Updated on 2024-04-28 GMT+08:00

Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

If you have a pay-per-use vault that you expect to use for a long time, you can change it to yearly/monthly billing to reduce costs. Doing so will create an order. After you pay for the order, yearly/monthly billing will be applied immediately.

Suppose a user bought a pay-per-use server backup vault at 15:29:16 on April 18, 2023 and changed it to yearly/monthly billing at 16:30:30 on the same day. After the user paid for the order, yearly/monthly billing was applied immediately. On the Billing & Costs > Bills page, two line items were generated, one for each of the hours the vault was used on a pay-per-use basis, and one for the yearly/monthly subscription:

  • Pay-per-use expenditures for April 18, 2023, 15:00:00 to April 18, 2023, 17:00:00
  • Yearly/Monthly expenditure for April 18, 2023, 16:30:30 to May 18, 2023, 23:59:59

Prerequisites

The vault billing mode is pay-per-use.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the CBR console.

    1. Log in to the management console.
    2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
    3. Click and choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery. Select a backup type from the left navigation pane.

  1. Find the target vault and choose More > Change Billing Mode in the Operation column.
  2. Select the required duration for the vault, confirm information, and click Pay.
  3. Return to the vault list. You can see that the vault's Billing Mode has changed to Yearly/Monthly.