Set individual price per instance

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Headline:
Have individual price plans per-instance

Description:
Our pricing model is quite complex - there are a lot of variables and options for provisioning of an instance, and discounts can also be applied for some customers. Additional software and services as part of a managed service offering cannot currently be costed by Morpheus.

Example/Use case(s):
When provisioning an instance, we would ideally like the ability to obtain a price from an external source (our quoting tool) or at least have the facility to set a price per-instance (eg. £30/month). At the moment the only way I can see to do this at present is to have a price / price set / plan created for each instance, which isn’t sustainable.

2

Hi @markp ,

I believe this can already be performed utilizing the price phase in a provisioning workflow. See this reference here

3

Ah, this is interesting… OK. I’ll take a look at this to see if it’ll work for us.

4

This should solve a lot of our problems, but we’ll need to wait for this functionality to become part of the LTS release to make use of it (hopefully soon!).

Will this just determine a price at the time of provisioning, or will the task always be used to generate pricing (for example, if there is a change to our pricebook, would the price shown in the UI update or would it be fixed at the price calculated by the task at the time of creation?)

5

Finally got round to trying this out, and so far seems to do exactly what we need.

A minor suggestion, could the instance order form show a placeholder for the cost when the plan selection is changed. There is a delay in the script retrieving pricing from an external source.
I can partially overcome it with some custom CSS and HTML but would be good if this was implemented properly within the UI:

Whitelabel CSS override:

span.plan-price:empty::before {
    content: 'Calculating cost...';
    display: inline-block;
}

And a little bit of Javascript:

<script>
  $('#tmp-plan-select').on('change', function() {
    $(".plan-price").html("");
  });
</script>