Help Center/ Host Security Service/ Billing/ Changing the Billing Mode/ Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use
Updated on 2024-12-02 GMT+08:00
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Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

After purchasing a yearly/monthly HSS professional, premium, or container edition, you can change it to pay-per-use billing to reclaim some costs and use it more flexibly.

You can change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use in either of the following ways:
  • Change to pay-per-use immediately: The pay-per-use billing mode takes effect immediately.
  • Change to pay-per-use upon expiration: The pay-per-use billing mode takes effect only after the yearly/monthly subscription has expired.

Limitations and Constraints

  • Changing from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use is supported only after you have passed real-name authentication.
  • On the Renewals page, only orders in the Provisioned status can be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
  • A maximum of 100 resources can be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use at a time, including instant to pay-per-use and expiration to pay-per-use scenarios.
  • The billing modes of products in a solution portfolio cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
  • Invoiced resources cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

Prerequisite

You can change the resource usage to pay-per-use on the HSS console or the Renewals page in the Billing Center.

Change to Pay-per-Use Immediately

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > Host Security Service.
  4. Go to a quota page as required.

    • To go to the server protection quota page,
      1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Servers & Quota.
      2. Click the Quotas tab.
    • To go to the container protection quota page,
      1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Containers & Quota.
      2. On the Containers & Quota page, click the Protection Quotas tab.

  5. Locate the row that contains the target quota, choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Now in the Operation column.
  6. Click OK. The Change to Pay-per-Use page is displayed.
  7. Confirm the refund information and click Change to Pay-Per-Use.
  8. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the resources again and click OK.

Changing to Pay-per-Use (HSS Console)

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > Host Security Service.
  4. Go to a quota page as required.

    • To go to the server protection quota page,
      1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Servers & Quota.
      2. Click the Quotas tab.
    • To go to the container protection quota page,
      1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Containers & Quota.
      2. On the Containers & Quota page, click the Protection Quotas tab.

  5. Locate the row that contains the target quota, choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column.
  6. Click OK to switch to the Change to Pay-per-Use page.
  7. Confirm the resources and click Change to Pay-per-Use.

Change to Pay-per-Use (Billing Center)

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. In the upper right corner of the page, choose Billing & Costs > Renewal. The Renewal page is displayed.
  3. Customize search criteria.

    • Under the Pay-per-Use After Expiration tab, you can view the resources whose billing mode will change to pay-per-use upon expiration.
    • For resources on the Manual Renewals, Auto Renewals, and Renewals Canceled pages, you can set the billing mode to change to pay-per-use upon expiration.

  4. Set the billing mode to change to pay-per-use after the yearly/monthly subscription expires.

    • Single resource: Select the professional/premium/container edition resource for which you want to change the billing mode, and choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column.
    • Multiple resources: Select the professional/premium/container edition resources for which you want to change the billing mode, and click Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration above the resource list.

  5. Confirm the subscription change details, and click Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration.