Gradual rollout of the new Expenses and Costs console - Expenses and Costs

Dear Alibaba Cloud customer,

To improve your experience of managing your bills and expenses, Alibaba Cloud has upgraded the Expenses and Costs console.

You can log in to the Expenses and Costs console to see which version you are using (new or legacy). You can switch between versions by clicking Return to Previous Version or Try New Version in the lower-left corner.

New console

Legacy console

Key changes in the new console

The new console's navigation menu and features have been updated, but this does not affect your current API usage. For a detailed overview of its capabilities, see Expenses and Costs overview.

Module	Feature	Description
Enterprise Organization	-	This is a new feature that provides hierarchical management for multiple accounts within an enterprise. An administrator account can centrally manage funds, orders, bills, invoices, and benefits for its member accounts.
Account (New module) Each user account is linked to a billing account for financial settlement by default.	Account sharing	This new feature is designed for enterprise financial scenarios and lets an administrator account query multiple accounts, transfer funds between accounts, allocate credit limits, and share assets such as coupons and Savings Plans. For details, see Account Sharing overview.
	Billing account	Supports management functions like querying asset quotas and payment relationships. Queries for income and expenditure details, monthly summaries, and account payment relationships have been added. For details, see What is a billing account?
	Coupons	The coupon management menu has been relocated from the legacy console. Query your coupons.
	Savings plan	Provides queries, usage analysis, and purchase recommendations for savings plans. Supports savings plan queries for multiple accounts within an Enterprise Organization.
	Resource packages	Query and manage resource packages. Supports querying the list of regions where a resource package can be applied. Supports resource package queries for multiple accounts within an Enterprise Organization.
Expenses	Subscription Orders	Query order records and manage resource renewals and unsubscriptions. Supports order queries for multiple accounts within an Enterprise Organization.
	Bills	Query and download monthly bills and detailed consumption records. High-expenditure alerts have been added, which you can configure by product.
	Invoices	Query and download invoices.
	Contracts	Query and manage contract-based discounts.
Costs	Cost analysis	Provides cost analysis across multiple dimensions based on detailed cost data. Multi-account cost analysis for accounts within an Enterprise Organization has been added.
	Budget management	Lets you set budgets and perform plan-versus-actual analysis with alerts. Multi-account budgeting for accounts within an Enterprise Organization has been added.
	Cost monitoring	Provides cost alerts. Supports alerts for high expenditures, available funds, budget progress, and resource plan usage. An Anomaly Detection feature has also been added, which uses algorithms to identify unusual cost fluctuations, enabling automatic monitoring, detection, and alerting for abnormal costs.
	Cost allocation	Lets you allocate resource costs to Cost Centers based on business or project needs. Support has been added for configuring multi-account allocation rules and querying allocation details for accounts within an Enterprise Organization.
Data export	Export details	Query your export history and download exported files, including detailed bills and cost reports.

In the new console, several bill fields have been adjusted and new capabilities have been added. See below for details:

Billing feature adjustments

Key billing adjustments

Description

Query and export bills from an enterprise management perspective

Legacy console: You could only query and export bills for a single account.
New console: You can now view and export bills for your entire enterprise or for specific accounts within it.

Bill field adjustments

Removed fields: The following fields have been removed: Consumption Type, Cost Center, Resource Plan Deduction, Overdue Payment, Deduction Amount (including RI), Product Discount, Combined Discount, Billing Number, Business Type, and Credit Refund Deduction.
New fields: The following fields have been added: List Price Type, Savings Plan Instance ID, Savings Plan Deduction from List Price, Discount Subject, Primary Key, Deducted Amount by Coupons, and Bill Type.

Renamed fields:

Legacy console field	New console field
Product Detail	Product Name
Service Duration	Billing Month
Pretax Gross Amount	Catalogue Gross Amount
Invoice Discount	Deducted by Coupon
Amount After Discount	Amount After Price Reduction
Spn Discount Amount	Catalogue Gross Amount Deducted by Savings Plan
Owner Account Name	Resource Owner Account
Account Name	Resource Purchase Account ID
Internet IP	Public IP Address
Intranet IP	Private IP Address
Item	Billable Item
Deducted By Resource Package	Deducted Amount by Resource Plan

Note: The above field adjustments will take effect consistently across all billing reports, including those viewed and exported from the console.

Removal of statistical bill reports

On the legacy console's Bills > Bill Details page, the Billing Statement has been removed.
On the legacy console's Bills > Bill Details > Billing Details page, reports that used Account, Product, or Cost Center as the Statistic Item have been removed.
On the legacy console's Bills > Overview of Monthly Bill page, the Consumption Trend and Consumption Distribution by Product report has been removed.

Addition of new statistical bill reports

In the new console, go to Billing > Bills > Bills and navigate to the Overview of Monthly Bill page to access the following new reporting capabilities:
- Enhanced statistical bill reports: View detailed breakdowns of your spending by:
  - Organization (Enterprise Organization hierarchy)
  - Resource Purchase Account
  - Product
  - Service Entity
  - Discount Application Status (for example, whether a discount was applied)
- Detailed repayment records: On the same page, you can view your total paid amount. To see payment-level details:
  1. Click View Details.
  2. Click the values under Deducted Amount by Coupons or Payment Amount (cash payment).
  3. A detailed transaction record will appear, including:
    - Repayment channel (such as cash or prepaid card)
    - Repayment time
    - Repayment amount
These reports replace legacy statistical views (such as Consumption Distribution by Product) and provide more granular, multi-account, and enterprise-ready insights.

New unified settlement capability

Unified settlement lets you create customized settlement tasks for accounts, products, and bill types. This simplifies the settlement process and avoids the need for separate remittances from multiple accounts. For details, see Unified settlement.