Overview

Plesk Key Administrator is a wholesaler of web hosting-related services and products. Plesk Key Administrator module for HostBill is a perfect tool for reselling Plesk Key Administrator.

Activating the module

If the module is included in your HostBill edition you can download it from your client portal.
If the module is not included in your HostBill edition you can purchase it from our marketplace and then download it from the client area.
Once you download the module extract it in the main HostBill directory.
Go to Settings → Modules → Hosting Modules, find and activate Plesk Key Administrator module.

Connecting HostBill with Plesk Key Administrator

Proceed to Settings → Apps → Add new App
From Applications list select Plesk Key Administrator
Enter:

- Name - Name of this connection
- API Username - Plesk Partner API username
- API Password - Plesk Partner API password
- Account ID - An ID of a license owner. You can obtain the ID in Plesk Partner Central: go to the Accounts tab > click the customer’s name > the Internal ID field.
- Test mode - enable if sandbox API should be used (note that API credentials may be different for sandbox)

4. Verify entered credentials by clicking Test Connection to check if HostBill can connect
5. Save Changes

Adding Plesk Key Administrator Product

In HostBill go to Settings → Products & Services, and Add new order page
From Order Types select Other Services
After creating order page add new product in it, provide its name and Save changes
From Connect with App section select Plesk Key Administrator and app server created in previous steps.

At the beginning you need to choose the Main License, which will determine the product.

Additional options:

To allow users to choose the IP address when placing the order, check the IP Address on sign-up checkbox.
Additionally, you can check the Additional Licenses checkbox which will generate a list of additional licenses as components for the product and will allow users to choose additional licenses.
Additionally, you can check the Additional Features checkbox which will generate a list of additional features as components for the product and will allow users to choose additional features.

You can change available option names, remove unwanted sublicenses/features or set pricing in Components → Forms:

When mentioned additional options are enabled, customer will have them available during order as a multi-select

Once ordered, admin can check/manage list of features, IP addresses and list of additional licenses from admin portal

For more generic product configuration details including price, automation, emails settings refer to Product Configuration article.

Note about email templates

If you wish your automated emails to contain License Key (i.e. in automated "Account Created" email set in Emails tab of Product Configuration) use following email variable in your template:
{$service.extra_details.code}

Configuring Client Functions

In Products & Services → Your Order Page → Your Product → Client Functions you can control what features customer will have access to in client portal, by clicking Enable/Disable next to the given option.
Use Edit button to adjust function appearance in the client portal.

For Plesk Key Administrator you can enable the following client functions dedicated to this module:

License details - displays license details
Change IP Address - used to change IP address that Plesk license is bound to

As well as number of standard client functions, such as

Change Billing Cycle
Change Label
Change Ownership
Edit Forms
Graphs
Login Details
Manual Service Renew
New Direct Link
Related Services
Service Auto Renewal

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