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Reconciliation Guidance

Downloading Bills

Summary Bill

  • Description: You can view your expenditure summary by month. The summary bill is presented by product type, resource type, and billing mode (for example, pay-per-use and yearly/monthly). It includes data such as expenditures and refunds.
  • Download: On the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Overview page, click Export, select Summary bill and Excel, and then click OK.

Transaction Bill

  • Description: You can view your transaction bill details by month.
  • Download: On the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Overview page, click Export, select Transaction Bills, and then click OK.

Accuracy of Fee Deduction

HUAWEI CLOUD bills a pay-per-use product with the fee accurate to the 8th decimal place (for example, $10.12501236 USD).

The total amount in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place. For example, $100.13 USD is displayed in the monthly bill instead of $100.12501236 USD.

Accumulated Amount in Bills

Prior to April 2020, pay-per-use products are settled by hour, day, or month. The settlement amount is accurate to the 2nd decimal place, while the third and later decimal places are directly truncated.

From April 2020 to May 2021, the bills for customers using monthly settlement are displayed in the following manner:

  • For pay-per-use products and spot instance products, bills are summarized by specifications and usage type. The accumulated amount at the end of a month is truncated.
  • For yearly/monthly subscriptions and reserved instance products, bills are summarized by order.

From June 2021, the amounts before bill generation are no longer truncated. Only the total amount shown in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.

  • On the Billing > Bills > Overview page of the Billing Center, the total amount in a monthly bill is slightly higher because the amounts are no longer truncated to the 2nd decimal place.
  • On the Billing > Bills > Overview page of the Billing Center, the amounts shown in Details By Account are rounded off. Therefore, there may be some discrepancies with the amounts shown in the monthly bill. To view the exact amounts (accurate to the 8th decimal place), customers can export the monthly bill in XLSX or CSV format.
  • The amounts displayed in the bill files that are subscribed to on the Billing > Data Storage page of the Billing Center are accurate to the 8th decimal place.
  • During bill generation, cash coupons are applied and the amounts are kept accurate to the 8th decimal place.

Reconciliation Guidance

To check your expenditures on HUAWEI CLOUD, refer to the following steps.

  • Generally, the expenditure data of a month is summarized and the relevant bill is generated on the third day of the next month. In order to acquire complete bill data of a month, please perform the checking after the third day of the next month.
  • Since the summary data of a month is always delayed, you are not advised to reconcile the expenditure data of the current month.
  1. Compare the total expenditure by cash and the actual total payment amount.

    You can view the total cash expenditure (including the monthly settlement amount) in the monthly bill and the total payment amount on the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Overview page.

    Order unsubscription fees are not included.

    Both the total expenditure amount and total payment amount do not include fees paid using cash coupons.

    Figure 1 Total
    • Real-time settlement fees: Fees paid in cash, for example, through an online payment. The fees may be paid for purchases, renewals, or specification upgrades of yearly/monthly resources, or purchases of reserved instances.
    • Monthly settlement: Fees settled at the end of a month, such as the yearly/monthly or pay-per-use expenditure amount that is settled at the end of a month.

  2. Compare the total cash expenditure in the monthly bill and the total cash expenditure in the transaction bill.

    The total amount in a monthly bill may differ from that in a transaction bill due to the precision difference

    • The total amount in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.
    • The total amount in the transaction bill is accurate to the 8th decimal place.
    • You can view the total amount (including the monthly settlement amount) in the monthly bill on the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Overview page.
      Figure 2 Summarized total monthly expenditure by cash
    • You can export the transaction bill on the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Overview page and view the total expenditure by cash in the transaction bill (the sum of cash payments and monthly settlement).

      The bill types include:

      • Expenditure-purchase: fees of yearly/monthly subscriptions
      • Expenditure-renewal: fees of yearly/monthly subscriptions that you manually renew
      • Expenditure-change: fees for changing the specifications of yearly/monthly subscriptions
      • Expenditure-use: fees of pay-per-use products
      • Expenditure-auto-renewal: fees of yearly/monthly subscriptions that are automatically renewed
      • Expenditure-hourly billing: fees of hourly-billed reserved instances
      • Expenditure-unsubscription service charge: handling fees charged for reserved instance unsubscriptions
      • Expenditure-month-end deduction for support plan: fees charged for the support plan at the end of a month
      • Expenditure-tax: tax for yearly/monthly and pay-per-use products
      • Adjustment-compensation: fees compensated by HUAWEI CLOUD
      • Adjustment-compensation tax: tax for HUAWEI CLOUD compensations
      • Adjustment-deduction: fees paid when Huawei Cloud makes an account adjustment. For example, when Huawei Cloud adjusts a specification downgrade order, the original refund amount is paid first.
      • Adjustment-deduction tax: tax for HUAWEI CLOUD account adjustments
      • Refund - unsubscription: fees of yearly/monthly products that are unsubscribed from
      • Refund-change: fees of a yearly/monthly subscription for which the specification is downgraded
      • Refund-tax: tax refunded when a yearly/monthly subscription is unsubscribed from
      • Expenditure-difference amount: fees that HCDP customers need to pay if their expenditures do not reach the guaranteed minimum payment amount. Difference amount = Guaranteed minimum payment amount – Expenditure amount

  3. (Optional) You can also compare the total cash expenditure in the monthly bill and the total payment in the bill filtered by a combination of Resource and By billing cycle, the total cash expenditure in the monthly bill and the total payment in the bill filtered by a combination of Usage Type and Details.

    Due to the different precision methods used for amounts in the above three types of bills, you may find deviations during the two comparisons.

    • The total amount in the monthly bill is rounded off to the 2nd decimal place.
    • The exact amounts (accurate to the 8th decimal place) are included in bill details filtered by a combination of Resource and By billing cycle and those filtered by a combination of Usage Type and Details.
    • Bill details filtered by a combination of Resource and By billing cycle: On the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Bill Details page, select Resource for Data Type and By billing cycle for Data Period, and then click Export.
    • Bill details filtered by a combination of Usage Type and Details: On the Billing Center > Billing > Bills > Bill Details page, select Usage Type for Data Type and Details for Data Period, and then click Export.