/boss

Billing for openstack

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BOSS Description

BOSS is the abbreviation for Billing for OpenStack Software. It is intended to solve problems of billing and self-service portals development for private cloud and service providers more efficiently.

BOSS was developed as a reliable and stable service that allows clients to deploy a comprehensive aimed-at-consumer solution as fast as possible.

BOSS contains the following key features:

  • The extensive functionality to solve the main business cases;
  • An open architecture to provide a simple scale out.

Business stories

1. Customers.

  • Registration;
  • Email confirmation;
  • Password change and recovery;
  • Deleting a customer.

2. Scheduling.

  • History of cloud storage during a particular period of time;
  • Statistics on a cloud, a service and a type of a virtual server;
  • Scheduling;
  • Costing.

3. Services and Plans.

  • Services management;
  • Plan creation and edition;
  • Users migration.

4. Simple Interfaces.

  • Cloud management with the basic interface.

    • Create/Stop/Start;
    • Backups;
    • Public IP-addresses management;
    • Private images;
    • DNS & PTR management.

  • Cloud management with the full interface of OpenStack Horizon.

5. Technical Support.

  • Email Support;
  • Integration with support systems.

6. Self-service Portals.

  • Order of cloud resources.

7. News and mailing.

  • News publication scripts;
  • Mailing lists.

8. Roles for provider’s employees:

  • Administrator;
  • Business Manager;
  • Account Manager and Tech Support Engineer.

Key Features For Service Providers

1. Promo offers and promo codes.

2. Special discount.

3. Opportunity to sell and process not only OpenStack.

  • Temporary services;
  • Subscription;
  • Integration by plugins with external systems.

4. Balances. Integration with payment systems.

  • Add funds for private persons:

    • Bank cards binding;
    • Auto payments;
    • Add funds with the bank card.

  • Generating documents for legal entities:

    • Generating of several types of invoices;
    • Generating documents for bank payment.
    • Reports in many format generation.

Technical details

1. A simple deploy.

2. Load balancing and a simple scale out.

  • Parallel running;
  • Fault tolerance.

3. Plugins to extend the functionality.

  • Extensions for non-OpenStack services;
  • Development of the desired functionality.