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Consolidated Billing Overview

Updated at: 2022-05-24 03:15

What is trusteeship?


Trusteeship is a mutual relationship built on trust that is established between a main account and a linked account. Financial assets of the linked account are managed by the main account. The linked account only has permissions to manage resources. In enterprise finance scenarios, the linked account is called trusting account. The main account is called trusted account.

11In Billing Management, you can set Policy to Trusteeship when you link two accounts in Finance Cloud. This authorizes the main account to manage the financial assets of the linked account, as shown in the following figure:

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What are included in the financial assets of a trusteeship?


After a trusteeship between a main account and linked account is established in Finance Cloud between the two accounts:

  • The main account pays the subscription and pay-as-you-go bills incurred from linked accounts. Whether to stop or restart resources of linked accounts depends on the available funds in the main account.

  • All the orders and bills of linked accounts are linked to the main account. You can use the main account for centralized management.

  • All the invoices of linked accounts are linked to the main account. You can use the main account to apply for official invoices for these purchases.

  • All the income and expenses of linked accounts are linked to the main account. You can use the main account to view income and expenses.

  • The linked account and the main account share the same discounts.

  • The linked account cannot apply the discounts that it has. Only the credits, coupons, and vouchers in the main account can be used.

Considerations for trusteeship


  1. Costs in the linked accounts are not allocated and bills for linked accounts are not provided. All the bills are sent to the main account.

  2. Alerts for low balance and large amount of consumption are sent to the main account. Linked accounts will not receive such alerts.

  3. The bills are paid only via the main account.

  4. When you subscribe to services and pay bills via the linked accounts, the discounts of the main account apply. However, for Ali Telecom products, the linked account still uses its own discounts.

  5. The bills incurred from the linked accounts are not involved in unified settlement. All the bills are paid via the main account.

  6. After a trusteeship is established between two accounts, bills from the next billing cycle are linked to the main account. For example, when a trusteeship is established or changed between two accounts, bills for the present day are still credited to the linked account or the original main account. Bills for the next day are credited to the current main account. This rule also applies to discount calculation.

  7. Only vouchers and coupons that belong to the main account can be used, because the bills are paid via the main account. Vouchers and coupons in linked accounts are not available.

  8. After a trusteeship is established between two accounts, invoices for linked accounts are managed by the main account.

  9. In order to reduce the risk of operation errors, the single order amount of linked accounts cannot exceed 10 million U.S. dollars.

  10. After a trusteeship is established, expenses of linked accounts are paid by the main account, and bills of the linked accounts are linked to the main account. The linked account is responsible for resource management, including renewal, refund, reconciliation, configuration upgrade or degrade, and instance type change.

    You can use the “Owner Account Name” field to distinguish bills of different linked accounts when viewing bills of the main account.Trusteeship Introduction

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Note


Pay-as-you-go expenses from the next billing cycle are linked to the main account. The Pay-As-You-Go expenses for the current billing period are paid by the linked account. You must ensure that the available credit for the linked account is greater than before establishing a trusteeship.

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