Reseller Model

Developing Customers

If a cloud solution provider associates customers in the reseller model, the cloud solution provider can provide the customers with products and services based on Huawei Cloud. For details about how cloud solution providers develop customers, see Customer Development.

Controlling the Budget

Cloud solution providers can set a monthly budget for their reseller customers. In this way, they can manage customer's monthly expenditures to reasonably set a budget.

The budget is calculated based on the prices listed on the official Huawei Cloud website. The budget will restore in the next month. Cloud solution providers can view their customers' monthly budget usage down the customer details page.

If the expenditure of a customer exceeds a certain percentage of its monthly budget, the cloud solution provider will receive an alert notification. The partner can adjust customer's monthly budget or freeze the customer account. After the account is frozen, the customer cannot buy, renew, or change resources, and provisioned resources may become unavailable, but still incur fees.

If a customer's expenditure exceeds the budget, Huawei Cloud will restrict customer's purchase of yearly/monthly and reserved instances, but not the provisioning of pay-per-use resources. To restrict the provisioning of pay-per-use resources, cloud solution providers need to freeze customer's account. For details, see Freezing a Customer Account.

• After a customer associates with a partner, the customer account is frozen by default. The customer cannot purchase products or services until the partner unfreezes the customer account and sets a monthly budget for the customer.
• Operations, such as setting monthly budgets and freezing or unfreezing accounts for customers associated with cloud solution providers of Huawei Cloud Partner Service Provider, are performed by Huawei Cloud Partner Service Provider.

Purchasing Huawei Cloud Products

The expenditure and related statistics displayed on the Billing Center page for a cloud solution provider's customer are calculated based on the prices listed on the official Huawei Cloud website. These statistics are used as a reference for cloud service resource usage. The actual amount to be paid does not equal to the provided amount. The cloud solution provider generates the customer bill based on the customer's actual expenditure and settles with the customer.

Querying Customer Expenditures

After customers purchase Huawei Cloud products and services, their partners can query the customers' expenditures in the partner center.

For details, see Viewing a Customer's Orders and Viewing Customer Expenditures.

Customers expenditure summary is not the partner bill and cannot be used as the basis for partners' settlement, payment, or billing.

• The expenditure summary data has a latency. The actual expenditure data is subject to the expenditure details.
• The expenditure summary and details are collected based on Beijing time (GMT+08:00).
• The expenditure summary and details do not include the tax.

Partner Bills

Before 12:00 on the fifth day of each month (Beijing time), Huawei Cloud generates partner bills, bill details, and invoices of the last month. Partners settle the bills with Huawei Cloud.

For details about partner bill fields, see Partner Bill Description. For details about how partners pay bills, see Repayment.

• Only after a reseller customer is associated with a partner, its expenditures can be rolled into the partner's bill.

The monthly bill details of a cloud solution provider contain the expenditure details of each customer. The partner can rate its customers based on the bill details, generate the bills for the reseller customers, settle with the reseller customers, and generate the invoices for the reseller customers.

The settlement rules between the cloud solution provider and its reseller customers are defined by the cloud solution provider.

Revenues and Incentives

Huawei Cloud calculates the revenues of a cloud solution provider based on the incentive policy and distributes incentives to the cloud solution provider accordingly. For details about the partner revenue and incentive policies, consult the ecosystem manager of the region.

For details about how a cloud solution provider applies for its incentives, see Applying to Issue Incentive Earnings.