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.

View Your Billing Cycle and Payments History

• 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 Cloud Billing Reports to Analyze Your Costs

• View Your Billing Reports and Cost Trends

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

• Understand Your Monthly Invoice with Cost Table Reports

  The Cost Table report gives you a detailed, tabular view of your monthly costs for a given invoice or statement.

• Understand Your Savings with Cost Breakdown Reports

  The Cost Breakdown report gives you an at-a-glance waterfall view of how much you would have spent at the on-demand price for your Google Cloud usage, and how usage-based credits saved you money on your invoice.

• Analyze the Effectiveness of Your Committed Use Discounts

  The Committed Use Discount Analysis report helps you to visualize and understand the effectiveness and financial impact of the committed use discounts you have purchased.

Export Cloud Billing Data for Custom Analysis

• Export Billing Data to BigQuery

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

• Billing Export to BigQuery Query Examples

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

• 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.

• 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 Payments Contacts and Notifications

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

• View Linked Projects

  Find out which projects are linked to your Cloud Billing Account.

• Modify a Project's Billing Settings

  Confirm billing is enabled for your project, 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 create budgets and set budget alert rules used to trigger notifications.

• Programmatic Budget Alert Examples

  Programmatic budget alerts enable you to automate cost management.

• About the Cloud Billing Budget API

  Use the Cloud Billing Budget API to view, create, and manage budgets programmatically at scale.

Manage Invoices

• Request Invoiced Billing

  If you are a self-serve, online billing customer, you might be eligible to change your billing method to monthly invoiced billing.

• Get your Invoice, Statement, or Receipt

  Find and download your invoice or statement, or locate and print your receipt.

• Make a Payment to an Invoiced Billing Account

  Make a payment to your Google Cloud 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.

Manage Automatic Payment Accounts

• 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 Cloud Billing APIs

• All Cloud Billing APIs

  Learn about the APIs available to programmatically manage various Cloud Billing tasks.

• Cloud Billing Account API

  Programmatically manage billing for your Google Cloud projects.

• Cloud Billing Catalog API

  Retrieve 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.

• Cloud Billing Budget API

  View, create, and manage Cloud Billing Budget programmatically at scale.