Add billing notifications page

deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/manage-billing-notifications.md

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+---
+applies_to:
+  deployment:
+    ess: all
+  serverless: all
+products:
+  - id: cloud-hosted
+  - id: cloud-serverless
+---
+
+# Manage usage and cost notifications [billing-notifications]
+
+To help you better understand your costs and to manage spending, you can configure email alerts to be sent when your monthly usage or your credit consumption reaches a speicified threshold. You can also opt to receive a biweekly sumary of your organization's usage and estimated costs for the previous month.
+
+To configure email notifications for your {{ecloud}} billing:
+
+1. Log in to the [{{ecloud}} Console](https://cloud.elastic.co?page=docs&placement=docs-body).
+2. From a deployment or project on the home page, select **Manage**.
+3. From the lower navigation menu, select **Billing and Subscription**.
+4. Follow the steps bellow to set up or change any of the following types of email notifications.
+
+## Configure budget emails
+
+Budget alerts can be sent when your organization's total monthly usage exceeds a threshold defined in a configurable budget.
+
+To create a budget and configure budget emails:
+
+1. Open the **Notifications** page.
+2. Select **Set budget** to specify your budget details:
+    1. Give your budget a name.
+    1. Specify a target value in [Elastic Consumption Units](/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/ecu.md). The amount you've spent will be tracked against the this target.
+
+    The budget scope is automatically fixed to your entire {{ecloud}} organization. Alert emails are configured automatically based on the configured budget:
+     - A warning email is sent when the organization's usage reaches 75% of the specified target amount.
+     - An overage email is sent when the organization's usage reaches 100% of the specified target amount.
+
+     Email notifications are sent to the addresses associated with the Organization owner and Billing admin [user roles](/deploy-manage/users-roles/cloud-organization/user-roles.md#ec_organization_level_roles).
+
+1. Click **Save** to confirm your settings.
+1. Enable **Budget email**.
+
+    You can navigate to the **Notifications** page at any time to view or update your budget, and to view the used versus total remaining ECU for your organization.
+
+## Configure usage summmary emails
+
+You can select to have a summary of your organization's usage sent on a biweekly basis. Notifications contain details about your organization's usage for the previous month as well as estimated costs.
+
+To configure usage summary emails:
+
+1. Open the **Notifications** page.
+1. Enable **Usage summary email**.
+
+    The notifications will be sent to the Organization owner and Billing admin on the second Friday of each month.
+
+
+## Configure credit consumption emails
+
+Credit consumption alerts can be sent when your organization has used a set percentage of [available credits](/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/ecu.md#view-available-credits).
+
+To configure credit consumption emails:
+
+1. Open the **Notifications** page.
+1. Enable **Credit consumption email**.
+
+    Alerts are triggered to be sent when your credit consumption reaches any of the set thresholds: 33%, 25%, and 16% of active credits remaining. These thresholds are set automatically and cannot be configured.

deploy-manage/toc.yml

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               - file: cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions.md
           - file: cloud-organization/billing/billing-models.md
           - file: cloud-organization/billing/add-billing-details.md
+          - file: cloud-organization/billing/manage-billing-notifications.md
           - file: cloud-organization/billing/view-billing-history.md
           - file: cloud-organization/billing/manage-subscription.md
           - file: cloud-organization/billing/monitor-analyze-usage.md