Transactions

A running bill records the detailed information of cloud account expenses. A running bill details the length of time a user has used a resource through the cloud account in a single day and the costs incurred, the maximum length of a running bill is 1 day.

Entry: In the cloud management platform click on the top left corner of navigation menu, and click “Cost/Bills/Transactions” menu item in the left menu bar that pops up to enter the transactions page.

View Transactions

This function is used to view the transactions and supports exporting the corresponding transactions by filtering criteria.

1. In the Instance Bill list, the recent month’s transactions are displayed by default, with support for clicking on the top icon to view transactions for this month, last month, this quarter, last quarter, this year, or a custom time.
2. When only one currency of bills exists in the platform, the drop-down list will not be displayed by default. When there are bills in multiple currencies at the same time, a drop-down list will appear in the upper right corner to switch the bills in the corresponding currencies, currently supporting RMB bills, USD bills and BRL bills.
   • When the “Multi-currency bill Combined” is enabled in the global configuration, all bills will be displayed in a certain currency through the exchange rate conversion instead of directly displaying the bills in a specific currency.
   • When the “Origin Bill” is enabled in the global configuration, in the domain view and project view, there will be a drop-down option to display the original bill in the corresponding currency.
3. Support tag search for transactions, when multiple tags are selected, i.e. filter out transactions with multiple tags at the same time.
4. View the following information:
   • Bill ID: A bill ID indicates a flowing bill record. A flowing bill is mainly the information about the length of time a resource has been used and the amount payable for a certain day in the project.
   • Cloud account/platform/region: It indicates the cloud account, platform and region to which the resource belongs.
   • Project/Resource Type/Resource Name/ID: The project to which the resource belongs, the type of the resource, and the resource name and ID information.
   • Start-End Time/Length of Use: The specific time and length of use information of the resource.
   • Billing mode: Including per-volume billing and prepaid packages.
   • Rate: The rate of the resource. The server rate is the price information (in $/hour) displayed when the server is created.
   • Amount due: The amount due is the product of the rate and the length of use.

     Description

     Negative numbers in the bill are due to refunds arising, such as early release refunds for prepaid machines, refunds following the use of coupons, and refunds for other benefits enjoyed by the account.

5. Support click on the top right corner icon to export the corresponding billing data.