Subscriptions

A subscription implies regular payments for using a service during the selected period. The subscription period can be endless (like Microsoft Azure) or have a finite duration that defines the subscription expiration date. Subscription terms and conditions and payment rules depend on a plan and the selected payment model (Prepay or Postpay).

Separate rules apply to trial subscriptions. Trial subscriptions always have a time-limited period, they are free of charge, and most of the operations usually are not available for them. After the trial period expires, a subscription can be renewed for a paid period or switched to another plan with a paid period — if the current plan does not have available paid periods. The procedure for moving from a trial to a paid version (renewal or plan switching) depends on the service.

The use of a subscription implies the consumption of resources — software or hardware — in the amount that was ordered. The number of ordered resource units affects the cost of a subscription. You can buy additional resources or refuse some of the previously purchased ones. Depending on the plan, a subscription may have the primary resource. You can view and change its quantity in the list of subscriptions.

Subscriptions to some services (for example, Microsoft Azure), on the contrary, are paid for their actual consumption (pay-as-you-go), and the logic of ordering and changing the number of resource units is not applied to them.

In this section:

• Buy subscription
• List of subscriptions
• Subscription details
• Spending budget
• Prolong subscription
• Renew subscription
• Switch plan
• Change resources
• Stop subscription
• Activate subscription
• Specifics of postpaid subscriptions
• Delete subscription