Organizing your offerings into service plans is only one of the many
steps required to get your business ready to run. Before you can start
serving customers, you should also think about how potential customers
will find your offerings, how you will subscribe new customers and take
payments, and other aspects of your business. To start your business
more easily, you can use automation solutions that carry out different
routines for you, for example, issue invoices and take payments from
customers.
The automation tools included in your reseller package by your hosting
provider define whether you will be able to automate certain business
routines. If your hosting provider offers you a business automation
solution, learn how to automate certain routines in the appropriate
documentation. Otherwise, you should take care of various aspects of
your business on your own before you start serving customers. However,
in this case, you can automate some aspects, for example, financial
ones, by means of the appropriate software as well.
To start your hosting business in Plesk, do the following:
- Rebrand Plesk and prepare hosting plans.
- Set up a website for your own company.
After you complete these operations, you can start subscribing customers
to your services.
Rebranding Plesk and Preparing Hosting Plans
Before you can start serving your customers, you should do the
following:
- Adjust Plesk branding and appearance as described in the section
Changing Branding and Interface Settings. - On the Service Plans page, add service plans and add-ons that you
will offer to your customers.
Setting Up Your Company’s Presence on the Web
To let your prospective customers become acquainted with your offerings
and contact you, set up a website and email addresses for your company
on the Plesk-managed server.
To set up your website, create your own hosting subscription by clicking
Subscriptions > Create Subscription. This will enable you to log
in to the Customer Panel and manage your web hosting just as your
customers do: you can create web pages and mailboxes, install web
applications, secure access to websites with SSL/TLS certificates, and
so on. For detailed information about using your hosting resources for
your own needs, see the chapter Website Management.
Subscribing Customers to Your Services
After you set up hosting plans in Plesk, you can start subscribing
customers to your services. When a new customer subscribes to…