Billing Types
Billing types indicate whether and how users pay for hosting services.
Generally, hosting in Parallels H-Sphere can be commercial and free. Free plans are
typically used to host the corporate site of the hosting provider or to disable
billing for any other reasons. Commercial plans require payments by credit
cards or checks. Commercial plans can allow trial hosting for a limited period
of time. Accounts in Parallels H-Sphere can have the following billing types:
No Billing: To disable billing in a plan, select Without Billing
in the Billing Type field on the first step of the Plan Wizard,
and any references to billing information will disappear from the signup wizard.
Billing profiles won't be created, and users won't be charged for any resources or
services including those provided by third parties, such as domain registration by
Enom or OpenSRS. To collect payments only for Enom or OpenSRS services,
create a paid plan and enter prices only on the second page of the wizard.
Credit Cards: Parallels H-Sphere begins to accept credit cards signups after
you have added and configured at least one
Merchant Gateway.
Removing all merchant gateways will remove the credit card option from the signup wizard.
In version 2.4 and higher
credit card numbers can be encrypted (normally they are kept in clear
text in the Parallels H-Sphere database) and are checked for cc verification number.
But unlike CC numbers, it's not stored in Parallels H-Sphere DB upon the check-up to comply with legislation in force.
See also adding custom credit card brands and
activating credit card accounts.
Checks: users send checks to the location you have
specified. After you have received a payment, you should process
it as suggested in Processing Check Payments.
You can also enable or disable check payments:
- Select Merchant Gateway in the Settings menu.
- Turn Accept Checks on or off.
Turning off check payments will affect the whole system,
not individual plans. After you have disabled check payments, existing
check payment users will still be able to use this form of payment, but
new customers won't see this option in the signup forms.
Online Payment Systems: You can also collect payments with
WorldPay,
PayPal,
2CheckOut, and
GestPay.
If your customers choose to pay with one of these systems,
their credit card info won't be stored in their billing profiles and
billing info won't show in the control panel.
Trial: Commercial plans can allow trial hosting for a limited
period of time. Trial users are not charged for the resources
they use, unless they decide to stay with you upon trial period expiration and
become pay users. In this case they are
charged for the resources they have used during the trial
period and recurrent fees
for an open billing period.
Their custom settings remain unchanged. See also
Providing Trial Hosting.
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