---
title: "Changes, Quotas and Volume Bands"
description: "What counts as a change, what is free, where the use is shown, what happens at the limit, and how volume bands and extensions work."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/changes-and-quotas"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Buying and Subscribing"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Changes, Quotas and Volume Bands

> What counts as a change, what is free, where the use is shown, what happens at the limit, and how volume bands and extensions work.

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**Page type:** Concept · **Audience:** Buyer, Administrator, Processor

**Contains**

- What counts as a change: one record sent to SAP for create, update, delete or an operation, whether SAP accepted or rejected it.
- What is free: reads, value helps, uploads, Mass Edit, previews, operations SAP already shows as done, unchanged records skipped.
- Where the use is shown (the notice in Staging Records, the assistant's capabilities answer); what happens at the limit: a new run is refused, a running background run pauses with "Add-on quota used up", uploading and editing continue; how a quota is extended and the paused run resumed.
- Volume bands and prorated upgrades; development and quality systems.

**Related information:** `plans`, `managing-add-ons-and-quota`, `pause-resume-stop`, `concept-quota`.

**Source in the product repository:** customer guide §4 "Quota", `srv/lib/feature-metering.js`, catalog FAQ.