Acronis allows its partners to offer free trials to CSPs who wish to evaluate the Acronis CSP Contract products and can convert these resellers to paid resellers at the end of the free period. Our platform automates the management of Acronis CSP Contract product trials by allowing your resellers to get a trial for the Acronis CSP Contract (Tier 0 - Tier 7) they wish to evaluate. |
The business rules we apply for the trials are the following:
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When Acronis CSP contract products are created via the "Get Services Definition", a 30 day trial is suggested to be set on all Acronis CSP products (Tier 0 - Tier 7), from the distributor. However, this is not compulsory.
The trial option for a specific Acronis CSP Contract product can be enabled by activating the "Trial Period" option from the details page of any of the Acronis CSP products (Tier 0 - Tier 7).
We suggest setting the trial period to 30 days since this is the period that Acronis allows for trials. |
Configuration of Acronis CSP Contract Trial Products BSS Users can update and extend the trial period as well as disable or enable trials for all six products found either inside or outside a product group. |
Your resellers will be able to evaluate an Acronis CSP Contract product by getting a free trial from your Storefront, once they click on the Try Service button.
In Storefront, no terms of use are required when an Acronis CSP Contract product trial subscription is created. The reseller will have to accept those only during the upgrade from the trial to the paid subscription. |
From BSS, you are able to provide a trial to your resellers by creating a trial subscription, once you click on the Request for Trial button, located under the Shortcuts' menu of the product's overview page.
Trial Acronis CSP Contract Products in a Product Group Since Acronis CSP contract products are normally included in a product group, the distributor can set one or more products as the trial product(s) of the group via BSS. The distributor might initially set a default option (product) for trials to be displayed in the Storefront. However, the reseller is able to get any trial product they want. Since a product represents a Tier, it is worth mentioning that the Tier level does not actually have any impact as long as the tenant is in trial mode. However, it will enforce the reseller to initially get that Tier when they upgrade their subscription to paid. |
Ordering Rules
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As previously analyzed, an Acronis CSP Contract Trial subscription is created via the Storefront Checkout or via BSS by creating a trial subscription. When a trial subscription is provisioned, the following actions take place:
If the reseller has been previously synchronized during his BSS account synchronization with “production” mode in Acronis, now his Acronis account is switched to “trial” mode. Otherwise, the reseller's BSS account is synchronized by default in his Acronis account as “trial” mode.
Then, the Acronis CSP Contract Trial subscription synchronization takes place.
A trial subscription can be upgraded to paid via both the Storefront and the BSS platform.
In the Storefront, resellers have to agree with the terms of use on checkout.
When the trial subscription is upgraded to paid, it is upgraded to "production" mode along with the Acronis tenant Account of the reseller, having its assigned Tier (which has already been set during the trial's creation).
If the reseller wishes to change Tier, he has to upgrade or downgrade his paid subscription to the preferable (tier) product.
When a subscription is upgraded to paid, during the paid subscription provisioning, the Acronis account tenant mode is switched from "trial" to "production".
When an inactive subscription is upgraded to paid, during the paid subscription provisioning, the Acronis account tenant is reinstated as "enabled" and the tenant mode is switched from "trial" to "production".
Information Concerning the Effects of Acronis Account Tenant Mode-Switching In Acronis, if you switch the mode from trial to production in the middle of a month, the entire month will be included in the monthly service usage report. For this reason, we recommend that you switch the mode on the first day of a month. However, since BSS trial duration is the period that is set on the product and does not follow prorata restrictions, the trial subscriptions will almost never end on a different date than the end of the month. |
A trial subscription can be extended only via BSS, meaning that only a distributor is able to extend it.
Please note, that by extending a trial, you change the trial subscription cycle.
For example: Current trial period 1/3/21 - 15/3/21 → Extend Trial for 2 days on 10/3/21 → A renewal is created for the initial period and the new billing cycle is 16/3/21 - 17/3/21 (future billing period). So, it is advisable for the distributors to extend the trials on the last day of the trial so that the billing period will not be a future date.
If a reseller cancels his trial subscription, he is not able anymore to upgrade that to a paid one, so he needs to proceed to a new purchase (for any Tier he wishes).
When an Acronis CSP Contract Trial subscription is cancelled, the Acronis tenant is updated to disabled.
If a reseller's trial subscription expires without being upgraded to a paid one, he needs to proceed to a new purchase of a paid subscription (for any Tier he wishes).
When an Acronis CSP Contract Trial subscription is expired, the Acronis tenant account is updated to disabled.