Viewing Reseller's Charges
General
A Reseller Charge is a special billing entity that shows how much a downline Reseller should pay to the current Reseller in case when a downline Reseller sold a Subscription to a Plan delegated by the current Reseller to an Account or to its own downline Reseller.
Reseller Charges are created when Account Charges for the Subscriptions to the delegated Plans receive the Closed status (see Charges).
Reseller Charges are created only for the delegated Plans. When a Plan was created by the downline Reseller, the Reseller Charges for the current Reseller won't be created.
Reseller Charges are created after the closing of Account Charges.
The amounts of Reseller Charges are calculated based on:
- Retail prices for the Resource or Service that are set by the current Reseller, for which Reseller Charges are created.
- Ordered amounts of Resources or Services.
- Reseller discount created by the current Reseller for downline Resellers.
- Account Charges periods in case of the Recurring fee Charges.
Only the retail prices that were set in the moment of Account Charges creation are used to calculate Reseller Charges.
For the Plans with the fixed price, only the retail prices that were set in the moment of Subscription creation are used to calculate Reseller Charges.
The amounts of Reseller Charges are calculated according to the formula:
Retail price * Account Charge period, in months * Resource (Service) amount * (100% — Reseller discount) / 100%
The table below shows an example of Reseller Charges calculation for the three levels of Resellers. Let's assume that:
- Reseller 1 is a downline Reseller for the Distributor.
- Reseller 2 is a downline Reseller for the Reseller 1.
- Reseller 1 gave a discount of 50% to the Reseller 2.
- Reseller 2 sold a Subscription for the Plan delegated by the Distributor, and as a result an Account Charge for one unit of Resource with a period of one month and an amount of $100 was closed.
| Reseller level | Net cost of the one unit of the Resource | Automatic markup rate | Discount for a downline Reseller | Retail price | Reseller Charge calculation | Reseller Charge amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributor | $1 | 5 | 0% | $5 | $5 * 1 month * 1 unit * (100% — 0%) / 100% | $5 |
| Reseller 1 | $5 | 10 | 50% | $25 | $50 * 1 month * 1 unit * (100% — 50%) / 100% | $25 |
| Reseller 2 | $25 | 4 | - | $100 | - | - |
Note that when the Reseller Charge is calculated at the Distributor level, the discount that the Reseller 1 gave to the Reseller 2 is not taken into account.
Viewing Reseller Charges
To view subscription's charges for the Reseller (see Delegating Plans to the Reseller):
- Sign in to the Operator Control Panel.
- On the Navigation Bar, go to Resellers (see Navigation). The list of Resellers is displayed (see Viewing the List of Resellers).
- Click the Name link of the Reseller. The detailed information about the selected Reseller is displayed.
- Go to the Charges tab. The Workspace displays the list of charges for the Reseller.
The Workspace displays the following blocks:- Top bar (for more information see Working with the List of Objects);
- List of Charges with the following columns:
- ID — a unique identification number of the charge;
- Description — detailed information about the ordered plan;
- Account — a name of an account that ordered a subscription;
- Unit Price — a price for the unit;
- Quantity — a total amount of the charges;
- Duration — a period of the servers;
- Discount — an amount of the discount;
- Amount — an amount of the charge;
- Created At — a date and time of charge creation.