Benefits of Centralized Billing and Automation

Parallels Business Automation Standard is pre-integrated hosting automation and billing software that offers a unified platform to manage all hosting types: Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers, and Dedicated Servers. Implementing Parallels Business Automation Standard will streamline all aspects of your business life-cycle including online ordering, billing, service delivery, and service management.

Hosting providers can customize, extend and integrate any service offering with fully re-brandable reseller and customer control panels. Re-sellers are able to independently manage their own offerings through their control center.

The flexible and scalable subscription based billing system in the software allows service providers to bill for setup and recurring fees for hosting plans, individual applications, resources (metered and unmetered), and even custom services. Plus the software also supports special promotions. The billing system is fully integrated with automatic provisioning and management.

Parallels Business Automation Standard has many benefits for hosting service providers:

Increase Revenue

• Grow customer base and up-sell existing customers.
• Easily package and automatically deploy a wide range of value added services.
• Built-in support and management of resellers allows hosting providers to reach a larger number of indirect channels without having to increase their sales force.

Decrease Costs

• Automate all aspects of business management including support and system maintenance lowering the need for system management staff.
• Increase hardware utilization and reduce server overhead by operating in a virtual environment.
• Take advantage of virtual environments and locate smaller, more efficient data centers in cost-effective site and reducing utility expenditures.

Enhance Customer Experience

• Auto-provision accounts directly from online store purchases using the industry’s most popular hosting platforms — Plesk Control Panel for shared hosting, Virtuozzo Containers for VPS hosting and Sitebuilder for easy site creation.
• Automate and integrate application provisioning allowing hosting providers to perform mass upgrades of customer accounts.

Parallels also offers a full range of related professional services and support. Selected professional services include: remote/onsite technical support, various levels of remote/online training, remote/onsite implementation service, assistance with customization and integration and much more.