Billing Modes

If you expect to use resources for a longer period, you can select yearly/monthly billing.

This section describes the billing rules for yearly/monthly meeting resources.

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period of time, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice.

Billed Items

Table 1 describes billing items of Huawei Cloud Meeting.

**Table 1** Billed items
Billing Item	Description
Cloud meeting room	Billed on a yearly/monthly basis. The specifications are 25 participants, 100 participants, 200 participants, 300 participants, and 500 participants.
Hard terminal access account	Billed on a yearly/monthly basis. Access accounts for third-party meeting terminals, IdeaHubs, and Huawei professional meeting terminals.
Recording storage space	Billed on a yearly/monthly basis. The available specification is 100 GB.

Billed Usage Period

A yearly/monthly meeting resource is billed for the purchased duration. The billing starts from when you activated or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 of the expiry date.

For example, if you purchased a one-year meeting resource on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, the billed usage period is from March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to April 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Billing Examples

Suppose you purchased one-year meeting resources (cloud meeting room, IdeaHub account, and recording storage space) on March 08, 2023, 15:50:04, and renewed the subscriptions for one more year before the initial subscription expired. The following usage periods will be billed:

March 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to March 08, 2024, 23:59:59
March 08, 2024, 23:59:59 to March 08, 2025, 23:59:59

You will be billed for both usage periods. Meeting resources are billed individually as described in Table 2.

**Table 2** Formulas for billing yearly/monthly meeting resources
Resource	Formula	Unit Price
Cloud meeting room	Unit price of the cloud meeting room specification x Required quantity x Required duration	See Resource Pricing in Huawei Cloud Meeting Pricing Details.
IdeaHub access account	Unit price of the IdeaHub access account x Required quantity x Required duration	See Resource Pricing in Huawei Cloud Meeting Pricing Details.
Recording storage space	Unit price of the recording storage space specification x Required quantity x Required duration	See Resource Pricing in Huawei Cloud Meeting Pricing Details.

Figure 1 shows how the total price is calculated.

The prices in the figure are just examples. The actual prices are those displayed on Huawei Cloud Meeting Pricing Details.

Figure 1 Total price for Huawei Cloud Meeting resources

Specification Change

You can purchase new recording storage space and access accounts for third-party meeting terminals, IdeaHubs, and Huawei professional meeting terminals to increase the quota.

The quota of a cloud meeting room cannot be increased. To hold meetings with more participants, purchase a cloud meeting room with a higher quota.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 2 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly meeting resource can go through throughout its lifecycle. After a meeting resource is purchased, it enters the valid period and runs normally during this period. If the resource is not renewed after it expires, before being deleted, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 2 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly meeting resource

Expiration Reminder

The system will send you a reminder (by email, SMS, or in-app message) 7 days before a yearly/monthly meeting resource expires to remind you to renew the subscription.

Impact of Expiration

If your yearly/monthly meeting resource is not renewed after it expires, it changes to the Expired state and enters a grace period.

If the yearly/monthly meeting resource is not renewed after the grace period ends, its status turns to Frozen and it enters a retention period. You cannot perform any operations on the resource while it is in the retention period.

If the yearly/monthly meeting resource is not renewed by the time the retention period ends, the resource will be released and data cannot be restored.