Help Center/ Billing Center/ User Guide/ Orders/ Renewal Management/ Changing the Billing Mode/ From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use Upon Expiration
Updated on 2024-08-15 GMT+08:00
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From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use Upon Expiration

You can change the billing mode of resources from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use upon expiration on the Renewals page of the Billing Center. The change will take effect after the yearly/monthly resources expire.

Example:

Suppose that you purchased an ECS for the 1-year subscription on September 21, 2018, 09:25:34, and you changed the billing mode to pay-per-use on October 15, 2018, 10:30:34. On October 21, 2018, 23:59:59, the new billing mode took effect and the ECS started being charged by usage.

Important Notes

  • Only the billing mode of resources in the Enabled state can be changed.
  • The billing mode of orders being processed cannot be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.
  • If your account is frozen for legal management, the billing mode of all your resources cannot be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration. If one of your resources is frozen for legal management, the billing mode of the resource cannot be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.
  • The billing mode of products no longer available cannot be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.
  • Before the yearly/monthly resources expire, their billing mode can be changed to pay-per-use upon the expiration. The change will not take effect until the subscription has expired.
  • The billing mode of solution portfolio products cannot be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.
  • The billing mode of resource packages cannot be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Renewals page.
  2. Set the search criteria.

    • You can use the Expires field to quickly filter instances and view the instance quantity.
    • You can search for instances by instance name, ID, or order number, or filter instances by product type, region, or enterprise project.
    • Only when the enterprise project management function is enabled, you can filter instances by enterprise project.
    • Resources with orders pending payment can be operated only after these orders are paid or canceled. The Do not show resources that have orders pending payment option is deselected by default. You can select it to hide resources with orders pending payment.
    • The Do not show resource packages and Show resource packages only options are deselected by default. You can select them to hide or filter resource packages.
    • On the Pay-per-Use After Expiration page, you can view the instances whose billing mode will be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.
    • You can set instances on the Manual Renewals, Auto Renewals, and Renewals Canceled pages to be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.

  3. The procedure for changing the billing mode of a single instance to pay-per-use upon expiration is different from that for multiple instances.

    • Single instance: Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration in the Operation column for the desired instance.

    • Multiple resources: Select the check boxes for the desired instances, and click Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration on top of the list.

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