About payment settings in Google Ads

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Payment settings determine when you pay for your ads. Google Ads has 3 main payment settings available in your country: automatic payments, manual payments, and monthly invoicing.

  • Automatic payments: After your ads run, Google Ads automatically charges your payment method.
  • Manual payments: You make a payment before your ads run. Then, as your ads run and you accrue costs, the credit from your payment will decrease. When your payment is used up, your ads will stop running.
  • Monthly invoicing: Google provides you a line of credit for your advertising costs. You accrue costs and receive a monthly invoice.

The payment setting available for your account will depend on your account’s billing country and currency. Note that in some cases, certain payment settings may be temporarily unavailable while Google Ads reviews your account’s eligibility to use them.

This article explains these payment settings and shows you how they work. To learn more about payment methods (What you pay with), review Add a new payment method in Google Ads.

You may be able to switch the payment setting for your account between Automatic to Manual payments, and vice versa, in your account’s Billing Settings. The option to switch from Automatic to Manual payments is possible only in countries where the Manual payment option is available. If you're currently on Manual payments and this option is no longer available in your country, you can only switch to Automatic payments and you won't be able to switch back to Manual payments. Learn more about Manual payments.

If you have more than one Google Ads account, this feature might not be available in all your accounts.

To change your payment setting:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon Billing Icon.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Open the “How you pay” section. If eligible, you’ll see a button to “Switch to automatic” or “Switch to manual”.
  4. Click the button and follow the steps in the pop up window to confirm the change.

Only users with "Admin" or "Edit Payments profile" access to the Profile or users with “Admin” or “Billing” access to Google Ads account can make this change.

To check your Google Ads access type:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Admin icon Tools and setting menu icon [Gear].
  2. Click Access and security.
  3. On the “Users” tab, check the “Access level” column to confirm your access type.

To check your Payments profile access type:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon Billing Icon.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Open the “Payment users” section to confirm your access type.

Payment settings determine when you pay for your ads. Google Ads has 2 payment settings available in your country: manual payments and monthly invoicing.

  • Manual payments: You make a payment before your ads run. Then, as your ads run and you accrue costs, the credit from your payment will decrease. When your payment is used up, your ads will stop running.
  • Monthly invoicing: Google provides you a line of credit for your advertising costs. You accrue costs and receive a monthly invoice.

The payment setting available for your account will depend on your account’s billing country and currency. Note that in some cases, certain payment settings may be temporarily unavailable while Google Ads reviews your account’s eligibility to use them.

This article explains these payment settings and shows you how they work. To learn more about payment methods (What you pay with), review Add a new payment method in Google Ads.

Payment settings determine when you pay for your ads. Google Ads has 2 payment settings available in your country: automatic payments and monthly invoicing.

  • Automatic payments: After your ads run, Google Ads automatically charges your payment method.
  • Monthly invoicing: Google provides you a line of credit for your advertising costs. You accrue costs and receive a monthly invoice.

The payment setting available for your account will depend on your account’s billing country and currency. Note that in some cases, certain payment settings may be temporarily unavailable while Google Ads reviews your account’s eligibility to use them.

This article explains these payment settings and shows you how they work. To learn more about payment methods (what you pay with), review Add a new payment method in Google Ads.

You may be able to switch the payment setting for your account between Automatic to Manual payments, and vice versa, in your account’s Billing Settings. The option to switch from Automatic to Manual payments is possible only in countries where the Manual payment option is available. If you're currently on Manual payments and this option is no longer available in your country, you can only switch to Automatic payments and you won't be able to switch back to Manual payments. Learn more about Manual payments.

If you have more than one Google Ads account, this feature might not be available in all your accounts.

To change your payment setting:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon Billing Icon.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Open the “How you pay” section. If eligible, you’ll see a button to “Switch to automatic” or “Switch to manual”.
  4. Click the button and follow the steps in the pop up window to confirm the change.

Only users with "Admin" or "Edit Payments profile" access to the Profile or users with “Admin” or “Billing” access to Google Ads account can make this change.

To check your Google Ads access type:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Admin icon Tools and setting menu icon [Gear].
  2. Click Access and security.
  3. On the “Users” tab, check the “Access level” column to confirm your access type.

To check your Payments profile access type:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon Billing Icon.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Open the “Payment users” section to confirm your access type.

Payment settings determine when you pay for your ads. Google Ads has 2 payment settings available in your country: automatic payments and manual payments.

  • Automatic payments: After your ads run, Google Ads automatically charges your payment method.
  • Manual payments: You make a payment before your ads run. Then, as your ads run and you accrue costs, the credit from your payment will decrease. When your payment is used up, your ads will stop running.

The payment setting available for your account will depend on your account’s billing country and currency. Note that in some cases, certain payment settings may be temporarily unavailable while Google Ads reviews your account’s eligibility to use them.

This article explains these payment settings and shows you how they work. To learn more about payment methods (what you pay with), review Add a new payment method in Google Ads.

You may be able to switch the payment setting for your account between Automatic to Manual payments, and vice versa, in your account’s Billing Settings. The option to switch from Automatic to Manual payments is possible only in countries where the Manual payment option is available. If you're currently on Manual payments and this option is no longer available in your country, you can only switch to Automatic payments and you won't be able to switch back to Manual payments. Learn more about Manual payments.

If you have more than one Google Ads account, this feature might not be available in all your accounts.

To change your payment setting:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon Billing Icon.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Open the “How you pay” section. If eligible, you’ll see a button to “Switch to automatic” or “Switch to manual”.
  4. Click the button and follow the steps in the pop up window to confirm the change.

Only users with "Admin" or "Edit Payments profile" access to the Profile or users with “Admin” or “Billing” access to Google Ads account can make this change.

To check your Google Ads access type:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Admin icon Tools and setting menu icon [Gear].
  2. Click Access and security.
  3. On the “Users” tab, check the “Access level” column to confirm your access type.

To check your Payments profile access type:

  1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon Billing Icon.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Open the “Payment users” section to confirm your access type.

With Google Ads, you're automatically charged after your ads show (automatic payments), or you can make payments before your ads show (manual payments). You make your choice when you’re creating your account, and after that it can’t be changed.

The payment setting available for your account will depend on your account’s billing country and currency. Note that in some cases, certain payment settings may be temporarily unavailable while Google Ads reviews your account’s eligibility to use them.

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