Bill overview
On the Overview of Monthly Bill page, you can view the summary of your charges by billing cycle (month). You can also view the consumption summary of one or more linked accounts. On the Overview of Monthly Bill page, the following information are displayed: Cost Trend (Last 6 months) of the selected account, Cost Distribution by Product of the selected account or billing cycle, Account-based Sum in Billing Period, and Expenses of the selected account by billing cycle or product.
The current monthly bill contains the cumulative unsettled pay-as-you-go bill data. The consumption information is updated in real time. The monthly bill for the current month is generated at the beginning of the next month. You can view or export the monthly bill at 10:00:00 on the fourth day of the next month.
1. Overview of monthly bill
Billing Cycle: The billing cycle of your resources. In most cases, the billing cycle is one month.
Account: The account for which the bill is generated.
Status: Cleared (paid and not overdue), Uncleared (not paid and overdue), Posted (disputed and under verification)
Product Name: The purchased Alibaba Cloud service or the third-party product purchased from Alibaba Cloud Marketplace, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS).
Product Detail: The information about a specific cloud service that you purchased, such as a pay-as-you-go ECS instance.
Subscription Type: Subscription or Pay-As-You-Go.
Bill Type: The type of the bill, which can be divided into consumption, refund, reconciliation, and guaranteed bills.
Official Price: The amount that is calculated based on the catalog prices of the service.
Discount: The amount that is deducted based on the discounts provided in contracts or by promotions.
Round-off Amount: Billing details contain multiple decimal places. If the summary amount must accurate to two decimal places, the digits after the second decimal places are omitted.
Amount Payable: The amount to be paid. The pretax amount is calculated by using the following formula: Amount payable = Original price - Discount amount - Round-off amount. You can use various payment methods, such as vouchers, stored value cards, cash, and credit limit to pay the pretax amount. During refund processing or charge adjustment, the payable amount is represented as a negative value.
Outstanding Amount: The amount under dispute that requires verification is suspended and cannot be actively written off by funds.
Payment Amount: The amount that is paid by using a method other than vouchers or prepaid cards. The payment amount includes reconciliations.
Credit Refund Deduction: The outstanding amount that is offset by using credit refunds.
Voucher Amount: The amount paid by the user by using vouchers (including adjustments).
Deducted By Prepaid Card: The amount paid by the user by using a stored-value card.
Amount Due: The payable amount.
2. Usage notes
Filter data
You can filter data by specifying the following conditions:
Billing Cycle: The default billing cycle is the current month.
Account: The payable amount.
Customize column options
You can click Customize Column Options to select the columns that you want to display in bills. After you select the columns that you want to display, the related data is displayed on the Bill Details page.
Export billing overview
You can click Export Billing Overview (CSV) to export bill data based on your business requirements.