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Creating Promotion

A promotion settings consist of the two basic parts:

To create a new Promotion:

  1. Open the Billing Director submenu on the Navigation tree and select Discount Manager.
  2. Click Promotions on the Discount Manager submenu. The list of promotions appears on the screen.
  3. Click the New Promotion button.
  4. Fill the form that appears and then click the Save button to proceed with the Promotion discounts configuration:

    Title - Short but descriptive Promotion name. In other words, an alphanumeric identifier which Promotion will be referred to within Parallels Business Automation - Standard.

Boundaries.

Select the type of orders the promotion is to be applied and set the option button to one of the following:

Type. Select the type of promotion activation by setting the option button to one of the following:

Hosting Plans

Configuring discounts

Parallels Business Automation - Standard is now equipped with new discount plug-ins. Three of them are shipped by default; these you can view and make use of during the promotion creation. If you wish to modify the default plug-ins or create new ones to meet your needs, study the Parallels Business Automation - Standard SDK instructions. The default discount plug-ins are described below:

  1. After you have saved the above configuration, you are given the opportunity to enable the Discount settings by clicking the Enable button. In this section you can define the specific discounts given to a customer in case he (or she) subscribes for a promoted hosting plan for one month, three months, half a year, or a year, - for any of the subscription periods available in Parallels Business Automation - Standard. To set the discounts for a particular subscription period:
    1. Check the subscription period. The fields designated for configuring the discount period and entering the relevant discounts will become enabled.
    2. Specify the discount period or you can set it to unlimited. The Discount period is the period of time during which the discount will be valid.
    3. Key in the discount percentage into the relevant fields next to the names of fees you want to discount. You can discount the setup fees (the amount to be paid without respect to the subscription period) and recurrent subscription fees (the amount to be paid for the subscription period) for the Hosting Plans, applications and Hosting Plan custom attributes.
    4. You are allowed to discount the resource overusage fee - the amount to be paid if a customer exceeds the Container resource limits (traffic, disk space, etc.) included in the Hosting Plan.
  2. You are given the ability to enable the Waiving domain registration fee feature.This section of the form allows you to configure waiving the domain-registration fee if a subscription period is long enough. To apply a promotion to domain-registration fee
    1. Enable the Subscription period and select the domain registration period to waive the fee from the Waive period drop-down menu. You can also set it to unlimited.
    2. Type the maximum sum to waive into the Waive limit field. This limitation allows you to avoid unreasonable discounts if your customer subscribes for the discounted Hosting Plan and registers the expensive domain.
  3. Parallels Business Automation - Standard allows you to configure free usage of the Hosting Plan for a certain period conditional to the purchase of a particular subscription. To do this please enable the Free subscription period feature and on the opened page check the Subscription period and in the drop-down menu select the Free period value to apply to this subscription.

Note: If you had selected a particular Hosting Plans while creating a promotion, the appropriate changes will be applied immediately to your HSPstore.

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