.
Typographical Conventions
This guide complies with the following typographical conventions:
Table 1: TYPOGRAPHICAL CONVENTION

Note: Figures in this guide are displayed with sample data in the fields for your understanding only.