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Updated on 2024-02-17 GMT+08:00
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Bills

You can view the resource usage and bills for different billing cycles on the Bills page in the Billing Center.

Bill Generation

Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after being paid for.

Pay-per-use resources are billed by the hour, day, or month, depending on their usage types. The vault usage is billed by the day. For details, see Bill Run for Pay-per-Use Resources.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

  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 , choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery, and select a backup type from the left navigation pane.

  2. Find the target vault and click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the vault ID.

    Figure 1 Copying the vault ID

  3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing > Bills.

    The Transactions and Detailed Bills page is displayed.

  4. On the Bill Details tab, select Resource ID as the filter criteria, enter the copied vault ID, and click the icon.

    Figure 2 Searching for a bill

    By default, the bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can choose other display options as required. For details, see Bills.

Checking the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Suppose a user purchased a 100-GB, pay-per-use server backup vault at 17:00:00 on April 8, 2023 and deleted it later on that day at 18:20:00.

  • Transaction Records

Pay-per-use vault usage is calculated by the hour but billed every day.

Table 1 Server backup vault transaction records

Service Type

Server backup vault

Resource Type

CBR

Billing Mode

Pay-per-use

Expenditure Time

For the period from 17:00:00 to 18:20:00, one transaction record would be generated for the vault usage in the following period:

April 8, 2023 17:00:00 to April 8, 2023 19:00:00

List Price

List price on the official website = Usage period x Unit price x Capacity

In this example, the vault price would be $0.056 USD (2 hours x $0.00028 USD/GB-hour x 100 GB)

Discounted Amount

Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.

Truncated Amount

Huawei Cloud billing is calculated to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place. The third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amounts.

Amount Due

Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount

In this example, if the discount amount is 0, the amount due is $0.05 USD (0.056 – 0 – 0.006).
  • Server backup vault bill details

    Bill details can be displayed in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. The following table illustrates the vault bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

    Table 2 Server backup vault bill details

    Service Type

    Server backup vault

    Resource Type

    CBR

    Billing Mode

    Pay-per-use

    Resource Name/ID

    Name and ID of the server backup vault

    vault-3537 and bb6bc912-7a3a-4888-822d-df99a8539bb5 in this example

    Specifications

    Capacity of the server backup vault

    100 GB in this example

    Usage Type

    Duration for pay-per-use server backup vaults

    Unit Price

    You can search for the unit price for pay-per-use vaults on the Product Pricing Details page.

    Unit

    You can query the unit price on the Product Pricing Details page.

    USD/GB-hour in this example

    Usage

    Depends on the unit of the unit price, which, for a server backup vault, is USD/GB-hour. Vault usage is calculated by the hour.

    2 hours in this example

    Usage Unit

    Hour

    List Price

    List price on the official website = Usage period x Unit price x Vault capacity

    The vault was used for 2 hours in total, and the unit price can be obtained on the Product Pricing Details page. In a region that charges $0.00028 USD/GB-hour, the user would be billed $0.056 USD (2 x 0.00028 x 100).

    Discounted Amount

    Discounts offered for CBR, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. It is the discounted amount based on the list price.

    Amount Due

    Amount that should be paid for used CBR resources after discounts are applied.