Balances
The account balance is the account from which services are paid according to the payment models. You top upand funds are deducted from it when ordering or renewing services.
An account can have one of two balance types — unified or divided by type of service. Each balance sheet has three type of fundswhich can be used to pay for services — basic funds, bonuses and VC bonuses.
To view balances and availability of funds on them, go to control panels: open the account menu in the upper right corner → Balance sheet and payments → tab Billing Overview.
Types of balances
The account may have single balance or several balances by type of service.
Unified balance sheet
The account has one balance from which all services are paid.
Balances by type of service
Balances in the account are divided by service type:
- main balance — balance of services from the control panel sections Servers and hardware, Network services, Additional services и Monitoring;
- cloud platform balance — service balance from the control panel section Cloud platform;
- storage and CDN balance — balance of services from the control panel sections Object Storage и CDN;
- VMware-based cloud balance — service balance from the dashboard section VMware-based cloud.
The service is paid from one of the balances and does not affect the others, which allows you to control the costs of different services.
For example, cloud servers are paid from the cloud platform's balance — if it runs out of money, it won't affect the VMware-based cloud because it's paid from a different balance.
You can transfer funds from the main balance to the service balances and back again.
You can switch from balances by service type to a single balance sheet.
Types of funds on the balance sheet
- fixed assets — cash deposits;
- bonuses — compensation from Selectel;
- VC bonuses — conditional unit of Selectel applications in VKontakte.
Procedure for writing off funds depends on the payment model and debit method.
If the account uses balances by type of serviceyou can transfer funds of the same type between balances (fixed assets to fixed assets, bonuses to bonuses, VC bonuses to VC bonuses).
View service balance
To view the balance from which the service is paid, go to control panels. To do this, go to the section of this service, the balance is displayed at the top of the page.
If the account single balanceThe balance can be viewed on any page.
Switch to a single balance sheet
After the switch:
- all funds will be transferred to a single balance according to their type (main funds to main funds, bonuses to bonuses, VC bonuses to VC bonuses);
- If the cloud platform, VMware-based cloud, storage, and CDN balances were in arrears, they will be deducted from the primary balance;
- if more than one balance notificationsonly the maximum threshold notification will remain;
- autoreplenishment on schedule will be transferred to the single balance, for autoreplenishments by threshold only one autoreplenishment will be transferred.
To switch to a single balance:
- If you have more than one auto-refill threshold connected, leave one auto-refill and delete the rest.
- В control panels open the menu (account number) in the upper right corner and select the item Balance sheet and payments.
- Go to the section Billing Overview.
- Click Move to a single balance sheet.
- Check the transition conditions and press Go to.