Reconciliation

Bill Types and Downloading

Bill

You can view your expenditure summary by month. The bills are summarized by product type, resource type, and billing mode (for example, pay-per-use and yearly/monthly). The data includes the expenditures and refunds.
On the Billing Center, choose Billing > Bills, click Export. In the Export dialog box, select Summary bill and specify other fields. Then, click Export to download the bill summary.

Transactions

You can view your transactions by month.
On the Billing Center, choose Billing > Bills, click Export. In the Export dialog box, select Transaction Bills and specify other fields. Then, click Export to download the transactions.

Bill Details

Bill details filtered by a combination of Resource Name/ID and Billing Cycle: On the Billing > Bill Details page, select Resource Name/ID and By billing cycle, and then click .
Bill details filtered by a combination of Usage and Details: On the Billing > Bill Details page, select Usage and Details, and then click .

Precision in Bills

Huawei Cloud bills a pay-per-use product with the fee accurate to the 8th decimal place (for example, $10.12501236 USD).

The total amount in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place. For example, $100.13 USD is displayed in the monthly bill instead of $100.12501236 USD.

Accumulated Amount in Bills

Prior to April 2020, pay-per-use products are settled by hour, day, or month. The settlement amount is accurate to the 2nd decimal place, while the third and later decimal places are directly truncated.

From April 2020 to May 2021, the bills for customers using monthly settlement are displayed in the following manner:

For pay-per-use products and spot instance products, bills are summarized by specifications and usage type. The accumulated amount at the end of a month is truncated.
For yearly/monthly subscriptions, bills are summarized by order.

From June 2021, the amounts before bill generation are no longer truncated. Only the total amount shown in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.

On the Billing > Bills page, the total amount in a monthly bill is slightly higher because the amounts are no longer truncated to the 2nd decimal place.
On the Billing > Bill Details page, the amounts are rounded off. Therefore, there may be some discrepancies with the amounts shown in the monthly bill. To view the exact amounts (accurate to the 8th decimal place), customers can export the monthly bill in XLSX or CSV format.
The amounts displayed in the bill files that are subscribed to on the Billing > Data Storage page of the Billing Center are accurate to the 8th decimal place.
During bill generation, cash coupons are applied and the amounts are kept accurate to the 8th decimal place.

Reconciliation

To check your expenditures on Huawei Cloud, refer to the following steps:

Generally, the Billing Center summarizes your expenditures in a month and generates the monthly bill on the third day of the next month. Then, you can check your bill.
Due to the delay in expenditure summary, you are not recommended to reconcile your expenditures in the current month.

Compare the total cash expenditure and the total payment amount.
You can view the total cash expenditure (including the monthly settlement amount) in the monthly bill and the total payment amount on the Billing > Bills page.

The refunds in unsubscriptions are not included.

Both the total cash expenditure and total payment amount do not include fees paid using cash coupons.

Figure 1 Total
- Real-time settlement fees: Fees paid in cash, for example, through an online payment. The fees may be paid for purchases, renewals, or specification upgrades of yearly/monthly resources.
- Monthly settlement: Fees settled at the end of a month, such as the yearly/monthly or pay-per-use expenditures.
Compare the total cash expenditure in the monthly bill and the total cash expenditure in the transaction bill.
The total amount in a monthly bill may differ from that in a transaction bill due to the precision difference.
- The total amount in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.
- The total amount in the transaction bill is accurate to the 8th decimal place.
- You can view the total amount (including the monthly settlement amount) in the monthly bill on the Billing > Bills page.
  Figure 2 Total monthly expenditure
- You can export the transaction bill on the Billing > Bills page and view the total expenditure by cash in the transaction bill (the sum of cash payments and monthly settlement).
  The bill types include:
  - Expenditure-purchase: fees of yearly/monthly subscriptions
  - Expenditure-change: fees for changing the specifications of yearly/monthly subscriptions
  - Expenditure-renewal: fees of yearly/monthly subscriptions that you manually renew
  - Expenditure-auto-renewal: fees of yearly/monthly subscriptions that are automatically renewed
  - Expenditure-use: fees of pay-per-use products
  - Expenditure-month-end deduction for support plan: fees charged for the support plan at the end of a month
  - Expenditure-tax: tax for yearly/monthly and pay-per-use products
  - Expenditure-difference amount: fees that HCDP customers need to pay if their expenditures do not reach the guaranteed minimum payment amount. Difference amount = Guaranteed minimum payment amount – Expenditure amount
  - Expenditure-monthly payment: fees of a yearly/monthly subscription that is paid monthly
  - Expenditure-savings plans used: actual hourly amount spent in the savings plan in the pay-per-use billing mode
  - Refund - unsubscription: fees of yearly/monthly products that are unsubscribed from
  - Refund-tax: tax refunded when a yearly/monthly subscription is unsubscribed from
  - Refund-change: fees of a yearly/monthly subscription for which the specification is downgraded
  - Refund-change to pay-per-use: refunds generated when a yearly/monthly subscription is changed to pay-per-use billing
  - Adjustment-compensation: fees compensated by Huawei Cloud
  - Adjustment-deduction: fees paid when Huawei Cloud makes an account adjustment. For example, when Huawei Cloud adjusts a specification downgrade order, the original refund amount is paid first.
  - Adjustment-compensation tax: tax for Huawei Cloud compensations
  - Adjustment-deduction tax: tax for Huawei Cloud account adjustments
(Optional) You can also compare the total cash expenditure in the monthly bill and the total payment in the bill filtered by a combination of Resource and By billing cycle, the total cash expenditure in the monthly bill and the total payment in the bill filtered by a combination of Usage Type and Details.
Due to the different precision methods used for amounts in the above three types of bills, you may find deviations during the two comparisons.
- The total amount in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.
- The exact amounts (accurate to the 8th decimal place) are included in bill details filtered by a combination of Resource Type and By billing cycle and those filtered by a combination of Usage and Details.