Adding a billing manager to your organization

A billing manager is a user who manages the billing settings for your organization, such as updating payment information. This is a great option if regular members of your organization don't typically have access to billing resources.

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Members of your organization's Owners team can give billing manager permissions to people. Once a person accepts their invitation to become a billing manager for your organization, they can invite additional people to be billing managers.

Note

Billing managers do not use paid licenses in your organization's subscription.

Permissions for billing managers

Billing managers can:

  • Upgrade or downgrade between GitHub Free and GitHub Team plans
  • Add, update, or remove payment methods
  • View payment history
  • Download receipts
  • View, invite, and remove billing managers
  • Start, modify, or cancel sponsorships

In addition, all billing managers will receive billing receipts by email on the organization's billing date.

Billing managers are not able to:

  • Upgrade to GitHub Enterprise or downgrade an enterprise account
  • Create or access repositories in your organizations
  • See private members of your organization
  • Be seen in the list of organization members
  • Purchase, edit, or cancel subscriptions for GitHub Marketplace apps
  • Purchase, edit, or cancel subscriptions for GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise

Tip

If your organization requires members, billing managers, and outside collaborators to use two-factor authentication, the user must enable two-factor authentication before they can accept your invitation to become a billing manager for the organization.

Inviting a billing manager

Note

If your organization is owned by an enterprise account, you cannot invite billing managers at the organization level. For more information, see About enterprise accounts.

The invited person will receive an invitation email asking them to become a billing manager for your organization. Once the invited person clicks the accept link in their invitation email, they will automatically be added to the organization as a billing manager. If they don't already have a GitHub account, they will be directed to sign up for one, and they will be automatically added to the organization as a billing manager after they create an account.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
  2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.
  3. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  4. If you are an organization owner, in the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and plans.
  5. Under "Billing management", next to "Billing managers", click Add.
  6. Type the username or email address of the person you want to add and click Send invitation.

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