Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4 User guide

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Contents

Preface 8

About This Product ........................................................................................................................ 9

Typographical Conventions ......................................................................................................... 10

Feedback ..................................................................................................................................... 11

Introducing Business Manager 12

Domain Registration .................................................................................................................... 13

Hosting Services .......................................................................................................................... 14

SSL Certificates Provisioning ...................................................................................................... 14

Payment Gateways ..................................................................................................................... 15

Bank Transfers Processing ......................................................................................................... 15

Online Stores and Website Widgets ............................................................................................ 16

Security Settings .......................................................................................................................... 16

European Union Business Compliance ....................................................................................... 17

Viewing Information about Russian Certification ......................................................................... 17

What's New in Business Manager 18

Panel 10.4 ................................................................................................................................... 18

Panel 10.3 ................................................................................................................................... 18

Panel 10.2 ................................................................................................................................... 19

Business Manager Licensing 22

Getting Started with Business Manager 23

Quick Start After Upgrading from 10.2 and Earlier 10.x Versions 25

Setting Up Administrators 27

Viewing Administrators ................................................................................................................ 28

Creating New Administrators ....................................................................................................... 28

Setting Up Administrator Groups ................................................................................................. 29

Editing Administrator Profiles ...................................................................................................... 30

Configuring Administrator Interface ............................................................................................. 31

Configuring Payment Methods 32

Payment Gateways Configuration Details ................................................................................... 33

Authorize.net ..................................................................................................................... 34

PayPal ............................................................................................................................... 35

BBVA ................................................................................................................................. 35

Banca Sella ....................................................................................................................... 35

Wirecard ............................................................................................................................ 36

Preface 4

ATOS ................................................................................................................................. 37

LinkPoint ............................................................................................................................ 37

WorldPay ........................................................................................................................... 37

Bank Transfer Plugins Configuration Details .............................................................................. 38

Norma19 Plugin ................................................................................................................ 39

DTAUS Plugin ................................................................................................................... 39

Testing Gateways Using Virtual Terminals ................................................................................. 40

Setting Up Payment Queue ......................................................................................................... 42

Connecting Hosting Panels 44

Balancing Panels Load ................................................................................................................ 46

Setting Up IP Pool for Hosting Subscriptions on Dedicated IPs ................................................. 46

Troubleshooting Problems with Hosting Panels .......................................................................... 48

Hosting Subscription Does not Appear in Panel ............................................................... 48

Configuring Domain Registration Services 50

Setting Up Accounts with Registrars ........................................................................................... 50

Wild West Domains (GoDaddy) ........................................................................................ 51

Openprovider..................................................................................................................... 51

Managing TLDs ........................................................................................................................... 51

Adding ID Protect as an Add-on for Domains ............................................................................. 51

Step 1. Create a Generic Property for ID Protect ............................................................. 52

Step 2. Add the ID Protect Option to the Domain Name Plan .......................................... 53

Configuring SSL Certificate Providers 54

Setting Up SSLfactory Plugin ...................................................................................................... 55

Setting Up Invoicing 56

Understanding Billing Modes ....................................................................................................... 56

Anniversary Billing Mode ................................................................................................... 57

Monthly Billing Mode ......................................................................................................... 58

Setting Up Invoicing..................................................................................................................... 60

Customizing PDF Invoices .......................................................................................................... 61

Achieving Tax Office Compliance ............................................................................................... 62

Configuring Schet-Facturas 63

Configuring Business Manager Automation 64

Understanding Events ................................................................................................................. 65

ProcessInvoices ................................................................................................................ 66

ProcessPaymentQueue .................................................................................................... 66

ProcessSuspensions ......................................................................................................... 66

ProcessUnsuspensions ..................................................................................................... 66

ProcessUsage ................................................................................................................... 66

ProcessCancellation ......................................................................................................... 67

ProcessExpiredCreditCards .............................................................................................. 67

ProcessDomainSynchronization ....................................................................................... 67

ProcessBatchFiles ............................................................................................................ 67

ProcessActionLog ............................................................................................................. 68

ProcessSync ..................................................................................................................... 68

ProcessSchetFacturas ...................................................................................................... 68

Preface 5

Setting Up Provisioning Policy .................................................................................................... 69

Defining How to Handle Unpaid Subscriptions ........................................................................... 69

Setting Up Automatic E-mails 70

Adding E-mail Templates ............................................................................................................ 71

Setting Up Your Locales .............................................................................................................. 72

Editing Template Content ............................................................................................................ 73

Reloading E-mail Templates ....................................................................................................... 75

Getting Your System Ready to Send E-mail Messages .............................................................. 75

Customizing E-mail Templates .................................................................................................... 77

Updating the E-mail Header .............................................................................................. 77

Updating the E-mail Layout ............................................................................................... 78

E-mail Template Variables .......................................................................................................... 78

Subscription Info E-mail .................................................................................................... 79

Invoice E-mail .................................................................................................................... 80

Credit Card Payment ......................................................................................................... 81

eCheck Payment ............................................................................................................... 82

Bank Draft Payment .......................................................................................................... 83

Off-site Gateway Payment ................................................................................................ 85

Declined Payment ............................................................................................................. 86

Payment Error ................................................................................................................... 87

Domain Renewal Notice .................................................................................................... 88

Domain Transfer - Success E-mail ................................................................................... 89

Domain Transfer - Failure E-mail ...................................................................................... 90

Credit Card Expiration Notification E-mail ......................................................................... 91

Subscription Suspension E-mails...................................................................................... 92

Subscription Enable E-mail ............................................................................................... 93

Managing Online Stores 94

Adding an Online Store ............................................................................................................... 94

Editing an Online Store ............................................................................................................... 95

Changing Online Store Appearance............................................................................................ 95

Using Website Widgets to Embed Stores into Websites............................................................. 96

Querying Customers for Extra Information in Online Stores ....................................................... 96

Setting Up Fraud Protection 97

Setting Up FraudGuardian .......................................................................................................... 98

Step 1. Sign Up for a FraudGuardian Account ................................................................. 98

Step 2. Submit Your FraudGuardian Account Data .......................................................... 98

Step 3. Create a Fraud Set ............................................................................................... 99

Step 4. Create a Country Threshold ............................................................................... 100

Step 5. Tie Fraud Sets with Online Stores and Thresholds ............................................ 102

Prohibiting Subscriptions from Certain E-mail Addresses......................................................... 102

Plans and Add-ons 103

Defining Resources to Include into Plans ................................................................................. 105

Hosting Services ............................................................................................................. 106

Domain Name Registration ............................................................................................. 106

SSL Certificates............................................................................................................... 107

Pricing and Price Options .......................................................................................................... 109

Setting Up Custom Prices for a Plan .............................................................................. 110

Creating General Ledger Entries for a Plan .................................................................... 111

Offering Additional Services ...................................................................................................... 112

Adding SSL Certificates as Add-ons to Hosting Plans.................................................... 113

Preface 6

Upgrading and Downgrading Plans........................................................................................... 113

Configuring Upgrade and Downgrade Requests Processing ......................................... 114

Promoting Plans with Coupons and Discounts 115

Configuring Taxation 116

The United States ...................................................................................................................... 119

European Union ......................................................................................................................... 120

Canada ...................................................................................................................................... 120

Creating Properties and Add-ons 121

Setting Up Plan Properties ........................................................................................................ 122

Setting Up Customer Account Properties ................................................................................. 124

Creating Generic Plan Add-ons ................................................................................................. 126

Serving Your Customers 127

Administering Customers .......................................................................................................... 127

Adding New Customers .................................................................................................. 128

Managing Existing Customers ........................................................................................ 128

Managing Subscriptions ............................................................................................................ 141

Adding New/Existing Subscriptions to Customer Accounts ............................................ 142

Viewing Subscriptions Details ......................................................................................... 145

Changing Subscription Status ......................................................................................... 145

Activating or Suspending Subscriptions .......................................................................... 147

Canceling Hosting Subscriptions .................................................................................... 147

Running Subscription Events .......................................................................................... 148

Editing Subscriptions ....................................................................................................... 148

Upgrading and Downgrading Subscriptions .................................................................... 149

Adding an Add-on to a Subscription ............................................................................... 150

Viewing Add-ons with Their Properties ........................................................................... 151

Viewing Subscription Properties ..................................................................................... 151

Transferring a Subscription ............................................................................................. 151

Limiting Discounts and Exempting Subscriptions from Suspension ......................................... 152

Performing Manual Payments ................................................................................................... 152

Using a Credit Card to Pay an Invoice ............................................................................ 153

Capturing Authentication-only Payments ........................................................................ 153

Capturing Uncaptured Payments .................................................................................... 154

Issuing Refunds .............................................................................................................. 154

Generating and Running Payment Queue ...................................................................... 155

Managing Bank Transfers ......................................................................................................... 156

How Bank Transfer Processing Works ........................................................................... 157

Supported Operations ..................................................................................................... 159

Configuring Automatic Processing .................................................................................. 161

Managing Invoices and Payments ............................................................................................ 161

Generating Invoices Manually ......................................................................................... 162

Viewing Invoices ............................................................................................................. 162

Editing Invoices ............................................................................................................... 163

Taking Credit Card Payments ......................................................................................... 163

Applying Payments Manually .......................................................................................... 164

Paying by Credits ............................................................................................................ 165

Voiding Invoices .............................................................................................................. 165

Printing Invoices .............................................................................................................. 166

Manually Paying an Invoice Using Saved Credit Card Information ................................ 166

Preface 7

Viewing Transactions List ............................................................................................... 167

Re-sending Invoices ........................................................................................................ 167

Viewing and Downloading Schet-Facturas ..................................................................... 167

Employing Resellers 168

Getting the System Ready to Serve Resellers .......................................................................... 170

Setting Up Branded Domain Names for Resellers .................................................................... 170

Managing Security Settings 173

Setting Up Encryption ................................................................................................................ 174

Configuring Password Expiration .............................................................................................. 175

Configuring Administrator Account Lockout Policy ................................................................... 176

Viewing Audit Log ...................................................................................................................... 176

Viewing Accounting Information 177

Generating Accounting Reports ................................................................................................ 177

Generating Daily Journals ......................................................................................................... 178

Viewing General Journal ........................................................................................................... 179

Generating General Ledgers ..................................................................................................... 179

Achieving EU Business Compliance 180

Viewing System Information 181

Viewing Module Information ...................................................................................................... 182

Viewing PHP Information .......................................................................................................... 182

Viewing System Information ...................................................................................................... 182

Viewing Business Manager Version .......................................................................................... 182

Managing SSO Service 183

Troubleshooting 185

Turning on Debug Logging ........................................................................................................ 185

Appendixes 186

Appendix A. Supported Payment Gateways ............................................................................. 187

Appendix B. Supported Formats for Bank Transfer Batches .................................................... 188

Appendix C. Parallels Plesk Panel Properties .......................................................................... 189

General Options .............................................................................................................. 190

Limits ............................................................................................................................... 190

Web Limits ....................................................................................................................... 190

E-mail Limits .................................................................................................................... 191

Management and Feature Options ................................................................................. 192

Appendix D. Operations that synchronize Business Manager and Hosting Panels ................. 193

Appendix E. Supported Domain Name Registrars .................................................................... 194

8 Preface

In this section:

About This Product ............................................................................................ 9

Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 10

Feedback .......................................................................................................... 11

Preface

Preface 9

About This Product

Business Manager is an ordering, billing, and provisioning automation solution aimed at

small-to-mid-level hosting providers. Business Manager comes in a bundle with Parallels

Plesk Panel.

The software includes an intuitive order process, complete with “shopping cart,” allowing your

customers to build an order of any size or complexity with a single checkout (as opposed to

the customer having to run through your online store multiple times if they want multiple

items).

Upon checkout, Business Manager supports your customers paying in a variety of ways

including:

 Credit card (through strong integrations between Business Manager and many merchant

gateways)

 Off-site payment gateway (such as PayPal, WorldPay, etc.)

 Bank transfer

 Other manual options such as check, bank draft, and simply issuing an invoice.

Each of these payment options can be enabled/disabled and configured according to your

company's specific business practices.

Business Manager can provision the following:

 Any domain name subscription can be automatically registered through any of the

resellers with which Business Manager integrates (such as eNom, OpenSRS, etc.).

 Any hosting subscription can be automatically provisioned through any of the panels with

which Business Manager integrates (such as Plesk, cPanel etc.).

 Any SSL Certificate can be automatically provisioned through the eNom API or

SSLFactory.com API.

 Any virtual private server subscription can be automatically provisioned through Parallels

Virtuozzo Containers.

 Customers will receive notifications upon completed provisioning, as well as any

passwords, etc. that are related to the customer accessing/using their purchased service.

Each of these provisioning options can be configured in Business Manager administrator's

panel according to your company's specific business practices.

The total time it takes for the customer to be checked for fraud, charged, and their services

turned on can be as little as a few minutes. The idea here is to save as much time as

possible so that your company's team can focus on more important things than manually

setting up customer accounts.

The automation does not stop once a customer has paid and had their order has been set

up. Business Manager is fully customizable and can be configured to automatically generate

invoices and collect payment from customers when needed, send out late notices when

customers do not pay on time, and even suspend a customer's hosting subscription after

they have neglected to pay.

10 Preface

Business Manager can even renew domains at your registrar as soon as your customers pay

the invoice. Customers can “upgrade” or “downgrade” their services from the customer

interface and not only have the changes automatically provisioned out to the panel, but also

receive a pro-rated credit/debit for the difference in monthly price and begin receiving

invoices for the subscription they upgraded or downgraded to.

Business Manager is a billing solution certified in Russia. To view the information about the

certificate, see the Viewing Information about Russian Certification (on page 17) section.

Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation

conventions used in it.

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Items you must select,

such as menu options,

command buttons, or

items in a list.

Go to the System tab.

Titles of chapters,

sections, and subsections.

Read the Basic Administration

chapter.

Italics

Used to emphasize the

importance of a point, to

introduce a term or to

designate a command line

placeholder, which is to be

replaced with a real name

or value.

The system supports the so

called wildcard character search.

Monospace

The names of commands,

files, and directories.

The license file is located in the

http://docs/common/licen

ses directory.

Preformatted

On-screen computer

output in your command-

line sessions; source code

in XML, C++, or other

programming languages.

# ls –al /files

total 14470

Preformatted Bold

What you type, contrasted

with on-screen computer

output.

# cd /root/rpms/php

CAPITALS

Names of keys on the

keyboard.

SHIFT, CTRL, ALT

KEY+KEY

Key combinations for

which the user must press

and hold down one key

and then press another.

CTRL+P, ALT+F4

Preface 11

Feedback

If you have found an error in this guide, or if you have suggestions or ideas on how to

improve this guide, please send your feedback using the online form at

http://www.parallels.com/en/support/usersdoc/. Please include in your report the guide's title,

chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you have found an error.

Business Manager is a billing automation system, used primarily in online business,

such as:

 Domain registration

 Hosting provisioning

 Selling SSL certificates

 Other non-hosting online stores

Business Manager provides a control panel with different levels of administration (you

have the Administrator interface, and the integrated online stores) on top of a solid

recurring billing/invoicing engine written in PHP. This engine will take care of

generating and sending out invoices to your customers on whatever cycle that the

good/service your customer has with you renews (monthly, yearly, or even hourly - the

subscription renewal cycles are configurable down to minutes). Business Manager will

facilitate credit card, PayPal or other payment gateways, and bank transfers. To use

these resources, configure them in Business Manager.

Business Manager complies with PA-DSS requirements which guarantee that the

system is a secure payment application, and you are free to process customer credit

cards after a certain configuration. In addition, with Business Manager you will easily

meet the European Union requirements, if your business is located there.

Later in this guide we will explain the basic Business Manager concepts and give some

insights into the four above-mentioned business models served by Business Manager.

The current guide is dedicated to the functionality of the administrator interface.

Administrator interface is by default available at https://<your host

name>:8443/plesk-billing/admin/.

In this chapter:

Domain Registration .......................................................................................... 13

Hosting Services ............................................................................................... 14

SSL Certificates Provisioning ............................................................................ 14

Payment Gateways ........................................................................................... 14

Bank Transfers Processing ............................................................................... 15

Online Stores and Website Widgets .................................................................. 15

Security Settings ............................................................................................... 16

European Union Business Compliance ............................................................. 16

Viewing Information about Russian Certification ................................................ 17

C H A P T E R 1

Introducing Business Manager

Introducing Business Manager 13

Domain Registration

Business Manager supports integration with several domain registrars and instant

domain availability checking through your online store regardless of whether you're

using one of the above registrars.

However, if you're using one of these registrars, your customers can purchase/transfer

a domain name, pay for it, and Business Manager will issue a call automatically to that

registrar's API to purchase/transfer the domain name and place it under that

customer's account in your Business Manager for management (setting name servers,

hosting records, etc.).

You can configure Business Manager to sell one, some, or all of the TLDs available

through a particular registrar and charge your customers whatever price you want for

their domain registration. Your account with your registrar will be charged whatever

your standard reseller rate is for that given domain TLD. One of the clear benefits of

this is that you can (for example) process “.com” sales through a certain registrar and

“.ca” sales through another registrar, allowing you to use multiple registrars to make

sure you're being charged the lowest possible price per TLD for the domains that you

resell.

There are two steps in getting your system configured with one or more of the domain

registrars through which you resell and to tie to appropriate TLDs to each of those

registrars:

1. Configure domain registrar modules (on page 50).

2. Assign TLDs (on page 51).

14 Introducing Business Manager

Hosting Services

Business Manager supports selling hosting resources of servers managed by Parallels

Plesk Panels for Linux and for Windows. To start offering hosting accounts to your

customers, connect the panels to Business Manager and configure your hosting plans

to set limits and permissions on the resources offered. For details on how to connect

panels to Business Manager, see the chapter Connecting Hosting Panels (on page 44).

SSL Certificates Provisioning

Business Manager supports integration with eNom - an SSL certificates provider. The

integration supposes that customers purchase certificates in Business Manager, and

the latter acquires the certificate through the eNom API. If a customer purchases a

certificate as an add-on to a hosting plan, the system will install the certificate to the

customer's hosting account.

To acquire an SSL certificate, a customer submits the initial information to Business

Manager that forwards it to eNom. The certificate provider analyzes the information and

queries for additional details if necessary through Business Manager. The interaction is

repeated until eNom has enough information to issue the certificate.

Customers are notified about these additional requests by notifications in the Account

tab of the Panel. Until the certificate is issued, the subscription status is user input

required.

To configure the SSL certificates provisioning, add an SSL certificate provider plugin

and associate it with your plan. If some of your plans require custom eNom account or

administrative contact, add another eNom plugin and associate it with these plans. This

gives you the flexibility to meet customers' needs.

For details on how to set up the certificates provisioning, see the following sections:

Configuring SSL Certificate Providers (on page 54), SSL Certificates (on page 107).

Introducing Business Manager 15

Payment Gateways

If you wish to accept credit cards payments, set up one or more payment gateways. To

set up a proper payment gateway, consider payment methods you want to offer to your

customers. If you plan to process credit cards, add an on-site payment gateway. If you

wish to rely on payment intermediary service when processing credit cards, add an off-

site payment gateway. You also can allow your customers to choose between paying

by credit card (and run those charges through your on-site payment gateway) or paying

by PayPal - off-site payment gateway. For details on how to set up a payment

gateway, see Setting Up Payment Gateways (on page 33).

To add one of these gateways, you need a merchant account with a corresponding

payment processing service. In addition, if you plan to store credit cards details in your

database, you need to configure encryption in your system. For details on encryption

configuration, see Setting Up Encryption (on page 174).

Business Manager supports integration with several payment gateways. Most of the

gateways allow for charge, pre-auth, finalize, void, and refund abilities through

Business Manager. For the list of supported gateways, see Appendix A. (on page 187)

Bank Transfers Processing

Customer & Business Manager provides the opportunity to accept bank transfers -

direct debiting of customer's bank accounts.

When a customer places an order at your online store and selects a bank transfer as a

payment method, the details required to perform a payment from their bank account to

yours are placed into a batch. The batches are financial files of a particular format

accepted by certain banks. To complete the money transfer, download and submit the

batch to banks by e-mail, fax or other supported methods. For details on how bank

transfers are organized in Business Manager and how to manage them, see Managing

Bank Transfers (on page 156).

Batch format accepted by banks of one country may not be suitable for banks from

other countries. For example, banks in Germany generally accept DTAUS batches,

while banks in Spain accept Norma19 batches. Business Manager provides bank

transfer plugins for different batch formats.

To start accepting bank transfer payments, set up one of the available bank transfer

plug-ins and associate it with your online stores. For details on how to do this, refer to

the Setting Up Bank Transfer Plugin (on page 38) section.

For details on supported batch formats, see Appendix B (on page 188).

16 Introducing Business Manager

Online Stores and Website Widgets

Business Manager, unlike most host-based billing platforms currently available,

provides online stores - automatically created websites. These websites display your

plans, and also have a shopping cart with checkout to let customers subscribe to your

plans. Customer payments are processed by a payment gateway associated with the

store. You can have multiple online stores for different currencies, locales, and product

lines.

Business Manager ships with the default online store for the United States locale and

USD currency. It is available at

https://<your-host-name>:8443/store/default.html

Online stores are completely customizable so you can template them to match the rest

of your web site.

In addition to online stores, Business Manager offers website widgets. These are little

snippets of code you simply drop into your company web site that feature any subset of

plans you want in any format you want (listing, drop-down, etc). Because widgets are

small snippets of code, they can be dropped anywhere on your web site where you

want to sell plans and they require no special templating because they are included in

your existing web site. This gives you precise control of the way you like to sell plans.

For instructions on how to manage online stores, see Managing Online Stores (on page

94).

Security Settings

To reduce the risk of compromising sensitive data hosted on your server, you might

want to implement special security measures that comply with the Payment Card

Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The standard is intended to help

organizations protect customer account data. For detailed information about the

standard, refer to

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss.shtml.

To read more about the security settings you can activate in Customer & Business

Manager, see Managing Security Settings (on page 173).

Introducing Business Manager 17

European Union Business Compliance

One of the tasks of Customer & Business Manager is to charge customers for using

web hosting services - websites, servers, and applications. In terms of the European

Union (EU) taxonomy, these services are called services supplied electronically and

they are subject to the European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) regulations.

EU VAT is a consumption tax that depends on supplier and customer location thereby

determining which EU country collects the VAT and what VAT rate is charged. If your

business is located outside the EU, this tax is not applicable to your plans, and you can

skip related Business Manager modifications. Otherwise, please read Achieving EU

Business Compliance (on page 180) and configure Business Manager to comply with the

EU requirements.

To learn more about EU VAT, refer to

ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/index_en.htm.

Viewing Information about Russian

Certification

You can view the information about certification of Business Manager as a billing

solution in the Russian Federation. This information is available only if the Country in

your administrator profile is Russia. To view the information, go to Business Setup > All

Settings > License Info.

Panel 10.4

Support of resellers

Now Business Manager contains tools for serving resellers - your partners that

purchase your hosting resources to sell them to end customers for profit.

Learn how to serve resellers with Business Manager in the section Employing Reselles

(on page 168).

Customization of schet-facturas

Now you can predefine the content of printable schet-facturas, for example, seller and

buyer INN numbers or company head name.

Find more information about the schet-facturas customization in the section Configuring

Schet-Facturas (on page 63).

Automatic approval of new orders

Now you have an option to approve all new orders automatically; this lets new

customers log in to Business Manager immediately after placing their orders.

Learn more about your options to approve new orders in the section Setting Up Fraud

Protection (on page 97).

Panel 10.3

Refined initial configuration

Initial configuration became much faster and easier since it contains only required

steps: entering company details and choosing local Panel IP addresses to use for

Business Manager subscriptions. All optional settings are now available in the Quick

Setup widget on the administrator's home page.

Learn more about the new initial configuration procedure in the chapter Getting Started

with Business Manager (on page 23).

C H A P T E R 2

What's New in Business Manager

What's New in Business Manager 19

New service plans add-ons management interface

Now you can organize services you offer to your customers faster and easier with new

user interface for creating new and managing existing service plans and add-ons.

Learn more about new plans and add-ons management interface in the chapter Plans

and Add-ons (on page 103).

New taxation system

The new interface for configuring taxes to apply to your plans allows to set up taxes

simpler: You just create a taxation policy for each sales market and include tax rules

that define particular taxes in the policy.

Learn more about new taxes configuration interface in the chapter Configuring Taxation

(on page 116).

New interface for managing discounts and coupons

Set up discounts and organize promotion actions for your plans easier using new

discounts and coupons management user interface.

Find the detailed information about plans promotion in Business Manager in the

chapter Promoting Plans with Coupons and Discounts (on page 115).

New navigation pane & system management menu

To make your navigation in Business Manager smoother, we regrouped and renamed

the system management menu items and the left navigation pane elements.

To get more information on changes in Business Manager navigation, refer to the

chapter Changes Between Business Manager 10.2 and 10.3 User Interfaces (on page 25).

New home page

Now you have more Business Manager functions available directly from the Home

page, such as configuring key system modules or viewing the system state.

Find the description of actions that you can perform from the home page in the chapter

Getting Started with Business Manager (on page 23).

Panel 10.2

Brand-new online stores: appealing and convenient

A new look and feel of online stores makes it easier and faster to place orders. The

store settings page is also refined: The most important options are displayed directly,

while the rest are grouped into tabs.

Learn more about online stores in the section Online Stores and Website Widgets (on page

15).

20 What's New in Business Manager

IPv6 and dual-stack hosting support

Now you can offer Parallels Panel hosting plans with IPv6 addresses or dual stack

(both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses). This new ability brought the following changes to the

Configuration Wizard, hosting plan properties, and panel settings (in server groups):

 Configuration wizard lets you set ranges of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to allocate

them with hosting plans.

 In hosting plan properties, you can specify if a plan uses IPv4, IPv6, or dual stack

and choose to offer the plan with shared or dedicated addresses.

 At the panel settings page, you are able to set shared addresses utilized by a Plesk

Panel.

To learn more about hosting provisioning, read Hosting Provisioning (on page 14).

Single port for SSO and Panel

Single Sign-On service (SSO) on Linux now works on the same port, 8443, as Panel

instead of 11443 as in previous versions. This feature eliminates unnecessary SSL

warnings when switching between Panel and Business Manager.

Schet-facturas support

The system is now capable of creating schet-facturas - documents that are required by

accounting policies of some countries (such as Russia).

Read more about how to start creating these documents in Configuring Schet-Facturas

(on page 63). The details on how to view schet-facturas and download them, see

Viewing and Downloading Schet-Facturas (on page 167).

New domain name registrars and payment gateways

We added support for Go Daddy domain registrar (Wild West Domains), Nordea and

Ogone payment gateways.

For more details on payment gateways and domain name registrars, see Domain

Registration (on page 13) and Payment Gateways (on page 14).

Taxation configuration improvement: EU countries wildcard

Now you can have a single tax zone for all EU countries by using the EU wildcard

instead of manually adding a tax zone per country.

Read more about taxation in section Configuring Taxation (on page 116).

Bank transfers settings in payment queue configuration

Bank transfer settings along with other settings related to manual payments now reside

on the configuration page of payments queue.

For more details on payment queue, see Generating and Running Payment Queue (on page

155).

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Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4 User guide

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