Bills

Bill Generation

After you pay for a yearly/monthly resource, a bill is reported to the billing system in real time for settlement.

The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval. Pay-per-use products can be settled by the hour, day, or month based on the usage type. Pay-per-use SA resources are settled by the hour.

You are not charged immediately after a billing record is generated. For example, if SA (which is billed on an hourly basis) is disabled at 08:30, your expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 will not likely be billed until about 10:00. On the Billing Center > Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills > Transaction Bills page, Expenditure Time indicates the time when a pay-per-use product is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper right corner of the page, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.
3. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Billing > Expenditure Details.
4. In the Settings area, click , select Service Type, then select SecMaster(SecMaster) in the Service Type column. The system displays the bills of the service.

   By default, expenditure details are displayed by usage and the statistical period is a billing cycle. You can also set other statistical dimensions and periods.

Check the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that a customer purchased a professional edition pay-per-use SA instance (ECS quota: 1) at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023 and deletes it at 12:09:06 on April 8, 2023.

• SA transaction bill

  In pay-per-use billing mode, SA is billed by the second and the bill is settled hourly. You can check the information about each billing period in the transaction bill. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 SA transaction bill

  Service Type	SecMaster
  Resource Type	SA professional edition
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use billing
  Expenditure Time	From 10:09:06 on April 08, 2023 to 12:09:06 on April 08, 2023, 3 transaction bills were generated: 2023/04/08 10:09:06 to 2023/04/08 11:00:00 2023/04/08 11:00:00 to 2023/04/08 12:00:00 2023/04/08 12:00:00 to 2023/04/08 12:09:06
  List Price	List price = Usage x Unit price In this example, the usage of SA in the first billing period is 3,054 seconds. If the unit price is $0.05/ECS/hour, the list price is (3,054 ÷ 3,600) x 0.05 = $0.04241667. You can query the actual unit price in the SA Pricing Details. Similarly, you can calculate the SA list price for the other periods.
  Discount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
  Truncated Amount	Huawei Cloud bills a resource with the price accurate to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place, while the third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amount. Take the first billing period as an example. The truncated amount is $0.00241667 USD.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount Take the first period as an example. If the discount amount is 0, the amount due is $0.03 USD (0.04241667 - 0 - 0.00241667).

• SA bill details

  Bill details can display in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. You can check bill details by referring to Table 2.

  Table 2 SA bill details

  Product Type	SecMaster
  Resource Type	SA professional edition
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use billing
  Resource Name/ID	SA and its ID Example: SA, eb23be0e-2935-46f9-bf31-a89d9cc17f8d
  Specification	SA edition In this example, SA Professional is used.
  Usage Type	In pay-per-use billing, the usage type is Required Duration.
  Unit Price	When pay-per-use billing is used, the unit price is only provided if the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. When pay-per-use billing is used, the unit price is only provided if the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. You can query the unit price in SA Pricing Details.
  Unit	Unit price in SA Pricing Details: USD/ECS/hour or USD/time/hour
  Usage	The usage is displayed by the unit price, which is USD/ECS/hour for SA. Therefore, the SA usage is measured by the hour. In this example, the total usage is 2 hours.
  Usage Unit	Hour
  List Price	List price = Usage x Unit price In this example, the usage duration is 2 hours. If the unit price is $0.05/ECS/hour or $0.05/time/hour, the list price is $0.10 (2 x 0.05). You can query the real unit price on the SA Pricing Details page.
  Discount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.