Restricting Purchases

As a distributor, if you need to prohibit customers of your managed resellers from purchasing, renewing, and changing resources, go to Partner Center and click Restrict Purchase in the Operation column for corresponding customer accounts.

After a customer is associated with a partner in the Reseller model, the customer account is restricted from purchases by default.

If you grant your resellers the permission to restrict purchases for their customers, you will no longer be able to restrict purchases for the customers.

Impacts

If a customer account is restricted from purchases, the customer cannot purchase yearly/monthly or pay-per-use resources. Prepaid resources, such as yearly/monthly resources, that have already been purchased can still be used; pay-per-use resources that have already been purchased can be used, but they still incur fees.

**Table 1** Impacts on customers associated in the Reseller model
Resource Type	Supported Operation	Operation Not Supported
Yearly/monthly	Unsubscribing from resources Modifying resource names	Purchasing resources Modifying specifications Renewing resources Changing billing mode to pay-per-use Other operations on resources Deleting resources
Pay-per-use (pay-per-use and spot instances)	Modifying resource names Viewing resource information	Purchasing resources Modifying specifications Changing billing mode to yearly/monthly Other operations on resources Deleting resources

Procedure

Sign in to Huawei Cloud as a partner.
In the drop-down list of your account name, click Partner Center to go to the Partner Center.
In the top navigation bar, choose Sales > Customers > Customer Management. On the displayed page, select the Resellers' Customers tab.
In the customer list, select a customer and click Restrict Purchase in the Operation column.
In the displayed dialog box, specify the reason and click OK. The system displays a message indicating that the operation is successful.
- If you have enabled the verification code function, a verification code will be required.

Other Operations

If a customer is restricted from purchases, to avoid incurring additional charges or freeze their resources, you can click Restrict Purchase and Freeze Resources in the Operation column. For details, see Restricting Purchases and Freezing Resources.
Once a customer is restricted from purchases, you can choose to click Unrestrict Purchase in the Operation column if needed. For details, see Unrestricting Purchases.