Creating Service Plans

To create a plan:

1. On the navigation pane, click Users.
2. Click Plans.
3. Click Add New Plan.
4. In the Name field, specify a name for the new plan.
5. To easily distinguish the created plan from other plans, you can provide a short description for it in the Description field.
6. To define the general permissions for plan assignees, specify them in the corresponding fields:
   • Maximum number of pages per site

     Sets the maximum number of pages a plan assignee can add to one site.

   • Maximum number of root level pages per site

     Defines the maximum number of pages a plan assignee is allowed to have on the first level of site menu.

   • Maximum number of regular sites
     

     Regular site is any Plesk Sitebuilder site belonging to a registered user.

     Specifies the maximum number of sites a plan assignee can create.

   • Maximum number of hosts

     Defines the maximum number of publishing servers a plan assignee can publish sites to.

7. If you are creating a plan for anonymous users, define a lifetime period during which their sites will be stored on the Plesk Sitebuilder server.

   When applied to registered users, this limit is ignored.

8. On the Hosts tab, configure the list of servers to be available to plan assignees.
9. On the next tabs, configure the list of site creation presets to be available to plan assignees:
   • Templates
     

     Template is a ready graphic design solution for creating web sites.

   • Page sets
     

     Page set is a pre-defined site structure, common for sites devoted to a certain subject.

   • Modules
     

     Module is a plugin extending site functionality. For example: Blog, Forum, eShop, Image Gallery, etc.

     You can add modules to a plan for evaluation purposes only, which gives site owners a chance to try out required modules before they pay for them. To do so, select one or several modules and click Add to Plan for Evaluation. The plan assignees will not be able to publish sites containing evaluation modules until they purchase an appropriate service plan from you. Resellers under this plan will not be able to remove the 'evaluation only' status from a module.

   • Site families
     

     Site family is a pre-defined site template (design template + page set), common for sites devoted to a certain subject.

     Note: Be sure that the page set and at least one design template constituting a site family are included in the plan.

10. Go to the Publishing Setting tab.
11. To allow the plan assignees to specify site publishing settings themselves, select the Allow users to modify publishing settings check box.

    Users without this permission can publish their sites only after a higher-level user specifies publishing settings for them.

12. Select publishing modes to be available to plan assignees. The options are:
    • FTP - Publishing sites to FTP servers
    • Virtuozzo - Publishing sites to Parallels Virtuozzo Containers on servers running Parallels Business Automation, Standard
    • XCOPY - Publishing sites to the Plesk Sitebuilder server using the XCOPY technology.
13. If you want to display your promotional content on the plan assignees sites, go to the Promotional Footers tab and enter the content into the text-box.

    Promotional content may include all kinds of animation, banners, pop-ups, and text messages. This content is displayed in the footer of all site pages, including second-level pages of the modules.

14. If you want to let your resellers add their own content to your promotional footer, select the Allow resellers to append to your promotional footers check box.
15. Click OK.