Bills

Bill Generation

After yearly/monthly resources are paid, a bill is reported to the billing system for settlement.

The usage of pay-per-use resources is reported to the billing system at a fixed interval. Pay-per-use IoTDA resources are settled by day.

You are not billed immediately after a record is generated. On the Billing Center > Billing > Transactions and Detailed Bills > Transaction Bills page, Expenditure Time indicates the time when a pay-per-use product is used.

Viewing Bills of a Specific Resource

Example 1: Use the resource ID to search for the bill. The resource ID is the same as that in the bill.

1. Log in to the console, choose IoT > IoTDA Device Access in the navigation pane. Go to the IoTDA instance list page and go to the details page of the target instance.
2. Copy the resource ID as shown in the figure.
   Figure 1 IoTDA instance - Obtaining the resource ID
   

3. On the top menu bar, choose Billing > Bills. The Bills page is displayed.
4. Choose Transactions and Detailed Bills > Bill Details. On the displayed page, select Resource ID as the filter condition, paste the resource ID copied in 2, and search for the bill of the resource.
   Figure 2 Querying resource bills
   

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

Check the Consistency of the Actual Usage and Billed Usage

Assume that you purchased two IoTDA SU1 units at 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023, and delete the them at 10:09:06 on April 10, 2023.

• IoTDA transaction bills

  Pay-per-use IoTDA instances are billed by day and settled at 00:00 (UTC+08:00) every day. You can check the transaction records against the actual information. For details, see Table 1.

  Table 1 IoTDA transaction bills

  Service	IoTDA
  Product	IoTDA standard instance
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use billing
  Expenditure Time	From 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023 to 10:09:06 on April 10, 2023, 3 transaction bills were generated: April 8, 2023, 10:09:06 to April 9, 2023, 00:00:00 April 9, 2023, 00:00:00 to April 10, 2023, 00:00:00 April 10, 2023, 00:00:00 to April 10, 2023, 10:09:00
  List Price	List price = Usage x Unit price In this example, you use IoTDA for 36,546 seconds in the first billing cycle. You can query the unit price on the IoTDA Pricing Details page. For example, if the daily price is USD0.81 for a SU1 unit and the number of units is 2, the list price is USD0.6852375. Calculation: (36,546/86,400) × 2 × 0.81 = USD0.6852375.
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
  Truncated Amount	Huawei Cloud bills a resource with the price (USD) accurate to the 8th decimal place. However, the amount due is truncated to the 2nd decimal place, while the third and later decimal places are referred to as the truncated amount. Taking the first billing cycle as an example, the truncated amount is USD0.0052375.
  Amount Due	Amount due = List price – Discount amount – Truncated amount Take the first billing cycle as an example. If the discount amount is 0, the amount due is USD0.68 (0.6852375 – 0 – 0.0052375).

• IoTDA bill details

  Bill details can display in multiple ways. By default, the bill details of a resource are displayed by usage and by billing cycle. Table 2 illustrates the IoTDA bill details, which can be used to check against the actual usage.

  Table 2 IoTDA bill details

  Service	IoTDA
  Product	IoTDA standard instance
  Billing Mode	Pay-per-use billing
  Resource Name/ID	Name and ID of an IoTDA instance. Example: iotda-test-instance, 4cdeb1cd-7071-4890-9ce4-e6c2299e960e
  Specifications	Example: IoTDA standard instance | Small package SU1
  Usage type	Duration
  Unit Price	In the pay-per-use billing mode, the unit price is provided only when the amount is equal to the usage multiplied by the unit price. No unit price is provided in other pricing modes, for example, tiered pricing. For details about the unit price of pay-per-use IoTDA instances, see IoTDA Pricing Details.
  Price Unit	Unit price in IoTDA Pricing Details: USD/day.
  Usage	The usage is displayed by the unit price, which is USD/day for IoTDA. The usage is measured by day. In this example, the usage duration from 10:09:06 on April 8, 2023 to 10:09:06 on April 10, 2023 is two days, and the number of units is 2. Therefore, the total usage is 4 (2 x 2).
  Usage Unit	day
  List Price	List price = Usage x Unit price In this example, the usage is 2 days, and the unit price can be queried in IoTDA Price Details. For example, if the price is USD0.81 per unit per day and the number of units is 2, the list price is USD3.24 (0.81 × 2 × 2).
  Discounted Amount	Discounts offered for cloud services, for example, commercial discounts, partner authorized discounts, and promotional discounts. Discounts are based on the list prices.
  Amount Due	Amount that should be paid for used cloud services after discounts are applied.