Understand Your monthly invoice

Overview

When you request invoiced billing, Google extends a line of credit to you for your computing costs, and you receive an invoice each month. Typically, invoiced billing is used by large businesses.

An invoice for a particular month should be available by the fifth business day of the following month. For example, your September invoice will be ready no later than the fifth business day of October. Invoices aren't generated on weekends or bank holidays, so you should expect invoices to be delayed during those periods.

You might receive multiple invoices that are split across a set of transactions, when they involve resellers or multiple countries. For more information, see Split invoicing for agency model transactions.

Cost data available in an invoice

The invoice total generally includes all costs incurred during a given calendar month. Sometimes, at the end of a calendar month, there is a delay in usage reporting. The costs of late-reported usage might not be included on that month's invoice and instead might roll over to the next month's invoice. As a result, your invoice might include costs for more than one calendar month.

When you view your invoice details or online reports, the usage is shown with the actual usage date.

Other data specific to an invoice includes the totals of any taxes and adjustments.

Download your invoice

If your account is configured for monthly invoicing, you can download your invoice in the following two formats:

  • PDF: The PDF format is intended for your Accounts Payable department to review your monthly Google Cloud cost totals and to learn how and when to pay Google. Your PDF invoice is summarized and doesn't provide details for every resource cost or cost per subaccount (for resellers).

  • CSV: Prior to your January 2021 invoice, the CSV format provided more details than those included in the PDF. Starting with your January 2021 invoice, these details have been removed and now the CSV invoice mirrors the PDF and includes the invoice header information and cost totals. You can view the invoice cost details in the downloadable Cost Table report, including project-level costs and additional details you might need, such as service IDs, credit IDs, labels, and total costs by subaccount (for resellers). You can access this report from the Google Cloud console.

Columns in the CSV invoice

For invoices prior to January 2021, the following columns appear in the CSV invoice:

Field Description
Account Name The name of the Cloud Billing Account that the usage is associated with.
Account ID The Cloud Billing Account ID that the usage is associated with.
Source*
* As of November 2019, this field is removed from the invoice CSV.		 The name of the project that generated the Cloud Billing data.
Product The Google Cloud service that reported the Cloud Billing data.
Resource Type A description of the resource used by the service. For example, a resource type for Cloud Storage is Standard Storage US.
SKU ID The ID of the resource used by the service. For the full list of SKUs, see the Pricing table report.
Description A description of the type of cost for the line item.
Start Date The date when the invoice period began.
End Date The date when the invoice period ended.
Quantity The quantity of units used.
Unit The billing unit of the usage (such as hour or gibibyte month).
Amount The calculated cost of the usage.