Understand the proration and recurring charges on your cloud bill. Knowing the impact of subscribing or cancelling licenses in the mid-billing cycle will enable you to control cloud costs.
3. Cloud Service: Exchange Online (Plan 1) @ $100 ; License:1; Offer Fulfilled Date: 9th Jan 2017; Bill Run Date: 1st
Charges Period Amount
Prorate Fee
(23/31*100= $74.19)
9th Jan - 31st Jan $74.19
Recurring Fee 1st Feb- 28th Feb $100
Recurring Fee 1st Mar-31st Mar $100
Example 1: Proration for a service with Monthly Billing Cycle
9th Jan
1st Jan 1st Feb 1st Mar 1st Apr
Pro-rate Recurring Recurring
4. Example 2: Proration for a service with Annual Billing Cycle
Cloud Service: 365 Business Essentials@ $1200;Quantity 1; Offer Fulfilled Date: 15th Jan 2017; Bill Run Date: 1st
Charges Date Range Amount
Prorate Fee
(17/365*1200=$55.89)
15th Jan 2017 - 31st Jan 2017 $55.89
Recurring Fee 1st Feb 2017- 31st Jan 2018 $1200
Pro-rate Recurring
1st Jan 15th Jan 1st Feb 1st Mar 31st Jan 2018
5. Example 1: Non Prorated service with Monthly Billing Cycle
Cloud Service :Wang 10G Basic with Domain @ $100/month; Quantity:1; Offer Fulfilled date: 15 Jan; Bill Run Date: 1st
Invoice on 1st Feb
Charges Date Range Amount
Recurring Fee 15th Jan -14th Feb $100
Invoice on 1st Mar
Recurring Fee 15th Feb -14th Mar $100
Jan 1st Jan 15th Feb 1st Feb 15th Mar 1st Mar 15th Apr 1st
Recurring Recurring
6. Example 2: Non Prorated service with Annual Billing Cycle
Cloud Service: Exchange Online (Plan 1) @ $1200/month; Quantity:1;Offer Fulfilled date: 15th Jan 2014
Bill Run Date: 1st
6
Invoice on 1st Feb 2014
Charges Date Range Amount
Recurring Fee
15th Jan 2014- 14th Jan 2015
$1200
Invoice on 1st Feb 2015
Recurring Fee 15th Jan 2015- 14th Jan 2016 $1200
1st Jan 15th Jan
2014
1st Feb
1st Jun
1st Jan
2015
14th Jan
2015
Recurring
7. Prorate on Cancellation
Date Service Quantity Date Range Cancellation Amount
1st Jan McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Monthly 3 1th Jan - 31st Jan $300
20th Jan McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Monthly 1 Cancelled
1st Feb McAfee SaaS Endpoint Protection Monthly 2 1th Feb -28th Feb $200
1st Jan
20th Jan 1 License
canceled
1st Feb 1st Mar
Billed for 3 License Billed for 2 License only
8. Impact on Invoice, Settlement Report and Bill Feed
Prorate charges will be displayed in the Invoices generated by the platform