Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase yearly/monthly VPN resources, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the subscription expires.

• If you no longer need resources and the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from the resources. Depending on what coupons were used for the purchase and on if 5-day unconditional unsubscription rules apply, the system may issue you a refund.
• If you have enabled auto-renewal but no longer need to automatically renew the subscription, disable auto-renewal before the auto-renewal date (7 days before the expiry date by default) to avoid unexpected expenditures.

Pay-Per-Use Resources

If pay-per-use VPN resources are no longer used, delete them in a timely manner to stop billing. After VPN connections are deleted, you will still be charged for using the corresponding VPN gateway. As such, you also need to delete the VPN gateway to avoid incurring fees.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

To delete all unnecessary resources, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify in this way.

[Example 1: Use a resource ID in a bill to search for a resource.]

1. Go to the Billing > Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills page.
2. Click Bill Details, and click shown in the following figure to copy the resource ID.
3. Log in to the management console.
4. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
5. Choose Networking > Virtual Private Network.
6. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Virtual Private Network > Enterprise – VPN Gateways.
7. On the S2C VPN Gateways tab page, select ID as the filter criterion, enter the ID obtained in 2, and click the icon to search for the resource.
8. Choose More > Delete or More > Unsubscribe in the Operation column to delete or unsubscribe from the VPN gateway. The VPN gateway then is no longer displayed in the list.
   

   You are charged one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after a pay-per-use resource is deleted. For example, if you delete a pay-per-use VPN resource at 08:30, the fees incurred between 08:00 and 09:00 are usually deducted at about 10:00.

[Example 2: Use a resource name in a bill to search for a resource.]

1. Go to the Billing > Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills page.
2. Click Bill Details, and click shown in the following figure to copy the resource name.
3. Log in to the management console.
4. Click in the upper left corner and select the desired region and project.
5. Choose Networking > Virtual Private Network.
6. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Virtual Private Network > Enterprise – VPN Gateways.
7. On the S2C VPN Gateways tab page, select Name as the filter criterion, enter the ID obtained in 2, and click the icon to search for the resource.
8. Choose More > Delete or More > Unsubscribe in the Operation column to delete or unsubscribe from the VPN gateway. The VPN gateway then is no longer displayed in the list.
   

   You are charged one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after a pay-per-use resource is deleted. For example, if you delete a pay-per-use VPN resource at 08:30, the fees incurred between 08:00 and 09:00 are usually deducted at about 10:00.