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ms.service: cost-management-billing
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ms.subservice: billing
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 08/29/2023
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ms.date: 06/27/2024
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# Get started with your Microsoft Customer Agreement billing account
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A billing account is created when you sign up to use Azure. You use your billing account to manage invoices, payments, and track costs. You can have access to multiple billing accounts. For example, you might have signed up for Azure for your personal projects. You could also have access to Azure through your organization's Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Customer Agreement. For each of these scenarios, you would have a separate billing account.
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A billing account is created when you sign up to use Azure. You use your billing account to manage invoices, payments, and track costs. You can have access to multiple billing accounts. For example, you signed up for Azure for your personal projects. You could also have access to Azure through your organization's Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Customer Agreement. For each of these scenarios, you would have a separate billing account.
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This article applies to a billing account for a Microsoft Customer Agreement. [Check if you have access to a Microsoft Customer Agreement](#check-access-to-a-microsoft-customer-agreement).
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Use a billing profile to manage your invoice and payment methods. A monthly invoice is generated at the beginning of the month for each billing profile in your account. The invoice contains respective charges for all Azure subscriptions and other purchases from the previous month.
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A billing profile is automatically created for your billing account. It contains one invoice section by default. You may create more sections to easily track and organize costs based on your needs whether is it per project, department, or development environment. The sections are shown on the billing profile's invoice reflecting the usage of each subscription and purchases you've assigned to it.
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A billing profile is automatically created for your billing account. It contains one invoice section by default. You can create more sections to easily track and organize costs based on your needs whether is it per project, department, or development environment. The sections are shown on the billing profile's invoice reflecting the usage of each subscription and purchases you assigned to it.
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Roles on the billing profiles have permissions to view and manage invoices and payment methods. Assign these roles to users who pay invoices like members of the accounting team in your organization. For more information, see [billing profile roles and tasks](../manage/understand-mca-roles.md#billing-profile-roles-and-tasks).
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> [!NOTE]
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> If you bought Azure through a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), you might see a billing profile with a tooltip showing that it's a billing profile for purchases made through your partner. Contact your partner for questions about the billing profile.
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### Each billing profile gets a monthly invoice
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A monthly invoice is generated at the beginning of the month for each billing profile. The invoice contains all charges from the previous month.
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You can view the invoice, download documents and the change setting to get future invoices by email, in the Azure portal. For more information, see [download invoices for a Microsoft Customer Agreement](../manage/download-azure-invoice-daily-usage-date.md#download-invoices-for-a-microsoft-customer-agreement).
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You can view the invoice, download documents, and the change setting to get future invoices by email, in the Azure portal. For more information, see [download invoices for a Microsoft Customer Agreement](../manage/download-azure-invoice-daily-usage-date.md#download-invoices-for-a-microsoft-customer-agreement).
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If an invoice becomes overdue, past-due email notifications are only sent to users with role assignments on the overdue billing profile. Ensure that users who should receive overdue notifications have one of the following roles:
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### Azure plans determine pricing and service level agreement for subscriptions
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Azure plans determine the pricing and service level agreements for Azure subscriptions. They're automatically enabled when you create a billing profile. All invoice sections that are associated with the billing profile can use these plans. Users with access to the invoice section use the plans to create Azure subscriptions. The following Azure plans are supported in billing accounts for Microsoft Customer Agreement:
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Azure plans determine the pricing and service level agreements for Azure subscriptions. They automatically get enabled when you create a billing profile. All invoice sections that are associated with the billing profile can use these plans. Users with access to the invoice section use the plans to create Azure subscriptions. The following Azure plans are supported in billing accounts for Microsoft Customer Agreement:
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## Invoice sections
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Create invoice sections to organize the costs on your invoice. For example, you may need a single invoice for your organization but want to organize costs by department, team, or project. For this scenario, you have a single billing profile where you create an invoice section for each department, team, or project.
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Create invoice sections to organize the costs on your invoice. For example, you might need a single invoice for your organization but want to organize costs by department, team, or project. For this scenario, you have a single billing profile where you create an invoice section for each department, team, or project.
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When an invoice section is created, you can give others permission to create Azure subscriptions that are billed to the section. Any usage charges and purchases for the subscriptions are then billed to the section.
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