---
title: "Set up billing"
url: "https://docs.alisx.com/how-to/account/set-up-billing/"
---
# Set up billing

Add billing details and a payment card to an account, adjust its spend cap, and find its invoices. For account admins.

## Prerequisites

- You are an admin of the account.

## When you land on billing setup

You reach billing setup (the browser tab reads **Add a payment method to continue**) in three ways:

- The console redirects you there when the account you selected has no payment method on file. Members who are not admins see a banner instead: **This account needs billing set up before you can keep building. Ask an account admin to add a payment method.**
- On the sign-up page, an account of yours that reads **Needs a card to keep working** has a **Finish setup** button.
- When the account's usage is blocked, admins see **Add card** under **Usage** in the account menu.

The page resumes where you left off. Its steps are **Billing details**, **Spending** and **Card**; **Billing details** drops out once the account has them on file.

To change billing details later without adding a card, open the account admin **Settings** page and click **Edit billing information**.

## Enter billing details and a card

1. On **Billing details**, choose **An individual** or **A business** under **Billed as**.
2. Fill in the **Address** (**Street address**, **State or province**, **Postal code**; **Country** was set when you created the account) and the **Contact** fields (**Billing email**, **Phone**).
3. For a business, fill in **Legal name**, **Trading name** and **VAT number**. Open **More invoice details** to add **Other billing contacts** who get a copy of every invoice, and a **PO number** if your finance team needs one on invoices.
4. Click **Continue**. **Spending** asks what happens after the free credits; see [Adjust the spend cap](#adjust-the-spend-cap).
5. Click **Continue** again. On **Add a card**, enter your card and click **Save card** (in South Africa, **Continue to Paystack**).

=== "Most countries"

    The card is saved with no charge. Free credits apply first and usage pauses at your spend cap.

=== "South Africa"

    The console sends you to Paystack, which runs a once-off R1 charge to confirm the card, then returns you to the console.

When the card is saved the console continues to the page you were heading for.

## Adjust the spend cap

On the **Spending** step, choose what happens when the free credits run out:

1. With **Stop at the free credits**, new work can't start once the free credits are used up. With **Keep going, up to a limit**, you are billed monthly for what you use, and new work can't start once the month's usage reaches your limit. Work that is already running always finishes.
2. For a limit, pick an amount under **Spend limit**, or **Other** and enter a **Monthly limit** in your currency (or in credits if pricing is not available yet).
3. Click **Continue**.

After setup, admins change the limit from **Activity** in the account admin pages: **Monthly usage limit** has an **Adjust** button. See [Monitor usage and credits](https://docs.alisx.com/how-to/account/monitor-usage-and-credits.md).

## Find and pay invoices

1. Open the account admin pages and click **Billing**.
2. The **Invoices** table lists each statement with **Issued at**, **Total due** and **Status** (**Due** or **Paid**).
3. Use the row actions: **Pay invoice** opens the payment link for a due invoice, **View statement** opens the statement beside the table, **Download statement** saves the PDF.

The statement panel shows the line items with **Quantity**, **Unit price** and **Total**, then **Total excl VAT**, **VAT** and **Total due**, and a **Download invoice** button.

## Related

- [Accounts and billing](https://docs.alisx.com/explanation/accounts-and-billing.md) explains free credits, usage billing and the spend cap.
- [Account settings](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/console/account-settings.md) lists every billing field.