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Last modified: 21 Dec 2007
Fees Collected From Resellers
Due to the
dual nature of resellers in H-Sphere they are charged:
Fees for services provided with reseller account
Fees for services provided with
reseller account
are calculated based on actual billing period prices and free units set on
the fourth or any subsequent steps of reseller plan edit wizard.
If prices or free units for actual billing period aren't set,
corresponding base prices and free units set on
the first step of reseller plan wizard are used instead.
In this case the fee is adjusted to respective discount.
- Setup fee for reseller account: single time fee charged at the moment the
reseller account is created.
= Setup price for a CP account
- Recurrent fee for reseller account: service fee for maintaining
of reseller account during the whole billing period;
charged in advance the moment reseller account is created and
since then at the beginning of each billing period.
= Monthly price for a CP account
* if the base price is used, it is multiplied by billing period duration in months.
- Recurrent fee for additional traffic or disk space:
fee for each GB of traffic or MB of disk space that reseller reserves to distribute between his end users
over free units you allocate to resellers;
charged inprorated for the whole
billing month in advance
at the moment of purchase and since then at the beginning of each billing month.
= Monthly price for Reseller traffic or Summary Disk Usage
x units over Free quota / billing period duration in months
* if the base price is used, it's not divided by billing period duration in months
- Usage fee for exceeding traffic or disk space quotas:
fee for each GB of traffic or MB of disk space consumed by reseller's end users
over the quota reserved by reseller;
charged at the end of each billing month
= Extra price for Reseller traffic or Summary Disk Usage
x units over Traffic/Summary Disk Usage quota reserved by reseller
/ billing period duration in months
* if the base price is used, it's not divided by billing period duration in months
Fees for services distributed with user accounts
Resellers are charged fees for services distributed with
user accounts
when their customers acquire resources over free quotas allocated to resellers.
The fees are calculated based on prices and free units
set on the third step of reseller plan wizard.
- Setup fee: single time fee for creating a unit of specific resource
by reseller's end users over free units you allocate to reseller;
charged the day after it is acquired.
= Setup price for specific resource
- Recurrent fee:
service fee for maintaining of resource
acquired by reseller's end users over free units you allocate to reseller;
charged in advance for the whole end user's billing period the day after it is acquired
and since then at the beginning of each end user's billing period.
= Monthly price for specific resource x end user's billing period duration in months
* Mind that if the resource is acquired in the middle of the end user's billing period,
the recurrent fee is prorated to the days remaining to the closure of the end user's billing period:
= recurrent fee x days remaining to the billing period closure /
billing period duration in days
Charging Resellers for Traffic
The table below explains the difference between two alternative approaches in charging resellers for traffic.
| Traffic Usage |
Traffic Allocation |
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- charge resellers for the traffic that their end users have run up
during a month period (either from the beginning of the billing period
or from the time when the traffic limit was changed).
* the traffic run up during the last day of the month is transferred
to the next month charges
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- charge resellers for traffic that their end users have requested
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| Configuration of Traffic Charge Billing Schemes through Plan Edit Wizard |
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On the first step set:
- Free: GBs of traffic that you allow your reseller to provide
to his end customers for month. If traffic run up during the month keeps
within this amount, you don't charge reseller anything. Free makes up
initial traffic quota.
- Extra: reseller payment per each GB that is run up over traffic
quota*. 'Extra' is charged at the end of each month.
- Monthly: fee that reseller pays per each GB bought to increase
his 'free'. This way reseller increases his traffic quota. This
is usual when reseller constantly overpays for exceeding the 'free'
limit. Monthly is charged at the beginning of each month.
* traffic quota = free GBs + additional GBs
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On the first step leave all the fields referring to traffic empty.
On the second step set:
- Free: GBs of traffic for billing period a reseller can provide
to all his end customers without being charged.
- Setup: N/A
- Recurrent: reseller month payment per each GB reseller's end
customers have requested by setting Summary Traffic limit for their accounts
in excess to free you set for this reseller's plan.
- Usage: Money paid by reseller per each GB of traffic
his end customers run over traffic limit they set for their accounts.
- Refund: % of recurrent fee that is refunded to the reseller
for the unused GBs of booked traffic when the end user quits hosting
or otherwise closes the billing period.
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To set traffic usage scheme working, you have to log into
each reseller account registered with that kind of plan and change their
summary traffic limit (Info-> Account Settings) to either plan's free traffic
amount or zero.
If you decide on enabling traffic usage scheme for all your reseller plans,
log into the CP server as
cpanel and run the following command:
java psoft.hsphere.converter.ResellerTrafficUpdate
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