## Creating Hosting Plans

Hosting plans creation in Parallels Business Automation - Standard is rather simple: select the hosting type and follow the corresponding wizard.

To create a hosting plan, go to the Billing Director - Product Manager - Hosting Plans and click the New Hosting Plan button.

Several steps (1st, 2nd, and the two final ones) are common for all types of hosting plans. Namely:

The first step. Hosting plan type selection.

The second step. General settings (on this stage you define the hosting plan general attributes and availability for resellers):

- Title - Convenient alphanumeric identifier to refer to a Hosting Plan in common lists, Subscriptions, and documents (Orders and Invoices). For better manageability, Hosting Plans can be grouped by categories. Such grouping can be performed on an arbitrary basis, the same category may include Hosting Plans of different types. You can enter both the plan name and description in different languages.

  Parallels Business Automation - Standard supports multi-lingual customization for a wide range of fields (website texts, hosting plan names and description, notification templates). You can enter and save texts in any of the languages available for the current Parallels Business Automation - Standard implementation (Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish). To select the language, click one of the buttons with language names tiled below the field you want to enter the text and enter the text in the language selected. For example, click English - and edit the English text, then click German (the English content will be saved and replaced with the German content in the same field) and edit the German text, and so on, for all languages you want to use in your store.

- Hosting plan category - optional attribute that allows grouping hosting plans.
- Availability permissions:

  The Active box defines if any services can be provided in the frame of a hosting plan or not, including offering this plan for sale in the online store and the ability for Provider or Reseller to manually create subscriptions on the basis of such a Hosting Plan from Provider or Reseller Control Centers. This is the most general setting. This checkbox overrides absolutely all other availability settings:

  If you clear the Active box, this Hosting Plan will be immediately removed both from all online stores. Thus, you can easily and quickly suspend existing Hosting Plan or set availability permissions on creation stage and activate a Hosting Plan at any moment you consider reasonable.

  If you check the Active box, but remove the hosting plan from the online store (clear the Sell this hosting plan in my HSPstore box) you still can manually create subscriptions (Virtuozzo Container or Plesk client/shared) on the basis of this Hosting Plan.

  Setting sales permissions including permission to sale it for particular vendor (Provider only, particular Reseller, or all Resellers) and availability of trial period for the Hosting Plan.

  Note: Creation of Plesk Virtual Node hosting plans is possible for Provider only (i.e., from the Provider Control Center only). Resellers can buy such hosting plans and then manage the purchased node.

  To sell this hosting plan in your online store, check the Sell this hosting plan in my HSPstore box. To allow Reseller(s) to create hosting plans on the basis of the hosting plan you are now creating, please check the Resellers can create a copy of the current hosting plan box and then adjust the availability of the hosting plan for resellers (set the option button either to All resellers or to Selected reseller only and select this reseller). If you allow Reseller(s) to sell this Hosting Plan with certain trial period, a Reseller in future can decide alone upon providing trial period for his (or her) customers that subscribe for this Hosting Plan. If you did not allow any trial period, then a Reseller cannot establish it on an arbitrary basis.

- For Virtuozzo Container and Plesk client/shared hosting plan types only: Availability of trial period (the period of time a customer can use services for free, to try it) for a Hosting Plan. It is possible to set the trial period separately for Provider customers and Reseller customers:

  To set the trial period for Provider: After you check the Sell this hosting plan in my HSPstore box, the trial period related box below becomes active (i.e., you now can check or clear it). Check the Customers may try this hosting plan box and then select the trial period from the relevant drop-down menu below.

  To set the trial period for Resellers: Just check the Customers of the reseller may try this hosting plan box and select the trial period from the relevant drop-down menu.

  Note 1: You can create the trial-only hosting plans of Virtuozzo Container and Plesk client/domain type.

  Note 2: Resellers that copy the Provider's hosting plan can set the trial period no greater then allowed by Provider. If a Reseller copies the trial-only Hosting Plan, they can offer this plan at store only as trial-only, and use the trial period no greater than allowed by Provider. In this case, a Reseller cannot convert a trial-only Hosting Plan copied from Provider into a pay one.

- Define, whether the hosting plan will be available from the Control Panel Upgrade Center, for customers to upgrade their subscriptions to this hosting plan. If you clear the Allow upgrade to this plan from Control Panels box, this hosting plan will not be shown in the list of available upgrade offerings. Your customers will be able to only buy this Hosting Plan in your online store.
- Set the default rules of Renewal order generation. These rules will be inherited by all subscriptions based on this hosting plan. Later the default renewal settings can be changed per subscription, both from the Control Canter and by a customer, from Control Panel:

  Do not generate renewal orders automatically. Select this option to disable the automated generation of renewal orders at all. Only manual subscription renewal will be possible.

  Generate renewal orders and try to pay them automatically. Select this option to renew subscriptions automatically. Renewal orders will be generated in accordance with renewal order generation period set in Credit Terms assigned to a customer account and paid automatically using customer payment methods (credit card or bank account) with recurring payments allowed.

  Generate renewal orders automatically but pay them manually. Select this option to generate renewal orders in accordance with renewal order generation period set in Credit Terms assigned to a customer account, but allow to pay renewal orders only manually.

- Descriptions of a Hosting Plan that can be used in the HSPstore.

Optional step: Attaching custom attributes

If at least one group of custom attributes was created and enabled for the selected type of hosting, you can optionally attach some additional services (custom attributes) to a hosting plan:

Custom attributes are shown by groups. The group name comes first and the group type (exclusive or selectable) is shown in brackets directly after the group name:

- Selectable group. When subscribing to a Hosting Plan a customer can select one or more (or all) additional services from the set available.
- Exclusive group. When subscribing to a Hosting Plan a customer can select only one additional service from the set available.

  Note: You can change the group type from selectable into exclusive and conversely in the Billing Director - Product Manager - Custom Attributes.

Check the boxes next to the custom attributes names to add the custom services provided to customers within the Hosting Plan.

You can specify whether the price for a custom service will be included in the Hosting Plan fee or will be offered at the special rate:

- To set both the setup and monthly fee for a custom service check the box only in the Enabled column next to the custom attribute name.
- To include the custom service in the Hosting Plan price check both the Enabled and Included boxes next to the custom attribute name.

  Note: Customers can drop or buy custom attributes that are available for a hosting plan (i.e., custom attributes that are "Enabled" for a Hosting plan) in the same way as Applications, using the Upgrade Center in the Control Panel.

- Optionally: Adding custom questions to be asked at the HSPstore when a customer subscribes for a hosting plan. Please, select the number of questions from the Create... drop-down menu and click the Display button. The specified number of fields appear. Type questions into the relevant fields and click the Next button.

In This Section

Creating Virtuozzo Container Hosting Plan

Creating Plesk Domain Hosting Plan

Creating Plesk Client Hosting Plan

Creating Plesk Virtual Node Hosting Plan

Creating Domain Registration Hosting Plan

Creating Virtuozzo Dedicated Node Hosting Plan

Creating Plesk Dedicated Node Hosting Plan

Creating Dedicated Server Hosting Plans

Creating Miscellaneous Hosting Plan

Creating One-Time Fee Hosting Plans

Creating and Selling the Trial-Only Hosting Plans

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