Creating Hosting Plans

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Creating Hosting Plans and Charges

To Create Hosting Plans:

1. Go to Utilities: Administration: Billing: Hosting Plans.

2. Click create new hosting plan.

3. Enter a Name and Description for this hosting plan. Users will see the Name and Description on their invoice.

4. Specify whether there should be limits on the plan:

Max Members - Limits the number of members allowed for the entire plan. The default 0 allows unlimited members.

Max Members Per List - Limits the number of members per list on this plan. The default 0 allows unlimited members per list.

Max Lists - Limits the number of lists allowed on this plan. The default 0 allows unlimited lists.

Max Lists Per Site - Limits the number of lists per site on this plan. The default 0 allows unlimited lists per site.

Max Sites - Limits the number of sites on this plan. The default 0 allows unlimited sites.

5. Select whether or not to Bill by List. If Yes, the Monthly Price, Included Messages and Included Bandwidth apply to each list individually.

6. Select the Billing Method:

Standard - The customer is charged by the number of messages sent.

Bandwidth - The customer is charged by the total amount of mail sent (bandwidth).

7. Click the Refresh button. Depending on the Billing Method, you will see the following options:

Monthly Price - A set fee for this plan.

Overage CPM - The cost per thousand messages (CPM) that exceeds the Included Messages.

Included Messages - The number of message units included in a plan. The size of a message unit is determined by your setting for Max Message Size.

Max Message Size - The size of a message unit, in kilobytes. Messages larger than this size are counted as more than one message.

For example, if your Max Message Size was 10 (10 kilobytes), and a customer sent a single message that was 12,288 bytes in size, they would be charged for 1.2 messages. If this message was sent to one hundred recipients, they would be charged for 120 message units.

Monthly Price Per Server - The set fee per month for a server. Billing by Bandwidth can only be done per server.

Cost Per GB - The cost per gigabyte (GB) sent per month. If the customer exceeds the Included GB, they would be charged this rate per GB.

Included GB - The number of gigabytes (GB) included in this plan before additional charges apply.

8. Click Save.

1. Billing

2. Billing Initial Setup

3. Adding, Validating and Syncing Servers

4. Creating Hosting Plans

5. Creating Additional Charges

6. Creating New Customers

7. Creating Billing Groups

8. Assigning Hosting Plans, Charges and Lists