Configuring the Service Module
The Bandwidth Billing service module monitors and bills your clients for the bandwidth they use. You can also include a bandwidth usage graph and chart on your client's invoice. See Configuring Bandwidth Usage Billing for setting up your service plan and service.
- In the Overage Precision field, select 0, 1, or 2 to determine how many decimal places to round the amount of bandwidth used.
- In the Show Usage Chart in PDF invoice field, select Yes or No.
- In the Show Usage Graph in PDF invoice field, select Yes or No.
- In the Error when no devices are associated field, select Yes or No.
- In the Initial Overage Discount field, select No Discount, Client default, or Parent service discount.
Configuring Tiered Bandwidth Billing
When using Tiered Bandwidth Billing, clients can be charged at different rates depending on the amount of bandwidth used. The number of tiers available is unlimited, and additional tiers may be added by creating the appropriate service metadata fields in the 'Custom Service Data Fields' section of 'setup & admin', i.e.:
bw_tierX_minimum
bw_tierX_rate
where X is a number greater than 2.
Each 'tier' of bandwidth usage is defined by a minimum amount and a rate, with the standard bandwidth billing fields comprising 'Tier 1', with a minimum of zero.
In order to configure a server with 100GB included transfer, then $0.50/GB up to 1000GB total transfer, then $0.30/gb for any further usage, the configuration would be:
bw_billing_method transfer
bw_included_transfer 100
bw_included_transfer_unit GB
bw_overage_unit GB
bw_overage_rate 0.50
bw_tier2_minimum 900
bw_tier2_rate 0.30
Note that the tier minimum values are based on the overage, not the usage. You can set default values for these items on a per-service plan basis within the 'Service Plans' section of 'setup & admin', otherwise they can be configured on a per-client service basis in the 'Custom Data' section for the service.
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