Billing Termination

Yearly/Monthly Resources

When you purchase a yearly/monthly resource, such as a yearly/monthly GeminiDB Cassandra instance, you make a one-time up-front payment. By default, the billing automatically stops when the purchased subscription expires.

• If a yearly/monthly resource is no longer needed before the subscription expires, you can unsubscribe from the resource. The system will return a certain amount of money to your account based on whether the resource is subject to five-day unconditional unsubscription or whether cash coupons or discount coupons are used. 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 pay-per-use resources, such as pay-per-use GeminiDB Cassandra instances, are no longer required, delete them in a timely manner.

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.

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

1. Log in to the management console. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Bills page is displayed.

2. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills > Bill Details, and 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 Databases > GeminiDB Cassandra API.
4. Select the region where the resource is located, select Instance ID and enter the resource ID copied in 2, and click the icon to search for the resource.
   Figure 2 Searching for resources
   

5. Locate the instance you want to delete and click More > Delete in the Operation column. Ensure that the resource is not found 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 delete an instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.

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

1. Log in to the management console. On the top menu bar, choose Billing & Costs > Bills.

   The Bills page is displayed.

2. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills > Bill Details, and click the icon shown in the following figure to copy the resource name.
   Figure 3 Copying the resource name
   

3. Log in to the management console and choose Databases > GeminiDB Cassandra API.
4. Enter the instance name copied in 2 in the search box and click .
   Figure 4 Searching for resources
   

5. Locate the instance you want to delete and click More > Delete in the Operation column. Ensure that the resource is not found 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 delete an instance (which is billed on an hourly basis) at 08:30, the expenditures for that hour from 08:00 to 09:00 are usually not billed until about 10:00.