Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Billing accounts

As we saw when creating a project in the previous chapter, all project billing is associated with billing accounts. A single billing account can be associated with multiple projects, and a given project can have one or more billing accounts. This provides some level of flexibility on how your projects are paid for. A billing account is composed of four parts:

• One or more authorized payment users with associated permissions
• One or more payment methods
• Budgets and alerts for the billing account
• Payment settings such as tax exemption status

Billing accounts can be managed in the Google Cloud Console under Navigation menu | Billing. From here, you can manage existing billing accounts and create new ones. Start by selecting ...