Updated on 2023-09-18 GMT+08:00

Constraints

Scenarios and Restrictions

Table 1 and Table 2 describe the restrictions on using Enterprise Center for a master account as a resale, referral, or direct customer in unified accounting model and independent accounting model respectively.

Table 1 Restrictions on unified accounting model

Scenario

Resale Customer

Referral Customer

Direct Customer

Creating member accounts

Not supported.

Member accounts will be associated with their masters' partners by referral model.

Member accounts have the same legal entities as their master accounts.

Inviting member accounts

Not supported.

Master accounts can only invite their partners' referral customers.

Master accounts can only invite direct customers.

Inheriting commercial discounts

N/A

Member accounts inherit commercial discounts from their master accounts, excluding discounts by master accounts' partners.

Member accounts inherit commercial discounts from their master accounts.

Canceling associations between master and member accounts

N/A

Disassociating from member accounts does not affect the relationship between master accounts and their partners.

N/A

Paying bills

N/A

Master accounts pay bills for their member accounts.

Master accounts pay bills for their member accounts.

Generating bills

N/A

Master accounts are billed for their member accounts' expenditures.

Master accounts are billed for their member accounts' expenditures.

Invoicing

N/A

Master accounts request and own invoices based on their member accounts' expenditures.

Master accounts request and own invoices based on their member accounts' expenditures.

Table 2 Restrictions on independent accounting model

Scenario

Resale customer

Referral Customer

Direct Customer

Creating member accounts

Member accounts will be associated with their masters' partners by resale model.

Member accounts will be associated with their masters' partners by referral model.

Member accounts have the same legal entities as their master accounts.

Inviting a member account

Master accounts can only invite their partners' resale customers.

Master accounts can only invite referral or direct customers.

Master accounts can invite referral or direct customers.

Inheriting commercial discounts

Not supported.

Member accounts inherit commercial discounts from the master account, excluding discounts by master account's partner.

Member accounts inherit commercial discounts from their master accounts.

Member accounts inherit commercial discounts from their master accounts.

Disassociating from a member account does not affect the relationship between the master account and their partners.

Disassociating from a member account does not affect the relationship between the master account and their partners.

N/A

Generating bills

Master accounts and member accounts are billed independently.

Master accounts and member accounts are billed independently.

Master accounts and member accounts are billed independently.

Invoicing

Partners request invoices for master and member accounts.

Invoices are issued for master and member accounts respectively. Master accounts can also request invoices for member accounts.

Invoices are issued for master and member accounts respectively. Master accounts can also request invoices for member accounts.

Granting credits

Master accounts are not allowed to granting credits to member accounts. Partners grant credits to member accounts.

Master accounts can grant credits to member accounts that have same legal person as their master accounts and that haven't had credits granted.

Master accounts can grant credits to member accounts that have same legal person as their master accounts and that haven't had credits granted.

Paying bills

Partners pay bills to Huawei Cloud for their master and member accounts.

Master accounts pay bills for member accounts who have been granted with credits.

Master accounts pay bills for member accounts who have been granted with credits.

System Restrictions.

There is a limitation on how many organizations and enterprise project one can use for enterprise management. Table 1 lists the maximum allowed.

If the following quotas cannot meet your requirements, please contact your account manager.

Table 3 Quotas

Item

Quota

Description

Member account

10

Maximum number of enterprise member accounts that can be associated with an enterprise master account by default.

Organization level

5

The maximum organizational levels supported. For example, you can use a master account to create organization 1, organization 2, organization 3, organization 4, and organization 5.

Organization

100

Maximum number of organizations that can be created.

Enterprise project group level

1

Maximum number of project group levels that can be created, for example, Account\Project Group 1.

Enterprise project group

100

Maximum number of enterprise project groups that can be created.

Enterprise project

100

Maximum number of enterprise projects that can be created.

User groups in an enterprise project

10

Maximum number of user groups that can be associated with an enterprise project.

User group

10

Maximum number of user groups that can be created.

User

50

Maximum number of users that can be created.