Bills

Billing Generation

• Yearly/Monthly: Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after being paid for.
• Pay-per-use: A pay-per-use resource is billed by the hour, day, or month, depending on the resource's usage type. The ECS usage is billed by the hour. For details, see Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources.
• Spot pricing: ECSs billed on a spot pricing basis are settled by hour.

You are not billed immediately after a record is generated. For example, if a pay-per-use ECS (which is billed on an hourly basis) is deleted at 08:30, you will still have expenditures for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour. However, but you will not likely be billed for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour until about 10:00. In the Billing Center, choose Billing > Expenditure Items in the left navigation pane, Expenditure Time in the bill indicates the time when the pay-per-use or spot pricing resource is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

1. Log in to the management console and choose Compute > Elastic Cloud Server.

   The Elastic Cloud Server page is displayed.

2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the resource ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the resource ID
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose > Bills.

   The Bills page is displayed.

4. Choose Billing > Expenditure Details in the left navigation pane. Select Resource ID as the filter criteria, enter the resource ID obtained in 2, and click the icon.
   Figure 2 Searching for a bill
   

   By default, the bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required. For details, see Bills.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that you purchased a pay-per-use ECS (c6.large.2, 2 vCPUs | 4 GiB memory) at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023 and deleted it later that day, at 12:09:06.

• ECS expenditure items

  Pay-per-use ECS usage is calculated by the second and billed on an hourly basis. You can check the expenditure items against the actual usage. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 ECS expenditure items

  Service Type	ECS
  Resource Type	ECS
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-Use
  Expenditure Time	For the period of time from 10:09:06 to 12:09:06 on April 8, 2023, three transaction records would be generated for the resource usage in the following periods: 2023/04/08 10:09:06 - 2023/04/08 11:00:00 2023/04/08 11:00:00 - 2023/04/08 12:00:00 2023/04/08 12:00:00 - 2023/04/08 12:09:06
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price The ECS was used for 3,054 seconds in the first period, and the unit price can be obtained on the ECS Pricing Details page. For example, if the unit price is $0.0866 USD/hour, the list price for the first period = (3054 ÷ 3600) x 0.0866 = $0.07346567 USD. Similarly, you can calculate the ECS list price for the other periods.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Truncated Amount	Huawei Cloud billing is calculated to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place. The third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amounts. Take the first period as an example. The truncated amount is $0.00046567 USD.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount Take the first period as an example. If the discount amount is 0, the amount due is $0.073 USD (0.07346567 – 0 – 0.00046567).

• ECS expenditure details

  Expenditure details can be displayed in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the ECS bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

  Table 2 ECS expenditure details

  Service Type	ECS
  Resource Type	ECS
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-Use
  Resource Name/ID	ECS name and ID Example: ecs-8e89, 5770765b-f1ee-40ba-ba7e-0f01a093e8ee
  Specifications	ECS specifications Example: c6.large.2, 2 vCPUs | 4 GiB memory
  Usage Type	Duration for a pay-per-use ECS
  Unit Price	When pay-per-use billing is used, the unit price is only provided if the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing. You can search for the unit price for pay-per-use ECSs on the ECS Pricing Details page.
  Unit	Displayed on the ECS Pricing Details page. Example: USD/hour
  Usage	Depends on the unit of the unit price, which, for an ECS, is USD/hour. ECS usage is billed by the hour. Example: 2 hours
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price on the official website = Usage x Unit price The ECS is used for 2 hours in total, and the unit price is obtained on the ECS Pricing Details page. For example, if the unit price is $0.0866 USD/hour, the list price = 2 x 0.0866 = $0.1732 USD.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.