How Billing Works - Advin Servers

Postpaid billing

Hourly charges, credit limit, overdue dates.

Prepaid billing

Paying ahead, renewals and cancelling unused time.

The monthly invoice

We bill by calendar month in UTC. The invoice is finalized on the 1st of the following month and is due on the 7th. Usage from November, for example, is finalized on December 1 and due December 7. Small balances may carry forward to a later invoice.

Deleting a resource stops its future charges. You still owe for time you already used.

What keeps billing

A server reserves CPU, memory, storage and addresses while it exists. A stopped server still costs money. Delete it when you’re done, after saving anything you need.

What you do	What happens to charges
Stop, restart or reinstall a server	Charges continue.
Delete a server	Future server charges stop. Usage already incurred is still due.
Detach a paid floating IP	Charges continue while you keep the IP.
Delete a server but keep its snapshot	Snapshot charges continue.

Hourly price and monthly cap

Each resource has an hourly price. Part of an hour counts as a whole hour. The monthly price caps what that resource costs on the same plan for the month, so an unchanged $8 monthly plan never costs more than $8 for the full month. Keep it for part of the month and you pay for the billed hours instead.

The cap applies to each resource, not to your whole account. Extra resources, plan changes and one-time fees are separate.

Credit and limits

Term	What it means
Account credit	Money already on your account. It pays invoices and prepaid purchases. See Account Credit.
Postpaid credit limit	How much postpaid spending you can commit to. It isn’t money to spend. See credit limit.
`MRC`	Monthly recurring cost of the postpaid resources you currently keep.
`Current Charges`	Usage you’ve incurred so far this month.

MRC and Current Charges answer different questions, so they usually don’t match.

Common questions

Does saving a card turn on automatic payments?

No. Save a method, make it the default, then turn on Automatic Payments on the Billing page. See Automatic payments. The exception is payment verification during new account setup, which turns it on for the verified method.

Will postpaid replace my existing prepaid services?

No. Enabling postpaid leaves them alone. You can move eligible prepaid services into a postpaid team, but that change is permanent.

What happens if I don't pay?

The bill stays due. An overdue postpaid invoice can suspend every server on your account, prepaid ones included, and services may later be deleted. See Overdue invoices and Suspended Server.