Reselling is a type of partner relation between two companies. One of the companies provides services. The other company buys those services and sells them to its customers. For example, "M" company develops panels for hosting automation, virtual machines management, physical servers and data center equipment management. Access to panels is granted under licenses. The company "N" decides to sell M's licenses to its customers. To be able to do so, it joins the partnership program and buys licenses from "M". After that, the company "N" sets its own prices and gains profit on reselling margin.
Both companies use billing platforms to sell services. In this case, one system will be a selling system and the other will be a reselling system:
- selling system — BILLmanager owned by the company providing the services. For more details, see the article What can be resold.
- reselling system - BILLmanager or the reseller company's own solution that interacts with the selling system via API. Both BILLmanager and the API solution allow you to customize reselling of:
- services;
- modules;
- licenses.
About reselling through BILLmanager
When both companies are using BILLmanager as the billing system, to establish connection between them the reselling billing system needs to be integrated with the selling system. Read more in Step 1. Integration with the selling BILLmanager.
For more information on how reselling through BILLmanager works in How reselling works.
About reselling through API
If you are using a third-party billing platform or your own solution as a reselling system and BILLmanager as a selling system, reselling can be configured using the API. There are no ready-to-use solutions for setting up reselling via API in BILLmanager. The process of customization depends on the peculiarities of your system. We recommend studying the documentation and customizing the API to your needs. For more details, see the article Guide to ISPsystem software API and the articles in the Developer section.
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