From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use Immediately

Prerequisites

You have passed real-name authentication.

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 immediately.
• If your account is frozen for legal management, the billing mode of all your resources cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately. If one of your resources is frozen for legal management, the billing mode of the resource cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• The billing mode of yearly/monthly instances in the grace period or retention period cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• The billing mode of products no longer available cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• Products participating in special reward activities cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• The billing mode of yearly/monthly resources in trial use cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• The billing mode of solution portfolio products cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• The billing mode of resource packages cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
• Cloud services which do not support pay-per-use cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.

Refund Rule

If you change the billing mode of resources from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use immediately, the remaining fees of the resources in the current period will be refunded. The rules are as follows:

1. Handling fees and consumption amount will be charged. The used cash coupons will not be refunded.

   Handling fees and the consumption amount are both paid from the cash account.

2. Refund:
   • Refund amount = Actual payment – Consumption amount – Handling fee. The actual refund amount is displayed on the Change to Pay-per-Use page. (If the calculated refund amount is less than 0, there will be no refund.)
   • Actual payment refers to the payment in cash, excluding any payment in cash coupons.
   • Consumption amount = Actual payment x (Actual usage duration/Subscribed period) (The refund calculation formula is for reference only. The actual consumption duration is measured in days, and the actual amount is subject to the amount in the bill and expenditure details.)
   • Handling fee: There is a handling fee for the billing mode change, unless the free handling fee is specified in the effective framework contract for the customer.
     Table 1 shows the handling fee details.

     Table 1 Handling fee

     Service Type	Actual Usage Duration ≤ 1 Year	1 Year < Actual Usage Duration ≤ 2 Years	2 Years < Actual Usage Duration ≤ 3 Years
     3-year subscription	Handling fee = 15% of your actual payment	Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment	Handling fee = 5% of your actual payment
     2-year subscription	Handling fee = 15% of your actual payment	Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment	-
     1-year subscription	Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment	-	-
     Monthly subscription	Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment	-	-

For details about refund rules, see Unsubscribing from In-Use Resources.

Procedure

Take an Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) as an example to describe how to change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use immediately.

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner, and select the desired region and project.
   

   On the My Resources page, you can view the region to which your purchased product belongs.

3. Under Computing, click Elastic Cloud Server.
4. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, select the target ECS.
5. Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Immediately in the Operation column.

   

   

   You can perform the following operations to change the billing mode of multiple yearly/monthly ECSs to pay-per-use immediately at a time:

   1. Select the target ECSs.
   2. Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Immediately in the Operation column.

6. On the displayed page, confirm the resource information and click Yes.

   

7. Confirm the refund and billing details. Then, click Change to Pay-per-Use.

   

8. After the order is complete, the change takes effect.