Create a Price Pack

You can create a price pack that can be used for a customer or a group of customers. 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 Pack:

1. On the side navigation bar, select the Product Catalog tab, and click Rate Packs.

   • Alternately to view the Rate Packs page, 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 page.

     

2. In the ACTION list, select Item > Add.

   • Aquila Clouds displays the Add Price Pack page.

     

3. Enter the following details.

   • Pack Name: Enter the name for the price 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 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 pack. The total price of the price 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 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 applied.

     • 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. This option is available only if Slab is selected as the Pricing Model.

     • Rate: Define 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.

     • +Add: Click to add more slabs. This option is available only if Slab is selected as the Pricing Model.

   • +: Click to add more pack items to the price 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 pack with the required details.