Billing Examples

Scenarios

On June 8, 2024, a customer purchased the SecMaster standard edition with one quota for one month and purchased the value-added package (large screen, security data collection, security data retention, security analysis, and security orchestration). The specifications are as follows:

• Service edition + Quota: Standard edition + 1 quota
• Value-added package:
  • Large screen - Security situation metrics
  • Security data collection: 5 GB/day
  • Security data retention: 100 GB
  • Security analysis: 1 GB/day
  • Intelligent analysis: 1 GB/day
  • Security orchestration: 10,000 times/day

After a period of time, the customer found that the current SecMaster specifications could not meet their service requirements and upgraded SecMaster on June 18, 2024. The service edition was upgraded to the professional edition. The new specification configuration is as follows:

• Service edition + Quota: Professional edition + 1 quota
• Value-added package:
  • Large screen - Security situation metrics
  • Security data collection: 5 GB/day
  • Security data retention: 100 GB
  • Security analysis: 1 GB/day
  • Intelligent analysis: 1 GB/day
  • Security orchestration: 10,000 times/day

So, how much is the fee from June to July? Let's start from scratch.

Billing Analysis

• Service edition + Quota:

  In this case, you need to pay the difference in price. The old price of the standard edition is $2.2 USD/quota/month, and the old price of professional edition is $22 USD/quota/month. The formula is as follows:

  Specification upgrade fee = New specification price × Remaining period - Old specification price × Remaining period

  The remaining period in the formula is the remaining days of each calendar month divided by the maximum days of corresponding calendar month. In this example, the remaining period = 12 (Remaining days in June)/30 (Maximum number of days in June) + 8 (Remaining days in July)/31 (Maximum number of days in July) = 0.6581. Price difference = 22 x 0.6581 – 2.2 x 0.6581 = $13.03 USD

  From June to July, the total fee for the service edition and quota is $ 15.23 USD (2.2 + 13.03).

• Value-added package:

  The billing of the value-added package is irrelevant to the service edition. It is related only to the configured quota and required duration. So, the billing of the value-added package remains unchanged after the edition is upgraded.

  From June to July, the total fee for the value-added package is $875.71 USD (710 + 160 + 5.71).

From June to July, the total fee for using SecMaster is $890.94 USD (15.23 + 875.71).