You print pricing must be set up in both PaperCut and Nexudus before you start the integration process. How you set up your print pricing will depend on which of the following pricing models you choose:
Pay-per-print Only
Customers can print as much as they'd like, and Nexudus invoices them according to the prices you set in PaperCut. Printing credits are not available.
Printing Credits Only
Customers can only print if they have enough printing credits in their account. Once they run out, Nexudus won't let them print until they receive more credits through a product or plan or by an admin directly adding them to their account.
Customers won't be able to print unless they have enough credits to cover the entire print job.
For example, a customer wants to print 10 black-and-white pages at 5 credits each for a print job totalling 50 credits. If they only have 45 credits remaining, they won’t be able to print.
Printing Credits & Pay-per-print
Customers print using printing credits until they run out, at which point Nexudus will charge and invoice them for any additional print jobs.
Free Unlimited Printing
Customers can print as much as they’d like for free. They don’t need printing credits, and Nexudus won’t invoice them.
Setting up your pricing model in PaperCut
The first step is to set up your print pricing in PaperCut.
Defining a custom currency
Regardless of which pricing model you use, you'll need to set your currency to credits in PaperCut.
1. On the PaperCut admin panel, go to Options > General > Display Options.
2. Tick the Display currency sign and Use custom currency sign checkboxes.
3. Add Credits in the Custom sign field.
4. Select Display after number in the Display drop-down list.
5. Click Apply.
Defining print prices
You need to set up the price per page for each print type you have in PaperCut. You can apply different prices per page based on the type of print and the printer used by your customers.
Prices must be whole numbers.
1 credit in PaperCut = 1 cent or credit in Nexudus
For example, if you define the cost per page for A4 black and white prints to 5 credits in Papercut, you'll be able to charge customers either 5 credits or $0.05 per print in Nexudus.
For more details, check out Papercut's pricing tutorial.
Once you have your cost per page defined in PaperCut, you can move on to the pricing setup in Nexudus.
Setting up your pricing model in Nexudus
The final step is to create your printing inventory in Nexudus. Which inventory items you create in Nexudus depends on the pricing model you choose.
If you’re using the Credits & Pay-per-print pricing model, you’ll need to create all the inventory items listed under Pay-per-print Only and Printing Credits Only.
If you’re using the Free Unlimited Printing model, you don’t need to create any inventory items.
You’ll need to create the following inventory item in Nexudus when using the Pay-per-print Only pricing model.
A product dedicated to printing
The price of this product should always be set to 1 cent. This allows the prices you’ve defined in PaperCut to be multiplied by 0.01.
For example, if you set the price of an A4 black-and-white print to 5 credits in PaperCut, your customers will be invoiced $0.05 per print in Nexudus.
For more details, check out Adding Products.
You’ll need to create the following inventory items in Nexudus when using the Printing Credits Only pricing model.
A printing resource type
Before creating your printing credit in Nexudus, you’ll need to create a resource type dedicated to printing.
For more details, check out Adding Resource Types.
A rate dedicated to printing
You’ll also need to create a rate for your new printing resource type.
Log in to dashboard.nexudus.com if you haven’t already.
Go to Inventory > Prices.
Click Add rate.
Name your printing rate.
Under This rate applies to the following resource types, select your resource type dedicated to printing.
Set the rate Price to 1 for every use.
Click Save changes.
A printing credit
You’ll also need to create a printing credit to give to customers to allow them to print.
Log in to dashboard.nexudus.com if you haven’t already.
Go to Inventory > Printing credits.
Click Add printing credit.
Name your printing credit.
Under This credit can be used to book the following resource types, select your resource type dedicated to printing.
Click Save changes.
You should only have one printing credit in your Nexudus inventory.
Because only one printing credit can be tied to the integration, any other printing credits given to customers can’t be used.
You can give printing credits to customers as benefits through plans or products or by adding them directly to their account.
For more details, check out Printing Credits.