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RentSoft Cloud Billingfor IaaS and PaaS providers
RentSoft, 2013

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RentSoft Cloud Billing
Sell the public cloud
Work with individuals and businesses
Provide services, which are paid depending on amount of services rendered, or by subscription basis
IaaS providers, who:
Who are our customers?

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Why does IaaS provider need Billing?To calculate service price for the clientsAutomatic price calculation of ordered and consumed services tailored marketing campaigns. Automatic payment acceptance
To provide the customer with the comfortable dashboardRegistration, top up, detailed account statement, user notification system, dunning
To automate paperworkSigning of accord, enterprise forms automation, integration with ERP/CRM/OSS-systems
To launch the affiliate programAccounting of resellers and their sales, resellers’ personal account, enterprise forms automation
Automatizes relationships with clients and resellers

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Boundaries of IaaS-providers responsibility
RentSoft Cloud Billing
IaaS provider
RentSoft provides the billing for hardware and software IaaS platform, which is created and supported by IaaS provider
Hardware and software IaaS platform *
RentSoft
*Including a control panel for managing virtual servers

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Core features

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Service Price CalculationAn ability to create service plans tailored to the needs of marketing
without needs of software development
One-time payment plansOne-time payment for fixed cost goods or services
Periodic feesPeriodic payment plans: once a day, once a month, once a year etc.
PromotionsDiscounts, coupons, trial periods, bundles etc. to stimulate sales
Usage ratesTariff rates depending on the volume of consumed services

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Self-Service Tools For Customer (Dashboard)Customer’s dashboard is a key to user satisfaction and cost reduction on
the IaaS-provider support
User notification system Payment reminders, notifications about blocked services etc.
Personal accountAccount top up with a simple bank transfer or PayPal. Automatic charges for the services
Billing documentsAutomatically generated orders and invoices for recurring, one-time, and usage-based fees.
Detailed purchase historyPayment and usage history in one report

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Self-Service Tools for IaaS provider
Billing integration with the IaaS provider business processes
Online statisticsOnline payment and usage statistics for IaaS provider
Data for accountingCreating data about sales, customers and others for IaaS provider’s accounting
Support interfaceOnline customer support interface with detailed information on each user
Integration with other systemsAutomated data transfer to ERP/CRM/OSS-systems

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Affiliate Program for Resellers
Increase sales through affiliate network
Reports and statisticsDetailed sales statistics and accounting reports
Partner dashboard Fast fully automated partner registration to start selling in minutes
White-label product showcasePartner will be selling your product under its own brand name
Flexible discounts for partnersIndividual approach to forming partner discounts

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Billing and IaaS management platform interaction
The interaction is carried out by a simple set of API methods
Usage Replication API Provisioning API
RentSoft Cloud Billing
IaaS management platform
Single Sign-on API Usage Price Estimation API
API

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About RentSoft company

RentSoft
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We develop RentSoft platform since 2009
50ISVs integrated
as subscription billingclients
180 integrations with clients who need
subscription & usagebilling
38 000paid accountsevery month

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Recent Client of RentSoft Billing: I-teco, May 2013
Calculation & processing of the usage-based fees (CPU, HDD, RAM, traffic etc.)
Recurrent subscription-based fees processing (IP addresses rental, OS & software licenses, tied subscriptions)
Customers accounts management (login, SSO etc.) Customers notifications, dunning, reconciliation Payments processing Documents flow automation Affiliate program for resellers
I-teco: top-5 Russian system integrator and IT outsourcer, $750M annual revenue
Client:
Service: Public cloud hosting service(based on OpenStack)
Tender winner: RentSoft, Parallels, IBM, NEC
RentSoft billing functions are highly
intensive:

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Business Model
Revenue sharingCustomization and integration fees