Defining Product Promotions

From time to time Rest Assured Internet Solutions runs various Promotional offers, which you can participate in and choose to offer these Products and Services to your Customers and Sub-Resellers at discounted rates.

Activating/Managing a Promo

You can view all the current Rest Assured Internet Solutions Promotions and set your Customer and Sub-Reseller Pricing for such Products and Services by following the below mentioned process:

  1. Login to your Reseller Control Panel. 1

  2. In the Menu, point to Settings and then click Manage Products and Pricing to view all running Promotions. A link would also be visible under Currently Available Promos where Rest Assured Internet Solutions is running a Promotion.

  3. Click the <TLD> Domain link corresponding to the TLD (extension), whose promotion you wish to activate/manage.

  4. Fill in the desired values in the fields by following the instructions mentioned below and click Submit to complete the process:

    • Promo Start Date and Promo End Date: This Promo would begin at 12.00 am GMT/UTC on the Promo Start Date specified here and would end at the stroke of mid-night as per GMT/UTC on the Promo End Date specified here. These dates cannot be modified by you.

      Note

      If there are any unpaid Invoices (with the status Action and Payment Pending) after the Promo ends, they would be automatically cancelled to prevent you from suffering any loss, should your Customer / Sub-Reseller execute any Invoice after the Promo has ended.

    • Promo Period: This refers to the number of years of Registration that the Promo Pricing would be applicable for. For example, a Promo Period of 2 years indicates that the Promo Pricing would be applied for the first 2 years of Registration. The Promo Period cannot be modified by you.

    • Your Cost Price: The Cost Price applicable to you would differ depending upon whether you pass on the benefits of the Promo to your Customers and Sub-Resellers:

      • A lower Pricing would be applicable to you if your set your Customer as well as (RC1) Sub-Reseller Selling Price less than a pre-determined value set by Rest Assured Internet Solutions.

      • A higher Pricing would be applicable to you if your set your Customer or (RC1) Sub-Reseller Selling Price greater than this value set by Rest Assured Internet Solutions.

      Refer to the related information listed in the top section of the Promo Program Details page.

      Customer and (RC1) Sub-Reseller Selling Price are explained below.

    • Set Price for your Customers: This would be the Cost Price that you wish your Customers pay for this TLD (extension) under the promotion.

      Note

      You can modify the value specified in this field:

      • before the Promo Start Date: The New Price will become applicable from the Promo Start Date at 00:00 GMT / UTC.

      • while a Promo is on: In this case the New Price will be applicable immediately.

    • Considering that any promotion has a higher rate of being a success when a large number of buyers are targeted, it is important to incentivize your Sub-Resellers to enable the promotion for their set of Customers and Sub-Resellers as well. This can be accomplished by offering a lower Cost Price for Sub-Resellers, should they activate the promotion.

      Set (RC1) Price for your Sub-Resellers: This Pricing applies to those Sub-Resellers under you who further pass on the benefits of the Promo to their Customers and Sub-Resellers. For this, your Sub-Resellers need to set their Customer and Sub-Reseller Pricing to less than a pre-determined value set by Rest Assured Internet Solutions.

      Set (RC2) Price for your Sub-Resellers: This Pricing applies to the remaining Sub-Resellers under you who do not pass on the benefits of the Promo to their Customers and Sub-Resellers.

      Note

      You can modify the value specified in this field:

      • before the Promo Start Date. The New Price will become applicable from the Promo Start Date at 00:00 GMT / UTC.

      • while a Promo is on. In this case the New Price will be applicable immediately.

    • Set Announcement under Control Panel for Customers and Sub-Resellers: Selecting this checkbox would add an Announcement in your Customers and Sub-Resellers Control Panel with details about this promotion. You may review the contents of this Announcement by clicking the Announcement Template link.

      Upon selecting this checkbox, the template text would appear as a full page announcement (like a splash page) to your Customers and Sub-Resellers in their Control Panel, the moment they login. The full page Announcement is displayed to your Customers and Sub-Resellers only the first time they login and then onwards will appear in the Announcements box on the Home page of their Control Panel, until the Promo End Date passes.

    Note
    • The Promo Pricing applies to only Registrations under the specific TLD (extension) and only for the initial number of years specified in the Promo Period field. For any additional years, your usual Selling Price would be applicable.

      Example:

      Promo activated for: .COM Domain Names
      Promo Period: 2 years
      Promo Selling Price for Customers: USD 8
      Usual Selling Price for Customers: USD 10

      Now when your Customer tries to register some-name.com for 5 years, he would be charged the first 2 years at USD 8 and for the remaining 3 years at USD 10. This means he would have to pay you USD 46 for registering his domain name.

    • The Promo Pricing would not be applicable for any other chargeable action on the domain names like Renewal and Transfer.

    • There are absolutely no restrictions on the number of domain name Registrations under this TLD (extension).

    • Once a Promo has been added, a Promo related link will appear in the Promotional Offers section, on the Home page of Sub-Reseller Control Panel throughout your Sub-Reseller chain. The link will re-direct the Sub-Resellers to the corresponding Promo Program Details page. From here, the Sub-Resellers can manage the Promo for their respective Sub-Reseller chains.

      Additional Information

      Managing Product Promotions

    • Once a Promo starts, a Promo related link will appear in the Promotional Offers section, on the Home page of Customer Control Panel throughout your Sub-Reseller chain. The link will re-direct the Customers to the domain name Check Availability section. Customers can proceed further for domain name registration(s).

Terminating a Promo

If desired, you may terminate a Promo prior to the Promo End Date. Follow the instructions below to do so:

  1. Login to your Reseller Control Panel. 2

  2. In the Menu, point to Settings and then click Set Pricing, Plans and Promos.

  3. Click the Click here to set your <TLD> Domain Names Promo Pricing link corresponding to the TLD (extension), for which you wish to terminate the Promo.

  4. Select the Terminate Promo checkbox and then click Submit to effect this change. The Promo will get terminated down your entire Sub-Reseller chain.

If there are any unpaid Invoices (with the status Action and Payment Pending) after the Promo is terminated, they would be automatically cancelled to prevent you from suffering any loss, should your Customer / Sub-Reseller execute any Invoice after the Promo has been terminated.

Note

The SuperSite and PartnerSite contain a large amount of marketing content and information about the Products and Services you offer to your Customers and Sub-Resellers respectively. This data is downloaded to your SuperSite and PartnerSite from your Control Panel and cached (stored) on the SuperSite and PartnerSite Server respectively. Hence, you would need to refresh the cache of your SuperSite and PartnerSite once -

  • you have activated/terminated a Promo, or

  • you have modified the value of one or more Pricing related fields, or

  • the promo ends automatically post the Promo End Date.

You can accomplish this from within your Control Panel itself by clicking Tools -> Reload SuperSite & PartnerSite Cache -> SuperSite & PartnerSite Promotional Offers.

Additional Information

What is SuperSite

What is PartnerSite

  1. 1. Login instructions for activating/managing a Promo
  2. 2. Login instructions for terminating a Promo