Revision as of 11:59, 14 December 2011

• Overage billing allows you to bill based on the disk and/or bandwidth used for a given month over and above the base amount allowed with a package
• Products can still have a base price or the price and soft limits can be set at zero to bill solely based on the usage
• Usage charges are calculated on the last day of each month
• They can be invoiced on the last day of the month independantly from the related product or added as billable items to be included on the next invoice the client gets sent
• Native support is included for cPanel, Plesk & DirectAdmin modules using the values returned from the respective control panel API's but this feature can also be used by developers with their own control panels passing usage data direct to the WHMCS database

How to Configure

• The configuration of overage billing is done on a per product basis on the Other tab of product config (Setup > Products/Services > Edit > Other tab).
• To enable it for a product, begin by ticking the Overages Billing checkbox
• Next enter the Soft Disk Limit and Soft Bandwidth Limit which should be the amounts included with the package - anything over this amount is what's considered the over usage - can be zero to bill solely based on use
• Then enter the cost per MB for disk space and bandwidth in the Disk Overages Cost and Bandwidth Overages Cost fields - these can be set up to 4 decimal places and will be multipled by the overused amount
• Click save to complete the changes
• Navigate to Setup > Automation Settings and use the Overage Billing Charges option to choose when clients are invoiced for their overage usage.

Notes

If you only wish to charge for one of the items (ie. charge only for bandwidth overages) set the soft disk limit to a very high value, say 999999999. That way the user will never exceed it and thus never be charged for any disk overage.

If you have configurable options named "Disk Space" and "Bandwidth", then these will override the limits set on the Other tab. These will then be used in the overages calculations. So for example if the soft disk limit was set to 10MB and the configurable option set to 20MB the client would only be charged for overage once they go above 20MB.

To have the service suspended if the overage costs are not paid it's necessary to select the include on the next invoice to generate for the client overage invoicing option.