Yearly/Monthly

If you expect to use resources for a longer period, you can save money by selecting yearly/monthly billing. This section describes the billing rules for yearly/monthly KooPhone resources.

Application Scenarios

If you want to ensure resource stability over a certain period, yearly/monthly billing is a good choice for the following types of workloads:

Running for a long time with constant resources: For example, remote collaboration of enterprise customer service and daily office.
Long-term: For example, government projects and cloud game planning. Yearly/Monthly billing ensures stable resource supply throughout the project.
Predictable service peaks: For example, promotions and festivals. Resource insufficiency can be avoided by purchasing resources in advance for peak demands.
High data security: Yearly/Monthly billing ensures continuous resource usage to prevent data security risks caused by an account in arrears.

Billing Items

KooPhone is billed on the instance specifications, number of instances, and subscription duration. You are billed for the following items on a yearly/monthly basis.

**Table 1** Billing items
Billing Item	Description
Cloud phone type	Professional cloud phones are available.
Cloud phone specification	The price varies depending on the instance specifications. A professional instance is cheaper than an enterprise instance with the same specifications.
Number of instances	The fee increases linearly with the number of purchased instances.
Subscription duration	The fee increases linearly with the subscription duration. For example, the fee of a two-month subscription is twice that of a one-month subscription.

Billing Cycle

A yearly/monthly KooPhone resource is billed by the subscription duration. The billing starts when you activated or renewed the subscription, and ends at 23:59:59 on the expiration date.

For example, if you purchased a cloud phone for two months at 15:50:04 on Feb 08, 2023, the billing cycle was from Feb 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59.

Billing Example

You purchased a yearly/monthly cloud phone (professional, 2 vCPUs, 4 GB memory, and 16 GB storage) for one month at 15:50:04 on Feb 08, 2023, and you manually renewed it for another month before it expired. You were billed for:

First billing cycle from Feb 08, 2023, 15:50:04 to Mar 08, 2023, 23:59:59
Second billing cycle from Mar 09, 2023, 00:00:00 to Apr 08, 2023, 23:59:59

You need to pay for each billing cycle in advance. The billing formula is as follows: Unit price of instance specifications x Subscription duration x Number of purchased resources.

Impact of Expiration

Figure 1 shows the statuses a yearly/monthly KooPhone resource can go through throughout its lifecycle. After a resource is purchased, it enters a valid period and runs normally during this period. If the resource is not renewed after it expires, it first enters a grace period and then a retention period.

Figure 1 Lifecycle of a yearly/monthly KooPhone resource

Expiration Alert

The system will send expiration alert messages to the Huawei Cloud account creator by email, SMS, and internal message seven days before a yearly/monthly KooPhone resource expires.

Impact of Expiration

If your yearly/monthly KooPhone resource is not renewed after expiration, it enters a grace period and its status becomes Expired. You can still view the resource during this period.

If the resource is not renewed after the grace period ends, it enters a retention period and its status becomes Frozen. You cannot perform any operations on the resource while it is in the retention period.

If you still do not renew the resource or bring your account balance current before the retention period ends, your data stored in the resource will be deleted and cannot be restored, and the resource will be released.