The monthly bill overview displays the billing data used for payment settlement with Alibaba Cloud. You can use this data to make payments or request invoices. The final monthly bill is generated after 12:00 PM on the second day of the following month. All payments and invoicing must be based on the final bill generated after this time.
View bills
In the Expenses and Costs console, select Bill Overview. Then, select the billing month and the desired enterprise, organization, or account to view the corresponding billing information.
Overview Section: Displays the payable amount, paid amount, and outstanding amount for the specified billing month and selected accounts.
The Bill Overview page displays billing information summarized by calendar month. The final monthly bill is generated after 12:00 PM on the second day of the following month. The bill status can be Cleared, Generating, or Uncleared.
Cleared: The final monthly bill is generated and paid.
Generating: The final monthly bill is not yet generated and charges are being accumulated on a monthly basis.
Uncleared: The final monthly bill is generated but not yet paid.
Repayment Records: Next to Paid Amount, click View Details to view the Repayment Details. In the Repayment Details panel, click the amount under Coupon Deduction, Prepaid Card Payment, or Cash Payment to open the repayment record page. On this page, you can view detailed records for each payment channel.
Pay Bill: For a generated but unpaid bill, click Pay Bill to add funds and pay the bill. For more information, see or Add funds to your Alibaba Cloud account.
View Summary Reports By Dimension: View summary billing data by organization, account, product, service entity, or discount status. Click Details in the Actions column of a summary report to view the detailed bills.
Summary report by dimension
Overview of bill summary reports
By Resource Purchase Account
Displays billing data for a specific billing month and account scope, summarized by the accounts that purchased the resources.
By Organization
Displays billing data for a specific billing month and account scope, summarized by organization.
By Product
Displays billing data for a specific billing month and account scope, summarized by product. You can use this information to determine which cloud products have incurred charges.
By Service Entity
Displays billing data for a specific billing month and account scope, summarized by Alibaba Cloud service entity.
Export bills
Monthly bills with account information
On the Bill Overview page, click Export Bill. On the Export page, select the export scope and click OK.
If you set Export Scope to Selected Accounts, the exported billing data includes only the data for the accounts selected on the Bill Overview page.
If you set Export Scope to All Accounts, the exported billing data includes the data for all accounts that the current logon account has permission to view.
On the Export Record page, you can download the exported file.
Bill file
File format
Billing file overview
Monthly bill
PDF
A monthly bill is the billing data used for settlement, aggregated by billing month. The monthly bill for the current month is generated after 12:00 PM on the second day of the following month. The bill contains the Alibaba Cloud financial stamp.
Product spending summary
CSV
The product spending summary includes spending details aggregated by account, product name, offering name, and service entity.
Product summary monthly bills without account information
On the Bill Overview page, select the By Product dimension, and then click the 
icon in the upper-right corner of the summary table.
The downloaded product bill summary table is based on the enterprise, organization, or account scope set at the top of the Bill Overview page. The exported report does not contain account information. You can use the same method to download monthly bills summarized by other dimensions, such as resource purchase account, organization, service entity, or discount status.
Configure high-cost alerts
You can configure alerts for daily spending on your pay-as-you-go cloud services. After you enable alerts, if the daily bill for a configured product exceeds the specified threshold, you receive one text message alert per day. For products billed monthly, you receive an alert only once at the beginning of the next month after the bill is generated. The text message recipient is the account contact set in Message Center.
On the Bill Overview page, click Configure High-cost Alert and set the alert threshold for each cloud product.
You can configure high-cost alerts for up to 10 cloud products.