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Changing Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

Scenarios

Yearly/Monthly is a prepaid billing mode in which your ECS will be billed based on service duration. This cost-effective mode is ideal when the duration of ECS usage is predictable.

If you require a more flexible billing mode, in which your ECS will be billed based on usage frequency and duration, you can change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

After the billing mode is changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use, the new billing mode takes effect only after the yearly/monthly subscription has expired.

Prerequisites

  • You have passed real-name authentication.
  • The billing mode of only the ECSs in Provisioned state on the Renewals page can be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
  • A yearly/monthly subscription can be changed to pay-per-use before its expiration date. However, the change takes effect only after the subscription has expired.
  • The billing mode of solution portfolio products cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click Billing on the top of the management console and select Renewal from the drop-down list.

    The Renewals page is displayed.

    Figure 1 Renewals
  3. In the ECS list, locate the row containing the target ECS, click More in the Operation column and select Change to Pay-per-Use from the drop-down list.
    Figure 2 Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column
  4. Click Change to Pay-per-Use to complete the change.
    Figure 3 Changing the billing mode to pay-per-use