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Billing

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Daily / Weekly Usage Report

Currently we get a monthly aggregate of usage metrics. This doesn't give us insight into how changes to infrastructure affects our usage.
over 3 years ago in Billing 2 Planned for future release

Ehnancing the Bluemix Reporting feature

Its an enhancement of an existing feature at more deeper level rather than a new feature. Looking at the Bluemix Hierarchy At top level we have SI Account. An Account contains multiple Organizations An Organization further contains multip...
over 7 years ago in Billing 2 Not under consideration

Disable Promotion and Credits View to All Users

Hi, All users are able to see Promotions and Credit page by design. IBM should make a permission check, it should be disabled to every single user in the account. All users in the account are not mandatory supposed to view any financial or billing...
about 1 year ago in Billing 2 Future consideration

Provide invoice details via (Billing) API using a ServiceID w/ Billing/Viewer

Can you pls. extend the (Billing) API to allow retrieval of the index of invoices as well as the attachments (PDF, PDF-extended, XLS) via the Billing API using (!) a ServiceID w/ API key and "Billing/Viewer" access policy assigned? Right now a ind...
over 2 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

Set hard limit on spending per developer or organization or per project or per resource group or per tag

I am using IBM cloud for development.. and have a hard budget Per project or per Team. I need to limit my developer to spend max certain $$ per month accross all cloud catalog. if I use more than the budget, i Can not ask more money to pay. what I...
over 3 years ago in Billing 0 Future consideration

As a Bluemix Administrator, I want to be able to run a report for all team members' expenses submitted within the last week.

I am required to submit a weekly expense summary to the Execs.
over 8 years ago in Billing 3 Not under consideration

Ability to setup spending notifications by org

In Bluemix add the ability to setup spending notifications at org level. Also provide the ability to add a cc email address. This will enable respective project owners to get notifications.
over 8 years ago in Billing 0 Not under consideration

Add a link on the billing screen to add, change or update the billing/payment method for bluemix

Currently if I go to Bluemix, my account and billing there is no way to review or change my payment method. I have to log in to my IBM account and change the payment method for the whole IBM account. I would prefer to have payment options that are...
almost 8 years ago in Billing 0 Not under consideration

Cost Analysis Function in the Enterprise account

Cost analysis provides a very practical tool for viewing the distribution of costs/service for an account. This same view would be very beneficial at the enterprise account level to monitor the most active service within the enterprise
13 days ago in Billing 0 Under review

Billing Reports

IBM Billing Instance report does not contain source volume name of snapshots, we are backing up daily 100+ volume and in the month end report its hard to correlate which snapshot related to which volume in the report to calculate the billing. Rais...
3 months ago in Billing 7 Needs more information