In my SoftLayer account, it looks like my billing period starts on 1st of each month. When I make some API calls to get my account's last invoice and its billing item data, I get a result like this:
"account" : {
"id" : 930277,
"latestBillDate" : "2016-05-01T00:00:00-05:00",
"latestRecurringInvoice" : {
"amount" : "0",
"closedDate" : null,
"createDate" : "2016-05-01T00:36:56-05:00",
"id" : 8363665,
"invoiceTopLevelItems" : [
{
"billingItem" : {
"cancellationDate" : null,
"createDate" : "2016-03-10T16:18:23-06:00",
"currentHourlyCharge" : "10.472",
"cycleStartDate" : "2016-05-01T00:36:56-05:00",
And I am wondering about the invoice createDate and billingItem cycleStartDate. They seem to have same date and time.
So, if the invoice was created at 2016-05-01T00:36:56-05:00, does this mean that in this bill the hourly usage charge includes up to a second before 2016-05-01T00:36:56-05:00? And next bill will charge starting from this time?
Or is it that even if the bill was generated about 36 minutes after the beginning of 2016-05-01, the bill only covers the hourly usage up to end of 2016-04-30? and that the next bill will cover the charge from the 1st second of 2016-05-01 to last second of 2016-05-31?
Anybody knows? It is about billing and how much to charge and not. So I need an accurate answer. Thank you.
I think better you open a ticket in softlayer and ask to the sales guy about the charge.