Bills

Billing Generation

• Yearly/Monthly: Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after being paid for.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

1. Log in to the management console and choose Compute > Cloud Phone Host.

   The Cloud Phone Host console is displayed.

2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the resource ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the resource ID
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Bills page is displayed.

4. Choose Billing > Expenditure Details in the left navigation pane. Select Resource ID as the filter criteria, enter the resource ID obtained in 2, and click the icon.
   Figure 2 Searching for a bill
   

   By default, the bill details are displayed by resource. You can choose other display options as required. For details, see Bills.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that you purchased a yearly/monthly cloud phone server at 14:53:24 on November 23, 2023.

• CPH expenditure items

  You can check the expenditure items against the actual usage. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 CPH expenditure items

  Service Type	CPH
  Resource Type	Cloud phone server
  Billing Mode	Yearly/Monthly-Month
  Expenditure Time	2023/11/23 14:53:24 GMT+08:00
  List Price	The sale price of a product with no commercial discounts and promotion discounts applied on the Huawei Cloud official website. List price = Discount amount + Truncated amount + Amount due
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Truncated Amount	In pay-per-use billing mode, amounts are accurate to two decimal places during settlement, with the third and later decimal places directly deleted.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied. The discounts include commercial discounts, and partner authorized discounts. Amount due = Cash payment + Credit payment + Cash coupon used + Flexi-purchase coupon used + Amount deducted from stored value card + Arrears

• CPH expenditure details

  Expenditure details can be displayed in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the CPH bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

  Table 2 CPH expenditure details

  Service Type	CPH
  Resource Type	Cloud phone server
  Billing Mode	Yearly/Monthly-Month
  Bill Type	Expenditure – purchase
  Resource Name/ID	Cloud phone server name and ID Example: cph-3ubg
  Specifications	Cloud phone server flavor. Example: physical.rx1.xlarge
  List Price	The sale price of a product with no commercial discounts and promotion discounts applied on the Huawei Cloud official website. List price = Discount amount + Truncated amount + Amount due
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.