View billing statements and cost analysis in the Alibaba Cloud app

View billing statements

The Alibaba Cloud app includes a Billing statements feature. Use it to review all your Alibaba Cloud spending, including subscription and pay-as-you-go bills.

1. Go to Billing statements.

   1. Open the Alibaba Cloud app. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Me tab. Then tap Expenses and costs.

   2. Tap Billing statements.

2. Review the Billing statements. By default, the app displays all product bills for the current month.

   Note

   • An Alibaba Cloud account can view its own bills and those of its RAM users.

   • For bill details, log in to the PC console.

   • Filter by month, product, or bill type to find specific bills.

   • Tap an order—for example, MoBi Subscription Service—to view its Billing details.

View Income and Expense Details

The Alibaba Cloud app includes a Payment and expense details feature. Use it to review spending details such as billing items, unit prices, usage, total amounts, and resource plan deductions.

1. Go to Payment and expense details.

   1. Open the Alibaba Cloud app. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Me tab. Then tap Expenses and costs.

   2. Tap Payment and expense details.

2. Review the Payment and expense details. By default, the app displays all payment and expense records from the past year.

   Note

   An Alibaba Cloud account can view its own bills and those of its RAM users.

   • Filter by type and statistical period to find specific records.

   • You can also tap an order—for example, Alipay – Top-up—to view its Payment and expense details.

Request an invoice

The Alibaba Cloud app includes an Invoice management feature. To request an invoice for past spending, filter orders by date range and select one, several, or all orders to invoice. This section walks you through the first-time invoicing process using a Elastic Computing Service (ECS) subscription order as an example.

Prerequisites: Complete identity verification before requesting an invoice. You cannot request an invoice without it.

Limits: The Alibaba Cloud app does not support editing invoice titles. To edit, use the PC console. For steps, see Modify invoice information.

1. Go to Invoice management.

   1. Open the Alibaba Cloud app. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Me tab. Then tap Expenses and costs.

   2. Tap Invoice management.

2. (Optional) Add an invoice title.

   Note

   If your account has no invoice title set, complete this step. To change an existing title, use the PC console. For steps, see Modify invoice information.

   1. Tap Invoice title.

   2. Tap Add title.

   3. Enter an Invoice title. Set Invoice title type to Enterprise. Set Invoice type to VAT ordinary invoice. Enter the Unified Social Credit Code.

      Important

      When selecting VAT ordinary invoice, the fields under Optional fields are optional.

      When selecting VAT special invoice, all fields under Optional fields are required. Missing fields make the invoice invalid.

   4. Confirm the invoice title details. In the top-right corner, tap Save. Return to the Invoice management page.

3. Request an invoice.

   1. Tap Issue invoice now.

   2. Tap the Elastic Computing Service (ECS) subscription order. At the bottom of the screen, tap Issue invoice now.

      Note

      You can also filter orders by date, then select one, several, or all orders to invoice.

   3. Select an Invoice title, an Invoice type, and the Email address where you want to receive the electronic invoice. Then tap Submit request.

   4. After invoice issuance completes, tap View details to check the invoice status.

View order records

The Alibaba Cloud app includes an Order Management feature. Use it to view all orders—including cloud product orders and Web Hosting orders. You can filter orders by order type, order status, and order period.

1. Open the Alibaba Cloud app. At the bottom, tap the My tab. Then, tap Order Management.

2. Review order management.

   1. Select order type, payment status, and order period to filter orders.

   2. Tap an order—for example, MoBi Subscription Service—to view its details.

Cost Analysis

The Alibaba Cloud app includes a Cost management feature. It uses multiple dimensions and visual charts to help you review and analyze cloud service resource spending—and quickly identify cost trends.

Prerequisites: If you are using cost analysis for the first time, enable the feature before use. Go to the PC console, open Cost analysis under Expenses and Costs, and enable it for free.

1. Open the Alibaba Cloud app. At the bottom of the screen, tap the Console tab.

2. Tap the estimated amount due for yesterday in the Billing monitoring section.

3. Review cost analysis.

   • You can view yesterday's estimated payable amount, along with the Day-over-day Change and Week-over-week Change.

   • In the structure analysis area, you can click the icon to expand the view and see the spending proportion of all cloud products.

   • In trend analysis, you can click This Month, Last Two Months, or Last Three Months to view the trend analysis curve graph for different periods. You can also click Experience More Features In The PC Version to obtain a more comprehensive user experience.