Adding Service Plans

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Before creating sites, we recommend you create new Service Plans. A Service Plan is a template consisting of a set of services and utilities. These templates are not essential to create a site; however, they make creating multiple sites easier and faster by grouping services together, which can be assigned to sites while creating them. You can create unlimited Service Plans using different configurations to satisfy different business needs.

Service Plans are a powerful and convenient way to offer hosting plans to your customers by linking them with the type and extent of services available. For example, you can create a Bronze plan offering basic services with limited disk space, a Silver plan offering more services with more disk space, and a Gold plan offering all services and maximum disk space.

The control panel ships with a single default plan, named DefaultPlan. Use the Add Service Plan option to create more plans based on the needs of your customers. Service Plans can be modified later any time as desired.

Note: There is no permanent link between a site and the plan used to create it. After a site is created using a Service Plan, the site can be modified without affecting the plan and vice-versa.

To add a service plan:

1. In the shortcuts section of the Home page, click Add Plan (Service Plan section). The Add Service Plan form opens and displays the DefaultPlan template. The values in the DefaultPlan template are defined, but you can change them now and save the settings as your current DefaultPlan or as a new template.
   

   To get to the home page, click Home on the navigation bar at left.

2. Use Service Plan options information to help you complete the form.
3. In the Save Plan area, save the plan as a new template or overwrite the existing template. Do one of the following:
   • To save the plan as a new plan, select the Save as a new plan option. In the adjacent text box, enter the name of the new plan.
   • To update or overwrite an existing plan, select the Save as an existing plan option. From the list, click the arrow and choose a name.
   • To save this plan as the default plan, click the arrow and choose default.
4. Click Save.

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