Help Center/ KooPhone/ Billing/ Billing Mode Change/ Changing Yearly/Monthly Billing to Pay-per-Use Billing
Updated on 2025-11-27 GMT+08:00

Changing Yearly/Monthly Billing to Pay-per-Use Billing

After creating a yearly/monthly instance, you can switch to pay-per-use billing to reclaim some costs and use the instance more flexibly.

Changing Yearly/Monthly Billing to Pay-per-Use Billing Immediately

Once the change order is complete, the remaining fees for the current subscription term are refunded, and pay-per-use billing takes effect immediately.

  1. Log in to the KooPhone console. The KooPhone overview page is displayed.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose UNI Cloud Terminal > Instance Management.
  3. In the instance list, select an instance whose billing mode is Yearly / Monthly and choose More > Change of billing mode.
  4. On the Change of billing mode page, select Annual/monthly package immediately converted to on-demand for entry-into-force time.
  5. Confirm the information and click OK.

Changing Yearly/Monthly Billing to Pay-per-Use Billing upon Expiration

In this scenario, after the yearly/monthly subscription expires, instances will be billed on the pay-per-use basis.

  1. Log in to the KooPhone console. The KooPhone overview page is displayed.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose UNI Cloud Terminal > Instance Management.
  3. In the instance list, select an instance whose billing mode is Yearly / Monthly and choose More > Change of billing mode.
  4. On the Change of billing mode page, select Annual/monthly subscription expires and can be converted to on-demand for entry-into-force time.
  5. Confirm the information and click OK.