Deposit types
A deposit is prepaid money that settles your Rescale charges as you consume them. Rescale issues four types, each able to pay for a different set of charges, which is what lets an organization keep funding for software separate from funding for compute.
What each type covers
The four types differ only in which charges they are allowed to pay for.
The Rescale Deposit is the general-purpose type and the one most organizations hold. The other three exist to separate a category out for accounting purposes, and Rescale issues them as part of your agreement rather than you choosing between them when you buy. If you need a category of usage funded and tracked separately, that is a conversation with your account team.
How a deposit is scoped
A deposit's type governs what it can pay for. Its scope governs who can spend it, and every deposit is scoped in at least one way.
Each deposit is assigned to one or more workspaces, and it can only be consumed from those. A single deposit can serve several workspaces at once, which is how an organization funds a group of teams from one pool.
Beyond that, a deposit can optionally be narrowed to a single project, so that only workloads submitted under that project draw on it, or reserved for one named user through the Exclusive to User field. Both are optional and most deposits use neither.
If you need to move funds between workspaces after a deposit has been issued, Rescale can transfer them on request.
What each deposit records
Every deposit in the admin portal carries the following fields, and the two amount columns are the pair most often misread.
Amount after Transfer accounts for transfers but ignores usage entirely, so it will often look healthy on a deposit that is nearly spent. Remaining is the figure that tells you what is actually left to spend.
Related
- Assign and track deposits — attaching these to workspaces
- How budgets work — the separate capping mechanism
- Billing & reports — reconciling charges