Get a Cloud Billing document such as an invoice, statement, or receipt

This document describes how to find all of the Cloud Billing documents that are available for your Cloud Billing account type.

About Cloud Billing documents

In the Google Cloud console, you can access most of your Cloud Billing documents in the Documents page. You can look for specific documents (like statements or invoices), download them in bulk or individually, create custom filters for viewing your documents, and more.

If you're looking for a payment receipt, you can find those in the Transactions page of the Google Cloud console.

Statements

A statement isn't a bill. It's a summary of monthly billing activity, generated for Cloud Billing accounts that are set up as a self-serve/online account. Self-serve Cloud Billing accounts are configured to automatically pay for your Google Cloud costs based on your billing cycle. In addition to automatic payments, if you prefer, you can make a manual credit card payment to your self-serve Cloud Billing account at any time.

A statement contains your legally registered business address, tax IDs, any payments made during the month, any taxes paid for the month, and a summary of your usage costs for the month.

Based on your charging cycle, or if you made a manual payment, it's possible to make more than one payment in a month. On your monthly statement, payments show up as transactions.

Invoices

An invoice contains your legally registered business address, tax IDs, any payments made during the month, any taxes paid for the month, balance due, and your payment terms (for example, Net 30). In general, a Cloud Billing account set up as an invoiced account generates one invoice each month.

You can choose to receive a PDF version of your invoice by email, and you can view and download your invoice online, in the Cloud Billing documents center. Additionally, you can update your Google payments account with the delivery addresses to receive invoices by mail.

An invoice for a particular month should be available by the fifth business day of the following month. For example, your September invoice will be ready no later than the fifth business day of October. Invoices aren't generated on weekends or bank holidays, so you should expect invoices to be delayed during those periods.

You pay your invoice balance according to the terms and conditions that you agree to when you enroll in monthly invoicing. Learn how to pay your invoice.

Payment receipts

Payment receipts are available for all Cloud Billing account types. You can get a receipt for your records at any time in the Transactions page of the Cloud Billing console.

Permissions required to access billing documents

To access the Documents page and the Transactions page for your Cloud Billing account, you need to be assigned to one of the following Cloud Billing IAM roles on your Cloud Billing account:

  • Billing Account Administrator
  • Billing Account Viewer

If someone else manages your Cloud Billing account, you might not have the necessary billing permissions. If this is the case and you think you should be able to view the Documents page and the Transactions page for your Cloud Billing account, contact the person in your organization who manages your Cloud Billing account.

For more information about billing permissions, see:

Get your statement or invoice

Statements and invoices are available in the Documents page for each Cloud Billing account. The types of documents available are specific to the type of Cloud Billing account you are viewing.

Additionally, if your Cloud Billing account is configured to be paid by invoice, you can configure a list of contacts to receive invoices by email.

Looking for a payment receipt? Payment receipts are available in the Transactions page of your Cloud Billing console. For more information, follow the instructions at Get your payment receipt

To find your statement or invoice or other Cloud Billing documents, in the following section, select the tab that represents the type of Cloud Billing account (self-serve account or invoiced account) you're viewing, to see the instructions for finding your documents.

Self-serve account

The types of documents available to self-serve (online) Cloud Billing accounts include statements, debit memos, credit memos, and tax invoices, as applicable to your specific Cloud Billing account.

You can find your Cloud Billing documents by accessing the Cloud Billing Documents page in the Google Cloud console, or in the Documents section of the Google payments center. The following information describes using the Google Cloud console to get your documents.

Access the Documents page

To get your Google Cloud statement and other documents:

  1. Sign in to the Manage billing accounts page in the Google Cloud console.

    Sign in to Manage billing accounts

  2. Click the name of the Cloud Billing account for which you want to see statements.

    The Overview page opens for the billing account.

  3. From the Billing navigation menu, click Documents.

  4. If the Cloud Billing account was associated with different Google payments profiles in the past, click View past accounts to see documents for an earlier payment method.

Documents page

In Documents, you can search for specific statements, download individual or multiple statements, create custom filters to view your statements, and more.

Select your document types

From the drop-down menu at the top of the table, select a preset or custom filter to control which types of documents are listed in the table.

  • The default option is All statements and memos, and shows all of your statements, debit and credit memos, and tax invoices, as applicable to your Cloud Billing account.

  • If applicable to your Cloud Billing account, other preset view options include:

    • All statements: Shows all available monthly statements.
    • All credit memos: Shows all of your credits.
    • All tax and statutory documents (if applicable to your country): Shows tax and statutory documents, such as Usage VAT Invoice, Proforma Invoice, Act of Acceptance, and Act of Reconcilitation.

Filter your documents

You can customize the documents displayed in the table by adding filters:

  1. Above the table, click + Add a filter.
  2. Select the filter type that you want to apply.
  3. Enter any additional information needed to complete the filter.

  4. Click Apply. You can add more filters as needed.

    • For example, to view a list of statements generated for a date range, add an Issue date filter and then set the start and end dates.

    • To remove a filter, click the X on the filter you want to remove.

Show or hide columns

You can select the columns to display in the table, as well as rearrange the order of the columns.

  1. In the column header row, at the far right of the table, click Edit.
  2. Select the columns you want to show or hide.
  3. To rearrange the order of the columns in the table, drag the column names in the Edit box.
  4. Click Save.

Sort the documents you see

You can change the sort order of the documents in your table by sorting on one of the visible columns.

  • To sort your documents in ascending or descending order, click the column header that you want to sort by.
  • Click the column header again to toggle between ascending and descending order.

Create and save custom filters for reuse

You can add columns, sort, and filter your documents to show only the documents you want to see (for example, all statements in descending order for an amount greater than $500), and then save this customization for future use.

  • To save your filter settings for reuse, select Save custom filter, enter a name for your custom filter, and click Save new.
  • To use your saved custom filter, click the drop-down menu at the top of the table, and scroll past the list of preset filters to the Custom filters section.
  • To delete a custom filter, first open the custom filter, then select Save custom filter, and click Delete.
  • To edit an existing custom filter, follow these steps:
    1. Open the custom filter.
    2. Adjust your columns, sort, and filter settings.
    3. Select Save custom filter.
      • To save as a new custom filter, edit the custom filter name to create a unique name, and then click Save new.
      • To replace the existing customer filter with the new filter settings, leave the name the same and click Update.

Download individual or multiple statements or other documents

Statements include a summary of your monthly costs and payments, and download in PDF format. To see a more granular view of your monthly costs, visit the Cost Table report.

To download your documents, follow these steps:

  1. Check the box to the left of the statement or document that you want to download.

    To select all of the documents that appear in your table, check the box in the column header row of the table.

  2. Click Download selected.

    If you have more than one page of documents and you selected to download all of them, you'll be prompted with the option to download just the documents on the page you're viewing, or to download all of the selected documents across all pages.

  3. If you selected one document to download, a PDF of that document is downloaded. If you selected multiple documents to download, a zip file is created and downloaded containing a PDF for each of the selected documents.

Transactions page

You can also download your statements and other documents from the Transactions page:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, from the Billing navigation menu, click Transactions.

  2. On the Transactions page, use the toggles to adjust the data displayed and set the date range so that it corresponds to the invoices you want to download.

    • The default view is Last 3 months, which lets you access your most recent statements.
    • To access previous statements, adjust the date range using the menu options. For example, choose This year if you want to access statements for the current calendar year.

  3. In the Transactions table, expand the Documents row to view available documents.

  4. Click the statement number to download a PDF version of the statement.

Invoiced account

The types of documents available to invoiced (terms) Cloud Billing accounts include invoices, debit memos, credit memos, and tax memos, as applicable to your specific Cloud Billing account.

You can find your Cloud Billing documents by accessing the Cloud Billing Documents page in the Google Cloud console, or in the Documents section of the Google payments center. Additionally, if your Cloud Billing account is configured to be paid by invoice, you can configure a list of contacts to receive invoices by email, and you can update your Google payments account with the delivery addresses to receive invoices by mail.

The following information describes using the Google Cloud console to get your documents.

Access the Documents page

To get your Google Cloud invoice and other documents:

  1. Sign in to the Manage billing accounts page in the Google Cloud console.

    Sign in to Manage billing accounts

  2. Click the name of the Cloud Billing account for which you want to see invoices.

    The Overview page opens for the billing account.

  3. From the Billing navigation menu, click Documents.

  4. If the Cloud Billing account was associated with different Google payments profiles in the past, click View past accounts to see documents for an earlier payment method.

Documents page

In Documents, you can search for specific invoices, download individual or multiple invoices, create custom filters to view your invoices, and more.

Select your document types

From the drop-down menu at the top of the table, select a preset or custom filter to control which types of documents are listed in the table.

  • The default option is All invoices and memos, and shows all of your invoices, including those that are closed or paid.
  • If applicable to your Cloud Billing account, other preset view options include:
    • Open invoices and debit memos: Shows all open invoices or debits that need to be paid.
    • Open credit memos: Shows any open credits that you can apply to open invoices.
    • All credit memos: Shows all of your credits, including those that have already been applied to invoices.
    • All tax and statutory documents (if applicable to your country): Shows tax and statutory documents, such as Usage VAT Invoice, Proforma Invoice, Act of Acceptance, and Act of Reconciliation.

Filter your documents

You can customize the documents displayed in the table by adding filters.

  1. Above the table, click + Add a filter.
  2. Select the filter type that you want to apply.
  3. Enter any additional information needed to complete the filter.
  4. Click Apply, then add more filters as needed.
    • For example, to view past due invoices, add a Status filter and then select Past Due.
    • To remove a filter, click the X on the filter you want to remove.

Find a specific invoice or document

You can refine your filters by using Find in documents.

  • Enter text that might help you find the invoice or document you're looking for. As long as the text appears on your document, it's searchable. To refine your search even further:
    • Use AND (in uppercase letters) to find documents with both terms (for example: video AND game).
    • Use OR (in uppercase letters) to find documents with either term (for example: Nov OR Dec).

Show or hide columns

You can select the columns to display in the table, as well as rearrange the order of the columns.

  1. In the column header row, at the far right of the table, click Edit.
  2. Select the columns you want to show or hide.
  3. To rearrange the order of the columns in the table, drag the column names in the Edit box.
  4. Click Save.

Sort the documents you see

You can change the sort order of the documents in your table by sorting on one of the visible columns.

  • To sort your documents in ascending or descending order, click the column header that you want to sort by.
  • Click the column header again to toggle between ascending and descending order.

Create and save custom filters for reuse

You can add columns, sort, search for, and filter your invoices to show only the documents you want to see (for example, all open invoices in descending order for a particular product), and then save this customization for future use.

  • To save your filter settings for reuse, select Save custom filter, enter a name for your custom filter, and click Save new.
  • To use your saved custom filter, click the drop-down menu at the top of the table, and scroll past the list of preset filters to the Custom filters section.
  • To delete a custom filter, first open the custom filter, then select Save custom filter, and click Delete.
  • To edit an existing custom filter, follow these steps:
    1. Open the custom filter.
    2. Adjust your columns, sort, search for, and filter settings.
    3. Select Save custom filter.
      • To save as a new custom filter, edit the custom filter name to create a unique name, and then click Save new.
      • To replace the existing customer filter with the new filter settings, leave the name the same and click Update.

Download individual or multiple invoices or other documents

To download your documents, follow these steps:

  1. Check the box to the left of the invoice or document that you want to download.

    To select all of the documents that appear in your table, check the box in the column header row of the table.

  2. Click Download selected.

    If you have more than one page of documents and you selected to download all of them, you'll be prompted with the option to download just the documents on the page you're viewing, or to download all of the selected documents across all pages.

  3. Choose the format that you want to use to download your invoices (PDF is selected by default).

  4. Click Download.

Look at the details of a document

From the Documents table, click the row of the invoice or document that you want to see details for. A dialog opens, showing you document header details including the invoice or memo number, amount, status, purchase order number, account details, and more.

  • In the Document Activity section, you can see information including the addresses where the document was mailed and emailed, as well as invoices or credit memos that apply to the document.
  • In the Associated documents section, you can see a list of documents and document types that apply to the document you're viewing.
  • To close the dialog, click the X in the top left.

  • To download, or request a revision to your invoice, click Actions in the invoice dialog.

  • You can download both the PDF and CSV versions of your invoice.

  • In the Actions drop-down, you might see a link to Regenerate invoice with updated information. If you recently updated your purchase order number or changed your billing address you might need to regenerate your invoice to reflect new information.

The invoice total generally includes all costs incurred during a given calendar month. Sometimes, at the end of a calendar month, there is a slight delay in usage reporting. The cost of late-reported usage might not be included on that month's invoice and instead might roll over to the next month's invoice. As a result, your invoice total might include costs for more than one calendar month. Usage is reported by actual usage date when viewing your invoice details and online reports.

Transactions page

You can also access your invoices from the Transactions page:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, from the Billing navigation menu, click Transactions.

  2. On the Transactions page, use the toggles to adjust the data displayed and set the date range so that it corresponds to the invoices you want to download.

    • The default view is Last 3 months, which lets you access your most recent invoices.
    • To access previous invoices, adjust the date range using the menu options. For example, choose This year if you want to access invoices for the current calendar year.

  3. In the Transactions table, expand the Documents row to view links to available documents.

  4. Click a document link to access the Document center. For example, click View invoices to access the Documents page. On the Documents page, you can download a CSV or PDF version of your invoices.

Get your payment receipt

Receipts are available for all Cloud Billing account types. You can get a receipt for your records at any time in the Transactions section of the Cloud Billing console.

To get your receipt:

  1. Sign in to the Manage billing accounts page in the Google Cloud console.

    Sign in to Manage billing accounts

  2. Click the name of the Cloud Billing account for which you want to see payment receipts.

    The Overview page opens for the billing account.

  3. From the Billing navigation menu, click Transactions.

  4. On the Transactions page, set the toggles above the table to control the view and filter the list of transactions:

    1. In the View drop-down, select Detailed transaction view.
    2. In the Transaction type drop-down, select Payments. The list of transactions is filtered to display payments made.
    3. In the Date range drop-down, set the date range so that it corresponds to the receipts you want to view.

  5. From the list of transactions, in the Description column, click the Payment link to view the payment receipt. The receipt opens in a new browser window.

Missing charges or documents

Both statements and invoices include only a summary of your monthly costs but don't include a breakdown of your cost details. To view the details of specific charges on a document, access the cost table report. For more information, see View and download the cost details of your invoice or statement.

If you can't find a document, or locate a specific charge or transaction related to a Google Cloud service or Google Maps Platform API, contact Cloud Billing support for assistance.

For more information on Cloud Billing best practices and Google Cloud resource management, refer to the Cloud Billing onboarding checklist article.

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