Trial Sites

Site Settings

Under the ‘Site Settings’ tab, you’ll see the same settings as when setting up the Trial Site initially.

Here you’ll be able to edit the site's Name, CMS Plan, Country, Time Zone and 2FA settings. Other settings are locked and cannot be changed or require WebinOne support to change on your request.

FTP

Provides the general FTP configuration details for the site instance.

Further details regarding FTP settings can be found here.

Extensions

All available extensions for the site instance will be listed here under the heading ‘Available Extensions’, where they can be installed or further information about the extension be reviewed.

Any installed extensions will be listed separately under the heading ‘Installed Extensions’, where their settings (if applicable) can be configured or the extension uninstalled (via the trash can () icon)

Commission

Reseller commission, for this site instance, can be customised here which will apply if Direct Billing is enabled.

With Direct Billing enabled, your client will be able to pay directly for the site plan via the site admin. They will see your customised pricing only (not the regular WebinOne pricing) and you’ll receive your commission value once the payment has been processed.

Both the yearly and monthly subscription types can have customised commission values, either via a percentage markup or fixed value.

Pricing and calculations will be shown based on the currently configured CMS site plan, giving you the profit amount as well as any PayPal processing fees.

Access to Customisable Commissions and Direct Billing depends on your WebinOne reseller level.

New Pricing

After clicking the pencil () icon for a site instance in your portal, you can access the pricing calculator from the “NEW PRICING” tab.

How the Calculator Works

The pricing calculator uses data from your site and reports site features & database items and based on the current state of the site, a new content plan, any extras, extensions and/or an eCommerce plan, will be suggested along with the corresponding pricing under the new pricing model.

Actions to Take

Following a site’s price calculation, you’ll be able to move the site to the new pricing model - upgrading it to WebinOne version 7 - once the new pricing model has been released.

For now, the calculator report allows you to assess your site configuration and usage on an itemised level for optimal pricing. This will provide you with information to either; move forward with the calculated new pricing, or identify areas where adjustments can be made for better economy.

For example; your site has pages for 20 different products/services and you are collecting enquiries on each of these pages via individually configured forms (specific to that product/service - eg: collecting the name and price).
However, 20 forms are pushing the site into the PRO plan due to the 10 form limit of the BUSINESS plan.
With seeing this information in the calculator you could assess if reworking this implementation, to just use one dynamic form (capturing product/service name and price via Liquid) could allow you to reduce the new suggested pricing and remain on the lower BUSINESS plan.

Another example, with an eCommerce site, could reveal that several advanced features are configured but not in use (due to old tests/samples or abandoned business logic). Perhaps ‘Grouped Products’ and ‘Volume Discounts’ were trialled with your client at some point but a different direction was decided. These features could push an otherwise BASIC eCommerce plan to the PLUS plan and can therefore be identified to optimise pricing.

Armed with the information provided in the calculator you can better assess how a site’s new price is calculated and possible options to mitigate any increases.

How to Use the Calculator

When you first arrive on the “NEW PRICING” tab, there are some features that you’ll need to manually select if applicable to the site in question. These features can not currently be detected by the calculator and may affect pricing under the new model.

A description of the features are below.

If you are unsure if these features are implemented on your site, the descriptions below include some tips to help determine if they are in use.

Hidden Features

The calculator may detect features that still exist or are left over from a previous higher site plan (due to a downgrade) or if you utilised a template or site duplicate configured for a higher site plan.

These items will still be affecting the overall new pricing calculation. So this is not likely indicative of the new plans and features you’ll need going forward.

In this case, you’ll see a list of ‘hidden features’ that will not be available via the current site admin since those features are not available for use.

You can use this information to manually determine the appropriate plans and pricing for your site, or you can duplicate the site to a trial site copy and re-run the calculator for that copy. From a Trial Site calculator, you’ll have the ability to use the “CLEAR HIDDEN FEATURES” button which will actually delete those impeding items from the trial site instance, allowing you to generate a more accurate pricing calculation.

This new calculation is purely informational for your planning purposes and does not apply to, or affect, your live site instance.

Clearing hidden features from live sites is currently deemed too risky. However, will likely be available closer to the transition date to facilitate site upgrades.

Another option, if you wish to remove such items from your live site now, is to temporarily upgrade your site to the appropriate plan, remove all the noted items, downgrade back to the regular site plan and re-run the calculator.
Any difference in plan costs upgrading and downgrading will be applied as credit for use with Treepl Services.