# Overdue Payment

This document outlines the billing and resource handling policies related to overdue payments for self-service customers, covering both **subscription** and **pay-as-you-go** service models.

## Subscription

If you have overdue bills, your existing subscription resources will remain active, but bandwidth will be throttled to 1 Mbps until the end of the subscription period. And you will be unable to purchase new resources and services, or upgrade your configurations.

Your pay-as-you-go data transfer overages will be throttled until the subscription expires.

After the subscription expires, the service enters the suspension period immediately without a protection period.

<table><thead><tr><th width="200.12567138671875">Product</th><th width="223.3956298828125">Suspension Period</th><th>Recycle Period</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Elastic Compute</td><td>72 hours</td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr><tr><td>Bare Metal</td><td>72 hours</td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Networking</td><td>72 hours</td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr><tr><td>CDN &#x26; ZGA</td><td>72 hours</td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Pay-as-you-go

When your account has overdue payments, all your pay-as-you-go resources are suspended. Overdue payments may cause resource stopping and even being released. You're recommend to ensure your account balance sufficient to pay for resources.

Your pay-as-you-go data transfer overages will be throttled 24 hours after payment is overdue.

<table><thead><tr><th width="171.1534423828125">Product</th><th width="160.96307373046875">Protection Period</th><th width="214.17681884765625">Suspension Period</th><th>Recycle Period</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Elastic Compute</td><td>24 hours</td><td><p>72 hours </p><p>(service stopped)</p></td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr><tr><td>Bare Metal</td><td>24 hours</td><td><p>72 hours </p><p>(service stopped)</p></td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Networking</td><td>24 hours</td><td><p>72 hours </p><p>(network disconnected)</p></td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr><tr><td>CDN &#x26; ZGA</td><td>24 hours</td><td><p>72 hours </p><p>(network disconnected)</p></td><td>Released after suspension period</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<mark style="color:blue;">You can view</mark> [<mark style="color:purple;">Subscription Lifecycle Stages</mark>](https://docs.console.zenlayer.com/welcome/pricing/general-lifecycle-rules/subscription-stages) <mark style="color:blue;">and</mark> [<mark style="color:purple;">Pay-as-you-go Lifecycle Stages</mark>](https://docs.console.zenlayer.com/welcome/pricing/general-lifecycle-rules/pay-as-you-go-stages) <mark style="color:blue;">for detailed other stages of your resource lifecycle.</mark>
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