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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.
  5. Click Continue again. On Add a card, enter your card and click Save card (in South Africa, Continue to Paystack).

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

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.

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.