Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

After creating a yearly/monthly ECS, you can change it to pay-per-use for more flexibility, and you can recoup part of what you paid for the subscription.

Pay-per-use billing will be applied only after the yearly/monthly billing duration ends.

Constraints

Changing from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use is supported only after you have passed real-name authentication.
The billing mode can only be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use for ECSs whose order status is Provisioned. You can view the order status on the Billing > Renewal page.
A maximum of 100 ECSs can be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use at a time.
The billing modes of products in a solution portfolio cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

Prerequisites

You need to change from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use on the Billing > Renewal page.

Procedure

Log in to the management console.
Hover over Billing in the upper part of the console and choose Renewal from the drop-down list.

The Renewals page is displayed.
Select the search criteria.
- Under the Pay-per-Use After Expiration tab, you can view the resources that already have changed to pay-per-use upon expiration configured.
- Under the Manual Renewals, Auto Renewals, and Renewals Canceled tabs, you can change the resources to pay-per-use billing upon expiration.
Figure 1 Renewals
Change yearly/monthly resources to pay-per-use billing upon expiration.
- Single ECS: Select the ECS you want to change the billing mode and choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration in the Operation column.
  Figure 2 Changing to pay-per-use billing upon expiration for a single resource
- Multiple ECSs: Select the ECSs you want to change their billing modes and click Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration above the ECS list.
  Figure 3 Changing to pay-per-use billing upon expiration for multiple resources
Confirm the change details and click Change to Pay-per-Use.

Figure 4 Changing to pay-per-use billing upon expiration