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Changing the Billing Mode from Pay-per-Use to Yearly/Monthly

SecMaster supports the yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes. The basic and standard editions support only the yearly/monthly billing mode. The professional edition supports the yearly/monthly and pay-per-use billing modes. You can purchase a SecMaster edition that best fits your workloads.
  • Pay-per-use: a postpaid billing mode. In this mode, your SecMaster is billed by usage duration, and you can enable or disable the SecMaster service at any time.
  • Yearly/Monthly: a prepaid billing mode. In this mode, your SecMaster is billed based on the required duration you specify in the order. This mode is more cost-effective than the pay-per-use mode and applicable when your resource usage period is predictable.

If you plan to use SecMaster for a long time, you can change the billing mode for your professional SecMaster to yearly/monthly to save money.

Prerequisites

You have purchased the pay-per-use SecMaster professional edition.

Limitations and Constraints

  • Only SecMaster professional edition supports changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.
  • SecMaster value-added packages do not support changing the billing mode from pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > SecMaster.
  3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Purchased Resources.
  4. On the page displayed, click Change Billing Mode on the right of the pay-per-use SecMaster professional edition you have purchased.
  5. Confirm the resource information and click OK. The Change Subscription page is displayed.
  6. Confirm the resource information and select a required duration.
  7. Click Pay and pay the order

Related Operations

  • On the Billing Center > Orders page, choose My Orders in the navigation pane to view the order status and basic order information.