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Postpayment Instructions
- Are There Any Limits to How I Use Post Paid HUAWEI CLOUD Services?
- How Do I Apply for Postpayment?
- What Happens to My Top-Up Account If I Switch from Prepayment to Postpayment?
- Do Postpaid Customers Use Prepayment Or Postpayment When Purchasing a Yearly/Monthly Product?
- What Is a Billing Cycle? How Long Is the Billing Cycle for HUAWEI CLOUD?
- What Is a Repayment Period? How Long Is the Repayment Period for HUAWEI CLOUD?
- What Is Overdue? What Are the Consequences of Being Overdue?
- What Is a Grace Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?
- What Is a Retention Period of Huawei Cloud? How Long Is It?
- What Is a Due Date?
- How Are My Expenditures Settled?
- What Can I Do If I Have an Outstanding Amount?
- What Will Be the Result If the Payment Succeeds?
- What Will Be the Result If the Payment Fails?
- Why Did the Automatic Payment from My Credit Card Fail After the Bill Was Generated?
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Adding a Card
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Instructions
- Why Do I Need to Add a Credit Card?
- When Should I Add a Credit Card?
- Which Types of Customers Need to Add a Credit Card?
- Do I Need to Add a Credit Card If I Am a Reseller?
- What Credit Cards Are Supported for HUAWEI CLOUD (International)?
- What Should Be Noted When I Add a Credit Card?
- How Do I Add a Debit Card?
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Instructions
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Payment
- What Payment Methods Are Supported on HUAWEI CLOUD (International)?
- How Do I Make a Bank Transfer?
- What Type of Online Payments are Supported?
- What Can I Do If My Online Payment is Declined?
- What Can I Do If I Receive the Message, "Cardholder Authentication" and the Payment Page Does Not Respond During an Online Payment?
- Will My Subsequent Payments Be Restricted After an Online Payment Fails?
- What Is the Maximum Allowed for an Individual Online Payment?
- What Can I Do If I Transferred Money into the Wrong Account?
- What Is a Dedicated Top-Up Account?
- How Do I View My Dedicated Top-Up Account Information?
- How Do I Use My Dedicated Top-Up Account to Pay Bills?
- Repayment
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Bills
- How Do I Pay for My Bills As a Reseller Customer?
- Why Do Some Resources in Bills Not Have Resource Names or IDs?
- How Do I Find Cloud Service Resources By Resource Names or IDs?
- What Is a Child Resource?
- Why Can't I Access the Target OBS Bucket?
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Customers Using Monthly Settlement
- How Does Huawei Cloud Calculate the Billing Cycle?
- How Do I Pay for Yearly/Monthly Subscriptions?
- How Am I Charged in Monthly Settlement?
- How Do I Pay My Bill?
- Where Can I Find the Payment Details for a Credit Card I Added?
- When Is a Cash Coupon Used for Pay-per-Use Products?
- How Do I View the Usage Records of a Cash Coupon?
- How Do I View Past Account Statements?
- Why Is the Last-Hour Expenditure Data Missing from the Bill Pushed to the OBS on the Last Day of the Last Month?
- Why Am I Billed Twice in a Month for a Monthly Resource?
- When Is the Bill for My Expenditures Generated?
- Why Does the Amount Displayed on the Bill Have Eight Decimal Places?
- When Is the Tax for Pay-per-Use Products Collected?
- When Is the Tax for a Yearly/Monthly Subscription Collected?
- Why Are My CDN Expenditures Not Displayed in the Bill for This Month?
- Why Can't I Find the Expenditure Data of My Purchased Pay-per-Use Resources in the Bill?
- What Exchange Rate Is Used for Bills Settled Not in USD?
- Why Is Part of the Usage of One Month Included in the Usage of the Next Month?
- Why Are the Actual Start Time and End Time of a Monthly/Yearly Product Different from Those Displayed in the Bill Details?
- What Is a Negative Balance on a Credit Card?
- Why Is My Payable Amount Calculated Using Total Usage (Pricing Unit) Slightly Different from That Displayed in the Bill?
- Expenditure Quota
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Resource Packages
- Why Am I Getting Charged for My Pay-per-Use Products Even After I Purchased a Resource Package?
- How Will I Be Billed for Usage in Excess of a Resource Package I Purchased?
- Why Am I Still Getting Billed Even After Receiving an SMS Message Indicating That the Resource Package Has Been Used Up and the Service Has Stopped?
- Why Does My Resource Package Expire at 2019/09/01 00:00:00 When I Purchased it at 2019/08/26 18:00:00?
- If I Already Purchased a Resource Package, Why Am I Incurring New Charges?
- Why Did I Receive a Notification Indicating That I Have Exceeded the Resource Package Quota When I Actually Have Remaining Quota Left?
- How Will My Resource Packages with the Same Application Scenarios Be Used?
- Where Can I Buy Resource Packages?
- How Do I View the Usage of a Resource Package?
- What Are the Differences Between Resource Packages and Pay-per-Use Resources?
- Why Is the Remaining Resource Not Calculated in Real Time?
- When Does the Resource Package I Purchased Expire?
- When Will I Receive Resource Package Usage Alerts?
- How Will My Resource Packages Be Used To Pay for Cloud Services?
- Why Didn't the Individual Instance Usage Percentages of My Resource Package Add Up to 100%?
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Free Packages
- What Is a Free Package?
- How Do I Qualify For Free Packages?
- When Does a Free Package Expire?
- How Do I Use a Free Package?
- In What Data Centers Are Free Packages Available?
- Do I Need to Pay for a Free Package?
- Why Do I Have to Add a Payment Method to Use Free Packages?
- What Are the Differences Between Free Packages and My Packages in the Resource Center?
- How Do I Find Out How Much of My Free Package Quota I Have Used So Far or If I Already Exceeded It?
- Why Did I Receive a Bill When I Am Eligible for Free Packages?
- How Do I Provision Resources Included in a Free Package?
- Can I Continue to Use the Remaining Quota of a Free Package Next Month If It Has Not Been Used Up?
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Cash Coupons
- How Do I Use Cash Coupons?
- Can a Cash Coupon Be Combined with Commercial Discounts, Partner Authorized Discounts, and Promotional Discounts?
- Can I Use Multiple Cash Coupons at Once?
- What Are HUAWEI CLOUD Experience Cash Coupons?
- Can An Account Be in Arrears After a HUAWEI CLOUD Experience Cash Coupon Is Used Up?
- Will Resources Be Automatically Deleted After a HUAWEI CLOUD Experience Cash Coupon Is Used Up?
- What Usage Limits Are There for a HUAWEI CLOUD Experience Cash Coupon? How Do I Use a HUAWEI CLOUD Experience Cash Coupon?
- Why Can't I Use My Cash Coupon?
- Can I Request Invoices for the Amounts Paid Using Cash Coupons?
- Why Is My Resource Still Frozen After I Request a Cash Coupon for It?
- Why Was My Pay-per-Use Cash Coupon Not Used to Pay for My Pay-per-Use Product?
- How Do I View My Cash Coupon Usage Records?
- Can a Cash Coupon Be Used Multiple Times?
- How Can I Obtain and How to Use Test Coupon?
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Orders
- How Long Does It Take to Process an Approved Order?
- How Long Is the Validity Period of an Unpaid Order? Can I Extend the Period?
- How Do I View Completed Orders?
- How Do I Pay for My Order?
- How Do I Use Discounts and Coupons When Paying for an Order?
- How Is the Coupon Amount Split Among Orders?
- Can I Cancel an Order in the Pending Payment, Expired, or Processing State and How?
- Why Is My Order Automatically Canceled?
- Can I Resume a Canceled Order? Does the Order Disappear After Being Canceled?
- Can I Delete a Canceled Order?
- What Can I Do When an Order Fails to Be Submitted?
- What Should I Do If Some Resources in a Cloud Service Order Fail to Be Provisioned?
- What's New in Orders and Bills?
- What Changes Are Brought by the Combined Service and Combined Order?
- What Is a Combined Order?
- What Is a Combined Service?
- What's New in Export Templates?
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Renewals
- What Is the Difference Between a Top-Up and a Renewal?
- How Do I Renew an Instance?
- Where Can I View the Renewal Price?
- When Does a Resource Renewal Take Effect?
- Can I Change the Product Specifications in a Renewal?
- What Are the Renewal Period Options?
- How Long Is the Renewal Duration When I Renew a Resource for One Month?
- How Can I Renew My Resources in the Grace Period or Retention Period?
- Why Is the Duration of a Monthly Product Less Than or More Than One Month After I Renew It?
- What Can I Do If I Cannot Find the Resources to Be Renewed?
- Why Cannot I Renew a Resource? Which Resources Cannot Be Renewed?
- Can I Renew Expired, Frozen, and Released Resources?
- Why Is the Price for a Renewal Higher Than That for a New Purchase?
- Are There Any Discounts for Renewals?
- Is There a Discount for the Renewal of Resources Purchased During a Special Event?
- When Does an Automatic Renewal Take Place?
- How Do I Disable Auto-Renewal?
- Is a Cloud Service Product Automatically Renewed After It Expires?
- Will a Free Trial Product Be Automatically Renewed After the Trial Has Expired?
- Is a Resource Deleted After Expiration?
- When Do the Renewed Resources Take Effect If They Are Renewed Before Their Expiration?
- What Is the Validity Period Before Paying for a Renewal?
- How Do I Choose Between Renew and Buy Again?
- Can Frozen Resources Be Unsubscribed from, Released, or Deleted?
- Can Released Resources Be Renewed?
- How Can I Renew the Resources of an Enterprise Project?
- Does the Billing Mode Change Affect the Cloud Service Running?
- Does Changing the Specifications of a Product Affect Other Discounted Products?
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Unsubscriptions
- How Do I View the Refund for My Resource Unsubscription?
- Where Is the Money Returned After Unsubscriptions? When Will the Refund Arrive in My Account?
- When Will I Be Charged Handling Fees? How Is the Refund Calculated?
- Will Used Coupons Be Returned During My Resource Unsubscriptions?
- Can I Unsubscribe from a Yearly/Monthly Subscription?
- How Long Can My Unsubscription Request Get Approved?
- Which Cloud Services Cannot Be Unsubscribed From?
- Can I Unsubscribe from Pay-Per-Use Resources?
- Can I Unsubscribe from a Resource Package?
- Why Can't I Find Resources On the Unsubscriptions Page?
- Can a Resource Be Retrieved After Its Unsubscription?
- Will Unsubscribed Resources Be Automatically Stored in the Recycle Bin?
- Precautions When You Unsubscribe from Resources Over $1000 USD
- Can I Modify the Region Specified in an Order?
- How Do I Delete an EVS Disk?
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From Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use Immediately
You can change the billing mode of your resources from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use immediately. When the order for the change is complete, the pay-per-use billing will take effect immediately, and the remaining fees of the current period will be refunded.
Make sure you have a valid payment method configured before you change the billing mode. If your configured payment method is unable to pay for your bill, your account will be in arrears. Once you do not pay off the outstanding amount within the specified time, the resource will be frozen and cannot be used.
Important Notes
- Only resources in use can have their billing modes changed.
- The billing mode of the resources in the orders being processed cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- If your account is frozen for legal management, the billing mode of all your resources cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately. If one of your resources is frozen for legal management, the billing mode of the resource cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- The billing mode of resources in the grace period or retention period cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- The billing mode of products no longer available cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- Products participating in special reward activities cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately. They can be changed to pay-per-use upon expiration.
- The billing mode of yearly/monthly resources in trial use cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- The billing mode of solution portfolio products cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- The billing mode of resource packages cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
- The billing mode of the cloud services which do not support pay-per-use cannot be changed to pay-per-use immediately.
Note: Only some cloud services support such a billing mode change. For details, see the cloud service page.
Refund Rule
If you change the billing mode of resources from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use immediately, the remaining fees of the resources in the current period will be refunded. The rules are as follows:
- When unsubscribing from resource instances, you will be billed handling fees. If the instances are in use, the consumption amount will also be billed. The used coupons will not be returned.
- The formula for calculating the refund is for reference only. The actual amount depends on the bill and expenditure details.
- Actual refund amount = Actual payment – Consumption amount – Handling fee (If the calculated refund amount is less than 0, there will be no refund.)
- Actual payment refers to the amount you actually paid, excluding any payment in cash coupons.
- Consumption amount = Actual payment x (Actual usage period/Subscribed period) (The usage duration is accurate to hour.)
- Handling fee: There is a handling fee for the billing mode change. Table 1 shows the handling fee details.
Table 1 Handling fee Subscription Term
Actual Usage Duration ≤ 1 Year
1 Year < Actual Usage Duration ≤ 2 Years
2 Years < Actual Usage Duration ≤ 3 Years
3-year subscription
Handling fee = 15% of your actual payment
Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment
Handling fee = 5% of your actual payment
2-year subscription
Handling fee = 15% of your actual payment
Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment
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1-year subscription
Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment
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Monthly subscription
Handling fee = 10% of your actual payment
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The refund rules for changing the billing mode to pay-per-use are the same as those for unsubscriptions. For details, see Unsubscribing from In-Use Resources.
Procedure
Take an EIP as an example to describe how to change the billing mode from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use immediately.
- Log in to the management console. Choose Networking > Elastic IP.
- On the EIP list, select the target EIP. Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Immediately in the Operation column.
NOTE:
You can perform the following operations to change the billing mode of multiple yearly/monthly EIPs to pay-per-use immediately at a time:- Select the EIPs whose billing mode will be changed to pay-per-use.
- Choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Immediately in the Operation column.
- On the displayed page, confirm the resource information and click Yes.
- Confirm the refund and billing details. Then, click Change to Pay-per-Use.
- After the order is complete, the change takes effect.
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