Yearly/Monthly to Pay-per-Use

Constraints

• Changing from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use is supported only after you have passed real-name authentication.
• On the Renewals page, only orders in the Provisioned status can be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
• A maximum of 100 resources can be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use at a time, including instant to pay-per-use and expiration to pay-per-use scenarios.
• The billing modes of products in a solution portfolio cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.
• Invoiced resources cannot be changed from yearly/monthly to pay-per-use.

Prerequisite

You can change the resource usage to pay-per-use on the HSS console or the Renewals page in the Billing Center.

Change to Pay-per-Use Immediately

1. Log in to the HSS console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region or project.
3. Go to a quota page as required.

   Server protection is available in professional, premium, and WTP editions. Container protection is available in the container edition.

   • To go to the server protection quota page,
     1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Servers & Quota.
     2. Click the Quotas tab.
   • To go to the container protection quota page,
     1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Containers & Quota.
     2. On the Containers & Quota page, click the Protection Quotas tab.

4. Locate the row that contains the target quota, choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use Now in the Operation column.
5. Click OK. The Change to Pay-per-Use page is displayed.
6. Confirm the refund information and click Change to Pay-Per-Use.
7. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the resources again and click OK.

Changing to Pay-per-Use (HSS Console)

1. Log in to the HSS console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region or project.
3. Go to a quota page as required.

   Server protection is available in professional, premium, and WTP editions. Container protection is available in the container edition.

   • To go to the server protection quota page,
     1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Servers & Quota.
     2. Click the Quotas tab.
   • To go to the container protection quota page,
     1. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Asset Management > Containers & Quota.
     2. On the Containers & Quota page, click the Protection Quotas tab.

4. Locate the row that contains the target quota, choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column.
5. Click OK. The Change to Pay-per-Use page is displayed.
6. Confirm the resources and click Change to Pay-per-Use.

Change to Pay-per-Use (Billing Center)

1. Log in to the management console.
2. In the upper right corner of the page, choose Billing & Costs > Renewal. The Renewal page is displayed.
3. Customize search criteria.
   • Under the Pay-per-Use After Expiration tab, you can view the resources whose billing mode will change to pay-per-use upon expiration.
   • For resources on the Manual Renewals, Auto Renewals, and Renewals Canceled pages, you can set the billing mode to change to pay-per-use upon expiration.

4. Set the billing mode to change to pay-per-use after the yearly/monthly subscription expires.
   • Single resource: Select a professional, premium, container, or WTP edition quota, and choose More > Change to Pay-per-Use in the Operation column.
   • Multiple resources: Select a professional, premium, container, or WTP edition quota, and click Change to Pay-per-Use After Expiration above the list.

5. Confirm the subscription change details, and click Change to Pay-per-Use.