Consolidated billing simplifies your billing process. By default, you receive separate invoices for each sub-manager account. With consolidated billing, you receive a single monthly invoice per advertiser, agency, or invoice group. This article explains consolidated billing eligibility and how it works.
Invoice level options
You can receive a single invoice per:
- Advertiser: This is the default setting. You receive a separate invoice for each individual advertiser account.
- Agency: All advertisers under a single agency are grouped into one consolidated invoice.
- Invoice group: All advertisers within a designated invoice group are billed together in one invoice. As of Q1 2021, a single invoice group cannot contain multiple agencies. Therefore, choosing the agency or invoice group option will produce the same result.
Requirements for consolidated billing
- All accounts included on a single invoice must be linked to the same manager account.
- All accounts on a consolidated invoice must share the same invoice settings (payer, currency, invoice recipient list, and other invoice settings).
Search Ads 360 accountThis is the manager account you access when you sign in, and it's used to create and manage ad campaigns. A Search Ads 360 manager account can have multiple sub-manager accounts. Each sub-manager account must connect to a single billing setup. |
Billing setupContains invoice and payment details used to generate and deliver invoices. A single billing setup can be linked to multiple sub-manager accounts as long as they share the same billing setup settings. |
A consolidated invoice includes:
- Costs for each Search Ads 360 sub-account
- Purchase order number
- Total amount due