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How pay-per-use works

CloudQube charges you on two tracks. Both are pay-per-use; neither is a subscription.

Track 1: one-shot purchases

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Some things have a clear, finite price: a domain registration, a domain transfer, a one-off consultation. You pay that price once, at the moment of purchase, through your usual payment method (card, iDEAL, SEPA).

The invoice arrives in your inbox the same day. The qube becomes available as soon as the payment clears.

Track 2: prepaid balance for recurring resources

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Recurring resources (containers, databases, CDN, monitoring) draw from a prepaid balance attached to your account. The flow:

  1. You top up. Pick any amount (€10 minimum). It is added to your balance immediately. You get a payment receipt.
  2. You run resources. Each day, the cost of the resources you ran the previous day is deducted from your balance. The deduction is itemised on the daily summary in your account.
  3. You get a monthly invoice. On the first of every month, we issue a single VAT-compliant invoice for everything you used the previous month.
  4. You top up again when the balance gets low. We email you when it falls below €5.

When your balance hits €0, recurring resources are suspended (not deleted). Topping up brings them back. Suspended resources keep all their data; you just cannot reach them while suspended.

Why two tracks

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It maps to how the underlying providers bill us. A registry charges for a domain registration as a single transaction. A container provider bills daily. We pass both through honestly rather than pretending everything is the same shape.

What you can never get

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  • A bill for more than your prepaid balance, on recurring resources. The worst case is a €0 balance and a suspended container, never a surprise invoice.
  • A subscription you forgot to cancel. There is no monthly fee. If you stop topping up, things wind down on their own.
  • A hidden markup. Every line on every invoice shows the underlying cost and the CloudQube margin separately.

What you can do

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  • Set spend caps per qube. The qube auto-suspends if its monthly spend exceeds the cap.
  • Set bandwidth caps per qube. Same idea, different metric.
  • Export everything (invoices, transaction history, top-up receipts) at any time. See Export your data.