MSP Control Center · New tenant
Provisioning a customer in eight steps
Proposed interface concept Not released. A design for discussion, drawn in HTML and CSS; not a screenshot of working software.
The new-tenant wizard for MSPs: organization, domain verification, services, document engine, resources, identity, review and provision. Each step validates before the next, and nothing is created until the review is confirmed. The figures shown are example data.
Proposed interface concept Not released · example data · subject to change
- Organization
- Domain verification
- Services
- 4Document engine
- 5Resources
- 6Identity
- 7Review
- 8Provision
Step 4 of 8 · Document engine
Which document engine should Larkspur use?
Documents, spreadsheets and presentations open in the browser through an editing engine. Both work with Files, sharing and version history. They differ in the file format they treat as native, in their editions and in licensing.
Native formatOpenDocument (ODT, ODS, ODP)
Opens and saves Word, Excel and PowerPoint files through LibreOffice filters
- Co-editingYes
- Track changesYes
- CommentsYes
- Mobile web editingVaries by edition
CODE edition for testing and small teams; Collabora Online subscription for supported production use. Renders documents on the server.
Native formatOffice Open XML (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX)
Opens OpenDocument files; complex layouts should be tested
- Co-editingYes
- Track changesYes
- CommentsYes
- Mobile web editingVaries by edition
Community Edition under AGPL-3.0 with additional terms; mobile web editors and multi-tenancy need a commercial edition.
Not a one-way decision. The engine can be changed later through a controlled switch: open sessions are drained, documents are validated, and the previous engine stays available for rollback.
Shape this before it is built
This screen is a proposal. MSP design partners review concepts like this one against how they actually run customers, and say what is missing.