Bills

Bill Generation

• Transaction records for yearly/monthly subscriptions are generated immediately after being paid for.
• The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval. A pay-per-use resource is billed by the hour, day, or month, depending on the resource's usage type. The CFW usage is billed by the hour.

  You are not charged immediately after a record is generated. For example, if a pay-per-use CFW (which is billed on an hourly basis) is deleted at 08:30, you will still have expenditures for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour. However, you will not likely be billed for the 08:00 to 09:00 hour until about 10:00.

  On the Billing Center > Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills > Transaction Bills page, Expenditure Time lists the usage duration of your pay-per-use resources.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
4. Click the icon shown in the figure below to copy the instance ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the resource ID
   

5. On the top menu bar, choose Billing > Bills. The Bills page is displayed.
6. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills > Bill Details. On the displayed page, select Resource ID as the filter condition, paste the resource ID copied before, and click to search for the bill of the resource.

   By default, bill details are displayed by usage and billing cycle. You can also select other statistical dimensions or periods.