Manage Ads account billing setup from your manager account

A billing setup contains information about how you pay and your document delivery addresses, which is used to generate and deliver monthly invoices. This article shows you how to create and manage billing setups for your Ads client accounts.

Note that you can use the same billing setup for multiple Google Ads client accounts and receive one consolidated invoice per month. Learn more about consolidated billing.

Before you begin

• To create, use, or manage a billing setup, you need to log in with Admin, Standard, or Billing-only access to the paying manager account and from there, navigate to the client account.
• The paying manager account needs to be linked to the payments profile. Learn more About payments profile link types and permissions.

Note: If you’d like additional help with your billing setup, contact us.

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Create a new billing setup from your manager account

1. In your Google Ads manager account, click the tools icon in the upper right corner.
2. Under “Billing”, select Billing Setups.
3. Click the plus button to add a new billing setup.
4. On the next page, select the billing country and currency.
5. Enter the payments profile ID, or search for the payments profile ID you want to use with this new billing setup. With the payments profile, you’re choosing who will be financially responsible for your Google Ads account.
6. Under “How you pay”, enter the desired billing setup details:
   • Invoice name
   • Email address for invoice delivery
   • Mailing address for invoice delivery (optional)
   • Bill-to address
   • Service agreement
7. Click Create billing setup.

The newly created billing setup will appear in your “Billing setups” page under your manager account and can be used after you refresh the page.

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Add an existing billing setup to a new client account

If you add a Google Ads account to a billing setup that's already used by another Ads account, both will appear on one consolidated invoice.

1. In your Google Ads manager account, click Accounts from the page menu on the left.
2. Click Performance along the top.
3. Click the client account where you want to add a billing setup.
4. Click the tools icon in the upper right corner, then under “Billing", select Settings.
5. On the “Billing configuration” page, click Select existing billing setup.
6. In the new window, select the desired billing setup, and click Save and continue.
7. On the “Budget setup” page, enter your budget details and click Save and finish.

Note: The list of available setups will only show active setups with a matching currency that aren't hidden in your Paying manager account.

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Add a new billing setup to a new client account

When configuring billing for a client or manager account, you can also choose to create a new billing setup to be linked to your client or manager account.

1. In your Google Ads manager account, click Accounts from the page menu on the left.
2. Click Performance along the top.
3. Select the client account where you want to add a billing setup.
4. Click the tools icon in the upper right corner, then under “Billing”, select Settings.
5. On the “Billing configuration” page, click Create a new billing setup.
6. In the new window, select the manager account you want your setup created under.
7. Select the billing country. Note that the account’s currency was set when the account was created, so the currency can’t be changed.
8. Enter the payments profile ID, or search for the payments profile ID you want to use with this new billing setup. With the payments profile, you’re choosing who'll be financially responsible for your Google Ads account.
9. Enter the desired invoice setup details:
   • Invoice name
   • Email address invoice delivery
   • Mailing address invoice delivery (optional)
   • Bill-to address
   • Service agreement
10. Click Create and select setup.
11. On the “Budget setup” page, enter your budget details and click Save and finish.

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Change the billing setup for a client account

1. In your Google Ads manager account, click Accounts from the page menu on the left.
2. Click Budgets.
3. From the “Payments account” column, select the billing setup you want to change.
4. Click Billing transfers from the page menu on the left, then select Change invoice setup.
5. Select a date for the change, or select As soon as possible.
6. Next to “Billing configuration”, choose either Select existing billing setup or Create new billing setup, and click Save and continue.
7. On the “Budget setup” page, enter your budget details and click Save and finish.

Note: The list of available setups will only show active setups with the same payments profile and currency as the current setup, that aren’t hidden in your Paying manager account.

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Create a new Google Ads account with automatic or manual payments from your manager account

1. In your Google Ads manager account, click Settings from the page menu on the left.
2. Click Sub-account settings at the top of the page.
3. Click the plus button and click Create new account.
4. Select the account name, type, country, time zone, and currency.
5. Click Save and continue.

After saving, you’ll come to the "Billing configuration" page. Use the following steps to choose automatic or manual payments Google for the new account:

1. Click Create a new setup with a different payment method on the right.
2. Scroll down to your linked payment profiles and click Add new payments profile.
3. Under “How you pay”, select Automatic payments or Manual payments.
4. Include your business name, address, and instrument details.
5. Click Submit.

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Related links

• Hide and unhide billing setups
• Transfer your client account to another agency
• Transfer an existing client account to your agency