How-to Guides

Cloud Billing Access Control

• Overview of Billing Access Control

  An overview of predefined billing roles that you can use to grant or limit access to your billing account.

• Create Custom Roles for Billing

  Custom roles allow you to grant specific, specialized sets of permissions on your organization or billing account.

Analyze Your Bills

• Find Out Your Billing Cycle

  View your billing cycle, find out when you will be billed, and learn about threshold billing.

• View Your Cost and Payment History

  View transactions, sort by transaction types, and sort your account's payment information.

• View Your Cost Trends With Billing Reports

  The Cloud Billing Reports page lets you view your GCP usage costs at a glance and discover and analyze trends.

• Export Billing Data to a File

  Export your daily usage and cost estimates automatically to a CSV or JSON file stored in a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

• Export Billing Data to BigQuery

  Export your daily usage and cost estimates automatically throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset.

• Billing Export to BigQuery Examples

  Examples of how you might use BigQuery queries on exported billing data.

• Visualize Spend Over Time with Data Studio

  Get up-to-date billing graphs throughout the day, and use labels to slice and dice your GCP bill the way you want by combining Google Cloud Platform billing export to BigQuery functionality with Google Data Studio.

Manage Billing Accounts

• Create, Modify, or Close Your Billing Account

  Create or close billing accounts and configure your project billing settings.

• Change Billing Contacts and Notifications

  Change the billing contact or the notifications you want to receive.

• View Linked Projects

  Find out which projects are linked to your billing account.

• Modify a Project's Billing Settings

  Change the billing account for your project, or enable and disable billing for a project.

Set Budget Alerts to Get Notifications

• Set Budget Alerts

  To help you with project planning and controlling costs, you can set a budget alert.

• Programmatic Budget Alert Examples

  Programmatic budget alerts enable you to automate cost management.

Get and Pay Invoices

• Request Invoiced Billing

  Some customers are eligible to change their billing method to monthly invoiced billing.

• Get an Invoice or Receipt

  Get an invoice or print your receipt.

• Make a Payment to an Invoiced Billing Account

  Make a payment to your Cloud Platform Console monthly invoiced account.

• Understand Your Monthly Invoice

  Your monthly invoice is available in two formats and contains important usage details.

• Update Your Purchase Order Number

  Set or update the purchase order number used for your monthly invoice account.

Set Up Automatic Payments

• Add, Remove, or Update a Payment Method

  Add or modify a payment method, or set up a backup payment method.

• Verify Your Bank Account

  You might need to verify your bank account to use it as a payment method by direct debit.

• Make a Manual Payment

  How to make a manual credit card payment to your automatically billed account.

Billing Issues

• Resolve Billing Issues

  Get a refund, view credits, and resolve declined payments

• Restarting Services

  If your Google Cloud Platform services were shut down because we couldn't process your payment, after your account is settled you might need to manually restart some services.

Billing For Education Accounts

• Get and Redeem Education Grants

  University faculty can apply for Google Cloud Platform Education Grants for their computer science courses.

• Get an Egress Discount for Research and Education

  Information about the egress discount for research and education.

Work with Billing APIs

• Install Client Libraries

  Install a client library to more easily access the Google Cloud Billing API using Go, Java, JavaScript, .Net, Node.js, Objective-C, PHP, Python, or Ruby.

• Authorize API Requests

  Use OAuth 2.0 to authorize requests to the Google Cloud Billing API.

• Cloud Billing API Access Control

  Use IAM to control access to the Google Cloud Billing API.

• Get Google Cloud Platform Pricing Information

  Use the Cloud Billing Catalog API to get a list of all public services including relevant metadata about each service, and to get a list of all public SKUs within a service.