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Cloudesire platform

Cloudesire is an Enterprise XaaS Marketplace Platform that allows to sell subscriptions on digital products/services provided by 3rd-parties.

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The platform provides:

  • configurable and brandable Marketplace interfaces for publishing searchable and filterable products/services catalogs
  • a Control Panel to easily configure flexible pricing models, supporting pre-paid and pay-per-use billing plans and volume discounts
  • an integrated Monitoring Engine for collecting, and billing, custom application metrics
  • a Subscription Lifecycle Management Engine
  • a Billing Engine, integrated with a native Invoicing Engine, also supporting orders approval workflow
  • support for external Payments Gateways
  • support for Indirect Reselling Channels
  • a Customer Dashboard to allow end-users to directly access their purchased services, submit change-orders on running subscriptions (e.g. plan-switching, upgrades, downgrades), perform payments, browse list of orders and invoices
  • a documented REST API Layer, fully-covering the whole platform business logic

The provisioning process is typically in charge of the 3rd-party providing the product/service to be sold on the marketplace, by implementing a Syndication Workflow.

In case of pay-per-use pricing models, the 3rd-party will also provide the Cloudesire Monitoring Engine with actual values for all the billable metrics belonging to the end-users' running subscriptions.

Available Integrations

A list of integrations are available off the shelf for supporting the self-provisioning and orchestration of different kind of IAAS/PAAS/SAAS services:

Main Topics

This website provides detailed documentation related to the following topics:

  • Platform Modules: a more detailed platform architecture diagram, with a brief description of the various modules, along with an explanation of the main concepts and a glossary. This could be a good starting point for your reading!
  • Onboarding Workflow: how to onboard a new product/service on the Cloudesire marketplace
  • Marketplace Customization: how to customize the UI of the marketplace, in order to make it compliant with your brand-identity
  • Channel Management: how to configure a Parent-Child Commerce Chain, enabling multiple Distributors and Resellers
  • Orders Approval Workflow: to enable use-cases where each order (new purchases, change requests) needs to be approved by a privileged user before it becomes effective
  • Live Reporting: a functionality that collects, with a configurable granularity (e.g. daily), the costs/revenues relating to all the pre-paid and pay-per-use services sold through the marketplace
  • Email Automation: all the emails sent by the platform according to the supported use-cases
  • Cloud Providers: list of supported public cloud providers
  • REST API Guide: a complete guide to interact with the platform API Layer, along with examples and useful resources
Last updated on 10/23/2021 by Andrea Vecchi
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