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Pricing Policy for Service Provider
Published On May 28, 2024 - 7:58 AM

Pricing Policy for Service Provider

Discover the set up steps and implications of the Pricing Policy flag on Customer Tenant.
The Pricing Policy flag provides the ability for the Service Provider (SP) to control whether its Pricing Policy is applied to the Customer Tenant (CT).

Setting up Pricing Policy flag

The flag
Disable_CT_Pricing_Policy
 on Service Provider Tenant is set up by the Cluster admin or Foundation admin roles for Coreplus/CommonServices application.
To set up the Disable_CT_Pricing_Policy, go to Tenant Manager of Root tenant, and then create the Service Provider Tenant.
You must fill in all the account information required for Service Provider Tenant and then click
Next
. Then, in the
Select Applications
 page, you select
Kyndryl Modern Operations Applications Common Services
 – Entry, which displays to the right side of the screen and the Disable_CT_Pricing_Policy feature flag at the bottom.
You can toggle the switch to turn it on or off, to enable or disable the feature flag. By default, this flag is disabled. If it is disabled, the CT sets its own Pricing Policies. Yet, if the flag is enabled, CT uses the Pricing Policy set by the SP.

Pricing Policy on Customer Tenant

If
Disable_CT_Pricing_Policy
 is disabled in SP, then the Customer Tenant does not inherit the Pricing policy from the SP and the Pricing Policy configured on CT is the one that applies.
If
Disable_CT_Pricing_Policy
 is enabled in SP, then the Customer Tenant inherits the Pricing Policy configured in SP. The Customer Tenant cannot create/update/read/delete policies available on its tenant.
This Service Provider Pricing Policy applies only if the Corporate Currency (CC) from the Service Provider (SP) and the Customer Tenant (CT) is the same.

Managing Pricing Policies

The responsibility of managing the Pricing Policy lies with the Service Provider (SP). It is the Pricing Policy Administrators who can manage the Pricing Policy centrally at Service Provider Tenant for the Customer Tenants.
This offers a single point of control for the SP, making it easier to maintain and monitor Pricing Policies. All actions to be taken on Pricing Policies, are accessed from the
Pricing Management
 page.
The
Pricing Management
 page provides two tabs at the beginning of the page:
  • Pricing policies
  • Customer tenants for onboarding
To Edit, Activate, or Edit Pricing Policies, from the
Pricing Management
 page, click the
Pricing Policies
 tab and then click the Actions menu next to the Pricing Policy you want to take an action on, from the list of all the policies.
For more information on Pricing Management, see Pricing Management.
To onboard tenants, you must select them from the list presented in the
Customer tenants for onboarding
 tab.

Pricing Policies Actions

Once set, Pricing Policies allow you to perform the following actions:
  • View the list of customer Tenants that will be onboarded.   
  • Select one or more customer Tenants from the Service Provider (SP) to set, edit, or delete the Pricing Policy.
  • See that the changes made to the Pricing Policy (set/edit/delete) from SP Tenant are reflected in the respective customer Tenant(s), and the Customer Tenant can view these Pricing Policies at their end.
  • Set, edit, and delete the Pricing Policy for the SP Tenant.
  • See an informational message that conveys the following for the customer Tenant if the Pricing Policy is set by the SP Tenant: "The Pricing Policy is set by the SP Tenant, hence the customer Tenant cannot perform operations like setting, editing, or deleting the Pricing Policy." 
  • See that the customer Tenant cannot edit, delete, set, or add new Pricing Policies.
  • Filter the Pricing policies based on the Customer Tenant in the SP Tenant.

Adding Pricing Policies

As a Service Provider, you can add Pricing Policies for your Customer Tenants. To do so, under
Pricing Management
, click the
Add a policy
 button located to the right of the Pricing policies table.
This opens a new window with the following four tabs:
  • Basic details
  • Scope of policy
  • Associate access tags
  • Pricing conditions and rules
  • Review
Basic details
The Basic details tab presents the following fields to fill in about the new policy being created:
  • Name: Enter policy name.
  • Default currency USD.
  • Start date: The date when the policy starts.
  • Start time: The time when the policy starts, including time zone.
  • End date: The date when the policy ends.
  • End time: The time when the policy ends.
  • Policy does not expire: Click this check box if you want to set the policy to not expire.
Once you are done filling out this page, you can click
Next
 to go to the next page, or
Previous
 to go to the previous page.
Scope of policy
In the Scope of policy tab, you must define who the policy applies to, whether it is the
Service provider
 or
Customer tenant
; you then click the check box based on your selection.
If you select Customer tenant as who the policy applies to, then the list of Customer tenants displays for you to select the ones the policy applies to. You can select as many as you want.
Once you are done in this tab, you can click
Next
 to go to the next page, or
Previous
 to go to the previous page.
Associate access tags
The Associate access tags tab presents the selected access tag(s) (if any) and the following two drop down menus:
  • Access tag name
  • Access tag value
You can also click the
Add access tag
 option, to add a new access tag.
Once you are done in this tab, you can click
Next
 to go to the next page, or
Previous
 to go to the previous page.
Pricing conditions and rules
In the Pricing conditions and rules tab, you have the following fields to fill in with the Pricing Policy information:
  • Provider: Drop down menu for you to select the provider associated to the Pricing Policy.
  • Tags (optional): A table that displays the tag name(s) and tag value(s) associated to the Pricing Policy.
  • Connections (optional): A table that displays the available connections and providers.
  • Rules: A policy can have a maximum of three rules: a one-time charge, recurring charge, and usage charge rule. Here, the list of rules is displayed with the Name, Rule type, Adjustment type, and Amount.
Once you are done in this tab, you can click
Next
 to go to the next page, or
Previous
 to go to the previous page.
Review
The Review tab is basically a summary of all the details you just configured for the Pricing Policy you created.
Once you are done in this tab, you can click
Save
 to keep your changes, or
Previous
 to go to the previous page.
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