Setting One-Time Budgets for Customers

Procedure

1. Use your account to log in to Huawei Cloud.
2. In the drop-down list of your account name, click Partner Center.
3. In the top navigation, select Sales > Customers > Customer Management.
4. Select a customer in the Customer/Account Name column and click Set Budget in the Operation column. On the displayed Set Budget page, set Budget Type to One-Time Budget.
   • Automatic account freezing

   

   • Manual account freezing

   

   

   • You can select multiple customers and click Set Budget above the customer list to achieve batch budget setting. The new budget setting will replace the earlier budget setting.
   • When you set one-time budgets for customers, you also need to set Account freezing upon one-time budget exhaustion to Automatic or Manual. Automatic indicates that the system automatically freezes an account upon budget exhaustion. For details about how to manually freeze an account, see Freezing Customer Accounts and Resources.
   • The spending for a one-time budget begins accumulating from the month of successful configuration, and the data may be delayed by about 10 minutes.
   • If a customer account is frozen, the customer cannot purchase resources. If you want to unfreeze the account, select Unfreeze Now and click OK.
   • To view the one-time budget adjustment record, click Adjustment Records on the displayed Set Budget page.
   • A distributor can grant or withdraw budget setting permissions to its resellers. For details, see Setting Account Freezing and Budget Setting Permissions for Resellers
   • Your customers are separated into the Customers and the Resellers' Customers tabs. To set a monthly budget for a customer, go to the corresponding tab.
   • Click the eye icon next to a header to show or hide the complete content in the column. For example, you can click the eye icon next to Customer/Account Name to show or hide the complete content of customer names.

5. Enter a one-time budget value and click OK.
   

   When a customer is associated with a partner in reseller model, the customer account is frozen by default and they cannot purchase, renew the subscription to, change, or properly use the resources. The partner can select Unfreeze Account when setting the one-time budget for the customer to unfreeze the account.

   A message is displayed indicating one-time budget setting success.

   

   If partners have enabled the verification code function, a verification code will be required to verify the identity.

6. Click OK.