With yesterday's upgrade to Business Catalyst you now have the ability to purchase extras for your client sites directly from your Partner Portal without having to submit an accounts case to have it be processed manually. When you login to your Partner Portal, go to the 'Clients' tab and then click on a paid client to see their details, there is a new section at the bottom called 'System Usage' underneath the Invoices.

System Usage shows the limits that are currently applied to your clients' site based on the hosting plan they're on (Mini, Regular, Super) and any extras they've upgraded. You will be able to purchase extra:

• Disk Space - charged annually at $10 per 1000MB
• Bandwidth - the standard allocation has been increased to 1000GB as of this month. Additional bandwidth is charged at $1/GB.
• Users - 1 additional user + 10 email accounts is charged at $5/month, 5 additional users + 20 email accounts is charged at $20/month
• Email Accounts - to add extra email accounts you should purchase the user/email account packages listed in the previous item
• Newsletters - will now be prepaid, packages range from $10 for 1000 newsletters to $570 for 190,000 newsletters
• SMS - charged monthly at $10 for 50 SMS

Please note that these limits and prices are subject to change at any time. To upgrade your System Usage limits simply click on the green upgrade icon on the right to open a modal window where you can choose your desired package and then enter in the credit card details (or your clients credit card details) and then click 'Upgrade' at the bottom. You will be rebilled on a recurring basis e.g monthly for users/email accounts and you will be sent an invoice separate to your hosting invoices for your extras.

What's in the Pipeline for Client Billing?

In this release we chose to release the Partner Portal version of the 'Purchase Extras' functionality to test adoption rates, rest assured this feature still has many more enhancements in the pipeline. In the coming releases we plan to roll out enhancements to:

• Enable your clients to purchase extras directly from their Admin Console if they are being billed by Adobe Business Catalyst directly
• Enabling 'Purchase Extras' functionality for Partners and Clients who are using Consolidated Billing so their clients extras charges are also consolidated into one bill
• Enable partners to earn commissions on their clients overages

Looking further down the track we will also be working on functionality to enable you and your clients to automatically switch hosting plans. That's all for this release, thanks for stopping by to read the release notes!