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Billing methods change

Changing billing method from Subscription to Pay-as-you-go

This topic describes how to change your Subscription instances to Pay-as-you-go instances. This way, you can flexibly manage your cloud resources.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, ensure that your Subscription instance meets the following requirements:

The instance is in the Running or Stopped status.

Your Subscription instance has not expired. How do I view expiration time?

Considerations

You cannot change the billing method of an instance from Subscription to Pay-as-you-go if the instance uses a Red Hat or SUSE public image provided by Volcano Engine.

If the account has no arrears, please refer to Account description and make sure that the total of the account balance and coupons ≥ 100 RMB. Otherwise, the change will fail.

After you change the Subscription instance to a Pay-as-you-go instance, charges will be deducted based on Pay-as-you-go rules. Please ensure sufficient account balance to avoid service interruption due to arrears. If you no longer need the instance, back up your data and then release the instance on the console.

If you have any orders that have not taken effect for the instance, a full refund will be made. However, for orders that have taken effect, only a partial refund will be provided.

When you change the billing method of an instance, the billing method for its associated resources is also changed. Note that the billing method for mounted resources needs to be changed separately. For example, for the associated Subscription EBS volume and the image used by the instance, their billing method will be changed accordingly. For Subscription Elastic IP (EIP) attached to the instance, the billing method remains unchanged.

You can select up to 20 instances for batch changing at a time.

Refund instructions

After you change the billing method from Subscription to Pay-as-you-go, the platform will deduct the amount used and refund the remaining actual payment amount (the portion paid by the user in cash, excluding the amount deducted with coupons) to your account balance. Note that used coupons can not be refunded. For detailed rules on the calculation of refund amounts, please refer to Instructions on changing resource billing rules.

Procedure

In the left-side navigation pane, select "Instances & Images > Instances".

In the top menu bar, select the region and project where the target instance resides.

On the Instances page, change the billing method based on your needs.

Change for a single instance: Find the Subscription instance for which you want to change the billing method. Click the ellipsis (···) icon in the Actions column, and select "Resource allocation > Switch to pay-as-you-go".

Change for multiple instances: Select one or more target instances, click the ellipsis icon, and select "Switch to pay-as-you-go" at the top.

tip

You can select up to 20 instances for batch changing at a time.

Note that if you select instances with different billing methods, you can not change from Subscription to pay-as-you-go.

On the billing method change page, review the instance information. Follow the console instructions to review and confirm the legal agreements.

tip

During batch changing, if you want to cancel the change action for an instance, click "Remove" next to the target instance on the page.

Click "Confirm order" to complete the payment and change the billing method.

Operation results

Success: On the "Order management" page, an order with the Change config type is generated. The order will be in the "Refunding" state, and the remaining unconsumed Subscription duration will be refunded based on the actual payment. Then, the refund process is completed.

Failure: On the "Order management" page, an order with the Change config type and a "Refund failed" status is generated.