Stopping Billing

Yearly/Monthly Load Balancers

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

• If you no longer need a yearly/monthly resource, but the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from it. Depending on what coupons were used for the purchase, Huawei Cloud may issue you a refund. For details about unsubscription rules, see Unsubscriptions.
• If you have enabled auto-renewal, disable it before the auto-renewal deduction date (seven days before the expiration date by default) to avoid unexpected fees.

Pay-per-Use Load Balancers

If a pay-per-use load balancer is no longer needed, delete it to stop billing.

Searching for Load Balancers from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify.

Search for the billed load balancer by ID.

1. Go to the Billing Center > Expenditure Details page.
2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the load balancer ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the load balancer ID
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic Load Balance from the service list.

   The load balancer list page is displayed.

4. Select the region where the resource is located, choose ID from the drop-down list and enter the copied resource ID to search for the resource.
   Figure 2 Searching for the load balancer
   

5. Choose More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the load balancer and check that it no longer appears in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use load balancer is deleted. For example, if you delete a load balancer (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.

Search for the load balancer by name.

1. Go to the Billing Center > Expenditure Details page.
2. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the load balancer name.
   Figure 3 Copying the load balancer name
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic Load Balance from the service list.

   The load balancer list page is displayed.

4. Select the region where the load balancer is located, choose Name from the drop-down list and enter the copied name to search for the resource.
5. Choose More > Delete in the Operation column to delete the load balancer and check that it no longer appears in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use load balancer is deleted. For example, if you delete a load balancer (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.