Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly EIP, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the purchased subscription expires.

• If you no longer need a resource, but the subscription has not yet expired, you can unsubscribe from it. Depending on what coupons were used for the purchase, Huawei Cloud may issue you a refund. For details about unsubscription rules, see Unsubscriptions.
• If you have enabled auto-renewal but no longer wish to automatically renew the subscription, disable it before the auto-renewal date (7 days before the expiration date by default) to avoid unexpected expenditures.

Pay-per-Use Resources

If a pay-per-use EIP is no longer required, release it in a timely manner because the EIP bandwidth is still billed even if the ECS with the EIP bound is stopped.

Searching for Resources from Bills and Stopping Billing

To ensure that all related resources are deleted, you can search the billing records by resource ID, and then delete the resources you identify in this way.

[Example 1: Use the resource ID in the bill to search for the resource.]

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

   The Dashboard page is displayed.

2. On the Expenditure Details page of the Billing Center, click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource ID.
   Figure 1 Copying the resource ID
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic IP.

   The EIP list page is displayed.

4. Select the region where the resource is located, choose ID from the drop-down list and enter the copied resource ID. Click the icon to search for the resource.
5. Click More > Release in the Operation column to release the EIP. Ensure that the EIP does not exist in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use resource is deleted. For example, if you release an EIP (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.

[Example 2: Use the resource name in the bill to search for the resource.]

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

   The Bills page is displayed.

2. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills, click the Bill Details tab, and then click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource name.
   Figure 2 Copying the resource name
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Networking > Elastic IP.

   The EIP list page is displayed.

4. Select the region where the resource is located, and enter the resource name in the search box, click .
5. Click More > Release in the Operation column to release the EIP. Ensure that the EIP does not exist in the list.
   

   You are billed one hour after the resource usage is calculated, so a bill may still be generated after the pay-per-use resource is deleted. For example, if you release an EIP (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for the hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.