Manage Billing#

Research tiered storage beyond the free tier incurs costs based on the amount of storage allocated to your project. This guide covers how to manage those costs through RCRM — including how to apply your no-cost quota to specific projects, view current storage charges, and assign a department or grant number for billing purposes. Faculty with a Tufts University appointment receive a no-cost quota that can be distributed across one or more projects they own.

View Cost Preview Report#

This report previews the costs for projects with billing codes. Each line previews the cost that would be charged to each billing code for the project. NOTE: The Cost Preview Report is currently only available to storage owners.

  1. Go to Research Computing Resource Manager

  2. Click on Reporting dropdown and select “Cost Preview Report”

Update Billing Information#

  1. Go to Research Computing Resource Manager

  2. Click on “Manage” dropdown and select “No-Cost Quota”

  3. Below the “Filter” section, locate the row for the desired project and click on the “Edit” button near “show details”

  4. For “Department”, input the Dept ID

  5. For “Grant (optional)” input the Grant ID, if provided

  6. For “Percentage (%)”, input integer up to 100.

  7. If “Total Percentage:” is less than 100%, click on “Add cost assignment” and repeat until total percentage is 100%.

  8. Click “Save changes”

Manage No-Cost Quotas#

Eligible Tufts faculty have No-Cost Quotas which they can apply to resource allocations to reduce their costs. If the below is empty, then you are not eligible for the no cost quota.

  1. Go to Research Computing Resource Manager

  2. Click on “Manage” dropdown and select “No-Cost Quota”

  3. Below the “Filter” section, locate the desired row you want to update.

  4. Click on the radio button to select the row and click on “Next”

  5. Review available no-cost and adjust accordingly.