Managing the billing for Exchange accounts
Objective
The Hosted Exchange and Private Exchange services offer flexible management for account billing. This guide details how to configure it.
This guide explains how to manage subscriptions for your Exchange accounts.
Requirements
- access to the OVHcloud Control Panel.
- a subscription to an Exchange solution.
Instructions
- Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel.
- Open the
Web Cloudsection. - In the
MICROSOFTsection, clickExchange. - Select the service concerned.
Hosted Exchange
Ordering additional accounts
Go to the Email accounts tab, then click on the Actions button in the top left-hand corner. Next, click Order accounts.

Changing the renewal frequency for your accounts
In the window for managing your Exchange platform, click on the Actions button in the top right-hand corner, then click Renewal configuration.

You will be redirected to the “My services” section of the OVHcloud Control Panel. You will notice that a filter has been applied, to only display the Exchange platform you are modifying.
Click ... to the right of the Exchange platform, then Modify billing.

In this new window, you can view and modify the billing for each of your accounts. You can make changes via the Renewal column for one or more accounts at once. Each modification on an account will be applied on the date listed in the Expiry column.
In the example below, you will see the actions you need to take in order to set an account to monthly renewal:
In the first step, click Monthly to the right of the account, then click
Next.In the second step, you will see a summary listing the change that has been applied. Click
Sendon the bottom left.
Deleting accounts
To delete an account on your Hosted Exchange platform, you will need to cancel it by setting its renewal configuration to Cancel on expiry. To do this, refer to the step on changing the renewal frequency for your accounts.
Once you have cancelled it, the account will be suspended on its expiry date. If you would like to delete the email address hosted by the account before its expiry date, you can reset it.
Go to the Email accounts tab for your platform, then click ... next to the account concerned. Finally, click Reset. Once you have reset the account, it will remain empty until its expiry date.
Private Exchange
On a Private Exchange platform, only monthly renewal is available for accounts. You cannot configure any other renewal frequencies.
Ordering additional accounts
Go to the Email accounts tab, then click on the Actions button in the top left-hand corner. Next, click Add an account. The account will be billed for the current month.

Deleting accounts
To delete an email account on a Private Exchange platform, it is necessary that it has been created (attached to a domain name on your Exchange platform). An unconfigured account cannot be deleted.
Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel and select Web Cloud in the top navigation bar. Click Microsoft in the services bar on the left-hand side, then Exchange. Next, select the Exchange service concerned.
In the Email accounts tab, click ... to the right of the account concerned, then click Delete. The account will be immediately removed from the platform, and you will not need to cancel it.

Cancel the platform
Once you have deleted the email accounts, you will need to delete the domain name(s) associated with your Exchange platform before cancelling it. To do this, go to the Associated domains tab. Click the ... button on the line for the domain name you want to delete, then click Delete this domain.

In the window for managing your Exchange platform, click on the Actions button in the top right-hand corner, then Cancel.

This action suspends and then deletes all of the accounts on the Exchange platform on their expiry date.
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