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
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.
- In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
- In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.
- Next to the organization, click Settings.
- If you are an organization owner, in the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and plans.
- Under "Billing management", next to "Billing managers", click Add.
- Type the username or email address of the person you want to add and click Send invitation.
Further reading
- "Inviting people to manage your enterprise" in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation