Bills
You can view bills in the Billing Center to learn about the usage and billing details of the resource in a certain period.
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 SecMaster resources are settled by the hour.
You are not charged immediately after a billing record is generated. For example, if SecMaster (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
- Log in to the management console.
- In the upper right corner of the page, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.
- In the navigation tree on the left, choose Billing > Expenditure Details.
- 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 the professional edition pay-per-use SecMaster (ECS quota: 1) at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2024 and deleted it at 12:09:06 on April 8, 2024.
- SecMaster transaction bill
In pay-per-use billing mode, SecMaster 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 SecMaster transaction bill Service Type
SecMaster
Resource Type
SecMaster Professional
Billing Mode
Pay-per-use billing
Expenditure Time
From 10:09:06 on April 08, 2024 to 12:09:06 on April 08, 2024, 3 transaction bills were generated:
- 2024/04/08 10:09:06 ~ 2024/04/08 11:00:00
- 2024/04/08 11:00:00 ~ 2024/04/08 12:00:00
- 2024/04/08 12:00:00 ~ 2024/04/08 12:09:06
List Price
List price = Usage x Unit price
In this example, the usage of SecMaster 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 SecMaster Pricing Details. Similarly, you can calculate the SecMaster list price for other billing 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 eighth decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the second 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 $0.04 USD (0.04241667 - 0 - 0.00241667).
- SecMaster bill details
Bill details are displayed by multiple dimensions. 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 SecMaster bill details Service Type
SecMaster
Resource Type
SecMaster professional
Billing Mode
Pay-per-use
Resource Name/ID
SecMaster Edition and ID
Example: professional, f31d48c3-2613-44a2-a145-c82573e23967
Specifications
SecMaster edition
In this example, the SecMaster professional edition is purchased.
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 SecMaster Pricing Details.
Unit
Unit price in SecMaster Pricing Details: USD/ECS/hour or USD/time/hour
Usage
The usage is displayed by the unit price, which is USD/ECS/hour for SecMaster. The SecMaster 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 SecMaster 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.
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