The Plesk Billing Bundle will provide integrated tools within Plesk to bill your own customers. This software is especially useful if you are using your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server to resell hosting services. This software can be installed and used at no additional cost and is part of your default Plesk license.

 1. Log in to your (dv) as root through SSH and download the latest version of the Plesk Billing Bundle software package. For example:

wget http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PSA_8.6.0/dist-rpm-CentOS-5-i386/opt/billing/plesk-billing-5.6.1-3.noarch.rpm

 2. Use the RPM command to install the package you downloaded:

rpm -ivh plesk-billing-*.noarch.rpm  

Now the Plesk Billing software is installed and ready to use. Log in to your (dv) through Plesk at https://mt-example.com:8443 and then navigate to https://mt-example.com:8443/plesk-billing/app-modernbill-admin. You will need to log in once again to access the Plesk Billing software.

Once you are logged in to Plesk Billing, you will have to confirm the agreement in order to proceed. Read the License Agreement, and if you would like to proceed pick Yes and select Continue:

Once you confirm the License Agreement you will be able to begin the configuration process:

The configuration wizard will then guide you through configuring your preferred Registrar, Payment Gateway, Anti-Fraud, and Tax Settings.

Registrar Settings


Payment Gateway Settings


Anti-Fraud Settings


Tax Settings


Click Continue through these menus. If you do not yet have some of these set up and configured, you can choose to not check any options and keep selecting Continue until the wizard is complete:

You will then be able to manage all of your Billing Preferences using the sidebar:

Once you have completed setting everything up, you can direct your Clients to https://mt-example.com:8443/plesk-billing/app-modernbill-client/

Notes/Supplemental Resources:

• Full Plesk documentation, including authoritative steps for this software can be found here. 
• For additional information about working with Parallels Plesk Billing, refer to Parallels Plesk Billing documentation.
• You will need to establish a reseller account with the registrar of your choosing before you can configure a registrar to use.
  
• Payment gateway configuration requires you to set up a merchant account and an account with the payment gateway of your choosing. This is subject to additional qualifications and you must check with the organization you're interested in working with to obtain this functionality.
  
• (mt) Media Temple cannot assist in any billing issues you may have with your clients as a result of using this add-on software. This article is created as a way to educate our customers on installing and using the software. We are not affiliated with any of the services or options available using the Plesk Billing Bundle software
• You will need to have Plesk 8.6 running on your (dv) 3.5 in order to install this software. If you have a (dv) 3.5 but are using an older version of Plesk please open a new support request from inside your AccountCenter to have your software upgraded. All new installations as of October 1, 2008 have Plesk 8.6 installed by default.
  

Revisions:

11-07-2008: Article Creation